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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Old Sport s Say-So

The selection of some one to re- place George Burns as 1eadom man is matter of vital importance to Manager A1cGraw of the Giants as his buffet trains for the coming cam paign. Burns is perhaps as fine leadoff Swinger as modern baseball ever has known. His judgment of pitched balls is almost unerring, so that opposing pitchers have to work hard when he is up there Jack Coombs for instance. once pro- nounced him to be about the toughest man he knew to pitch to. His cool ness, too, is proverbial, no situation ever causing him>to start the hitting the Giants usually were sure of get ting off on the right foot, no matter what happened to them thereafter. Furthermore, George is a great fellow to have on the bases, so that all things considered, it is going to be g more difficult matter for AIcGraw to fill Georges place in the batting or der than in centerdeld, remarkable fielder though he is.
 In Frisch. fortunately. he has a man who should come pretty close to making up for Burns loss at the cop of the column Lacking Burns ex- traordinary skill in looking lem over, and seldom hitting at bad balls, for Frank does that sometimes. the fish Frank does that some etinnes, the fash gets on base a great many times. nd when he is, is second to none in get ting around even without fhe assist ance of his mates. He te a, most E1da-e:Hake passrsn1e< and hSa &pee4
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13

is unquestionably great. Like Burns, he keeps his head no matter how rough, for the other fellow, or how exciting the going may be. 1n addi- tion. he is but a youngs.er. and Is improving all the time, so that if he makes good in the leadof job Me Graw will have nothing to worry about in that direction fo some time to come.
 Groh has had. some experience believed that the Giant manager ever, Heinie is a dangerous sticker his cut at the ball. Also. Heinie is and while it will be several years, perhaps, before he shows signs of slipping, it's a cinch he isn't getting faster with the passing of the sea- sons. Therefore, while he mig Int hold the job down faultleSSly this year, in another year or two he might slow up just enough to rob him of some of his value in it. It will seem strange. though, to see him hitting so far down the line, for, as a~Red. he seldom if ever batted lower than third.
 Incidentally. it doesn't seem bit odd to see Heinie rollicking around in Giant uniform again. It seems just as though he has come back to the fold after a leave of absence and 1t looks natural to see him out there getting a Giant suit dirty by dopping around the far corner of tho dtamonds
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
TOM GIBBONS HOLDS
 ADVANTAGE OVER CREE
Tom Gibbons.
Putmans Lining
 Up for Baseball

The Putnam A, C., life wire organ basketball champions, will be repre- sented by a, strong baseball nine this season, according to Manager John Glynn. A meeting of baseball candi- dates will be held at the clubrooms next Wednesday night Manager Glynn has already filed an entry for the Junior City Lea gue.
 Glynn is now working on his schedule for the season and would like to hear from any teams in the city or state Following are the players who will most likely consti- tute the Putnam outfit of 1922: Glynn, Salit, F'uIhon, Burr, Ca1caterra, Wheeler, Johnson, Corso. ~Sorotnfck, Keane, Grant, Crefgh, Neary and Katz.
 The Putnam basketball outfit is ending one of the most successful seasons in the history of the club. The Puts have won fifteen games and were beaten but once during the season. They won the Boys Club championship and later copped the city title. Three more games are yet rung. They will play the High Haven Iron Workers the following day and Southport a week from Fri day.
 Glenn Fulton, forward. is leading the clan in point scoring with a total by Larry Weary who has 121 to his credit.
 Following are the statistics of the I1a nh tn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Semi Pro Club
 Offers 5000
 Bait To Grimes

