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Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05

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Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05
Brief Mention.

Rev. Robert Moore of the Metho- dist church was in Manchester Sun day, speaking at revival meetings. His place in this city was taken by Rev. G. G. Scrivener of Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05
Hearing on Danieison Bankruptcy De.
 ferred

The people concerned in the bank rHpt estate of Philias Jodoin of Dan- ielson have agreed. to :, postpone the hearing before Referee Bowen for two weeks, from last Saturday. It is ru- mored that MT. Jodoin has offered to pay 35 cents on the dollar.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05
DANIELS0N AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Meriden Men Go Through from Camp Devens on Special Train--Distribu- ton of Dairy ReguIations-Dos Re- straining Ordinance in Force Todd, -Biessine of Crucifixion Group ir St. Mary's Cemetery.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05
WILCOX AND KRAMER PAY,
 S1o3.12 FOR STOLEN APPLES

Arrested the Second Time, Kramer Going to Holland County Jail for Sixty Days.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-05
ELOQUENT PLEAS MADE
 FOR FOOD CARD SIGNING

Time for Citizens to Prove That They Are Ready to Save, For Our Sol diers, for America, for Bleeding France,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
TANKS GET FIRST MILITARY DRILL IN
 CAMP Al MACON

Macon. Ga, March Before they had any baseball training yesterday the players of the Yankee team de- voted an hour to Mars Only in that they were attired in their baseball uniforms were they baseball players. Otherwise they were soldiers, raw ma- terial it is true, all but two or three having military training for the first time, but soldiers in the making.
 The New York club launched its part of the preparedness program which Captain T. l.. Huston has ad yocated so warmly. Every player was in the ranks, and, with club officials, scouts, trainers and newspaper men, there was an array of about 45 more or less warrior like spirits, most of them green as grass about military matters, but all willing and respon- sive. Sergeant Gibson, army recruit ing officer, put them through their paces in a few elementary move ments.
 The sta1t was a success. The affair was carried through in 9 abusiness-like way. There were some humorous de- velopments but these were merely side1ights of an hours drill to which they gave their serious attention. The drill was no farce or joke with the players, and they rendered good ac- count of themselves.
 Sergeant Gibson started his primer class in by showing them how to stand in a soldierly attitude, a1pd followed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Kid Mccoy and Ryan Put on Great Battle
 At Maspeth in 1896

It was on March 2, 1896, that Kid Mccoy pulled off his famous surprise party on Tommy Ryan at Maspeth, Long Island. Mccoy had it in for Tommy, and he was Gin the pink" when he faced Ryan that night. The clever Hoosier Kid had created the impression that he hadn't trained for the contest, but privately he had worked long and hard to get into con- dition, with Steve O'Donnell in charge of the job. Misled by the reports of the Kids inactivity, Ryan did practi- cally no work, and he was far from at his best.
 In fact, he has since declared that he never entered a ring in worse con- dition. A lot of Ryan's friends from Syracuse were at the fight, and they offered odds of from 2 to 1 to 3 to 1, with Ryan the favorite. By acting as Ryan's sparring partner in his novice days, Mccoy had become familiar with all the tricks in Tommy's box, and he immediately set in to give Ryan terrible drubbing.
 After closing Ryan's optics flatter- ing his nose and beating his face to a pulp, Mccoy decided that his revenge was complete, and in the fifteenth round he put over the kick that stretched Ryan out for the count.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
JOHNNY DUNDEE
 CLEANS UP DUFFY

New York, March 7-Johnny Dun dee defeated Jimmy Duffy at the Pio- neer Sporting club, but not until he had fought himselef breath1ess in ten hard rounds. Johnny won because he had speed over the game west sid- CT. It was Dundee's right hand body blows that whipped Duffy. Johnny banged away at Jimmy's lean middle to his hearts content, for Duffy seem- ed unable to defend himself against this sort of an attack.
 If it was merely bravado on Duffy's part to pooh pooh these ribroasters, he was a very unwise youth, for, plucKy as he is, the blows gradually wore him down until at last, in the tenth round, he was tottering and dangerously near a knockdown.
 Dundee, tired a bit from his own efforts, had slowed up a trifle in the eighth and. ninth rounds, prepared to bring the little Celt down at the cur tain. Duffy fought desperately to keep the insistent Italian off, but Dundee had found way to whip Duffy Sand he made every minute a winning one. The place was jam med with admirers of both men and they kept up an ear-splitting din from one bell to another.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
LAIN DECLARES
 HE WILL DEFEAT
 BURNS ON FRIDAY

Battling Lahn. who will meet Frankie Burns in the main bout of the Park City A. c. boxing carnival at the Casino F'riay night, has fought in. this section before. although he has never appeared in this city He Is booked to box former Champion Kid Williams in Cleveland soon and will also take on Kid Wolf, 0 promis- ing Cleveland youngster.
 Lahn claims he will give Burns lacing but if he does it will be a sur- prise to the wise ones Burns has been going well lately. In his recent New York appearances he has dis played plenty of skill and made his opponents look foolish. Burns and Lahn are scheduled to go 12 rounds
 Billy Richards, the former Phila- delphia welterweight who is training at Battling Levinskys camp in Strat- ford, will meet a rugged rival in Tommy Marriage of Boston. The lat ter has been in the ring game for the past five years but most of his bouts have been held in Boston. The win- ner of this affair will be matched with Tommy Robson, welterweight from Maiden, Mass. who has been attracting attention. Richards and Marriage are slated to go 10 rounds
 The opener will be 8 10-round ses- sion with Joe Dillon of Stamford and Young Munday of Danbury as prin- cipals. Club officials report tickets are selling rapidly and a large at. tendance is looked for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
Jess Willard Won
 His First Bout Just 
 6 Years Ago To- day

