Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-06


 Mazurian lakes at Lotzen. The ar rows indicate the location and direc- tion of these invading forces. ally released by Brooklyn. Other off, cers of the Players Fraternity \. E. A movement is on foot to obtain a New England league franchise for Bangor, Me.
 Manager Harry Clark Of the AIilwau- iee team has signed a contract with the club for 1916 and 1917.
 Frank kafora. catcher. has been re- leased by the Pittsburgh Nationals to the Omaha club of the Western league.
 Manager Clarence Rowland of the Chicago Americans is to wear a uni form and take an active part in the coaching.
 Glass" observes Garry Hermann. makes a. major gue'-whicf1 lets out the national league it's last years form.
 Excepting the American association from draft is going to meet with. con- siderable opposition on the part of the Baseball Players fraternity.
 Spring is not as far away as it seems: seven towns have commenced to tell of wonderful young pitchers picked up during the winter.
 Edward Grant, utility inf1elder of the New York Nationals, is on a sightsee- ing tour to the Pacific coast. He will report to the club at Marlin. Tex 
 The worst knock yet slipped 10 Philadelphia comes from George Whitted, who wants SS.OO0 a year more to live there than to live in Bos- ton.
 With Deal jumping to the Federal league, the chances are that Whitted will be used as first substitute for Smith at third for the Boston worlds champions.
 r. arrangements can be made Chair man X. c. Hermann of the national commission will issue call for the an nual meeting Of that organization for next Saturday.
 Manager Birmingham of the CIeve- land Americans says he expects Pitch CT Gregg, whom he traded to the Red SoX last summer, to have his best sea- son this year.
 Connie Mack now is out after the coin and it is probable that the es- teem in which the public holds him will decrease in inverse ratio to his bank account.
 One of the most interesting baseball questions of the day is what clubs will make up the minor league which is to be backed by the FederalS in New England this summer.
 Last winter Manager Higgins of the St. Louis Nationals engineered the biz baseball trade of the year. This year he has not yet made a single trade worthy of mention
 Judging from the salary paid him to jump the Feds must have thought Charlie Deals two base hit was on the square in the worlds series. He ought to cut Amos Strunk in on it.
 President Ebbetts of the Brooklyn Nationals says that he will take the case of Outfelder Dalton, who jumped to the Federals. into the courts unless he returns to the Brooklyn team.
 Even so but we'll lay little at to that nine out of ten of the White Sox fans who visit San Francisco this coming summer will spend an after noon watching their old chum Ping Bodie.
 Manager Knight of the Cleveland American association team says that he will carry only 16 players next summer. This IS pretty near a low record figure for an American asso- cidtion team.
 Now that the war has cut off the supply or Siberian pony hides. from which baseball covers are made, it may become necessary to skin some of the magnates to secure hides that are tough enough.
 Manager Jennings of the Detroit Americans does not think the Athletics will be serious contenders for the American league pennant this year, as the loss of Collins will be too much of handicap to overcome. Baseball fans are pleased to know that at last Col. J. J. Ruppert, Jr and Capt. T. L. Huston are in complete control Of the New York Americans It took long time to finish the trade which had been announced as closed once before.
 AbsInthe as Beverage.
 Absinthe drinking, now permanently banned in France, came home with the French soldiers from the Algerian war