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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1913
Page
12
Yale's baseball candidates start winter drills around January 20 with focus on battery positions. A February 1 call will form the squad, then gym work, outdoor running and fielding plus base running and hitting. Freshmen and class teams receive attention as plans call for a broader schedule after Easter recess.
Chicago January 7 Baseball magnates discuss a twelve months contract with players. They favor monthly payments to prevent winter spending and to keep players focused on ball playing, while seeking more authority over off season activities. The old proverbs are cited as context for changing control.
Pat Hurley will lead the Ridgefield five in a Thursday basketball game in Ridgefield. The lineup includes Merit, Mosel, Hoffman and Telex in a local contest with coach Hurley to report attendance and results.
Rhoda McCarty calls her husband Lucky a great natured overgrown kid and notes his boxing fame after his victory over Jim Flynn. She works as a dishwasher in Moorehead Minnesota and remembers their May marriage in Sidney Ohio five years earlier, with families in the same town.
Holy Cross outlines 1913 baseball plans with six veterans graduated from last year’s nine. New prospects include Murray Corley and Shea, while pitchers Lynch and Dubuc are gone. Ostergren at first, Cauley at third, O’Brien the lone returning outfielder, and Costello to catch. Thomas J. Flaherty arranges a southern spring trip.
A duck pin bowling league formed by the Criterion Club engages Eckler's alleys for opening games on Monday evening January 13. Team A led by Garrabrandt, Team B by Stansfield, Team C by Howley, Team D by Smith, Team E by Garner, and Team F by Morris will compete with captains and players named.
Indianapolis reports Frank Gotch may return from retirement to fight rival Zbyszko for a 30000 purse. The bout could occur in April or Memorial Day in the city if negotiations hold, with a syndicate arranging the purse and venue details. Gotch owns a Humboldt farm and is wintering in California awaiting the challenge.
The Bridgeport baseball club loses star shortstop Frank O'Rourke to Albany as Boston Nationals reportedly swap him to the Albany club. Manager McCann faces scrutiny over the deal while Boston's Stallings is blamed for the maneuver. Other notes include Marsans balking at sun-field duties, Keating chased by the White Sox, Kling targeted by the Reds, and Vanderbilt and Grand Prix previews in Savannah plus 1915 futurity nominations rising. Princeton introduces cage practice as baseball prospects dip.
More than 100 women from every state gather in Washington for the league's first annual convention. Bishop Alfred Harding opens the session as Speaker Champ Clark gives the welcome. Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby responds. Mrs. Mathew T. Scott also speaks as the group plans to study democracy and the forthcoming administration and platform.
Elizabeth Burnett fifth vice president of the Connecticut Association opposed to suffrage says women are too simple-minded now to handle the vote. The remark came at a meeting opposing suffrage ahead of the General Assembly. In a separate note, Henry Grose fled from deputies by jumping from a train into a snow drift near Plattsburg, N Y after grand larceny charges.
An advertisement praises a kidney pill product for quick relief from backache kidney and bladder trouble and urinary irregularities. It includes testimonials from B A Davis and B Brilg noting kidney pain and frequent urination as motivating symptoms and claims strong effectiveness for middle aged people and women.
New York police say they disrupted a large burglary ring tied to West 42nd Street jewelers and fashionable Upper Broadway robberies. Deputy Commissioner Dougherty led raids on James Pritchard’s junk shop uncovering a vast trove of furs jewels and gowns. The ring, led by George Carr alias Bogell, allegedly accounted for hundreds of thousands in stolen goods.
The Knights of Columbus plan a January open air band concert at the Lyric Theatre as part of the Mammoth Minstrels with the Darktown Regiment Band as chief attraction. Frank Braithwaite will lead the band with a special costume from a local tailor. Noted musicians listed include Lapky Reilly Haggerty Coates OMalley Bowen Bray Callahan Donahue Breen Hartnett Hogan Phelan and Donahue. Tickets exchangeable for Lyric seats start tomorrow.
Maurice Ben nett Flynn known as Lefty Flynn of Yale married Rena Leary yesterday in New York City hall. The ceremony was performed by Alderman John McCann after obtaining a license. Flynn aged 22, had not informed his father and few knew of the match. Flynn had been at Yale in Sheffield Scientific School and his college future now in doubt.
In St Louis and Chicago reports Roger Bresnahan, former St Louis Cardinals manager, will sign a three year contract with the Chicago Nationals. Murphy, Cubs president, says Bresnahan will catch next season and has accepted terms though not yet signed. A three year agreement is to be mailed to Bresnahan in Toledo Ohio.
In Eckler’s alleys last evening two trades groups the plumbers and carpenters opened a series with the plumbers earning the win under the banner of the Tinkers. The Joiners showed lesser form as the crowd watched eagerly for the “eames” outcome. The score follows.
Chicago gears up for the incoming Frank Chance arrival at Dearborn Street station at 11 40 a m with escort from Joliet. Johnny Evers Charité Williams and local press will honor the former Cubs leader amid a banquet and galley of visitors including Charles Comiskey Ban Johnson and Frank Farrell. Chance is expected to negotiate terms with Farrell that evening.
The piece argues American contender Luther McCarty would easily beat English challenger Bombardier Wells, noting Wells lacks staying power and has not proven himself against top heavies. It suggests Wells must first rebound from a Palzer defeat before earning a shot at stronger rivals, while predicting McCarty’s decisive edge. It also mentions Thomas Addison’s kinetic phone forecast.
The article recalls Guy Rhodes born in St Paul on January 7 1875 and his strong boxing era facing Tor Wiepon Bully Papke and Joe Walcott the Demon. It mentions Pinehurst golf and Ohio State Baseball League origins while noting many matches and tournaments across the United States and Canada.
Fragmentary boxing notes mention matches and fighters with limited readable names and dates. The text is garbled and uneven, reducing clarity of events, locations, and outcomes.
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