Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-31

. m elapse of five years be replaced in | good standing in the sport in which | be had acted as coach. On the question of summer baseball | and summer camps where amateurs take part in games with professional Is or where a player on a team or play ing against a team on which there were professionals, it was the sense of the meeting that such competitions between amateurs and professionals should not be favored but that under exceptional conditions and with proper safeguards such competition may be permitted without jeopardizing the status of the player.
 SPORTING NOTES.
 Miss NIolla Bjurstedt the tennis champion, may become a movie ac- tress. At any rate, she has received a lucrative offer to become one out in California.
 Branch Rickey. former leader of the Browns, may quit the game and turn all his attention to law. It is said he is to enter tho office of Judge Will Hams of St. Louis.
 Columbia has a 25O-pound plunger in Morton Levy who has shown sev- enty-twO feet in recent practice Most plungers are whales. though Hurtig, the National champion. is not
 Benny Kauff has thirty-five new bats-pippins. he calls them-and un- limited conceit besides. That may stampede some pitchers. but there are others who are likely to show up this Sallus young man.
 Joe Buddy. the old New York A. c swimmer, has a nephew. Tom Buddy, who Is showing much promise as a swimmer. He is a student at Stuyve- Sant High School in New York and is doing I'm Ss in the 1OO-yard event
 Jimmy Viox of the Pirates. heaken- ing to the advice of Fred Clarke. has bought farm, according to reports from Pittsburgh. It is only eight acres, but it is large enough for a chicken run. The new purchase is near Lexington, Ky.
 Purdue undergraduates are antici- patinE great things next year on the cinder path when the new track and held coach, C. V. Wilson. assumes charge of the men. Wilson once be- Tore headed the track men at Purdue and has been coach and trainer of athletes for several years. He is credited with developing some of the best athletes that ever represented Purdue.
 Portland has been dropped out of the Pacific Coast League That city will not have a club in the coast league unless the transportation com panies return to the rates formerly given ball clubs in the coast league. Portland owners will be satisfied with the change. as they will enter the Northwestern circuit. where the sal ary limit is S1.SOO a month. against the S4,5OO of the coast league.
 When the Amateur Athletic Fedora tiontion stages its annual wrestling championships in Chicago next month several new rules will probably he in force The method of deciding win ners, which formerly depended upon rolling falls, will be done away with and the pin fall will be substituted The wrist lock will be releEated to the scrap heap together with the hammerlock stranEle hold, toe hold and other illegal grips.
 Hobey Baker. the Ty Cobb of the hockey game. is the big drawing card In the blade game. but our neighbors across the border are inclined 10 hayt a little laugh up their sleeves with al
 
 class of any of the players in the ca. nadian professional league. yVhil, they all admit thate Baker is son player, still, they claim that he is shN a couple of notches before being class. ed with some of the best pro players. The Chamber of Commerce of Mi. | ami, Fla, has offered a silver cID fol the proposed outside motor boat rae, rom New York to Miami, to star about February 20. so as to arrive al | Blscayne Bay in time for the anuua winter motor boat races. Captair Thomas Felming Day. who is promot. ing this race has entered the powe, boat Lady Baltimore of Baltimore. Tn, | distance covered in this race will b. about l.5OO miles and will take abou five days.
 | The Louisville baseball club of in, American association will do its sDrfni | training at Sanford Fla, next season | according to present plans the teau VIII VIII report in Louisville March 10. Thu | squad Will leave on Saturday morning March II. and will arrive at Sanfor, | sunday afternoon, March l2 in tim 10 make their arrangements to star | preliminary practice on Monday, Marcl E. They will remain in F1oridau nti | April Q, playing 10 games at Sanford Games will be played at JacksonvilI and Birmingham on the way home
 The freshman rule Is becoming s generally adopted by the big collerc out on the Pacific coast that Stanfor, university may be compelled Co adop it to get the best of dual compctitior It was on this point that tha 5rcnl came between California and Stanfor,l The University of Southern CaIIforni: and the University of Washington Il the northwest have agreed to ba freshmen and compete only with sucl colleges as observe the rule. The IruT versity of Southern California has nus declined to take on Stanford .n dul | competition.
 It IS a long way to Hawaii for ma tional swimming championships. bu the fact that KahanamolSu Is the mar vel of all our sprinters and that. be sides, has has done great things fo the glory of American swimming warrants serious consideration on th part of A. A. IT. championships com mittee. The competition is limited |, very few men and the questio nof ex pehse is. therefore, not such a for | bidding DrODOSffiOu n r,1n of ,,,.s