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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
SAYS BILL BRENNAN
 SHOULD HAVE FIRST
 CHANGE AT DEMPSEY

Bill Brennan's manager sends in the following:
 With Beckett, the English heavy weight champion, Carpenter, the French champion, Fred Fulton, Bat ting Levinsky, Capt. Bob Roper, Bob Martin and Jack Burke, the three A. E. F. champions, challenging Jack Dempsey, think that Bill Brennan, the big Chicago heavyweight, has more claim to a return match with Champion Dempsey, than any of the above mentioned heavyweights and here are the plain facts to prove that Brennan Is entitled to first crack 9 [ the title:
 First: Beckett's only claim to r. ognition as a challenger, is the fact that he is the English heavyweight champion, (which division has never developed a good man in the last 20 years) and his stopping of Eddie MoGoorty, a middleweight, who has seen his best days as a fighter five or six years ago, a job that any of our American niddleweights would have accomplished in much less than IT rounds. which it took Beckett to win in. Now what chance would he have with Dempsey? NONE
 Second: Carpenter, who was real Iy a great fighter before the war, has been out of the boxing game for five years, and history proves that no human being, who ever stayed away that long, could lick anyone. He did, however, beat some "deck-scrub- ber'' named Smith, who appears to be another Fred Mckay.
 Third: ''Confessing'' Fred Fulton, whom Dempsey knocked dead in one round. at Harrison. N. J.. and the ~-~.~>A that thA thnIzht of e
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
HARVARD SEEKS NEW STROKE FOR
 VARSITY CLUB

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 7-The Harvard rowing management is en- deavoring to establish a Harvard stroke. The desire is to have a par ticular form of rowing inaugurated at the University which will be a suc- cess, and a system that can be safe ly followed year in and year out
 With the change of rowing coaches necessarily comes a change in the system of teaching the sweeps. By inviting the best rowing minds of the university to give their ideas on stroke, oarsmanship and other parti- cuIars, and selecting the most prac- ticaI. Harvard hopes to formulate championship methods of rowing.
 Already one meeting of the coaches, and those interested in liar yard rowing has been held, and still another one is due the coming week. Each man was invited to give his views freely and a general discus sion took place.
 Naturally enough the rowing sys- tenn now being used by Coach Bill Haines will form the basis for the new Harvard stroke. Bnt it is a question whether this stroke will be adopted in its entirety. Here and there delft touches may be made in the style of teaching if it can be shown that these new moves will be constructive.
 pr. Paul Wilmington, former liar ward football and rowing star, who is connected with the department of physical education at Harvard, and while serving overseas has had op- portunity to see rowing systems of many kinds, having participated himself in the last Henley regatta both in an eight-oared crew and single scull, is greatly interested in establishing a Harvard stroke.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

second meeting with the champion, Fearless Fred, would drop dead on the way to the club house.
 Fourth: Battling levInsky, whom the champion stretched in three rounds, is too small and has been beaten easily by Brennan.
 Fifth: Captain Bob Roper is but a preliminary fighter, who so far has been beaten by everyone that boxed him.
 Sixth: Jack Burke of Chicago, an other one of the many challenging army champions, was knocked out two weeks ago at New Orleans by Bill Brennan and last by Bob Mar tin, a much heralded soldier who knows nothing Of fighting and who's first match, will be his last with any Of the first division heavyWeights. Brennan will agree to knock the three army champions out the same night. That shows just how much chance army champions have with Dempsey.
 Seventh: Brennan Is one of the few heavyTweights whom Jack Dempsey
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

CINCINNATI REDS EXPECT
 TO CLOSE SERIES TODAY
White Hope of Victory Kerr Eer After Vic
 tory Yesterday Greeted Manager Who Canned Him.

Cincinnati, Oct, 7-Cincinnati to- day greeted her returning victorious baseball team, while everything was in readiness for a resumption of the worlds series of 1919 between the White Sox and Reds at Redland Field this afternoon. Indications were for fair weather, although the torrid baseball weather of last week can hardly be looked for.
 The announcement from Chicago that Moran will work Ruether to- day leads most of the fans here to believe htat an additional game on Wednesday will not be necessary al though 1t Is remembered that Man ager Gleason of the visitors will probably use Kerr, the pitcher who scored the only victory over the Reds that has thus far been tallied. On that occasion he held them practi- oa1ly hitless, allowing them only three safeties.
 Esas0 game of yesterday was the last iTi which the players shared in the proceeds and should the Reds win today the series will end If the Sox wfn the two teams will do battle here tdmorrow, and should the Sox again win they will go back to Chicago on Thursday for the eighth game.
 As Hod Eller yesterday walked from the field of victory he turned his head upward, toward the press stand. There sat Clarence Rowland, who had turned down that pitcher from Moline in 1915, not two feet from him sat Christy Mathewson, who had drafted that pitcher from Moline in 1916. ElIer's smile broadened. He waved his hand. And Clarence Row land smiled in recognition of the pitcher and his pitching.
 Rowland looked at Matty, and Matty, too, was smiling. Said Row land, Wonderful pitcher, that Eller." 7" ''I will say SOL replied Matty. And together they moved slowly out of the stand, each thinking of their own days of mph-R Owland of the Indian summer days of 1917 when he had led the White Sox to a great worlds s series victory over the Giants; Matty of the days when he, too, had been acclaimed by worlds series throngs as the greatest of the great; of the afternoon when he had struck out ten Athletics in the first game of the 1911 series, and the Indian bender had gone him two better, only to lose to Matty by to 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
JIM SAVAGE HONORS
HIS NAME

