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Y., Chicago Board of Trade. Diract private wire to floor of Excnange | CURN STOCKS A SPECIALTY. Jan i ATTORNEYS AT LAW. - AMOS A. BROWNING, 2 Richards Blag. Attorney-at-iaw, 'Phon.viir. ROWN & PERKINS, Mlorneys al Law over First Nat ‘Sank, Shetucket St Entrance Btairway nex: to Thames Nat. Bunk. Athietics, Cubs and Pirates teurs Interested in City Monday night witnessed the flitting of several of the major league teams for their spring training quarters in the south. With thgse already in train- ing camps and tryinz out mumerous squads, the anxious fan left at home will now have his attention riveted on the reports to come for the next month or so from'thg sun-kissed diamonds where managers are developing what thye hope will prove pennant winning material. Athletics Off for New Orleans. “The Philadelphia American league basehall team left for New Orleans, their training quarters. There Were 21 players in the party. Pitcher Krause and Outfielder Heitmuiler will go di- rect from California _and, Outflelder Jackson and Infielder Barr will join the team at New Orleans. Pitchers Dy- gert, Coombs, Schlitzer and Stowers are already on the ground. Wagner Not With Pittsburg. A dozen members of the Pittsburg National league baseball team, im charge of Thomas Leach, left for their pring training quarters at West Bad- en, Ind. They will be joined by half a dozan other players on their arrival at West Baden. Hans Wagner s not in the party, not having slgned yet for the coming season. . Champions Send a Squa e main body of the Chicago Na tional league baseball team left for its rinary training work at West Baden, Ind. The pitchers and\catchers under the digection of Manager Frank L. Chance have already spen. a week at West Baden, and are now at Hot Springs, Ark. The two squads ' will unite at Shréveport, La., March 16. Frazier Signs With Cubs. r of the pitching staff of National _league whose v a higher salary ha Xept him in Chicago, instead of with his.teammates in Arkansas, signed his 1909 contract Monday Contracts and Releases. New York, March 8—Acting Presi- dent Haydler of the National Baseball league issued th following statement today of contr: nr releases that ve been approved .and promulgat- the agn—0. J. Hofmi John E. Malone. Frank With Pittsburg—Mike Simon, assign- ed by Boston. - t. Louis- chenbach, Baldwin, Bresnahan, Byrn Delehanty, Gaiser, G Higgins, Konetch More, Osteen, Phelp: Salle Sullivan. Rely By Boston to Pit\sburg league . Mike Shmon. v ‘Brooklyn, unconditionall bert, Higginbetham, Larkin, Medwit Railly, Rhodes, (National | A T ew York to Rochester, F leagu, B. C. McDonald. By St. Louis to Memphis, Southern league, Willlam Ludwig. tern COACH HAUGHTON AGAIN. Harvard Secures Winning Football Guide—Freshman Game With Yale and Princeton. Cambridge, Ma: March 8—All doubt as to whether Harvard's {ootball team will have the services of Percy D. Haughton,coach of the e vanquished Yale ven which last year after six Races Plugging On—Many Drop Out—Local Ama- y Baseball League. having been ratified today. Yale will play at Cambridge on November 13 and Princeton at Princeton on a date yet undetermined. This will be the team' first game with the Princeton fresh- men. It was also announced today that the Harvard freshman and Correll fresh- man crews will race at Lake Cayuga on.May 31, preliminary fo the Har- | vard-Corneil contest: FRENCH TEAM IN LEAD. Passed Boston Runners After Midnight —2%-Hour Records Beaten. New York, March $.~At the end of the 20th hour of the six day go as you | please race the fleld had narrowed to 18 teams from the 27 that started Christie of the West Sides, Higgins of the Canadians and the Swo. Gresk teams during the afternoon found the going too strenuous and quit, and Ferrl of the Italiang alsa fell by the way- side. Hartley of the Canadlan team coupled up with Ward of the West Sides, but the latter soon dropped out, and Hartleycast his lot with Pallanti, the Italian. taking fhe place of Ferri. At 8 o'clock the ten leading teams were: Dineen and Prouty, 1459; Cibot and Orphee, 143.2; Spring and Adams, 140.5: Feegan and Curtis, 128.6; Davis and Metkus, 127; Navez and Dom 136.4; Leoslein and Klubertanz, 1 1; Hegeiman and Golden, 120.4; Corey and Coleman, 118.2; Guignard and Rovere, 116.3. At 10 o'clock tonight the leaders were in the same. relative position. At that time Sapsford, the Englishman, and Endlick of the military team quit and their parners, Wolledge and Sem eran, immediately paired. This leave 17 téims in the race, After having gamely struggled all the afternoon to catch P. J. Dineen and F. Prouty, the Boston team, in the six day go as you please race at Madison Square Garden, by a wonder- ful burst of speed Louis Orphee of the French team took a lead of two .lap or the Americans shortly” after mid- fit. At 1 o'clock the French team an even mile ahead, the score he- ing Cibot and Orphee 171, Dineen and Prouty 17 All Tecords for the 24 hours went by the hoard ten minutes befores mid: ht avhen Dineen hed covered 165 milcs ans one lap, and exactly on the stroke of midnight the French team equalled tF fizures sec by Hegelman and Cav: naugh when they made the record 1902. Bothner Lost Handicap Match. Corning, N. Y., March 8.