Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-17

the earliest arrivals of the tournament, but they are now beginning to flock in rapidly and by Tuesday morning, when the play is officially declared begun, the committee is expecting to have as large and as enthusiastic q gathering of the followers of roque as has ever come together in Nor wich.
 Philadelphia Has Big Delegation.
 Philadelphia promises to have the biggest delegation of players at the Rockwell street grounds this summer and during the week Messrs. Webb have been joined by William A. Hoge land, who, however, does not expect to play, by eX-President J. G. Kirk, l. F. Pelton, William Hogeland, Chas. H. Edmonds and Walter c. ROdman. Prof. Morrison and J. c. Scott have also come to look on, for they also may Tot take part in the tournament games. Two other members of the Philadelphia club who come from Wilmington, Del, are B. R. Veasey and J, C. Hickman.
 c. c. King Cannot Come.
 H. T. Webb of Philadelphia will probably be the defender of the Van
 
 ! received on Friday by National Secre- 1 tary Frank H. Foss of this city that | C. c. King of Chicago, will be unable l to be present this year on account of l rheumatism. Consequently MT. King will send the Van Wickle medal east | and MT Webb will likely be called 1 upon to defend it for Mir King from | the challenger, ex-champion Eddie Clark of Springfield, Mass. The play ] for the Van Wickle medal will begin | either Wednesday or Thursday, be- 1 ing held in the evening in order not | to interfere with the regular tourna- ment play during the day time. Last 1 year MT. King and MT. Webb had a stubborn fight for the possession of the coveted medal, the Chicago man finally winning after the score Of games stood three all and it seems fitting that MT Webb should be cho- sen as it's defender.
 Prof. Jacobus Here Again.
 From Springfield, Mass. will come l the veteran Prof. Charles Jacobus, who 1 has yet to miss a single tournament 1 of the National Roque association The Clark brothers, Edward and liar old, from the same city, are coming down in as fine form as ever. and the l strong contender for the championship honors. L. c. Whitaker of Spring field is to play and so possibly E. R
 Burns will attend. W. L. Robinson ol Mansfield, Mass, and his son Everett are other Massachusetts men who ex- pect to be on the sanded courts G
 c. Cox of Maiden, Mass, three times a champion, has not yet been heard
 from.
 Players from Washington.
 Captain Wahly of Washington. D
 C., will be one of the familiar figure! again to be seen on the rogue ground; and he is now in this city, the gues i of his daughter, Mrs. Charles lyle
 Bard. His son, William H. Wahly, vii
 be unable to make the trip north thi
 summer. Washington is also repre-
 sented by L. c. Williamson and c. G Williams, both well known roque ex perts.
 , Champion 5osworth to Be Married. Harold BosworSh of New London present champion, will not appear ol I the courts It Is announced that he l to be married next month and he take ] his vacation then.
 I. B. Prentice of Providence and F
 M Thompson of Danbury are tw players who come from less distan places, while Willimantic promises
 send, too, a good sized delegation. Norwich Contestants Few This Yea s The Norwich players who are goin . 1 into the tourney are somewhat of a : unknown quantity just yet but Lou Stockwell and Fred Symington ar l two players who are pretty sure k get into the game as representative 8 of the home association. National Sec
 retary Foss will be unable to partici
 pate In active play this year, owing
 his inability to get away from his wor t, at this time, but he has made the ar 1t engagements for the tournament in a creditable manner and assisted by A. il lyn L. Brown of this city and by !. T, Webb of the Philadelphia club, wh e has been coming here twelve veal $ and has been in charge of arrange
 ments for several years, the S1st toul