New York, March 13.-Burleigh Grimes, star right handler of the Brooklyn Dodgers, today was seeking an interview with President Ebbetts before he agreed to attach his sigma ture to 1922 contract. The big pitcher is causing the Dodgers chiefs a lot of worry at the Jacksonville, Fla, training camp, but Ebbetts says he has made his final proposition to him. Grimes said he was consider ing an offer of $9,0O0 a year~for five years by a semi-pro club in Chicago.
 The Yankees are talking enthuSias- tically today of the fine showing yes- terday by George Murray, who pitched for five innings in the game with the New Orleans Pelicans and allowed them only two hits and was never in Murray is from the Rochester club of the International League. The robust rlghtha;nder was the star performer of the day and chief factor in the Yankee 8 tol victory. Babe Ruth got two hits out of five times up, but failed to clear the fence.
 In San Antonio the Giants are also boasting of a pitching find in spite of the fact that they lost to the White SoN yesterday, 4-3. He is Claude Jonnard, last years strike out king of the Southern League with Little Rock. He hurled three brilliant in- nings and didn't allow Q. hit or a run, and struck out two men.
 Red F'aber and John Russell for the White Sox were too fancy in their pitching stunts and the Giant batterS could do no better than four hits and a lone run in the eighth inning. Their belated rally in the ninth was choked off by Russell, after the Giants got af- ter the White Sox hurlerS for three hits and two runs. Russell promptly stopped stumbling right there and re- tired, Frisch entering as a pinch hit ter and Ralph Spinners the home run hero of Saturday.
 The Giants had to go into the game the services of Frisch, who developed a strain where his appen- dix used to be and was not fit for duty in the field
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
BLOOMFIELD LOOKS
 LIKE COMING CHAMPION

Jack McAuliffe, who has been touring England, Ireland and Scotland in search of promising heavyweight material, says that the best prospect he has seen is Jack Bloomfield. Bloomfield was oter in this country two years ago. At that time he was a Inid- dIeyyeight, but he has taken on several pounds since then, and his boxing has improved. Jack was a rather clever boxer when he was here, but no one ever thought of him as a candidate for heavyweight honors. Ut seems that the big men of England are so hopeleSSly deficient in technic that ring followers are willing to overlook the lack of poundage in any one who knows something of the art of boxing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Sport Snapshots
TRAvERs IsnAND-R. F. Rice

TRAVERS ISLAND.-R. F. Rice was high gun at the N. Y. A. c. shoot, breaking 97 out of 100 targets.
 NEW YORK.-The Original Celtics defeated Wflk esharre's E a, S t n League basketball team by a score of 46 to 31. |. HAVANA.-Dr. Clark, running un- der the co1ors of M. Goldblatt and ridden by Jockey Garner, won the Grand Prize of Cuba. The race was one mile and one-eighth and carried S15, 900 added money.
 ST. PAUL. The Westminster hockey team of Boston, made it two straight over the St. Paul A. C., 2 to l.
 IARCHMONT. .-T. J. McCahill Greenwich trap shooter. was the win ner of the handicap shoot at the Darchmont Yact club.
 NEWARK.-The Harrison soccer eleven was victorious over Phila del- phia, 2 to 1.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Fast Glenbrooks
 Beat PaddOcks

In one of the fastest and exciting games played on the Kosy Korner floor the Glenbrooks defeated the Paddocks, 40 to 32, the down-staters went off with a, rush and it loked as if they were going to run up a large score, but the Beach boys settled down and had more of the nIav which was of a give and take order The first half ended in favor of the Brooks with the score 24 to ,. The second half saw the Paddocks play great ball and outscore the Glen brooks bltt failed to oVertake tho substantial lead of their opponants the final whistle going with the Pad docks outplayfng the opposition. Me Cle1lan, <Welch and Rockowitz were the shining lights for the beach boys Untermack played a great game for the Brooks, his great shooting help ing materially in his teams victory The preliminary game was won by the Paddock Babies from the Mys- tery Five of Devon with a score of Il to '.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Training Camp
 BiHs


 There was ah overflow crowd out to see Babe Ruth. yesterday, in New Orleans, but the Bambino was held to two singles
 Pitcher Bur1eigh Grimes Is at the Dodgers camp in Jacksonville, but has not signed his contract. Grimes threatens to play independent ball if his demands are not met.
 Earl Sheeley, last season White Sox first baseEnan, has come to an agree ment with Owner Comfskey on the salary question.
 George Kelly and Fred Toney are latest arrivals at the Giants camp in San Antonio.
 'Hughey Jennings Day. will be celebrated in Detroit on July 24, with game between the Giants and Tigers. Kopf is showing class in his work outs with the Giants. The young ster is speedy around second and Is wanted by Billy Gilbert for Water bury.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Cornell Loses Star