—Phin Goul i George Bothner tonight in hardic ing hou Geuld twice man got a fal to_th Neith: Jack Twin Defeats Stewart. New Yo k- (Tw Sulljvan defs Stewart, t Brooklyn tonig! in a f: the Marathor March 8i—J Jim eavyweight, st ten round, bout a Athletic club ih Brooklyn. Gotch and Perrilli Matched. Omaha, Neb., March 8.—Frank world’s_champion wrestler, and Perrilli_ of N York have beer matched here for March 25. successive defeats, was set aside to- C. A. C. MEETING. day, when the athletic committee a s 93 nounced his appointment and accept- | Ten Members Added—Amateur gue ance as coach during the coming sea- Rign Enthusiastically R d. son. Coach Haughton will again serve v rl e without compensatlon. An adjourned business meeting of The Haryard freshman football team | the Central Athletic club was "m-hi will meet the freshman elevens of Yale | Monday evening in their rooms in the and Princeton, the team's schedule | Pierce block, President William Houli - T LETHARGY AND NEGLECT. 5100 Anseonda Mining Co...... 1% Al% 41y £ a0 Ao . touh sz 10a! | Attempts to Move Prices Proved of | — o Stienble Const fine L Jh 12 : 0 Baltimore & Ohio 0rx 107% Little Avail. g s 1908 New York, March 8—The stock| ‘3% Cavadisn Pacinc - o market today justified the prophets of a period of lethargy and neglect while awaiting the clearing up of-some of the obscurities in the situation. One or wo incidents of the day were tried as motive forces for moving prices, but they proved of littie avall. Different causes are assigned different degrees of importance in the responsibility for the halt in the Speculation in the sidck market, ‘but the prineipal matter, it is generally agreed, Is the framing f the new tariff bill. The experience in the iron and steel trade following the cut in prices by the principal interests is | cor#idared a demonstration that b ness must wait ou the tarifft bill rcaling down of prices of stea! products fails to0 revive the.demand in any ef- fective fashion owing t> the remaining uncertanties of the new duties. Great nce i heard expresss. i0 finan Tous re of as large commitments in stocks as are thought desirable the Light ¢f present knowledge are lieved to have been made. The bond | market is beginning to present a sim- | jlar eituation, the rate of activity ther showing a notable contraction.. It is pointed out that the heavy lo&an ex- pansion of the banks at this spite of the desultory de business, is accounted for 1 ho'dings’ of new bond is over the country. =W may he on the bond market effective demand for spring up is & subject of tude. A considerablé bank holdings of su plied consequer the stagnetics in when any shail yme solici- quidation of onds would be innl e ailowed money o the activities of the Hughes com- mission to investigata exchange meth T'he att: ed 10 be g en-at recent sit his commisaion ations -of k market manipu- and mpth ent on the p, ales has_an ef- to tion given traders, -A sha w06 10 Te no de was ery jsion on to e on stocks of le [l . The share favora roads iraversing that state, { the Gould stacks in.ihis benefit was incre. )y published reports of ‘a traffic arrangement between .tihie Wa- bash and the Uni Pacifie. Gold ex- ports to South Am rica and to London are lopked for this week. but money rates here .were unafiected. ‘Bongs were trregular. To sles, par value, $3,010,000. - United States bonds were unchanged on cait * STOCKS. ¢ Nig’ ' Low. Clgte smalgsmiated ‘Clpper ... 699 68% GOl Am. Car 4 Youndsy Yoiy iy | Do. pig An._Cotton 01 Am.Tide_& 1. 11 id Am. lec Securities . Am. Linseed 0l American Locomotive . An o ing & B A o e Tokacen M. ntral Leather Do. pfa ' entral of New Jersey.. 16 prd . 0. 2d pfa cneral "Electiie eat Northern pid 0% Bo. Ofe ctts. o6 Tjinols Cegtral Tuterhorough Met. T Do. pld Trternational Paper ... 