How Jim Savage, an ex-pugilist, was goaded into a real fistic free-for- all by the wiles of clever moving picture director is recounted, by Her bert Corey, in Everybody's for Octo- Der. The writer says: Savage is an eX-pugilist who had been engaged to do a fight scene for one of the com panies- He is a big, powerful man, and it was suspected that he would rely upon his ring knowledge and try to avoid injuring his asai1ants. The director determined to force Savage to lose his temper and fight in earnest:
 S We will rehearse the scene to- day he said. Tomorrow we will shoot it.
 Savage began with grin But when six men try their best to hit you wherever it will hurt, even the most even tempered man is apt to lose complete control. Before two minutes had passed Savage was fighting with all his might. At three minutes he had black eye and a badly swollen lip. At four minutes he began to roar and throw furni- tl,-.A af thA aix- Nhan tba nanaArA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

nized as the champion in spite of La Blanche's victory.
 When Nelson put Cans away in the seventeenth round of their second battle it was the first knockout Joe had experienced since the Frank Erne enga cement eight years pre- vious, the McGovern defeat generally being regarded as fake" Two months later Cans attempted to re- verse the verdict on the Dane. Al the great co1ored boy was really whipped as early as the eleventh. The picture of the knockout by Nelson two months back was in his thoughts when he turned to his seconds and said: "Let him knock me. No one is going to say Cans was yellow"
 And the list of stars whose bril- fancy has been dimmed and their prowess weakened by the fatal first big knockout includes the inmortals of Fistiana. Johnson hasn't amount ed to much since Willard knocked him out at Havana, George Dixon's wonderful record was plotted with defeats after McoGvern knocked him out for the first time.
 Joe Thomas, the marvellous mid dleweight, was practically through after Ketcheu flopped him for the first time in his life in 32 rounds.
 Charlie Mitchell, the greatest fight CT ever produced by England never entered the ring again after Jim Cor bett laid him low in three rounds, lis first K. O. Jimmy Britt, Young Britt, Young Corbett, Battling Nell son, Kid Williams, Johnny Cou1on, Freddie Welsh, Tommy Burns, Jess Willard-what did they amount to, pugilisticaIly, after their first knock out after reaching the top? Not much
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

after the Kid made claim that Jim had "double-crossed'' him.
 Big Jim Jeffries stuck close to his farm in California after Johnson top pied him over at Reno. Jeff had never even been knocked off his feet in a fight before meeting the skiIlful black, his three knockdowns at John sons hands, including the konckout, robbed him of all zest for further ring glory. He never even hinted' at a re- turn match.
 Kid Lavigne was a wonderful light weight who frequently fought welter- weights. The first knockout he ever received was from Mysterious Billy Smith, one of the toughest weIter- weight that ever lived. The Kid was kno ked out in the fourteenth round after a savage mill. Lavigne was highly incensed when his brother stopped the bout and refused to speak to him for months for chasing him from the clubhouse. Shortly after wards Lavigne revealed the effects of the first knockout when he lost his own lightweight championship to Frank Erne in twenty rounds. He went to the bad completely and sui fered frequent knockouts in subse- quent fights.
 Terry McoGvern was never the same after his first knockout by Young Corbett at Hartford. The little fellow who used to slam his opponents gallywest in round or two only scored three knockouts in fourteen fights after the Hartford disaster. The remembrance of his first knock out helped pave the way for the sec ond one at Corbett's hands in Frisco.
 Dempsey, the Nonpareil. never got
  hands of La Blanche. He dissipated and fell an easy prey to Fitzsimmons who took his title from him not long afterward, Dempsey still being recog-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

could not knock out. Brennan last ed seven rounds with the champion and was forced to stop with a broken ankle, and seven rounds is longer than Jess Willard, Fred Fulton and Carl Morris lasted with the champion combined. Furthermore Dempsey ad- nlits himself that Brennan gave him the hardest fight of his career, and that in the fight with Brennan he received more punishment him self than tn any two con- tests that he ever took part in. To prove to the public that Brennan is more entitled to return match with the champion than any of his chal- 1engers, Brennan will go across the pond and agree to meet him. Facts are facts and there they are. let some one point them out different.
 Very truly yours,
 LEO P. FLYNN.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

