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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
JACK DEMPSEY FREE
 ON SI.ACKER CHARGE

San Francisco. June 16.William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, worlds 5 heavyweight champion, was found not guilty on a selective draft eva sion indictment by a jury in the United States District Court here. :
 The jury was out ten. minutes and took one ballot. Judge M. T, Dooling's instructions to the jury oc- cupied twenty minutes. In them he outlined the three counts in the in dietment against the champion which were: =, Direct evasion of the selective draft False statements in Dempseys questionnaire as to his dependents. False statements to the district draft board here. =
 Following the verdict Dempsey, his parents and. his attorneys were stormed by friends wishing to offer congratulations. ---..-- .-
 Dempsey said later: CT am mighty glad it's over. r.-I I am glad not only for the acquittal, hut also for the fact that the trial gave me an abso- lutely clean sheet'' '-~..- .~
 A joint indictment charging con spiracy to evade the selective draft remains against Dempsey and his manager. Jack Kearns They were ordered to plead to this indictment today. Their counsel said they would ask that this indictment be dismissed.
 Mrs Priscilla Dempsey, mother o1 the champion, who sat by his side throughout the trial, squeezed his bte hand in both of hers when the yer dict was returned. Later, she said she had never feared for the out come.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
QUEER RULING BY
 JAMAICA STEWARDS

The stewards at the Jamaica race meeting handed down a unique deci- sion yesterday afternoon. They sus- pended Jockey Bore1 for four days for foul riding. but failed to disqualify King Albert, the horse he rode and guide ed home in third place The foul was the worst of the season. That several jockeys and horses were not thrown and injured seemed miracu- lous.
 r While rounding the first turn Borel shot his mount into a tight space and knocked Anniversary and Bally Bell almost to their knees. Despite the dangerous position Borel continued his wild Western ride and before he got his mount strengthened out he Anniversary and Bal1y Bell were on the outside of him.
 The e fouling killed whatever chances Anniversary and Bally Bel had of winning and Joseph B. Widen CTS Fair Gain, which escaped all in- reference, went on by himself and won galloping by half dozen lengths The Archer, shuffled about during the early part of the struggle ran a coura geous race and took place honors- King Albert was third. After the contest the stewards held a. conference and set Borel down. IT the opinion of the racegoers this was inadequate. Borel only has a mount now and then and the four days sus- pension practically means nothing to him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
CARDINALS. SHOW
 GIANTS THE WAY
St. Louis Nationals Score 18th Victory in Last 15 Games and Advance
 In Rating.

The Cards did it again yesterday afternoon at the Polo Grounds. They defeated the Giants for the fourth time in succession. The score was to z. It was the thirteenth vic tory St. Louis has scored in it's last fifteen games - which is travelling some as they measure speed in base ball. And. incidentally. the Cards crept. right on to the heels of the Brooklyn Dodgers, As the race stands today in the National League, 1t wouldn't take a blanket to cover the first three teams. A postage stamp would do it. >. .
 Just one little atom of soIace eked into the lawn fete under Coogan's S Bluff. Through the depressive banks of gloom clouds 8 little ray, of sum- shine. seeped. Frank. Frischs the former Fordham University star, who showed such promise until he suffered an attack of appendicitis, took his regular place at third base for a brief spell. and disported him self to such purpose that the belief obtains that he will be third basins regularly within a week. When he is ready to play every day the Giants | inf1e1d should perk up considerably With Frisch on the bench, the inner | works of the local National Leaguers resemble nothing so much as a sieve through which base hits filter with monotonous regularity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
TANKS SHORN BY
 PITCHER BAGBY
Cleveland Team Takes Ad- vantage of Situations and Shows Itself Wide
 Awake.