Dave KinTbail, CornelPs star hurdler, who finished second to Bar ron, of Penn State. in the 70-yard race at the title meet here Saturday night, will be lost to Coach Moakley for at least two months, it was learn ed last night.
 After stepping over the timbers. Dave undertook to score points for Cornell in the running broad jump; and in landing in the dirt and saw dust pit wrenched his ankle He had to be carried out of the armory by his fellow athletes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
QUESTS IN FAREWELL.

Edouard Roudn and Ary Bos. the French and Holand billiard anna teurs, will make their afrewell ap- pearance in this councIJy in a special match at the Liederkranz Club to- night in New York. Since the inter national Class A 1S:2 balk1ine cham pionshfp at the Manufacturers Club, Philadelphia, in which Roudil fin- ished fourth and Bos fifth. the two foreign players have competed in special tournaments at the Boston Athletic Association and the St. James club, Youngstown. Ohio.-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
PENN PICKS TEAM

Philadelphia, March 13-Penn has applied to the United States District Court for five passports to England
 which indicates that the Red and Blue has virtually chosen the four mile relay team that will sail from New York March 21 for the race with Oxford and Cambridge teams in London, April s. Passport have been asked for Capt Larry Brown of Seat tie, Wash; Sayman Kerr of Salt Lake City, Utah; Elmer Mclean of Edman
 Okla: Johnny Herr of Iansdowne
 Pa. and Donald Head of Philadel-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Whirl Wind Five
 To Play Y.M.H.A.

The Original Whirlwind quintet one of the speedeiest basketball com binations in the metropolitan districta will be the opponents of the Y. NJ H. A. five tomorrow night. The New Yor1ers' have defeated such teams as the Silent Separtes, Danbury Separ- ates, and teams of like calibre In their line up is Spider Kelly, one of the best forwards in the business
 In the preliminary game the. '. Nr H. A. Juniors will meet the High School Seconds. Joe Waters will referee and Al Anderson wifi hold the time piece. Lineup for main game:
 Original WhirIWindS " NJ IT A
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Chief Bender Is Williams Coach

Willisnstown, Mass. March 13 - Chief Bender, former pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics, is here to as- sist Caach Jack Coombs with the Williams baseball squad for a few days He will take complete charge of the Purple hurling corps during his stay. permitting Coonlbs to deyo-e his attention to the other candidates.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Johnson Failed
 To Keep Date Here

Jack Johnson was unable to come to Bridgeport yesterday. for a con- ference with Jack Reich and Paul Dtetz relative to the proposed match between himself and Bin Brennan. Johnson was obliged to leave New York for Pittsburgh, where his vaudeville show is scheduled to open @ weeks engagement today. John son has asked for a meeting with the local promoters upon his return to New York
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
TO OVERHAUL FERRY

The ferry boat Pleasure Beach, of the Pleasure Beach line will leave soon for New York where it will un- dergo repairs. it was learned today. Captain Philip G. Day will be in com mand when the boat is lowed to New York.
 The ferry will probably get a new coat of paint and will receive q gem eral overhauling to it's engines and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Lewis Is Victor
 Over Geo. Bailey

Lexington, Ky. March 13 Ed ('Strangler') Lewis. worlds heavy weight wrestling champion, defeated George l"Farmer'') Bailey, New England champion. in two straight falls. The first came after Lewis had pinned 12 head1ocks on the challenger in 46 minutes and g seconds Lewis won the second with an arm grape vine in 1 minute and l 3 seconds.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
SERIES EVEN UP

St. Louis, Mo, March 1S.-Corre- spondents trailing the S-. Louis Amer jeans and Nationals are enthusiastic in their praise of each clubs work yesterday in exhibition games. The Cardinals have evened their count in their series with the Cleveland In- dians, their victory yesterday being by a to 2 margin at Dallas. Today the Cards arc due to return to their Orange. Texas camp.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
NAVY HARVARD