Prize-fighting is a curious game. In almost every other branch of sport athletes are able to sustain reverses and subsequently turn the tables on their conquerorS. In baseball, for in stance. a team may suffer the worst sort of @ trouncing only to Eeturn the next afternoon, or perhaps that same day, and obtain revenge. Reversals of form ere common in track and field sports, wrestling, bike racing, rowing, tennis and billiards. Defeat oftens acts as a stimuIant to an ath- leate toward better performances---in everything but pugiism. But let the top notch boxer experience his first knockout and his decline in nine out of ten cases is startlingly rapid. Of ten, after receiving his first soperific Quietus as a champion or near cham pion, the humiliated boxer is so sub merged in chagriu that he never again dips between the ropes for fistic ac- tion. There are only two boxers who stand out in bold relief as exceptions
 to the rule of the deterioration in form following the first important knockout They are Stanley KetcheI and Bob FitZsimmons. Both returned after their first knockout and fought as well as ever. Ketchel even re- gained his championship from Papke, the man who first knocked him out.
 But scanning the records of famed ringsters note the ravaging effect of the first konckout on the recipient! John L. Sullivan. one of the very greatest, never donned the nlftts again after he collapsed in the black sand of New Orleans and relinquished his title to Corbett after a twenty-one round hammering. After Jim Corbett encountered his first knockout at the hands of Fitzsimmons he lost three out of four battles he engaged in. And the bout he did win from Mccoy had had a very 'fishy'' look, particularly
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
EACH PLAYER OF WINNERS TO RECEIVE $4,S81.56 AS HIS SHARE

of the grand total, or 39,O52.46. This means that each man. counting 25 eligible on each team, will stow away $7S1 each.
 The New York Yankees and Chi cago Cubs, which finished third in their respective leagues, also will be enriched about $520 each, as they get 10 per cent. of the grand total, or $26,O3496.
 Little wonder that the Yankees and the Detroit Tigers made such a bitter fight for third place in the American League, which the Yankees won by the narrowest margin. By winning their last game from the Philadelphia Athletics, the Yankees made over $500 each.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
POSITIONS FOR SOLDIERS.

The re-employInent bureau reports that positions for 59 ex-soldiers were found during the past week and that the campaign of the Kiwanas, the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce to secure places for eX- service men was meeting with good success
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
THRIFT WEEK.

In accordance with the proclama ton of the governor at the request of the Treasury Department, Thrift Week is being observed in Bridgeport as well as throughout the state.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
FAIRFIELD TAX RATE DROPS.

The annual town meeting of Fair field yesterday levied a tax of 14 mills, decrease of four mills over the rate of the previous year. The grand list has been materially in creased, allowing for the drop in the tax rate.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

When making apple pies or berry pies try sprinkling over the top a lit tie salt instead of using butter as a great many people do. find that the pies are seasoned much better and it is nhaanaE.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

No report of sugar shortage so far from the co-educational colleges.
 Every gem known to the lapidary has been found in tha unitad StataA
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
NOTES OF FIFTH CAME

Chicago, Oct. 7.---Luque warmed up in the first inning, when Collins reached third on EIer, but the Cuban soon disappeared from the scene, per haps to the chagrin of the Cuban cor respondents who are here for the se- rtes- SaIlee started warming up in the eighth, but he too was not around long.
 Once more Eddie Murphy was in jected into the game as a pinch hitter and once more the old Mack man failed to come through.
 The Reds were in a hilarious frame of mind after the game. They slapped each other on the back yelling that tomorrow's game would find them baseball champions of the world.
 Kid Gleason still wears his cap on the side of his head, but he wasn't much in evidence on the coaching line
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

Capts. Eddie Collins and Heinie Groh are not proving very efficient leaders for their teams. One hardly can say that they are in the brunt of the game At the end of five days of battling Eddie has two hits and Heinie one. What ails 'em?
 Hap Felsch gobb1ed up seven easy fys, but messed up his only hard chance, Rousch's long drive in the sixth.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07
YEYSZKO TO VISIT
 U. S. ONCE AGAIN

