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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
PENN LEADS IN COLLEGE LEAGUE
 OF BASKETBALL

New York Feb. 16-The champion University of PennsyfVa basketball team by virtue of It's victories oyer, Columbia and Dartmouth last week, is now in the lead in the IntercoIlegi- ate League race. The Philadelphians have won four games without losing in the league contests; in fact, they have yet to be defeated by any team this season. Outside of Penn, the five other quintets in the tournament are having a merry little race of their own.
 Cornell turned the tables on Yale
 Saturday afternoon and won a close and hard-fought game by 25 to g,
 thus going into a tie for second place
 with the Blue It may be that either of these teams will be contesting the title with the Quakertown combina- ton before the season ends, but eitEl- CT the others will have to take a de cided brace or Penn will have to slump badly to bring about such a contingency.
 Capt. Deforest Van SIyck of Yale
 maintained his lead over Harry Por- ter, of Cornell, in point scoring by caging six baskets fin Saturdays con- | test, while the Cornellian was getting
 five. Each got three fouls, Van Slyck having nine chances, however, while HOTI6T nad i've. 1ho Yale leaders | total to date is 68, that of Porter is i 64, Mike Sweeney of Penn, who for | three years has been contender for i top honors in scoring is coming along | rapidly. In four games, one less than | Porter and Van SIyck have played,
 he has scored nearly as many points
 as his rivals, and anther game may see him in the lead. At present he i has 63 points.
 This weeks schedule gives promise
 of furnishing plenty of excitement and possible upsets in the race It is the best balanced card to date On l Wednesday night Columbia will play l Yale at New Haven, and it is quite possible that the New Workers will reverse the decision the Blue gained
 over them a few weeks ago. In that game Van Slyck by sensational foul shooting managed to bring his team
 through to victory, although CoIum- bia scored more goals from floor than Yale.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
lnterIedgue Gan1es
 WiIL Be Numerous
More Contests This Season Th7n Ever-Club Owners Find Such Tours Bring Large Gate Receipts
 and Pay Training Expenses

New York, Feb. 16.---A most extel- sive. schedule of interesting training games, greatly exceeding in number any schedule of previous years, has been arranged by major league clubs as part of their 1920 conditioning cam paign. Six clubs of each league are listed for these fnterleague exhibition affairs, with the trails extending from Brownsville, Texas, to Miami, Fla, in the South, to Cincinnati in the Middle West and New York in the East.
 The complete schedule of these in terieague battles calls for 1O6 games, with six different clubs listed for 20 or more of these contests. Six years ago , these exhibitions by teams of rival leagues were almost unknown in the South. Some of the teams returned l home to engage in spring series with | rival teams of the same city, a plan that was popular for time in Phil l adelphia and still draws well in St Louis. The Cardinals and Browns o1 | St. Louis, and the Robins and Yan- kees are the only big league clubs l which will engage in an intercity se- ries at home, but the Giants Senator: and Reds will appear in interleasue games on their home grounds.
 This plan of clubs from rival league! doubling up for the jaunt from tht training camp to the North has be come extremely popular in recen years, so much so that the 1920 sched ule calls for five times the number o games played five years ago by majo
 league clubs previous to the openin of the regular season. A few year
 ago two National League clubs, tn Cubs and Phillies, played series i
 Florida and the league put a ban O.
 the practice before another trainin
 season arrived. AS a result the pla
 of a joint tour with an interleagu
 series has developed.
 Most managers contend that game
 against another major league club
 the best medium for putting player
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
SIX DAY RACE IS POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH !

New York, Feb. 16-The foreign riders now competing in the Brussels six day race cabled Promoter Chap man Saturday night that they will be here in time for the Garden race, and rather than run the contest with out all the European cracks it has been decided to start the event on March 8, instead of February 29.
 The winner of the Brussels race, which finishes tonight, will be signed for the Garden race along with Speis- sens, Buysse, Brocco and seven other stars. Having adjusted his affairs with the Paris promoters, Alfred GouI1et ca,bled last night that he was lucky to get passage on the same boat
 with Oscar Egg. and will sail today from Havre.
 i Another top notch foreigner. Van i Nok, has booked passage along with i Gou1let and Egg. This rider won g i six day race last month in Brussels i beating out the great Italian, Girad- | ingo, and twenty-three other foreign
 CTS of the first rank.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
PHILLIPS WILL LET RIXEY 60
 IN BIC TRADE