Cleveland, June 16.---YeSterday for the third time in the series here the | Yankees were stopped and shorn of a lot of their batting strength by smart pitching. Caldwell did it on Saturday, CoveIeskie did it on Monday and yes terday Bag'by did it with supreme
 ease. The Yankee trimming yester-
 day was one sided---very much SO; 10 to 2 was the score.
 Whatever the outcome of the sea- son may be the C1evelands were tn better ball club in this series. They
 better, they had more class. They stood up and slugged with the Tanks. they. had much better pitching and they were more wide awake and yer l satile.
 In an effort to make the most of the | natural hitting ability of his club, Huggins changed his batting order so as to bring Meusel up to hit back of l Ruth. The idea was to have a Slugger l come up if Ruth were passed and to prevent the constant passing of the 1 Babe by opposing pitchers. Ward was | sent up to second place in the order l and Pratt denoted.
 | Notwithstanding the changes the
 New Workers played as poor a gam e
 as they have this year. They were as
 much puppets for Bagby's splendid
 pitching as a lay figure is on a ven | tr1loquiSts knee. If the Tanks had 1 one such top notch pitcher as this | they'd breeze to the pennant. What they are sorely in need of now is to | have Mays strike his stride.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
DODGERS SLIDE
 AND LOSE LEAD
Batting Bombardment By Cincinnatis Drives Eb- bets Outfit Down the
 Ladder.

The Dodgers slid gracefully out of the National League lead yesterday, after sojourn of A hours on the championship crest. Walter Rueth- CTS portside f1inging, a batting bonn bardment by the Cincinnati Reds, which completely submerged a quar- tet from the expensive twirling staff of Squire Charles Ebbets, and the in- tense heat, with it's resultant usurpa- tion of the essential baseball quantity comman1y referred to as "pep'' com bined, coIlaborated and co-operated to bring about one of the most hu- initiating defeats the F1atbush aggre- gation has experienced this season. Pat Moran's fro1icking Ohioans, after dfvesting themselves of a heavy bat ting barrage at the expense of big Jeff Pfeffer. Clarence Mitchell, George Mohart and Jack Miljus, eventually accumulated a victory by the margin of 10 to 5. The success advanced the Reds into the lead, and the reverse sent the Dodgers back into second place.
 A crowd of 10000 recreation-seek- ing Flatbushers attended the obse- quy, The recreation they received was tinctured with reverse English. Ii was generally expected that the Dodgers would strengthen their hold on the lead at the expense of the Reds, but, as usually happens, some thing went wrong at the last moment and the crowd was forced to sit de jectedly while the ca,llous visitors piled their unwelcome sticks. The Reds hit harvest amounted to IT solid smaShes- Brooklyn was let down with eight
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
ABSOLUTE AGAIN
 TURNS ON VANITIF:

Newport R. T., June 16.---Bowlins along before a 16-knot southwestern the Resolute again turned the tables on Vanitie in the eighth of the elim-
 ination trials between the two sloops for the honor of defending America s
 cup against Shamrock ". Over 2S-
 mile windSard and leeward Resolute won by two minutes and six seconds actual time and by three minutes and
 fl seconds corrected time After the race about seven fathons of lobster pot gear was hauled off Vanitie's cen ter board.
 The race was a good one from start to finish. The wind. however, was light and not very promising at the start, but shortly afterwards there were indications that it was going to freshen. This it did, and continued to fir eShen until the end of the race.
 According to the Race Committee, il
 was blowing at the rate of 16 knots
 just twice as hard what the com
 mittee figured at the start As il freshened the wind veered from al ] most due south to west southwest
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
AMERICAN SLEUTHS
 WAIT FOR JOHNSON

San Diego. Call June 1e-Depart- ment of Justice agents are waiting at the international boundary line at Tia Juana in the expectation that Jack Johnson former champion heavyweight pusilist- will cross the border Johnson it is reported has been given twenty-four hours by Mexican officials in which to leave Mexico, and will have to cross into the United States today
 The action of the Mexican officials has been expected by United States officials, who said it has been known that Gov Estaban Cantu has been opposed to Johnson remaining in Lower California Department of Justice officials here stated that they had not been notified that Johnson had been ordered to leave Mexico, but had taken cognizance of the reports that this action had been taken.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
HIIL,IES TO RAISE
 - PENNANT JUNE 23

The directors of the Pittsfie1d Baseball association have decided up- on Wednesday, June 23, as pennant- raising day Worcester, the team that finished second in the sensational 1919 race, will be the club to oppose 'Pittsfield on that day. The Pitts field Military band has been engag- ed The formal pennant raising ex- ercises will take place at 3:5o o'clock, 10 minutes before the time set for opening the game. The two teams headed by the band, the 1919 and 1920 directors will march to the flag pole in centerfield and the pennant will be raised by D. J. Hayion, pres ident of the club that won the pen nant It is planned to make the pen nant raising day one of the gala days of the season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
Record Broken In University School
 Athletic Meeting
Richard H. Peabody Wins Meet With Points, Which Is Is Better Than Nearest Competitor In
 School Games