10 American Northern Pacific @ Pacific Mall bt Toited Vit Ttah | Copper Ya. Carolina Che e i) Wabash vo. pld i3 0 Westinghouse Eiectric Western Tnfon COTTON. March 8. —Cotton middling uplands, 10.10; sales, 362 z losed steady. Closin bids: March 9.52, April 9.4%, May 9.50. June 9.43, July 9.44, August 9.39, Sep- October 9.31, November ol 800 ew York, quiet: middling gulf, Cotion futures t; ruling rate closing bid offcred sixty days nincty days Jeague last summer. been held in Gaeeneville and hot to see the league get into opera- | tion, and Taftville is also in liwe, which th the C. A. C. team makes up & quartetts of certain entries. The meeting for Fridgy evening in the C. A. C. rooms, when the league will “be_talked over, promises to be attended by a large representation of t!lle amateur baseball ipterests of the clty. LAWSCN WILL MEET HENDECK. Manager of Featherweight Champion Answers Willimantic Wrestler. Naugatuck, Conn., Mareh 6, 1909. Sperting_Editor, Norwich Bulletin: Dear Stri—In answer to chalenge in your recent Issue, will state that as manager of “Chic” Lawson, champion featherweight of the United States, will back Lawson at catch weights against Hendecks 1 will a forteit of $25 that he will not welgh over 116 ringside. Side bet for match to be $50, best two out of three fall Match to take place before elub mak ing best offer or I will let Hendeck's manager_ name the club. 1 want only one condition and that is Hendeck must not exceed 125 pounds ringside. If Hendeck’s manager accepts this challenge I will immediately post for- feit with The Bulletin. Yours for sport, GEO. H. WAITE. STORRS’ SCHEDULE. ne to Mest Rhode | Aggies Twice on the Diamond. Storrs, Conn.,, March $.—The base- bali schedule of the Connecticut Agr cultural college, announced Saturday, contains these games: April 10—Springfield Training school at Springfield. April 24—=All-Rockville Connecticut team at May 1—Weeleyan acadeny at Storrs May S—Worcester academy at Wor- cester. May 15—Cushing academy at Storrs May 22—New Hampshire State col- lege at Durham. May 31—Rhode Islana State college at Willimantic. June 5—Williston seminary at East- hampton. June $—University storrs. June 12—Rhode Island State college at_Kingston. June 15—Alumni at Storrs, of ‘Texas at Collins Matched for Finish Event. Bill Collins, the Central Viliage wrestler, has signed up fo ra finish match with Jim Barnes of Springfield, miadleweight champion, for the even- ing of March 15th. Theé match will be ield in the Joy theater, Moosup. Bill made such a good showing against Barnes in a recent handicap match in villimantic that he feels confident of giving the Springfield man a hard go to a finish, Potatoes Hard to Dig. The Young Potatoes Hard to. Dig vish to challenge any team under 10 ears of age. Their lineup is as fol- lows: W. McKnight p, . Pineau c, H. rlie 15, W. Ryan b, R. Relow G. Ryan 3b, B. McVeigh rf, A. Pineau If. They are going to play the Little Lemons Saturday morning. Postponed Duckpin Games. All the games in the Eastern Con- necticut Duckpin league were postpon- ed Monday night., Westerly No. 1 will roll the Norwich Warriors here Friday night, but the date for Norwich No. 1 to roll in New London this week has not been sot. Want to Play Ball. Tanis Tavernier and George Wood, two baseball players of Moosup, write The Bulletin that they would like to get on with any club under 18 in Con- necticut. They can fit into any posi- tion. They can be addressed at Moos- up. Harris High at Duckpins. With 120 at duckpins, Captain Julian Harris of the Warriors took the high single prize Monday at the Rose alleys. Harris rolled strings of 100 and 103 just before the 120, giving him a three string of 323 to start the week. | - Will Play if Warm Enough. The Mt. Pleasant street ninth grade would like to play the Greeneville sehoool or any other nine, They will get cut of school early Friday and play them if it i8 warm enough. + BONE’'S PLAYERS. New Faces to Be Seen in New Haven N Nearly all the New THaven nine cers have now signed contracts. anager Bone has secured the signa- > of the following players and_Peaster, catchers; Carrick, B dt, Keenan ' and Fred Doll, pitchers; Havel, second base: Sher- zood, third base; Cantwel, Ambros, Phoenix and Bob Stowe, shortstops- Zacher, center fleld; Connell, —right field. Phil Corcoran, pitcher, and Sny- der, left field, have vot signed. but will do so_soon, it is expected. Sherwood and Corcoran bath get a voluntary y this season. the new felt flelder, hails vark, O., and batted for .280 s Bone will elther give Wa- ters ‘and Plelss for him or else will buy him outright. Herbst has been | traded, probably to Lynp. Keenan is a_youngster from Provi- dence, R. 1. He won 21 out of .28 games for the independent clups around Rhode Island last season. Doll