New York, Feb. 16.-The Phildes E4vin dispose of Eppa Rtxey. William Baker, the Philadelphia National president, got some good offers for Rixey at the meeting in Chicago, though Stonehan; the Giant owner denied that. he had offered McCarty kand Douglass for the long Virgintan. CraVafh, manager of the. Quakers, ,says he believes that Eppa is one ot the few left handed pitching stars remaining in baseball, yet with a club like Philadelphia he cant win many more than ten games @ season. Crav- nth believes that If he could get three l6airly efficient players for Rixey, he would have a strong baseball club
 Smart baseball men say that the player shortage Is responsible for the lack of trading. There are so few good young players at large that the clubs are afraid to part with these old timers for fear cnat the position couldn't be filled.
 Derby Bill Clymer, the minor league veteran, who is part owner and manager of the Columbus club, says that the condition is unique in baseball. Hhe never has seen it's like since he became connected with the minor league sport.
 "I never knew a time when the game was so in need of players said Derby Bill "Usuai1y at this season of the year big lea. ue clubs are will ing and glad to unload players. When ] approached g. big 1eaguer at this meeting he ran away from me.
 ''I was willing to pay real money for players. money that would have been snatcf1ed up a few years ago yet all I get is stay away Bill, we haven't got a thing Money no long, CT can buy players.
 Some people laugh at me because signed Terry Turner and Sherwood Magee. wish could get a few more like them Who else are we going tc get for the higher class minors? There are practically no players worth while coming up below, and big league club. are clinging to some of these olt birds as never before"
 In addition to the ract that the bi! league clubs are unable to supply tn large minors with talent the player that stood out at all in the Americal Association last season are in grea demand.
 In returning to the East, Ed Bar row, the Red Sox manager, said tha practically every club in the major had put in a bid for Tim Hendryx the former Yankee and Brown, wh aed the American Association in hit ting last season. The same applies t Elmer Miller. Both of these player could have been picked up for tn waiver price within the last tw years. and now St. Paul is askin $12,5Oo for Miller, and Louisvill wants a similar sum for Hendryx
 ''It's a funny game,' remarke Ruppert, the Yankee Colonel. 'fW fooIed with Hendryx for several year He could hit bit for us, but he WE Eat, and whenever he was out in tn field I always was afraid he's gt Init on the head. And he wasn't
 kid then either. We let him go the Browns to close another dea and they let him get out of u league Now they tell what
 great player we let go. Just who
 to hold and whom to let out seen
 quite a, big problem
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Harvey Star In Ribbon
 Victory

The fans are still talking about Stretch Harveys sensational goal from the middle of the floor which enabled the Blue Ribbons to beat Germantown, Pa., of the Eastern Basketball League at Colonial hall yesterday afternoon. 1t was a great shot and as it came in the last 80 seconds of play the crowd went wild with joy. The final score was 2S to 27 in favor of the Ribbons.
 The Ribbons were strengthened by the addition of Bach, a guard from New Jersey. He stuck so closely to Franckle, the fast forward of the Germantown five, that the latter could not get a field goal. In the first half the passing of the visitors was toe much for the locals, although tht Ribbons did well on the defensive and 1t was Il minutes before field goal was caged. At the end of the half Germantown was ahead by 1; to 8.
 The visitors again spurted in the second period and had lead Of 2( to Il before the Ribbons began tt rally. Long shots by HarVsy ant Wright put the locals into the run l ming and they finally worked up to { tie with Germantown. Harvey starred for the Ribbons with four goals Wright had two and Dehnert one Bruggy led the visitors in scorin! ! with 12 points, three field goals ant six fouls
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

