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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1910
Page
9
News from the baseball world outlines a busy 1911 season across the National and Eastern Leagues. trades and hopeful moves involve Kocher Jennings O'Neill Collins and Briscoe Lord while teams prepare spring training in Frisco and New Haven. The National League settles on 154 games starting April 12 with contracts tightening as players face new outfitting rules and a Philadelphia rivalry series with the Athletics.
Brooklawn boys travel to Greenwich Saturday to face the Port Chester All-Port Chester squad. The Port Chester five edged Brooklawn by a 27 point margin in a clash that also involved MCA and a Bort Chester matchup.
National Roller Polo League directors vote to assume Worcester club debts for two weeks and appoint Fred Mason as conservator over Phelan’s team. Trade talks fade, new players added, but Worcester may exit after Christmas holidays as other clubs shift to Massachusetts towns.
The Outing Magazine January issue lists top players by position. Notable names include Sprackling Brown and McGovern from Brown and Minnesota, Daly and Kilpatrick, and others from Harvard Yale Princeton Dartmouth Army and Wisconsin among several schools. The compilation reflects a consensus among football authors of the era.
Freddie Welsh the lightweight champion is a 10 to 8 favorite to beat Jem Driscoll in a 20 round fight set for Cardiff Wales. The purse is 1500 with both boxers around 132 pounds ringside. Driscoll wagered 5000 on himself and may tour America if victorious with Abe Attell’s camp. Welsh may also travel to meet Wolgast or Moran.
The cushion billiard title will be contested by Alfred De Oro holder and John Daly over three blocks of 60 points each on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday at Doyle's Academy. The Lambert Trophy diamond emblem valued at $1 000 a $300 wager and all gate receipts are at stake. A kidney health ad notes Foley Kidney Pills as a cure.
About 900 attendees gathered at the Imperial Theatre to oppose the imprisonment of Fred D. Varney editor of the Socialist Appeal to Reason. Varney has been sentenced to four terms in jail and fined 300 for offering a reward for the arrest of ex Governor Taylor of Kentucky, with murder indictments pending. Benjamin Legere chaired the event and introduced speakers Franklin H. Wentworth of Salem Mass Prof. Frank Bohn of Columbia University and Billie Reeves Rinor of Waterbury.
In New Haven yesterday a Bridgeport man was chosen as Yale College trustee replacing Rev Charles Ray Palmer, longtime pastor of the First Congregational Church in Bridgeport. The successor is Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guard ee & Trust Company, a Newsl graduate of Bridgeport High School class of 1874 and valedictorian of the 1878 Yale class.
Henry Woods 17 son of marketman F H Woods at 241 Wood avenue found unconscious in family market after a gas jet left burning overnight filled the space. He entered to arrange cash and was overcome before being moved to the sidewalk and later sent home to recuperate.
Exclusive United Press dispatch from Melrose Mass reports that unknown men broke into a Greenwood post office frame building, forced a slice window, used nitroglycerin to blow the safe, and fled with about $200 in cash and stamps before residents awoke.
Louis Christiansen a 17 year old from 135 Hewitt Street admitted smoking up to 100 cigarettes daily and with George Bifield 14 of 927 Stratford Avenue and Fred Cuffs 14 of 368 Carroll Avenue the trio were convicted in city court of stealing money from a Stratford pool room. Christiansen received 30 days in jail and a $1 fine plus costs while the two younger boys were sent to the Connecticut School for Boys for minority. They were arrested Saturday near East End yards while preparing to flee by freight when Detective Hall confronted them.
Special from Culted Presa.y Rendsboro Vermont reports an intensive probe into kerosene and gasoline sale leading to over 50 explosions in homes. Many burned, a dozen houses damaged, Mrs George Johnson seriously burned, Horace Gilson injured, and the house set afire during attempts to use the mixture. S
Frank P. Fenton of Willimantic, department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, issues general orders naming Arthur J. Mointyre of Putnam as chief of staff and William H. Scrivener of Hartford as historian. Among aides is Charles Andres of Bridgeport the order also reshapes offices to appointive posts and lists several staff roles.
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