New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-31
THE NATIONAL CROQUET MEET
PREPARATIONS ALMOST COMPLETED AT NOR
wICH-GENERAL PUTNAM'S PLOUGH

No,vIch .ulv 20 peciaD-President Noyes r. Mech.
Of the Norwich Croquet Club Is as busy as bee, pre-
pairing the fine new grounds OF the local club for the
National croquet tournament that begins In this city on
August l5 With the aid Of efficient workmen the work
nearly completed and has been zone IN
the thorough The grounds will be the anplcss
and best equipped perhaps In the country Ihey are II"
handsome lot belonging the Rockwell family In tue
finest quarter OF the town and are shaded with elrs and
naples. They about mile from the business part
city, but electric pass within stones throw
main them Eight courts have siready
completed and there two more TO be msde They
arc constructed the scientific with beds ooou
as hard as marble elastic cushions On tho old GIN
ground, only eight courts. and they were
finely finished the new ones The NORWICH
Club is trying to arrange with the electric railway CON-
pany furnish arc lights for grounds and II IL Is
unsuccessful Will erect powerful calcium lights there
Tho grounds perfectly drained with network Of I'M
derground pipe, and iron gratngs, snd no mster no"
cspiousy rain may fall there will be pools thereon
A handsome tournament building for the players ana
spectators Is to be erected one side Of the GROUNDS
will be 4Oxo0 feet in size and two stories high In
the upper story there will be fifteen or sixteen Sleeping
apartments for tournament players, and on the GROUND
story large number OF for cooking, ohihs anu
other purposes Both stories will be fanked with
verandas forty long and eight feet WIDE for spectators
at the games Arnold scock OF this city, have JUS,
completed the plans for the building. and the WORK Oh
erecting IL win be begun at once There Is tal
wooden fence about grounds There is doubt that
enthusiastic one In the history Of American exper,
croquet. Among the veterans OF the maiiet VINO VIII
participate in the contests this are Jacobus Reed
MsurcT Strong Spading, Bishop, Harland and Dickey
The PLAYERS for the championship will be dvided INTO
four divisions and the prizes In each division VIII DC OF
equal intrinsic value
David Johnson venerable coored resident OF ronire'
ST. gardener for Benjamin frosvenor OF tnae Pseo
having ne teaching his nelghbors thot cotton uy
be raised successfully the hard ana bleak Conhecu
cut hills David raised cotton In Dixie Tor goou m@y
year. before the war all about the plant ana Tor
fifteen years has trying 10 convince incrduons
Northerners that cotton we'll IN New England lie
has verified his statement this yea- by producing as hand
sone patch Of may be raised In South Carohns
IA true he that seasons are pretty SNORT ou
then he contends the soil Is much richer In connecticut
and the plant grows much more luHu'iantly.
when tldings OF the skirmish between redcoas ana
at Lexington into Eastern Connecticut
Israel Putnam ploughing neid In his hard farn
Pomfret, and one has read In history ABOUT od
Puts leaving his plough and one Of his team horses
in the furrow and riding away on the other seed 70
the Battle of Bunker H Not long ago tho old plough
that Putnam left In the ned was turned up IN some
body's attic in windham County. A few weeks ago
F.. A. Brooks. weil-known relic hunter OF HarCord
heard about plough. and day or two ago he vert
to Danesonvills and bought IT. Mr. Broom VIII scohr
IL M a little and exhibit H. 1t is pretty tou9hlook'
ing old machine put into the Durfey grass gebe OF
an Eastern Connecticut field Its frame and mouldboard
arc wholly OF wood badly scraped and Scared, ana the
mouldboard IS plated hero and there with pieces OF
,crap iron that strengthen IL somewhat Its POINT ana
cutter are OF wrought iron.