pitched good ball in the Chicago city FERRIS HIT WITH ST. LOUIS. “Hobe” Began Baseball Career When 17, Helping Out in Sunday Game. Z1bert Sayles (“Hobe") Fervis joined a minor league club when he was 17, At that time he was learning structura’ ork and playing ball on the side. The | manager of the North Attleboro team and | bat. a “Hobe” acts on the naturul ficult corner. He. kno! pitchers a tee R hits to right, ‘whi lines, them into about his position uni And he studies .basebal ing to the right for this man and to the left for the next. McAleer says he is one of the game's greatest natural “Hobe's” kindness and with all his heary laugh, He is McAleer says, “I wouldn’t give a cent for him if This year “Hobe” i¢ in ball players. But with all he has a wee bit of a temper. irritable at times, but, as he wasn't. fine condition. HARVARD ATHLETICS PAID ball—Other Sports Showed Deficit. for the. college year 1907-08, issued by Henry §. Thompson, graduate treas- arvard. The to- the The 50 urer. of athletics at ta] receipts were $)27,818.44 and total expenditures ' $101,227.34 total net surplus exoceeds $14, the met surplus of the previous year. the gain being due in part to increased receipts from football and baseball and in part also to a decrease in the expense of football coaching and train- ing_table, b for the yeas football “of 1907 were $82,546.37 ‘With the exception of football and eball all the sports show a deficit The total receipts from and the expenses $19,894.97, leaving a sur- The report says that per in plus $62,651.40. there has been a decrease of fift- cent, within the last three years the expense of football management. including the tralning table, supplies Joshua and - salaries of coaches. Crane, who was head coach in 190 refused to accept the salary for his syrup cakes third baseman, says a St. Louls baseball writer. ~Well built and built close to the ground, fast and cleyer with his hands, he 18 jdeal for the dif- the weakness of batters, of d of fielders. He knows to eat hitters hit, who muu:o left and who $28091.10 OVER EXPENSES _Money Came from Football and Base- A surplus of $28,091.10 In receipts over expenditures in all lines of Har- vard athletics, is shown by the report Wheat Cakes Coin Cakes— .Griddle Cakes of all Makes taste better, set better, are better when served with The most healthful and nutritious A book of recipes for cooking and 3 Le lie m..g\‘. Angus_McDoi an1 Bob Leo ve. Pele Wikias, Hos- R b oW ork; Jack my e ve Ja Herrice Hammond 1ot Kid Beebe ve. Patsy Kline, Philadelphia; Patsy Brannigan vs, Denby Denn, Pitts- Wednesday—Abe _ Attell ys. Young Plerce, Essington, Pi Thursday—Johrny K Masten, Akron, O.: JURid Mercler, Lawrence: Jimmy Han- ion vs. Tom Riley, Southbridge: Paul Fddis Kennedy, Pittsburs. Friday—Jabez White vs. Joe Gans, New York; Willie Lewis vs. Marc Goucher, Paris; Tony Ross vs. Marvin Hart, New Orleans. Saturday—Mike _Cunningham George Murray, Portland, Me. T Good. w York Jour Pete Ibatie vs. ¥rant | b Wilson ve. Vs, Wilson Mak ngree in the the following tribute : 1son . demonstrated yes- terday that he is a valuable man. He pitches an underhand fast ball that breaks in close to the batter. When said batter is scared from the plate, | Zeke, or Pete, as Wilson is {amiliarly known, shoots over a ball with pre- cisely the.same delivery which breaks out, 1t Is not possibie to call the turn. His weakness is that he pitches. too mrch with his arm instead of with his wholé body. He has never used 2 slow ball and Duke Farrell is now helping him 4'velop one. By the care that.is taken of this fellow I imagine that ¢ | Stallings intends to hold and use Rim" Wrestled Four Hours with Tremblay. | In Cleveland, last week, Johnny | Billeter of Toledo and Eugene Trem- | Blay, champlon lightwelght, wrestied | four’ hours without a fall and then | Eilleter agreed to Tramblay's proposal “| to call it a draw and stop. Bfleter claims that Tremblay stalled and hug- ged the mat most of the way, and that he could surely defegt the cham- plon if Tremblay had been willing to wrestle. BASEBALL BRIEFS. The New Britaln and Hartford teams will report for practice April 6, four weeks from tomerrow. Howard Buckley floes not intend to euter the professional rynks this vear. He may pitch a few Saturday games for Independent clubs. for every use, from griddle to candy. ing sent free on request. All' Grocers, 10c, 25¢, 50¢ CORA PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANT. New York TO SHOW YOU RANGE WILL BE US AND OPEF OF PLEASVU ichmond aaannese P. BARSTOW & CO, 23-25 Water Street. 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