on edge, likewise for showing the strong or weak points of the younger player. Furthermore. it has proved very profitable to the clubs involved. In the old days the major league teams engaged in a series of exhibi- tion contests with the home repre- sentatives of minor league cities or smaller towns in the South. but in time the Southern fans grew weary
 of these one-sided battles, and the
 crowds dwindled from thousands to hundreds. Such games hardly paid
 travelling expenses. while the inter
 league series very frequently nets
 each club more than enough to pay the entire expenses of it's training trip. This has been true of the GiantsLTigers series of 1917, the Giants-1ndtans series of 1918. and the games played by the Giants and Red Sox last spring. The Yankees-Robins
 series last spring came close to clean | ing ths>expense slate of each club
 | All three clubs of the Metropolitan | dis6rict have gone heavily into this i interleague series plan. The Giants according to a schedule released Sat urday by Secretary Joe O'Brien, will l engage in 21 games with the Boston Red Sox, the tour starting at Fort i Worth, Texas. and ending at the Pole
 Grounds. The Robins are scheduled
 for 20 games against American League
 clubs, 6 with the Yankees and four
 with the Senators. Miller Huggins'
 men will take part in 19 games with
 National League clubs. three with the
 worlds champion Cincinnati Reds in | Florida, and the remainder with | Brooklyn. This interborough series
 calls for eight games in Jacksonville Q
 where the two clubs will train, five CT
 route North and three at Ebbet. Field. None Of the three local club! ever scheduled so many of these game! for any previous training campaign.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Plestina Gan Meet zbyszko On Mat If
 He Wants Big Match

New York, Feb. 16.-Found-A wrestler who is willing to meet Mar dn P1estina! Naturally, it is not any of the grapplers belonging to Jack Curley's so-called wrestling trust Wadlek Zbyszko, Joe Stecher and Strangler Ed Lewis-for Curley still flies in a rage whenever Plesdna's s name is mentioned, and VOWS the Serbian Apollo never will get a match it he can help 1t. The daring grap- pier who is anxious and willing to go on the mat with Plestina Is Stanis- 1aus Zbyszke.
 "Stanis1aus Zbyszko is open to meet any wrestler in the world, bar none" !" declared Jack Herman, manager of the elder Zbyszko, this morning.
 Are you sure you are not four fiushing?" Herman was asked. twill not Stanis1aus duck Marin Plestina, just as the other heavyweight grap- piers are doing?'
 Herman then declared that the eld- CT Zbyszko does not bar Plestina. we met Plestina twice and pinned his | shoulders to the mat each time, once I in Chicago and agaA,I in Lexington, | Ky.,' declared Herman. Just like all other boxing and wrestling managers 1 Herman used the possessive ''we' l whenever he speaks of a victory by his l protege, but is only too anxious to
 say "he'' when speaking of a defeat And so, according to Herman, Pies 1 tina. need not go hungering for 8
 match, for he can get it quickly from 1 Stanislaus Zbyszko. If the match 1 should take place in New York fl | probably will not be staged by JacI 1 Curley. Curley's crowd apparently fears Plestina more than the small.
 pox. The strange part of it is, how
 ever, that Curley and Herman ar,
 as thick as the proverbial bugs in
 rug.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

New York, Feb. fe-Nany New York fans are roasting John McGraw s1or spending the winter at his race streclx ia Cuba and not doing anything Do build up the Giants.
 McGraw will not be caught nap ping once the season opens. It's true that he has been in Cuba. since the middle of November, aiding in the management of the race track in which he is one of the chief stock holders. But the Giants rooters can ;Eest assured that McGraw has also been working on changes in his team, Respectfully his infiead.
 He cabled an offer for $1eo,00o for Rogers Hornsby, which was spurned by Branch Hickey. The St Louis SnoguI declared that he would not SDen his star for any amount of money. Then McGraw tried to pry Rabbit AIaraaville from the Braves,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Shugrue Hopes to
 Defeat Travers At Armory A. A. Tonight

It looks as if there will be some good boxing tonight at the smoker to be held by the Armory A. A. on Main street opposite the Armory. Johnny Shugrue of Waterbury and Mickey Travers of New Haven will meet in the final four round bout. Travers gave Sapper Cohen a facing at the last Casino show and he hopes to do the same to lShugrue. The latter is a clever youngster who has often ap- peared in this city. The boys will weigh about 1S0.
 Those popular veterans, Al Ketch el and Bud Palmer, will mingle in a four round sessi on. Another good bout will have Young Edf5y of Greenwich and Mike McCabe of New York as principals They will open the show and will be followed by Dick Gill of this city and Freddy Siege1 of New Haven who will mix things up. The first bout will go on at SIS and Andy Parker will be referee.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
JACK FLYNN IS
 LIKELY TO TAKE PROVIDENCE CLUB

