Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18

l SILIS0 tue 6dInSSI uAyS Ol LUG game as l an American college sport, but now the ! I''Methodistss' have in mind a schedule | that will best serve as a preparation
 for games with their natural rivals. Mike Gibbons, the sensational light
 n1iddleweight of St. Paul, received ! S15OO for whipping Wildcat Ferns. the 1 game Welterweight of Kansas City in 1 two rounds in the Orleans A. C. of l New Orleans.
 1 Charles Webb Murphy, the boss of l the Cubs, doesn't know what he missed 1 by not being present at the National League meeting. How he would have l enjoyed the panning Tom Lynch gave the magnates for their lack of dignity! | Hotchlziss School has given Yaie three of the last four varsity captains Arthur Howe. Henry Ketcham, and l Nelson Talbott, Jesse Spafdtng, the ] other captains came from Hill School. Fred Daly was the last Andover cap- | tain.
 It is good news that those veterans of lawn tennis, Malcolm D. Whitman and w. A. Larned, are to try for places on the team that will defend the Davis Cup from the exceptionally strong teams that are likely to come over as GhaIiengers next year.
 Joe Mandot who was always re- garded one of the best hghtweights in the business before he was knocked out in Los Angeles by Bud Anderson several months ago. and who has been out of the game since that time, will try and fight his way to the top again How is this for high? H. Potter. Yale freshman has made a new record for the university. He has placed the hitch and kick mark at feet [ inches. As Potter is also the strong man of the class of 1917. beware of him He may have the kick of mule.
 w F. Garcelon has made timely plea through the columns of the Grim
 son for compulsory freshman athletics at Harvard. and more adequate facili- ties for exercise for the nOnathletiG students, which. of course is an argu- ment for the proposed new gymnasium.
 Penns. annual relay carnival is a. big card in itself. but if A. N. 5. Jackson of Oxford brings over relay team to compete next spring. as is likely all track athletic followers will wish to be in Philadelphia on>the appointed day. -osog
 The gross receipts of the ten-r round go between Packey Mcfarland and Jack BrittOn in Milwaukee the other night amounted to S9200. Mcfarland
  receipts. which amounted to $3404. Britton received 25 per cent of the re- i ceipts, which gave him $2SOo.
 Owing to the, fact that he rebroke 1 his right hand in his first days train ing for his ten-round go with George Chip of Pittsburgh in Milawaukee next month, Billy Papke has been compelled i to declare off the fight for good. Paptle first broke his hand in a battle with TIFYn0r ,1x TS Ion 0oTaic rCJ 1n-
 Joe Humphries, who is the official announcer of the National sporting club of New York. says that Tom O'Rouke has signed up Dan C.Porky') Flynn, the Boston heavyweight, to meet Jess Willard, the cowboy heavy in the main bout of ten rounds at a show of the above mentioned club on the night of December P.
 Jack B1itton has been matched by fight Promoter Frank Mulkern of Mil- Waukee to meet the winner of the tep- round go between Ad Wolgast and Charley White of Chicago, which is slated to be fought before the Hippo drome A. c. of Milwaukee on December 19. Britton and the victor will battle in about two weeks.
 Prompt denials from most of the big colleges have followed the New Yorn story that the prejudice" against playing freshmen on varsity teams was dying out, and that a change to the old order of things was imminent, in part at Princeton and some, other col leges. The rule (not prejudice) has evidently come to stay.
 Packy Mcfarland would not speak to Bat Nelson when the later stepped in the ring in Milwaukett the other night to be introduced. While Nc Farland was boxing Britton the old Battler kept shooting remarks at Mc- i Farland and Packy finally yelled to Nelson: It's 8 good thing haven't you in here. would knock your block off, have been prominently identified with our American sports, Justices BarstoW s. Weeks and Jeremiah Mahoney have for many years been phominent in track and field athletics and in A. A. ! U. councils, while Justice Harry Tay- : Tor is the Cornell and Louisville Ma tional League ball player. Justices Weeks and Ma.honey are still active in A. A U. affairs.
 It isn't at times the hardest thingN in 1 the world to hit Christy Mathewson's pftching,s but to hit him when hits mean runs is altogether different. Bob liar mon of St Louis was the only National League pitcher who was hit as often i as "Matty" last season. but when if came to the question of earned runs off i their pitching Mathewson was at the very top, while Harmon was very close | to the bottom of the list.
 Norman Taber is on the St. Johns 1 College team in the com petition for the Oxford relay cup. When Taber ran third in the recent hare and hounds competition between Oxford and Sur rey sproule the winner came within ! a second of the record for the course . and the man who just nosed out ahead of Taber for second place was the we'll : known Sergt.' O'Neil of the 2d Con- naught Rangers, the Irish 10-mile 1 champion O'Neil ran three miles in | the British Army championship in 1912 | in linn 46a.
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 If you want to become intelligent l you must take your own little pitcher |