Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-22

Challenger for Van Wickle Medal.
 Thursdays play in the games in the National Roque tournament at the grounds in Rockwell street changed the complexion of things in several ways that promise to have a bearing on some of the important results of the tourna ment.
 Chief among these was the entry of Champion Eddie Clark into tournansant play with a burst of speed that swept all before, and enabled him to close the day with clean string of four games won and none lost, that makes him appear as a pennant possibility at once. Incidentally the champion in cluded among his victims Charlie Cox, who up to then had not lost a game, so that Clark made an inroad into the record of one of his dangerous op- ponents.
 For Van WickIe Medals.
 Tn the Van Wiekle medal play in the evening Clark also was in rare form, and took two games from Cox, who is the challenger for the possession of the medal. This puts Clark in the easy po- Sftion of having won three games, while Cox has but one, so that Clark needs only one more game to retain his hold on the trophy. But roQue is a pro- verbally uncertain game, and many a man has come from the rear when all seemed lost
 In the Van WickIe games Thursday evening Clark sailed through the first one, leaving Cox scarcely chance, and the Maiden player got only wicket or two with one ball.
 Starting the second game Clark also got away in the lead, but made 9 mis- calculation, and Cox took the balls and proceeded to do to his opponent what that gentleman had done to him in the game before. All was proceeding mer- rily as wedding bell for Cox, and the chances looked bright when Clark suddenly pulled off a remarkable bor- der shot and thereaft er the game was his Cox made as far as the cage with one of his balls and had gotten through the cage and one arch bcyoAd with the otller one.
 In Second Division.
 While these two games were going on in the center court, B. c. EWer Of Oregon and G. L. Hewitt of Mansfield were engaged in the play for. the sec ond division Van Wickle medal Hew- itt had taken one game on Wednesday night, and he added one more with lit tie difficulty in the first game they played Thursday night.
 The second game was more of struggle and was prolonged till nearly II o'clock before Hewitt finally tucked this also away. When Hewitt had 
 on the way home he slipped up, and Ewer captured the spheroids and gave his opponent a number of anxious mo- nents for a period. Ewer played carefully and got one of his balls around to the cage on the way home when he accidentally gave Hewitt an open shot, and it was good night. In putting his balls out, however, Hewitt ran up against difficulty, as the first one hit the stake and lodged right there in the way of the other one, ,mak- ing it impossible to reach the stake on a direct line. Hewitt overcame the difficulty by a successfully bank shot which landed his second ball against the stake.
 E. w. Robinson's Good Day.
 In the first division play E. w Rob- inson, who was advanced from the second division when the tournament began, put in profitable day for him. self and won all four games that he played. taking the scalps of Jacobus, Kirk, SpeInan and Williams. This was the first game that Williams has lost. This Washington player had previous ly taken a part in breaking the clean sheet of another man, J. c. Kirk of Philadelphia, who also had to bow to the superior skill of Champion Clark when they met in the latter part of the afternoon.
 For Professor Jacobus the day brought his first winning game. He stacked up against G. Maurer, the New Jersey player, and succeeded in com ing off the victor Maurer has played little, and the effect is quite evident, as he has yet to win a, game. When he was here at a former tournament it took one of the best men in the game to beat him and he made strong Did for the championship.
 NL-r.z;o,, HIank AIIo1uad %o Enfor 1 ate
 Champion Eddie Clark secured per mission to enter the tournament by special application to the arrangement on Thursday morning. It is a tournament rule that no entries can be made after Wednesday noon with out permission of the arrangement committed This consists of H. T. l., Robinson, l., c, Williamson and C. c. Cox. They decided that MT. Clark might enter if he would agree to have all his games played by F o'clock Saturday night, This he agreed to do. This gives him four games day to Thursday.
 First Division Games.
 The following were the games played in the first division:
 Williams beat Maurer, E. Clark beat Cox, w L. Robinson beat Kirk, w, l.. Robinson beat SPetinlan, E, w, Rob inson beat Jaeebus. II. T, Webb beat 5teekwei E. l.. Robinson beat Spell man. E Clark beat Kirk, E, Clark beat W. L. Rebinsen, Williams beat Stock we'll II. 1, Webb beat Harold Clark. Edward Clark beat Maarer. Kirk beat 5pellman, Jaeobus beat Maurer, Harold l Clark beat Speiiman, Williams beat 1 Jacebus.
 The Standing,
 Fhe following is the standing in the = 2 " W. |. B. ". Robinson. Mansfield, Mass. l F. Clark, Springfield :..::::::-:: l N. ~ 1yax A1alden 1 1