Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-13


 Earl and Sam will be that bait at the American league meeting,
 Backfeld football players still hold lecting captains for the gridiron ma chimes Out of thirty-one leaders elected to head the big college teams of next fall, eighteen have been nam ed from men who have won their varsity letters while playing behind the scrimnage line
 Heine Groh, crackerjack third base man of the Cincinnati Reds, declares he will never again wear a Red uni form as long as Charley Herzog is manager. q won't play for a manager who feels so much above me that he won't stop at the same hotel with me-" Groh writes to a friend in Cxnard. Cal I'm through with Cincinnati unless HerZog is put out"
 Charles (Cy) Rigler, one of the Ma tional leagues best umpires, who has been seriously i'll with typhoid fever for the last seven weeks, has won his battle with that dreaded disease, and now is we'll on his way to recovery. He lost 38 pounds, but because of his wonderful physique it is expected he will not be long in regaining the miss ing poundage.
 Josh Devore, former big leaguer and termed the luckiest man in baseball. is to try his luck again next year, this time with the Philadelphia Nationals DeVore managed the Chillicothe club of the Ohio State league last season
 Bris Lord, former star outf1elder of the Athletics. has been deposed as manager of the Memphis club of the Southern league. Randolph Start will be his successor.
 Gilmore Dobie, the University of Washington football coach whose eight-year gridiron reign at Seattle lt'On was not marred bya single de- feat would be an acceptable head to the coaching staffs of several easter,, and middle western colleges. The in tersectional games this autumn have done much to increase the impression among football followers that gridiron prowness is not confined to the cam pus of the Atlantic coast and the mid do west.
 The two St. Louis teams are going to slash early, it having been agreed that the first game of the spring se- ries between these rivals be played un March 25 ar St. Louis. of course By thls time it will be all a matter of condition as to which team will win, and as both Higgins and Rick ey are certain to put forth their best efforts there is danger of both teams putting themselves out of the running for the real campaign by forcing the players too early in the spring.
 Officials of the National Tennis as Bociation are highly gratif1ed with the financial rena-t of the year including It's net profits Of almost 900 for the first national championship tourna- ment held outside the Casino courts of Newport. Now that the stands used for the David Cup matches of 1914 and the titular tourney this sea son are entirely paid, for the net gate receipts at the 1916 championships should establish a new record if the contests are held in either New York Chicago, or Philadelphia.
 Prank J. Carroll Of Windsor Locks has signed with *he Giants During the summer months Carroll made a favorable impression by his playing a. third base and was sent to Toronto vhers he man on excellent record. He IS the only member of over a dozen recruits the Giants have retained. At present Carroll is a third-year medi- cal student at Fordhan, where he stands well up in hts classes Accord ing to Secretary Foster, he was the last member of the Giants to sign his name 10 @ contract and will be kept ,rvffI1 The team all wear