Jack Flynn, the former Waterbury and Lawrence, Mass, manager. may take charge of the Providence fran chise in the Eastern League next season. President Dan O'Neil of the Eastern Is trying to induce Flynn to take charge as the league recently took over the franchise after former owner Moulton quit.
 Providence. however. uoes not care for Eastern League baseball. The fans, from all indications, have lofty ideas in regards to the National game and object strenuously to all brands
 of baseball but that handed out by
 the International League. AS the we11-known soap and saying runs,
 They won't be happy till they get
 it,'' but, from the audiences that turned out in the latter stages of h.
 ternationa1 Leagues career in the home of the Grays, it was very ap- parent that they were not satisfied with it when they had it.
 Dan O'Nei1, however, also likes Providence as a baseball town, al- ! though there are several other base ball men around these parts who think to the contrary These men | have become convinced that Provi- dence fans will not support any kind i of baseball and say that the Eastern ] League president would be doing a wise stunt if he moved from Rhode Island and confined his activities in
 securing the eighth city of the league
 in Massachusetts, placing the fran | o1lise either in Ho1yoke, or Fftchburg l Pat Moran's home town. Both towns
 according to representatives who were at the meeting held in New Haven | recently, are red hot for baseball and would support and Eastern League 1 Club.
 i A move to either HoIyoke or Fitch burg would leave Providence open te !! the International League again, which ! Is what the men behind baseball 1T Providence apparently want an6 which is what Dan O'Nei1 does no care to have happen. O'Nei1's conf l dence in Providence has not beer
 shaken in the two years that Provi dence has been in the Eastern Leagu,
 and he considers the city too good { proposition to let go to the 1nterna tional as he evidently is of the opin ion that the International would i'm l mediately grab Providence again i l the Eastern League let go of it. Prov idence is also the least expensive cit! in the league, as Me1rose Park, tn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Offer S1,OOO Prize
 To Six Day Riders
 Who Can Steal Lap

New York, Feb. 16-It was an- nounced last night by the manage naent of the six-day race starting al Madison Square Garden, March T, that $1,o00 will be given to the team stealing a lap on the field any time during the week.
 It is not regarded as likely that if & team steals a lap it will be 1ost and with the major portion of the $5o,eo0 in prize money going to tha winning team a small fortune will be waiting for the lucky riders at the close of the race-
 The foreign agent for the manage ment is now in Brussels negotiating with the winners of the race jusi closed there. There is general feeling in certain quarters on this side that 8 foreign team will win the coming race because of the perfect condition many of them are in a, present and the fact that they have shown g. big improvement in thei, work since the close of the war.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Columbia to Meet
 Yale, Harvard and Princeton on Diamond

New York. Feb. 16-For the first time in many years Columbia will meet all of the Big Three'-Yale, Harvard and Princeton-this season on the diamond. Columbia has not had baseball relations with either Yale or Harvard since it won the championship in 1916. Williams and c. c. N. Y. also return to the schedule. Holy Cross, Amherst and Stevens have been dropped on account of difficulty in arranging contests. As was Ie case last season, New York Unives&ity has the first place on the chart and the game will be played on South Field.
 As usual, home and home battles have been arranged with Dartmouth, Cornell, Fordham and Pennsylvania Penn again has received the Glass Day date, and the game will be play ed on South Field on June 2.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

fortune to the dark complexioned boy so he went on the stage that night filled with confidence.
 As soon as Jackson advanced to- ward him, Starlight thought the air was filled with gloves. He was stop ping them with all parts of his face. Between rounds Starlight's seconds with visions of the $500, shouted, You're a sure winner, Starlight But in tn ethird round Starlight decided to quit
 "I thought this was to be a scien- tif1c exhibition, Mistah Referee he groaned as he pulled off his gloves.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

