Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-27
SPORTING NOTES

Connolly, Gilbert and Griffith, who are picked for the Braves outfield, all bat left handed. they had the first of last season, they will have some team.
 Will the Feds snap up some of the backwoods phenoms the big fellows are now beginning to drop from the payrolls?
 Mowrey and Konetchy have bol- stered up the Pittsburgh infeId and 1t now looks as good as any in the Ma tional league.
 A statistician with the Giants has figured that McGraw's scrub team has made almost three times as many hits in a week as the regulars.
 June for Joe Wood still appears to be Bill CarrIgan's verdict. If Joe is right then, Bill thinks he will be all right in the race for the pennant.
 The Boston Nationals cannot find any room for Walter Kenefick, the Springfield backstop. Tyler and Lew Is, two more recruits, will be Consid- cred first.
 league pitched for Chicago back in 1888 and 1889 and for Pittsburgh in 1890. In the three years he won 24 games and lost 2S.
 Many of the local fans are longing to have the old Connecticut league back in the city. The public did not appreciate it when 1t was here, for all they gave it was their moral support.
 The Phi1lies. with Outfieldcrs Magee. Cravath, Devore, Becker and Paskert, and HfIiy, a promising youngster, are said to be willing to consider trading some drst-string man for real pitch CT.
 The track team that was to repre- sent the Academy in the Bulkeley meet in New London tonight (Thurs- day will not appear, as Captain Sil- versweig thought 1t was unwise to make an appearance
 Charles A. Comiskey of the Chicago American baseball club yesterned yes terday to Chicago from Camp Jerome. Wis, in much improved health after his sojourn in the woods. He had re- covered, he said, from the effects of the illness which he suffered on the world tour.
 Coach ConfDear of the University of Washington crews, which will again compete in the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie this June. is working his men hard these days. Only re- gently he sent the crews over a 16-mile row, the oarsmen being out on the Wa ter two and a half hours.
 q give New York the edge in the National league warbles Steve Yerkes of the Red Sox, a former Wor- cester player. Tn our league I figure that Philadelphia has perhaps the best chance, but that we are close behind, and ahead Of Washington Given the breaks, we ought to win out"
 The officers of the Y. M. c. A. are anticipating a shop league this year and will make efforts to start one. Two years ago they ran one and 1t was a success, and as the baseball public wants some kind of a league they will give it good support
 Curtis of Syracuse will push Fiske of Princeton, the intercollegiate pole vault champion, for the high honors in this event this year. In the Syracuse Michigan indoor meet held recently the Salt Lake City athlete cleared the bar at 12 feet l inch, remarkable per formance indoors Coach Keane ex- poets him to do nearly 12 feet in the outdoor meets.
 Football men predominated in the husky naval academy crew this year, six being from the gridiron squad The list includes John Brown, guard; Vaughn, tackle; Ingram, end who captains the crew; Oversch, end, who captains the football next season, and Wicks and DeroOde, substitutes. The crew is probably the heaviest and strongest the academy has had for