The University School Athletic as soc1at1on held it's annual field day yesterday. The races, baseball throw, and hammer throw were held at Sea side park, and the other events on the school grounds One school record was broken, and another equalled. Thomas s. Taylor jumped Aft. in. in the standing high, break ing his own record of fit. 9 F in. made in% 1919, and Richard H. Pea body cleared the bar at ft. 11A in. in the running high, equalling his last years record. Peabody won the meet with total of 37 points, and Taylor was second, with 241a points, Rob- ert E. Beers, Thomas Colgan, Conn Humes, Charles P. Hurley, James McGee, and Donald M. Muirhead d were other winners. Silver cups and bronze medals were awarded. The summary follows:
 50-Yard dash, won by Peabody; Colgan, second; w. Hennessey, third; Humes, fourth; Muirh cad, fifth Time 6 sec. Colgan, second; Humes, third; Muir head, fourth; F. c. Riker, fifth Time II Is sec.
 
 Co1gan, second; Humes and Muir head tied; Riker. fifth. Time, 25 2-E sec.
 Baseball throw, won by Colgan; Peabody, second; W. S. Benedict third; Riker, fourth; Humes fifth Distance, 226 fit.
 Hammer throw, won by James Me Gee; c. F. McGee. second; Taylor third; Peabody, fourth; Muirhead fifth Distance, 73 it. 4 in. Standing broad jump, won by Fay Tor; Peabody, second; Hennessey ant | Muirhead tied; Riker, fifth. Dis tance, ft- 10 in.
 Running broad jump, won by Muir head; Beers, second; F. F. Ehrsam ] third; Taylor, fourth; Peabody, fifth Distance, 15 it, 10 in. Hop, step and jump, won by Fay 1 Tor; Muirhead. second: Peabody 1 third; J. L. Egan, fourth; Humes I fifth Distance, 5 ft. in.
 Shot put, won by Hurley and Fay I Tor, tied at s2 it. l in.; Beers, third Peabody, fourth; J. Melee, fifth ] Standing high jump, won by Fay 1 Tor; Egan, Humes, and Peabody di l vided equally the nine points for sec l ond, third, and fourth places; M. Reh l stock, fifth. Height, it. in. I Running high jump, won by Beer | and Humes, with handicaps; Pea I body, third; Ehrsam and Riker tie l for fourth place. Best jump, Pea body, it. 11A in.
 Officers of the day, judges an measurers: G. s. Blank, H. V Fairchild, H. o. Gish, A. Muren. . | M. Noonan, V. c. Peck, T. w. Ronald IT w SteinbOff + " TThri@ W C l Wakeman.
 | Field day committee: R. B. Beers H. B. Bosworth, H. w. Fairchild,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
DiSSenSiOn Causes 4 Wrang1eS On Bench
Brackett Quits Game In Sixth Inning at Newfeld Park x and Refuses to Continue Any Longer
 Walsh Takes His Place

While New Haven was taking two games from Albany yesterday after noon, Bridgeport dropped it's game to Springfield at Newfield park, and the Americans sagged back into second place 33 points to the bad. The up to be a slide.
 Stauffer and Clark were the pitch ing selections yesterday and they Ponies. One of the chief features of the matinee yesterday was ai home run drive over the left field fence by Ray Grimes and the blow Is consfd- cred one of the most powerful of any delivered at the park this year. Others who have put the ball over the same fence were Hi Ladd and Dory Miller. Yesterday Orr and Mar tin were on the bases when the smash came in the first inning. Even with that start the Americans could not hold up their end and were grad ually forced behind in the final ac- counting
 Machine Wobbly. ''
 That there is dfssension in the ranks of the Americans was shown yesterday when Bracket refused to continue in the game after the sixth inning and Manager Walsh was forced to play the game out Bracket
 became so incensed that he walked out to left field, gathered up his gog- gles and went to the club house, re- fusing to finish the game The argu-
 nent started after Skif motioned both Bracket and Martin toward the left field foul line. Neither moved until
 Skiff appealed to the manager and then Martin moved out of position
 but Bracket refused to change At 1. the bench both Bracket and. Martin had a warm argument with the man ager with the result that Rrackett refused to continue
 This sign of unrest following a sus- pension of Martin a few days ago shows the Bridgeport baseball ma chine is not running smoothly and the players are not pulling together The
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
NEWS BY WIRE SORTS Sp0RTSLNE LOCAL GOSSIP.
Miss Bishops
 GUme ExceLS