Wrestlers of the country may be interested in the recent announce ment that Stanislaus Zbyszka, the old CT brother of the wrestling family and one with an intimate knowledge of the game, is about to return to this country after five years of war work Zhyszko hopes to tour Amer ica in the interest of Poland and wants his old manager, Jack Her man, to arrange a series of contests, the receipts of which will go to the Polish fund.
 It will be a distinct novelty to have a wrestler of the ability of the elder Zbyszko back on the mat and wrestling for some good cause. Ths younger Zbyszko may join hands with his brother and challenge all com CTS It will be a brother act that will upset anything that the rivals can put up.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

finally ceased clicking another was on the floor unable to get up It. took all the strength of the stage hands to pull the now thoroughly angered men apart.
 S So that was a rehearsal was it ?' asked Savage thickly. When do We have the fight?
 $ It is all over,' said the director. oa-1aIAla<H-atlx''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-07

yesterday. Moran. however, coached his players from the first base line,
 Eddie Murphy, the Sox pinch hitter, had a chance again yesterday but he famed He is participating in his fourth worlds series and will draw a players share of the receipts for go- ing to bat twice so far in the series, plus whatever else he may do in the remaining games.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-12
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-12
C0CHRANS GET VERDICT
AGAINST DIR. GRITMAN

The jury awarded William j. and
Mary M. Cochran of Juliaetta $4,000
in their suit against DR.. Charles L.
Gritman of Moscow. for $30,S13 dam
ages for alleged negligence in per-
forming an operation on Mrs. Coch-
ran. The operation was performed, it
is alleged, on March IL, 1917, and the
plaintiffs alleged that gauze sponge
was sewed up in the body of Mrs.
Cochran when the wound was closed
after the operation. She and her hus-
band asked $30,S13 from DR.. Gritman,
the 100000 being for damages ard
mental and physical suffering and the
1913 being for doctor bills, hospital
bills and other expenses of a subsc-
quent operation to remove the sponge.
The plaintiff was represented by A.
H. Oversmith of Moscow and G. G..
Hoyt of Troy. The defendants at
torneys were G. w. Suppiger and Will
lam Lee of Moscow and Edward ]
Cannon of Spokane The case went to
the jury at / o'clock Wednesday and
a verdict was reached at 7:30 that eve-
ming.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-12
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UNABLE TO AFFECT BUSINESS


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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-12
AGRICULTURAL GRADS.
ARE IN DEMAND
OFFERS ATTRAC-
TIVE FIELD FOR YOUNG MEN
ABOUT TO ENTER COLLEGE

Persistent calls for capable men of
agricultural training have come to the
office of the Dean of Agriculture of
the University of Idaho within the
past few weeks. The unfortunate fea-
ture regarding these calls for men
trained in technical agriculture is the
fact, that few graduates of the Uni
versity of Idaho are at all available
for new places. They seem to be
all located in positions where they
are well satisfied and we'll paid.
These calls are for men suitable for
county agent work, for Smith Hughes
high school instructors in agriculture,
where the pay has recently been par
particularly good for animal hus-
bandmen and dairymen, farm crops
specialists, and others trained in the
various fields of technical agriculture
for college and experiment station
workers, for extension field special
lists in agronomy, soils, animal hus-
handry, ETC., for farm overseers, man
ayers, and superintendents, and for
many other kinds of service where
trained and experienced men are need
ed and much desired
The upper classes in the College of
Agriculture of the University have
been depleted in the past two years,
due to the fact that nearly all of the
men went into some form of military
service. Few men were graduated last
year, and only a small number this
year. By next September the College
Of Agriculture will be fully organized
and equipped in every department, and
is expecting a record enrolment.
There is every reason that a record
should be had in agricul-
ture at the State University at Mos
cow First of all, the wide demand
mentioned for trained men should
lead many to enter this inviting field.
A fact that should direct men to mos
cow is the high standards maintained
and the excellent equipment avail
able for the student. 1t
should further be taken into
account by prospective agricultural
students that graduates of the Uni
rersity of Idaho have been invariably |
nen of thorough training, who have
made good in the many different fields
# activity they have entered.
A special announcement of the Col
ege of Agriculture will be available
or mailing within a few days This
nd other information in regard TO
griculture at the University may be
ad upon application to the Dean.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-12
DOUBLE SURPRISE AT
ODD FELLOWS LODGE


There was a double surprise at the
Odd Fellows lodge Wednesday evening
when Rev j. Quincy Biggs, retiring
pastor of the Christian church, was
called upon for an address and while
speaking about 80 members of the Re-
bekah lodge entered and the speech
was interrupted long enough for Judge
W. F. Morgareidge to present Rev.
Mr.. Biggs with a handsome watch
charm with his name and the name
and number of the Odd Fellows lodge
handsomely engraved upon it. Mrs.
Biggs was "in on the surprise of
her husband and accompanied the
women of the Rebekah lodge to the
Odd Fellows hall, but she was not pre-
pared for the surprise for her, when
the women of the lodge presented her
with handsome pin. Following the
double surprise splendid luncheon
was served in the banquet hall ad
Joining the lodge room.