Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-02-05

big six Cnristy MatneWson, BASE
ball pitcher extraordinary Of The
Giants, examined several motor boats,
sat at the steering wheels, operated
the leversand had good time gen.
terally. He expects to add motor boat
ing to his list of outdoor achieve
ments.
Robert C. Folwell, coach of the Uni
verSity of Pennsylvania football team,
has been selected to succeed DIR. Carl
tative on the football rules committee
at meeting Of the board of directors
Of the athletic association Of the uni
versity.
Joe Higgins, the Holy Cross middle
against Dave Caldwell, the peerless
runner of the B. A. A, in the pro-
posed special match race at 1000 yards
at the annual B. A. A. invitation meet
| to be held at Mechanics hall, Boston,
Saturday night.
The University of North Carolina
will have Harvard methods to help It
| in upholding the honor of the South
when it comes to Cambridge next fall
| to play football against the Crimson.
Tom Campbell, who has been a men,
Der of the Harvard coaching staff since
his graduation from Cambridge in 1872
has been appointed athletic director at
| North Carolina
| Jim Poulos, claimant Of the middle
/ weight championship of the world, will
wrestle in the Woburn Armory, Bos-
ton, Saturday night, February s.,
| against John Carlson the Swedish
middleweight champion Poulos has
caused a lot of interest in and around
| Woburn since he returned from his
| Western campaign, in which he took
part in some of the most important
battles in that section.
1t will be the Red Sox versus Har-
ward on Monday, April 10. Two days
| prior to the official opening of the
American league season in Boston,
( Manager Bill Carrigan and his team
of worlds champions, fresh from the
training fields of the South. and after
| a three days skirmish at Brooklyn
with Charlie Ebbets' Trolley Dodgers,
will show their wares upon Fenway
Park with Captain Nash and his Grim
son teammates as rivals.
| The followers of basketball in the
village of Noank are anticipating an
interesting contest in the game Friday
| night between the Westerly quintet
an dthe Noank team This is the first
| time that the Westerly five has played
| Noank this year. Noank will have
the best team available on the floor
and with a new set of puzzling plays
| I1LdSIST0O Luz game the IOllOWorS
| of the five are quite enthusiastic over
the chances of the team
| The Army and Navy football game
will be played on Franklin field, Phil
| adelphia on Saturday, November 25,
the date that Yale and Harvard meet
in New Haven. according to a report
made public there today. 1t is said
| that Navy will again insist that this
years game be played here under the
D I&- L. \
| it is understood that the officials of the
two institutions have virtually agreed
upon November % as the date.
| Himie Brewer. who is likely to be
/ the new owner of what is left of the
old Worcester New England league
club, doesn't care hang what league
| Worcester is in. He says: I'm buy
ing Worcester. / have always re-
tanned the belief that Worcester Is
the most minor league baseball city
in the country. If 1 happen to secure
vide better baseball for Worcester and
/ am satisfied the fans will recognize
The more one thinks of the offer of
$4,000 which the manager OF Battling
Levinsky declared he was willing tc
give JeJss willard or Frank Moran II
either could hit his protege once dur
ing ten round bout the bigger joke
it seems. AL. Reich fought Levinsky
twelve rounds. at Boston last week and
although Levinsky was given the de-
cision, Some of the critics declared
that If Reich had followed up his ad-
vantages he might have stopped
Levinsky. Reich hit his opponent
many times, and some of the blows
were hard ones. What object there
could DO in making such an offer Is
hard to understand, unless 1t was fol
advertising purposes, for Willard OF
Moran would have no trouble in hit
j I4evinsky. --f-~ ~