Greenwich, June 16-A one time titleho1der and two former runners up were among those eliminated yes terday on the Greenwich Country club links in the first match round of the Womans Metropolitan Golf association championship. The cancellations that temporarily went into eclipse were Mrs. W. A. Gavin, who annexed the title at Piping Rock in 1917; the player who con tested the final with her on that occasion, Mrs. Thomas Huchnau of Forest Hill Field club, and Mrs. J. B. Davis. of Piping Rock, who con- tested the final of the annual tourney in 1915 at Sleepy Hollow.
 Mrs. Gavin fell before another former champion, Miss Georgfanna M. Bishop of Brooklawn, by a margin of 2 and 1, and never once got the lead throughout the encounter. It was a perfect treat for the gallery, who on a majority of the holes saw golf of a high order. After play ing a couple of pars without getting any advantage Miss Bishop sank a long putt on the third for the initial advantage, increasing her lead to up at the fifth. No other holes were won or lost on the first nine, which were covered by Miss Bishop in AZ to a. A by Mrs. Gavin. :
 Coming in Mrs Gavin cut her op- ponents lead with a par 4 at the eleventh, lost the thirteenth and then won the hole back by sinking an eight foot putt for a 6 on the 5S5 yard fourteenth. All might have been well had Mrs Gavin maintain ed that form. Instead she overap- preached to a trap at the next, while with steady eye and unerring aim
 Miss Bishop scored par and be- came 2 up with 3 to play. Halves on the sixteenth and seventeenth lief! Miss Bishop the victor by 2 to 1.
 Miss w A. Gavin of Belleclaire was favored to win the title before the start was made Monday, but after she barely qualified and had drawn Miss Georgiana Bishop. who scored a 94 to qualify, everybody knew she would have to show decided improve ment to get over the first barrier. Mrs Gavin bettered her score of Monday all right, by nearly a dozen strokes but even then it wasn't quite gooe enough to hold Miss Bishop, who wor by to l.
 Mrs. Gavin knew that she had tt
 play well, and having done that very thing, she had no excuses to offer. Tt the query of what was the trouble Mrs. Gavin replied:
 There was no trouble whatever Miss Bishop simply was too good. Sht l played a beautiful game. as steady a: i could be wished, and although I man aged to get around in SS, she went mt | one better and got the victory
 l Miss Bishop is now conceded te have a fine chance for the honors-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
SAYS DEMPSEY IS
 READY TO FIGHT

San Francisco. June 16.---Jack Kearns. manager for Jack Dempsey. announced today that Dempsey would be ready within two weeks to arrange to meet Georges Carpentier or any one else in the world if Carpenter is unwilling to talk fight. Labor Day was suggested as the date for the contest
 Kearns asserted that Dempsey's ac- quittal of a draft evasion charge left his war record clear and that there could be no more whispered cam paien about him.
 Dempsey is willing to talk fight af- ter he takes as two weeks rest, ae- cord;ng to Kearns.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
ARRANGING BOUT
 WITH STEVE LATSO

Matchmaker George Dwyer of the
 Bridgeport Athletic and Amusement
 Co.,, Inc, is arranging for a 1 ? round
 bout between Steve Latso, the Wilkes barre. Pa, welter, and Louis Bogash of this city, Negotiations have been
 going on for some time, according to Dwyer, and details are about finished for the battle. Weight and money terms were. agreed upon yesterday,
 but date for the battle has not been decided upon although July Sd is be- ing considered.
 Under the agreement Latso will
 weigh in at 145 on the day of the battle and he will be required to be in Bridgeport at least 6 hours before the fight If the match is surely ar
 ranged it will probably be held in the new open air arena under construc- l tion near the Casino on State street. This building will seat about 5000 1 persons. Young McAuliffe has been decided upon as the referee.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
PITTSFIELD FANS
 SHOWER UMPIRE