Annapolis, Md. March Is@The Naval Academy expects to send it's plebe or first year crew to Cambridge on May to meet the freshmen of Harvard and Princeton varsity crews of those institutions contest on the same date. The plebe crew is a huskier bunch than usual and have been working under Richard G1endon, Jr- a son u< the veteran nazx cnanh
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
TO DISCUSS PROBLEM |.
 OF FOURTH PRECINCT

The proposed aboishment of the Fourth precinct police station will be thoroughly discussed Thursday night when taxpayers of the Sixth and Eighth voting districts meet in the new Sixth District Republican club. Mayor Atwauer and most of the Pc lice commissioners are said to be in favor of the nroposed nlan
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
BOHLAND RETURNS

After competing as unattached for. one year Max Bohland, a one time na- tional champion harrier. has asked the registration committee of the Metropo Titan A. A U- for permission to represent the Paulist A. C. Bohland scored moat of his notable athletic triuznphs in the co1ors of the West Side orEanization 9exeraz xeax1 ago
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
SMALLPOX DUE TO
 LEAVE SOON-DR. COO,

Bridgeport will soon be without smallpox" said Dr. William H. Coon, Health Officer, in discussing the situation here- ''Only eight new cases have been reported this week, the smallest number since the first out break of the disease onADec. 24, and patients who have recovered are be- r1itals.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Bartfield-O'Dowd
 Bout On Saturday


 Mike O'Dowd, the Fighting Harp of St. Paul, and Soldier Bartfield. the Bombarded Bondbardier of Brooklyn, who are well known here, both having fought Lou Bogash. will mingle in the main event of twelve rounds at the Rink Sporting Club of Brooklyn next Saturday night
 Lew Kid Lewis, the Canadian feath- erweight champion, who formerly made Waterbury his headquarters, is now in New York in search of. bouts. He is under the managerial wing of Eddie Harvey, who is trying to get all the featherweightS to meet Lewis. Harvey is also anxious to match his protege with Johnny Dundee for the latters' junior lightweigft~ champion ship Lewis has defeated Charles Pa pin, French champion, Willie Murphy, Bud Dempsey and Mickey Travers anlong other mitt toSSsrs He is one of the fastest and cleverest feath- erweighJs ir the business, is Kid Lewis.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
TO HEED COMMITTEE WISHES.

The wishes of the Democratic Town committee and Mayor Atwater will be needed when two replacements of rodmen in she City Engineers depart menr are made on April l. These positions carry salaries of S12eO a scar each.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Individual Averages.

UcIleraI summary. Games played, 16; games won, ] 5; games lost. 1; percentage, .937; total points scored. 451; points scored by opponents, 263; goals from floor, 196, goals from fouls, 59.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Rodriguez Will
 Report On Time

ceived a cablegram from Joe Rodi- quez, first baseman of the Bridge port club. that he will be on deck on April i. or a few days carrier. Me Cam also stated that all players who have not signed their contracts are satisfied with terms and Will report on April 4, excepting two and Me Cam is hopeful that they will be here when the training bell rings.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
Bogash Flashes Championship Form in Mc7igue Bout
Hitting The
 WITH q. E. FIRSTBROOK
 Sport Trail

Less is heard of Packey Mcfarland these days than of any other noted boxer in retirement, yet Packey was easily the c1everest boxer of the last twenty years. He is now a prom inent business man of Peoria, and he does not mix in ring affairs in any way.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13