Old time boxing fans will recall what a hard hitter Peter Jackson was and how that colored gladiator used to knock his opponents around the ring by the force of his s1edgehammer blows. Memories of Jackson were recently reviewed by the narration of a yarn about a, chocolate colored boy named Young Starlight. who was in dueed to enter the ring with Jackson when Peter was making an exhibit ton tour.
 It was one of those transforming trips where Peters manager a.dver- tised that he would pay $500 to any
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
.McGrnlU May Ldnd
 Rabbit MurUnUiIIe
Giants Manager Will Make Another Offer for Braves Shortstop Upon His Return From Cubar-Fans
 Criticise McGraws Absence

but ver1zy this offer was rejected. However, 1t is said that when Mo Graw returns the latter part of this week he will make new bid for the Boston shortstop.
 George Washington Grant, owner of the Braves, has declared that he will part with Maranvil1e If he gets his price. Grant will not, however, consider a cash proposition. He wants players, and McGraw WIFI have to part with more than one star before MaranviI1e will be allowed to don Q New York uniform.
 There is no doubt that the Giants have suffered from lack of publicity that they usually enjoy, even during the Winter months, by McGraw's ab- sence from the city. But those who are now condemntng the manager fol devottng so much time to racing, vii be boosting him if the Giants are ur fighting in the pennant race.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
CARPENTER TO
 ACCEPT ,FOx'S
 S25O,OOO OFFER

New York, Feb. 1S-wf1liarn Fox announced last night that Georges Carventier had accepted his offer of s25O,O0o to fight Jack Dempsey in this country.
 The acceptance was cabIed by Des- camps, Carpenters manager, on Friday. Twenty-four hours later, srWinnie'' Sheehan, representing Fox, sailed on the Adriatic with the con tract.
 According to the terms of the con- tract Carpenter is to sail on or be- fore March l. It is not unlikely that he will come over on the Adri- atic when that liner makes her re- <zrn trip to this country.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

body who could last four rounds with Jackson. The latter had arrived in a sleepy-southern town where Star light was sojourning and the custo- mary offer of $500 was made.
 Starlight had been posing as a fighter among his fellow townsmen and had been getting away with IL A couple of his friends, who were broke, told Starlight it would be an easy chance for him to pick up $500 and they volunteered to be his sec onds. Of course $500 looked like a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
B. H. S. FIVE CANNOT
 STOP LOSING STREAK

The B. Fl. s, basketball team is not having very good season. The boys took another trimming last Saturday when the Black Rock Country club five beat them by 19 to 15. Coach Hunt has tried several changes in the line- up but the team doesn't seem to have the winning habit The girls team won from Milford High on Saturday, by 17 to 8.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
NEWS BY WIRE ALL SORTS OF sp0RTS-LNE LOCAL GOSSIP
BASKETBAIh HERE
 ON THURSDAY NIGHTS

In order to give the fans a little dancing with their basketbalLs Manager Leavy of the Blue Rib- bons has decided to hold the day nights hereafter. It was inn possible to allow dancing on Sunday, so the Sunday games will evening the Reading, Pa., team will play here.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
Marquard Claims He
 Is All Right Now

Rube Marquard, who was out of the game last season with a broken an- kIe, is full of hope for the coming season. He has sent the following message to President Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 My ankle is as strong as ever. ] am eager to get back on the mound. This will be my greatest season ir baseball
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

put a body scissors hold on the Ger man army.
 ''I am a Nebraskan, and so is Gen. eral Pershing. I was born on a farm and so was the general, but my scis- sors was nothing compared to the scissors hold Persf1ing put on the Huns. He could wrestle just as ef- Actively with the nations problems if put to him, so that's why I am for l him for president"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16
!Stecher is AdTnirer of General Pershing

Joe Stecher, the newly crowned
 wrestling champion, says there is but Lone man he would willingly yield his s4sf1e to without struggle and that E1aan ts-'Blaekjack" Pershing, who
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

On Jan. IS. Billy Sunday preached to 10000 people the funeral sermon of John Barleycorn. Before the pull pit lay the remains of "John" in a casket 20 feet long.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

home of the International League team, is still available and could be put into playing condition again for approximately $1,0O0.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-16

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