Pittsfeld, Mass, June 16-Pop bottles were hurled at Umpire Mc- Lougflin during the Hartford-Pitts- field game, the fans having previous ly been disturbed when he called two high strikes on Cliff Brady, striking g him out with two men on bases and two down in the fifth. The umpire ordered one man removed from the grandstand for he claimed he threw a bottle at him. The police said the man did not throw a bottle at him and would not remove him. This fan fired remarks at the umpire all dur ing the game and there promised to be trouble when the umpire was leaving the park but the police pre- vented any disturbance
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
PHILADELPHIA FANS : SORE ON GIANT DEAL

Philadelphia is slow in anger, as in everything else. but when that city gets sorR- it gets good and sore The quiet Quaker City is considerably peeved over the swapping of Dave Bancroft to the Giants for Artie Fletcher And who can blame Phila- delphia for getting sore-the sport ing element of it anyway Dave was the one glinmering star that Phila- delphia could boast of in either league, and now they have to send him away and leave the Quaker City fans in the inky gloom cast by the remaining fourth rate ball players oi both Philade1phia's big league teams
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
BLACK AND GREEN

An old colored man was burning dead grass when a wise guy stop ped and said: You're foolish to do that. Uncle ED; it will make the meadow as black as you are"
 "Don't Sworry bout dat sah.'' re- sponded Uncle Eb. Dat grass will erow out an be as green as you is"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
Totals
BRIDGEPORT.

Two base hits Gonzales, Wilder Ray Grimes Three base hits, Flynn, Roy Grimes Home rln- Ray Grimes. Stolen bases, Becker 2 Goebel, Skif- Sacrifices Becker, Gonzales, GoebeL Left on bases Springfield G. Bridge port Q Base on balls, off Morgan 2, off Stauffer l. Hits off Stauffer, g in innings. off Clark in in- nings. Struck out, by Stauffer 2, by Morgan H. Losing pitcher, Stauffer Umpire, Bransfeld- Time of game, 2 hours
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
Games Today

Games Today New York at Chicago Washington at Cleveland Philadelphia at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16

Tulsa. Okla, June 16-The sale of Outfie1der Toney Connolly of the Tulsa. Western League team to tn e New York Americans was announced by Manager Spencer Abbott Con molly will remain with the Tulsa club until the close of the present season
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
COLLEGE BASEBALL.

At Worcester, Mass.-Holy Cross g, Boston 1. At wflliamstown, Mass.-Willians T, Syracuse 5. ---- At Troy-Fordham '. Rensselaer,
  Poly 5. .TN
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland 10, New York 2 Chicago 9, Washington 5- St. Louis 12, Boston &,
 Detroit 3, Philadelphia g.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16

P. Hurley, R. Sorenson, H. s. Spotts, J. Wake.
 Officers of the athletic association: President, Thomas s. Taylor; vice president, Tracy W. Ronald secre- tary, Charles F. McGee; treasurer, Walter S. Benedict.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
t PittSneld:

Games T1day. ATnany at Bridgeport.
 Waterbury at New Haven. Pdrtsffeld at Worcester.
 Springfield at Hartford.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
Standing of the Teams
Games Today

Games Today Chicago at Boston Pittsburgh at PhIla delphia- Other teams not scheduled
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
League Standings.
 And Results
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

st. Louis 8, New York T. Cincinnati 1 0, Brooklyn D. Pittsburgh z, Philadelphia 6 (10 inningsD
 Chicago at Boston, rain.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-16
AUTOMOBILE MEN
 PREPARE FOR RAGE

Uniontown, Pa.. June 16-The ad- vance guard of automobi drivers at the Uniontown Speedway are busy getting the cars in shape for the 225 mile contest on Saturday afternoon. The qualification trials will be held Thursday afternoon between 2 and 5 o'clock The track is declared to be in the very best condition, and Barney Oldfeld, who will act as pacemaker, predicts that new rec ords will be established and that several of the drivers will run a non stop race.