Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-22
HILTON LEADS FIRST DIVISIONERS
Philadelphia Man Has Three Straight Victories to His Credit Van Wickle Play Between Clark and Webb Stopped by Ran-Prof. Jacobus Defeated J. C. Knk-Wet Weather Interfered

Rain, that by some strange chance seems consistently to accompany the yearly tournaments of the National RoQue association, was again in evil dence on Wednesday and the intermit- tent showers held up number of the games and prevented the playing of many more. The showers affected the courts and the rubber borders to some degree and made the play slow. At nine o'clock the stars were out and the moon was shining but half an hour later the rain descended in a down pour, and the contenders for the first Van Wiclzle medal, Champion Clark of Springfield, and the defender, H. T. Webb of the Philadelphia club, took refuge in the club house. Dr. H. s. Thomson stayed out in the rain and ran out his game with Loue Stock well in the second Van Wickle play. At Il o'clock the stars were all out again and today and the rest of the week should produce the right kind of weather for roque. Rain Stopped Van Wickle Play. l In the play for the first Van Wickle medal, Eddie Clark, the challenger, | started out with the balls at 7.45 | o'clock. The champion ran them around in clever style finally getting one ball to the last arch and the sec l ond as far as the eleventh wicket. When Webb got the spheres, he show ed q careful steady game and had him. ! self well in hand at all stages The wet condition of the borders and the 1 floor of the court slowed up the game noticeably and interfered with num- | Der of Clark's carom shots. The balls | changed hands frequently and when l of 0 FH a7an n | contestants decided to mark the game up and have it go over until this eve | ming Webb has one ball with two arches to go and the other is at the basket going out, and while Clark is ahead of him, he has the advantage of having the balls in his possession. Webb has nice set up for continuing | the play.
 1 Thomson Won in DownPour. The second Van Wickle medahsts, Loue Stockwell, the challenger, and Dr. Thomson, found the same hand1- cap of wet grounds in the third game of their series. With his first ball out the defender went around within three 1 wickets of home run. Then he miss ed and Stockwell took the balls, but could not hold them, although during | the course of the game he made sev- | eral pretty back shots, one a beauti- ful three-cushion carom. In the pour ing rain Dr. Thomson ran out his | balls, while the Norwich player still had one arch to go with his first ball and had not started with the second The score of games is now ? to l in l favor of the defender
 Jacobus Too Much for Kirk.
 J. c. Kirk of Philadelphia got him. self into the play in earnest Wednes- day and for his first game he found himself up against Professor Jacobus of Springfield The old rivals had a long session with the mallets, but 1 Kirk was unable to get around his op- ponent's maneuvers and for the third 1 time in the same number of years he went down before the veteran. It was | the first game that Jacobus had taken in this years tournament.
 Felton Made Fine Recovery.
 Roque of the first order was dis played on Wednesday by l. F. Felton of Philadelphia and his splendid re- covery In the game with Robinson was | the feature of the afternoon. Robin son with one rover failed on his last arch. The ball stuck in the arch and it was the only shot open. Felton then showed his eye and nailed the ball making it rover, With one of his balls a rover and the other at the basket going home, Felton finished the game with ease. This and his two preceding victories place Felten at the head of the First Divisioners. Cham pion Clark did not play any tournament games on Wednesday, saving himself for the Van Wicl1le play and for later in the week.
 Williamson Has Five Straight. In the second division L. c. William son continued to demonstrate that he is still in the game by adding two more games to his clean list of victor ies, his total now being five. Sulli- van has been doing the best work o1 the Norwich players, with three games to his credit and one defeat. Third Division Started. Play in the third division was start, ed on Wednesday with Frank P. Fen ton and Charles M. Thompson of Willi. mantle and Fred Willard of Norwich entered.
 The games played on Wednesda! were the following:
 First Division.
 L. E. Whitaker won from Dr. B. R Veasey.
 J. c. Kirk won from F. c. Turner.
 l. F. Felton won from Charles Ja
 cobus.
 H. Clark won from Dr. B. R. Veasey [ c. Jacobus won from J. c. Kirk. Second Division.
 W. T. Sullivan won from Dr. H. g
 Thomson.
 Dr. Hugo s. Thomson won from ) B. Webb.
 A, D. spellman won from F. M Thompson.
 L. c. Williamson won from w. T , Sullivan.
 L. c, Williamson won from F. M
 Thompson.
 W, T. Sullivan won from Fred Sym , ington.
 ". T, Sullivan won from L. Stock well.
 2 Third Division. } c. M. Thompson won from Frank r
 Fenton.
 i, c. NJ. Thompson won from Ere I Willard.
 First Division Standing.
 Eddie Clark, Springfield. .
 l. F. Felton. Philadelphia . 3
 H. T. Webb, West Chester, Pa. 1
 F. C. Turner. Pasadena, Cal. Harold Clark, Springfield, ..