Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-17

| A good start was made in the twen- Ity-eighth annual roque tournament of the national association here on Tues day with Champion B0swort holding the lead with four victories. The tour nament was formally opened by Mayor Thayer, who welcomed the delegates to Norwich, stating that it was always a pleasure to have the association here. The residents of the city, he said, felt that it is a good thing for the city to have such fine body of men visit it each year. The game, he said, shows the workings of the human machine at ball and made the opening shot of the tournament He failed in his endeavor to make an arch and left the fine points of the game to be worked out by the experts.
 All the courts on. the grounds were in use during the day. The. heavy rain
 of Monday night had left the courts in
 fine condition after slight SprinkIing of sand had been put on them and
 rolled in Several heart breaking gam eS
 were played during the day. showing
 the uncertainties of roque. Champion Bosworth came so near defeat that he had practically abandoned hope of get
 ting his game with Toss until an un
 fortunate shot by the latter gave him
 the opportunity to get in shot and thereafter there was no show for FoSs- It had been a game of give and take BOswOrth made a mess of his second arch, giving the balls to Foss, who dQVa1coO several dfcneS, only 10 nave BosWorth get possession of the balls again by a pretty carom shot. He made run of the grounds but missed an easy shot and F'oss went into the game for a win then. He gave Bos- worth no opening at all and had but one arch to go. Instead of taking the usual precautions against the possibili- ty of failure to make his arch, he care lessly tried to make an apparently easy shot in his haste to win out and miss ed. BosWorth then had it all his own way and cinched the game
 One of the best games that F. Webb has played since coming here was that with King, when he shut him put with out an arch in a fast game which in- terested a large gallery. Ex-Champion Clark. however, got his game from Webb after some trouble Webb play ed his usual uphill game and had one rover when Clark, who is an adept at caroms, got in one of his clever strokes and securing the balls soon put an end to any possibilities Webb had.
 w H. Kidd of Meriden arrived with his big mallet on Tuesday and got into the games in the afternoon and took his game from Jacobus. He Is taking the place of Hogeland in the first di- vision as the latter is unable to be in attendance much to the regret of his many friends. Accompanying Rev. Mir Kidd is Mrs. Kidd and Edward Burns of Meriden
 Although President Kirk has jumped into the first division this year 1t has not made him nervous and he still maintains the same calm lemeanor as when he won the second division hon. ors. He showed that he has the skill when on Tuesday he got his game iron Baker when it was thought he had ab- solutely no show. Both of the presf- dents balls were for the cage going mp when Baker had one rover and his second ball for the last arch Hope less was written all over Kirk's chances but by a clever carom he secured pos- session of the balls and thereafter kept his opponent so tied up that he was able to work both balls around the court and win the game. He received a big hand for his uphill fight.
 Wahly got into the game on Tues day and took games from Kirk and King. so that the champion and ex- champion have clean scores thus far
 Mcdonald had not shown up on Tuesday night and there was some un- certainty as to whether he would be here. He was considered one of the