Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-21
POPULARITY OF BASEBALL.
Crowds of 4,ooo or Over Witnessing
Games at Moosup.

Baseball has had an extraordinary
revival late in the 1915 season in the
L eastern section of Windham county
1t has made men who would like to
back teams promise themselves some
thing as regards 1915 They have noted
| that approximately 1000 people paid
admissions to see two games In this
vicinity on Saturday and Sunday last
| one of these games at Putnam. the
other at Moosup. With the attend
ance coming that way-and incident
ally the revenue attached. at Is cents
a. head-they feel like going out and
getting other teams for next. season.
Danieison is one tewn that will very
probably come back onto the base
bail map.
eastern part of the state sit 1ip and
take notice of the business done-and
the baseball played, a chief reason
for the surprising success of the team
in all departments. 1t has come to be
a regular thing for from 1000 to $500
people to gather at the Carpet grounds
near that village every Sunday after
noon to witness what has averaged for
| the season good baseball as q quar-
| ter will buy anywhere outside the big
circuits. Moosup's management has
seen to it also that the example set Is
one of the very best arguments In ia
vor of Sunday ball. There is as per
feet order on the grounds every Sun
day as at a theater on any night. Root
/ ing is absolutely not allowed. All ap-
plause is limited to hand clapping and
it ripples across the field in response
| to every good play. There is no yell
ing, no loud coaching. The success
/ in getting the cooperation of the big
| crowd in not making any disturbance
is indeed remarkable. It is a great
| tribute to good management and an
| expression of the wish of thousands
not to spoil a good thing and of their
desire to see game on Sunday II they
| wish to do SO.
Fans come from many miles around
to the pame-from Norwich. New Lon
| don. Willimantic, Danielson, Putnam.
Southbridge. Jewett City, Webster and
scores of other places: Each Sunday
| hundreds Of cars park on the grounds
/ completely circling the field and in
| some places they are rows deep These
| machines in their coming. but more
particularly in their going away in one
long, unbroken string, make a great
sight.
AS the game closes there comes the
| purr of hundreds Of motors and the
spiteful spatter of the exhausts of
scores OF the omnipresent flivvers,
| mingled with the deep-throated roar
Of ponderous motor trucks and the
various shadings Of the get-agoing
! clamor of many makes Of cars. It Is
| the only noisy moment of the entire
| afternoon. Less than a length apart
| in many places the cars. start the
| climb up the sinuous route from the
grounds to the state highway and be-
| fore the last machine is off the grounds
/ there is a mile of cars stretching
1 away toward Central Village. It is a
| sight as interesting as the game and
is watched every Sunday afternoon by
hundreds, many of whom make note
of the number of machines. AS high
as 1856 have been counted, going west
| alone.
This kind of baseball interest dem
| onstrates beyond the shadow of a
| doubt that enthusiasm Is feverishly
alive again in this section and GER
| tainly means more good teams and
lots of high grade baseball for next
season all through eastern Windham
county.