Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-29

of the Buffalo BiSOnS and premier
twirler of the international eague,
will coach Indiana univ4rsity's base
ball squad next spring.
One of the most level-headed and
observing players taking the trip with
the AllAmericans and ll-Nationals
to the coast came back with the story
that Jack Coombs was through as n
pitcher.
Owen Quinn, who is known to fans
of this section, will be given a tryout
with the Portland club OF the Pacific
Coast league. Quinn will have to fight
it out with a college player named
Guesto. but the odds are in favor of
the former.
John Leary. first semIn and
Ca;cher of the st. Louis American and
Federal consolidated clubs, is booked
for a release. Fielder Jones has a
number Of better players than Leary
for first base and thinks ne cannot
find any room for the youngster.
John weismantIe. manager of the
Broadway s. c., has asserted
that he had clinched a middIeweicht
championship bout between AL Mccoy,
the worlds title holder, and Young
Ahearn, supreme among European
boxers of that class, for New Years
afternoon.
81 batted against Coombs during the
playing season this year" he said,
and there were times when he show
ed flashes of his old craft, but out
west he had nothing. He could bare
~ get the ball up to the plate and 1t
was a strain and effort for MIN TO
do anything.
q don't think Coombs' money -mak-
iy,rr l.
make good as manager, coach or
even a utility outfielder. Jack can
play the outfeld and also hit. He
would be a mighty valuable man to
have around just to give pointers to
the youths"
Mar ger Griffith of the Washington
Senator'S plans to visit Charlottesville
re probable training camp of the ciup,
after the first of the Year 40 l0oI1 over
conditions and see if ARRANGEMENTS
Cannot PC made for pro e-' lodging
quarters for his official baSrr..I fam
lily next March.
Mike Gibbons has not yet notified
the st. Paul promoters when he would
be ready to settle his little affair with
Young Ahearn, the dancing master
When their first bout was called off
Gibbons was to name some date be-
tween the first and fifteenth of the
month, but this far he has been very
retlcent about mentioning the matter.
Mails did not take kindly to the
east, and is anxious to remain on the
coast and play near at home Under
the circumstances he is confident that
Brooklyn will be willing to dispose of
him. Mails is a member of the fire
department at the exposition and only
recently distinguished himself by hold
ing the policemen's team to one hit
while hurting for the fire ladies.
Ty Cobb has just passed his sOth
birthday. The wonderful Georgian has
not yet begun to go back, but II seems
impossible that his legs can stand the
pace he imposes upon them, so that he
can stay in the game to the good old
age of men of the Wagner, Arson and
Lajoie type. 1t is reasonable to expect
Ty to break up quickly, when his time
comes, Just as Willie Keller did, and
for the same reason-the goving out of
the legs.
Walter Mails. the sensational south
paw who won fourteen straight games
for Seattle last season before joining
the Brooklyn Nationals in the fall held
conference with Manager Harry
Wolverton relative to joining the San
Francisco club of the Pacific Coast
league next season. Wolverton told
the youngster that he could use him
If he could get away from Brooklyn
and negotiations have been opened to
secure the services of the southpaw.
Soldier Bartfield seems 70 Le slip
ping. Not 80 long ago he chopped
Italian Joe Cans in the fourth round
at New Haven. Cans yelled foul. but
unfeeling spectators asserted that Joe
had quit cold. On Saturday, in The
Clermont ring, Cans turned about AMI
made Bartfield howl foul in the eighth
| round. A physician failed to find any
evidences of a low blow. It looked
as If the going had become too torrid
for the Soldier. Either Bartfield is
on a slump or he has hit the toboE-
gan.
Johnny Kilbane has decided to get into
the class where he belongs that Is.
the lightweight division. II won't Gc
any great change for him es he hrs
| been fighting outside of the feather di-
vision for fully two years, though a
majority Of his opponents have been
forced to make tho 122-pound limit.
With Kflbane publicly retiring from
the class and Richie out of the light
weight division, a quarrel on between
Ertle and Williams as to the bantam
title, Jack Dillon. the doubtful holder
| of the light heavyweight honors a
scramble led by Mike Glover on for
| the weIter championship and a diff
ference over the middleweight crown,
| the New Year will bring in i1ne mix
up mess as regards the leaders n the
various divisions of the American
| ring. Never before in the history of
there been such a tangle or general
lack Of intareaf iO0n the mart ~ he