Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-05
LAWYER DOCTOR TEAM
TO HAVE REAL PLAYERS
In Baseball Game Under Fairgrounds
Association Auspices.

That wall be a ball game worth mo-
toring or walking-or even jitneying-
great many miles to see The scrap
between the professional men and the
business men of the city at the outing
on next Saturday afternoon on the
Academy grounds for the benefit of the
Norwich Fairgrounds association. For
according to F'ordy Plaut, a member
in good and regular standing of the
baseball committee, there will actual
ly be a few real bona fide ball players
on both teams. The man who in
1913-14 had the most to do with the
big county fair baby show said last
night, when the newspaper men asked
him about it, that he was in a position
to say theTe'd be at least one Ty Cobb,
with the possibility of a Lajoie and a
Hans Wagner thrown in for good
measure, on the team of nine good men
and active that the doctors, lawyers
and bankers of the city would pit
against the commercial team Saturday
afternoon on the campus, where, as far
back as 1875, the great Bill Hutchinson
threw the first curved ball ever seen
east of the Connecticut river. Frank
P. Mcnamara is the chairman of the
association ball game committee, and
on that body with him are J. Dana
Colt, DR.. P. J. Cassiy, Arthur L.
Peale and R. C. PIaut.
The irrepressib1e Doe Cassidy last
night said yes, he was getting up a
team-had several real tossers signed
with more due today or tomorrow.
so far said the doctor, 81 have DR..
Comeau, DR.. G. C.. Chamberlain, Lee
Roy Robbins Frank Mcnamara, J. D.
Colt, DR.. w. P. DriscOII, DR.. Glider
sleeve and DR.. Tingley& AS for the last
named, he is going to give us the bene-
fit of valuable advice, and if there are
any broken bones he is going to see
that they. get into splints quickly, so
that the doctor may not get a great
tn still he
gets to bat he'll send the first good
ball up into Spalding's pond for a home
run-thats certain. Lawyer Robbins
was On the Yale Law school team in
the good old days when Judge Prof.
Gov. Baldwin sometimes used to UNI
pire two or three innings. Tom
Shields, whom they hope to get, is an
other lawyer old-timer on the dia-
mond. Doc" Driscoll has lately
bought an automobile and is out of
practice at the moment, but he was
good man five or six years ago, DR.
cassidy says, and so, by the way, was
DR.. Gilders1eeve, who captained the
fast team of the Gentlemen's Athletic
club in Woodstock before he moved to
Norwich. 1t is hoped to have Judge
T. Kelly, once a high school foot
ball captain, and his clerk, Edwin
Earle Mathewson, the latter one of the
best tennis players that ever came
over from Middlesex county and also a
former shortstop on the Worcester
academy team Judge-to-be John Hol-
yoke Barnes said last night to a dele
cation that waited on him: I'll go on
as substitute if they need me, but I'd
rather write two miles of poetry about
the game after it is over than play
three innings with the fast crowd al
ready signed up" DR.. Smith and DR..
Agnew will be asked to have their cars
at the grounds to carry wounded play
ers home. DIR. Smith will treat every
Bull Moose free of charge that gets
damaged, on the field or among the
spectators. The business men will get
together today or as soon as possible
to pick their teams, and they believe
they can dig up enough heavy hitters
to drive the lawyer-doctor team to the
tall timbers. Among other things,
there will besa band on the grounds to
play before the game and after the
game. The association ,1ookssfor a big
crowd Saturday.