Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-19

on Jne NORWICH COURTS, Se1lU a veteran
Wednesday night. The experts are
playing warily and cautiously, and
they take all the time there is to put
over their shots and their caroms. In
| consequence there is brilliant play
| ing even if the matches are long drawn
out and hard fought games make the
| heart of the true roquer rejoice.
Harold Clark Defeats Ex-champion.
One of these lighting games. and
i one that is picked as being possibly
one of the decisive games of the week,
was that one between Champion Clark
| and Everett w. Robinson. the cham
pion before him, on Wednesday morn
| ing. Robinson plays spectacular
| rogue but he also gets careless. That
| is the fault the Clark brothers avoid.
Steadiness is their greatest asset, for
both Eddie and Harold, and their
games are won by consistent work.
| Each has his head. as well as his
| hand, behind the mallet. The cham
pion romped away with Robinson, and
the score by points was 1878. 1t was
a creditable defeat, nevertheless, for
| the Mansfield player, for time and
again he negotiated brilliant carom
shots. But Clark had the balls in
hand, kept his opponent tied up. and
took enc of the hardest games he had
before him in the race for the cham
pionshiP. In beating Stockwell, Clark
niPped q Norwich hope in the bud,
for StockwellN had been picked to do
something good this year. But one
defeat doesn't kili championship
chances for any of the plays thus early
in the week. Clark has some
mighty hard going ahead of him, and
one of his tough propositions is likely
to be Charlie Williams of Washington.
Williams and SpeIIman in the Van.
Ex-Champion Williams has been
coming back to Norwich good mary
years now to play the game and he
never returned in better shape than
this summer. His record OF four
straight wins shows that he is still at
the front and along with Clark. he
| heads the first division He ran away
from Miner on Wednesday and
drove his last ball to the stake when
the Rhode Island man had just got
around to No. 6. He vanquished Rod
man, who is a pretty lively man him
SELF by a 32-14 score. A ID. Spell
man got in another victory on We'd
nesday, this time from z. G. Adams,
and so he. too, shares in a triple tie
at the head of the star division. He
has the signs of having put in lot of
profitable practice at the grounds at
his hor1e in Willimantic.
Clark Takes Two Van WickIe Games.
Eddie Clark will not play in the
tournament this year, for he did not
get down from Springfield Wednes-
day evening much before 1t was time
to get out on the center court and meet
his challenger LoUe Stockwell in the
| first Van Wickle medal play, but he
seemed to slip into his Old-time form
| after a few minutes workout with
| Stockwell and he took two games
away from the more or less erratic
Norwich youth without any great dis
| play Of exertiou. In the second Van
| Wickle' series. George Huot Of Chico
pee Falls annexed another win from
Woodruff Sullivan of Norwich and he
needs only one more game to eli 1ch
| the series. Both medals are ava q
| ed the winner Of the first four out OF
| seven games.
Annual Meeting al 10 O'Clock.
Following an excellent concert by
| Swahns orchestra, which will also
play tonight, the players took the OPP
| pOrtunity to start the annual meeting
| Of the association and President T.. e.
Williamson Of Washington called for
order In the clubhouse 81 10 O'Clock.
Secretary Arthur j.. Peais read lhe
minutes Of the meetings held last Au-
gust and they were approved. Becfs-
| tary pe1le and Treasurer james T..
Case had no special reports 10 make,
/ although the latter could say that the
association had money IN its treasury
after al last years bills were paid,
30 Players in Thrse Divisions.
| gb1IANS VI w AllAAhlIiS TFlDgIhFh LOT ING
committee on arrangements that there
were three divisions playing IA IN
| the first, 10 In the second, and six III
the third. lie estimated that the sec.
0nd and third divisions will finish play
| by Friday, but II there are ties In
the first division, IL will go over Until
next week, owing % the size Of the III
vision and the consequent number Of
| games.
Loue stoclwelI, for the grounds
committees thought the grounds could
| speak for themselves. lie said the
cages were high because they didn't
come until 10 days ago and hadn't had
| time TO sink.
Chairman Il. W. Robinson said he
would report for the finance commit
tee on Friday,
| Exposition Tournament Given Up.
! w. c. Rodman. who was appointed
delegate to the rogue tournament al
the Panama Pacific expeditions report
ed that he had intended and was pre-
/ pairing to go and was in correspond
| ence with G, j. Evans of San Fran
cisco. when the latter wrote that the
sports had failed. that the exposition
people had decided not to build the
courts and the matter was abandoned
| Congratulations for Prof. Jaeobus.
| President Williamson said he had
received two cards from Charles ia
cobus, sending his best wishes, and
notifying the association that he was
unable to serve longer as it's official
editor. Treasurer Case said that he
had received a card from Prof. Jaco-
bus stating that he was playing in
the Western division, and that they
were all fine players and he had won
every game so far.
Mr.. Rodman moved that a letter OF
| congratulation be sent to Prof ia
cobus upon his nuptials, and convey
| ing greetings from the association and
regret at his absence for the first time
carried.
| Treasurer Case spoke of the death
Of Waterman r. Durham, an hon
| orary member of the association and
his motions that resolutions be spread
| upon the minutes was adopted
| Problem of Scoring in Rogue.
President Williamson read a letter
from the secretary of the Western
Rogue association, not incorporated, in
which he spoke of Jacobus and said
| they expected to have a representa-
tive here next year. That association
| is thriving. He also had a letter from
| the president of that organization
wanting to know whether they could
/ count their games by points. Mr..
| Williamson answered unoficially that
they could count their games any way
they wanted to. The national asso-
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