ATLANTA-Bobby Jones and Per ry Adair were the victors over Jim Barnes and Jock Hutchinson in their golf match.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13

v easily the cleverest boxer of the last twenty years. He is now a prom inent business man of Peoria, and he does not mix in ring affairs in any way.
 It is strange that Mcfarland should be forgotten so quickly, for he was a great drawing card
 in New York. He proved that ring followers do appreciate cIev- CT boxing. although the hard hitteI's may be remembered great deal longer.
 There was something about McFar- lands style that was highly interest ing, even though he seldom scored knockouts In this he was different from Jack Britton, Freddy Welsh Jimmy Claibby, Battling Levinsky and others of their type, who were sup posed = be wonderful boxers. Me Farland always was the aggressor and even though he did not stop his man he beat him so completely that there never was any doubt about the winner.
 Some boxers developed tab and grab tactics to such an extent that they seldom received dam- aging, waIlops, and so won the reputation for being remarkably clever They earned their repu- there is nothing particularly cIev- CT about diving into clfnches for
 protection.
 It is extremely difficult to land solidly on one of these expert clinch- CTS When they step in for the purpose of gra'bbing a good hold they know just when their opponent must start his blow, and it is an easy matter to avoid wallop when one knows exactly when 1t will start.
 The boxer who keeps his chin out of range without cIinchine has every right to be termed clever. Men Of that type always are popular with the fans even though they may not be deadly hitters. But ring followers never will enthuse over the man who depends on AcIincEing for pro- lection That sort Of thing really is violation of the rules. If the rules were understood better the Jaib and grab type of boxer never
 would win unless he scored n knockout and they seldom do that.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-14
EXPLORERS RETURN
FROM JUNGLE TOUR
More Danger i'm Broadway,
They Say, Than i'm Wilder
ness Of the Amazon.
HAVE TONS OF SPECIMENS
5000 Miles of Travel Give
Plenty of Excitement,
but Little Peril.

After spending ten months exploring
the jungles bordering four tributaries
of the Amaze River in South America
three members of the milford expedition,
financed by the AIulford Company, manu-
featuring chemists of Philadelphia,
landed here yesterday from the Booth
liner Justin with two and a half tons OF
specimens. mostly preserved in formalde-
hyde, and a collection of birds. small
deer. monkeys and other tropical crea-
lures.
The returned scientists are DR.. Orland
e. White of the Brooklyn Botanical Gar
dens. DR.. William L. Mann, entomologist
OF the Department of Agriculture. and
Prof. Nathan E. Pearson. ichthyologist
Of the University OF Indiana. The orig
inai leader of the party. DR.. Fl. II.
Rusby of the Columbia University College
of Pharmacy. was forced to return to
New York several weeks ago because Of
illness.
The explorers Travelled by mule pack.
man pack, canoes ard motor boats about
5000 miles, and had no perilous adven-
lures. They had plenty to eat while
near the rivers they navigated, but were
forced to subsist partly on young
monkeys in the jungle depths. They
found the little monkeys tender and re-
semhling chicken. The old fellows were
tough and unpalatable. The Indians, all
of whom were friendly, regarded young
monkey meat delicacy. In the Bopi
River they suddenly encountered un-
charted rapids, in which their craft was
upset and they were spilled into the
sire am, with all their boxes. The In
dams. who are fine swimmers, salved
nearly everything.
On the Benz River a young ranch
owning American. Alfred Howard. vol
unteered 70 help them stun Ash with
bombs thrown into the water. One ex-
ploded and blew off his right hand, and
the party gave him first aid and then
carried him twenty miles in an impro-
viscd stretcher to the nearest settle
ment. where they found DIR. Martinez
of the Bolivian Army, who treated the
injury successfully. and complimented
the scientists on their medical skin.
which. he said, had saved Howard $
life
The explorers said there was more
danger in Broadway than in the South
American jungle through violent acct
hthis. Jul wat tii1s WtlC both-
cred by the hook worm and the screw
worm. and had to eat lot of quinine
to stave off malaria. The screw worm
came from the eggs OF Jungle flies laid
In abrasions of the explorers skirs.
They manifested themselves after the
abrasions had apparently healed, and 1t
was necessary to cut open the flesh and
clean them out to prevent serious sick
ncas.
Three Of the original party of seven,
\. Mccarthy, secretary and historian.
and two photographers, MacCragh and
Brown. were left working on the lower
Gaupcs River. on the Brazilian-Colom-
bian frontier. Before DR. Rusby left the
expedition Mccarthy had been bitten by
q taran.ula. but soon got over the In
fcction through the ministrations OF the
doctor