Jess Willard wen his first victory in the ring six years ago tonight, when he knocked out fellow named Ed Burke In the third round of a bout in Fl Reno, Okla. This was just three weeks after the big cowboy had made llis rng debut at Sapulpa, when he lost "n an alleged foul in the tenth ,i'..'.. The El Reno bout naturally didn't attract much attention, as Will lar, was then practically unknown. ' ns,e Burke was far from being a
 In his first. contest Jess had been as green as grass, and his awkward ness and ignorance of the most funda- mental rules of boxing had made the Sapulpa fans double up with laughter. In the intervening three weeks Jess added quite a bit to his boxing educa- tion, and in the Fl Reno affair he polished his man off in a compara- lively workmanlike manner Jess then thirsted for revenge on Fink, and when he met Louis again in Okla homa City a little later he succeeded in knocking him out in the third rAaond-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
COACH FOLWELl
 OF PENN. FOOTBALL
 IS OPERATED UPON

Philadelphia, March Bob Fol- we'll, coach of the Pennsylvania foot ball team, underwent an operation yesterday in the University Hospital, having a growth in his cheek remov- ed. Ire operation was not danger ous, but if permitted to remain the growth might have resulted serious ly.~
 Folwell went to the hospital yes terday morning and called on Dr. J. B. Carnett, himself an old Red and Blue gridiron star, to cut out the growth. At first he did not want to take an anaesthetic, but was finally prevailed upon to take a little gas.
 Immediately following the opera ton Folwell arose from the chair and declared he was going home. pr. Car nett tried to prevail on him to remain in the hospital for little time, but Folwell, declaring that the operation did not amount to anything, walked out and started for Mullica Hill, N J , where his farm is>located.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
HENRY OSBORNE
 DEFEATS MuNOZ
 IN POOL MATCH

New York, March The six com petitors in the amateur pocket bil- Hard championship tournament at the New York Athletic Club yesterday were not in their usual tournament form and consequently they all were considerably below their game. Even J. Howard Shiemaker, the champion, who played Gustav Gardner in the evening, could not pocket the balls with his usual skill and many times missed shots that made him smile.
 Shoemaker had run of 2S balls and two others of II and 10, but these achievements were not up to his best billiards He beat Gardner, though.
 H. s. Osborne. of Bridgeport, de- feated Cecil Munoz in the first match, 131 to IF, and w. A. Tilt outpointed J. J Moloney in the second contest, 12S to 118. The highest runs were Osborne's 15 and Munoz's IA. The scores of afternoon games by frames:
 First Match.
 H. s. Osloorne-8, 10, 8, 4, 12, 5, B. II, 5, g ?, IA, 8, 4, 3, 10, 5, 1O-131 Scratches, 6. High runs, IA, '12. T
 Cecil Munoz-6, 4, 6, 10, 2, g, II. 8 g.. 5, 12. 0. 6. 10, il, 4, 9-117. High ruhs, 12, II. II, ID.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
YALE WINNER FROM
 FAST WESLEYAN FIVE

New Haven. March 7-Yale had lit- tie difficulty in disposing of the Wes- leyan basketball team in the home gymnasium last night by score of AS to 2S. The great work of Olsen, who scored eight baskets, and of Kinney, who shot ten fouls, was largely re- sponsible for the One-sided character of the contest. Olsen took the bit in his teeth, in the first minute of play when he shot a basket from difficult angle. Deetjen evened things for Wesleyan for minute but baskets in quick succession by Mallon, Kinney and Garfield kept the game well in the possession of the Blue.
 The Wesleyans put up better fight than the score indicates and the game, though never in doubt from the very first ininute of play, was never the1ess interesting.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
HERzOG
 OF GIANTS SAYS HE'S AN AVIATOR

Marlin, Texas, March 7-Charley Herzog, captain of the Giants, yes- terday made his first appearance of the season on the field at Emerson Park. With his customary hustling he was out on the diamond at 8:30 a. m., an hour earlier than his asso- ciates. He was obliged to enlist the services of willing darkies to throw the ball to him to hit, While others chased the horsehide to the far dis- tances of the immense park
 In fielding practice, though, Her. zog took things easily, preferring to use his arms and legs with wise now, as far as weight goes; in fact, he says he needs to gain weight in- stead of reducing.
 Herzog has spent the winter in St. Peterburg, Fla, where he has stud jed aviation. He already has taken eighteen flights in hydroplane and has made several trips over Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa, a distance of thirty miles. In addition he has taken many aerial trips lover the Gulf of Mexico, running the ma- chine himself
 While the day was clear, bright and warm, a fierce gale from the south swept over the field and interfered considerably with the catching of high fly balls by the outfielders. The other training exercises, however, were not interfered with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
PIE WAX FEARS
 HE STARTED TOO LATE IN BASEBALL

New Haven, March 7.-Loca1 DaSe- ball fans are showing much interest in the attempts of Pie" Way, the former Yale star, to get a regular berth Wlth the New York Giants. Way IS now with the Chants at Marlin and mas been showing up well in the daily drills to date. Here in New Haven the fans have their doubts as to whether or not Way will make good Way himself, has his-doubts, too, but he is bending every effort to produce. He has a fair arm and desire to learn, but he realizes that he entered professional baseball a few years toe late If he doesn't make the Giant team he won't play baseball in the minors long He wants to become Q newspaperman.
 ''How old are you, Pie?" he was asked He smiled
 That's just what I've been talking to young Hoyt about" he answered. |.
 'I'm an old fellow. I'm 26 Think of Hoyt's portunity-coming south to train with a ig league club at IT.. All his baseball glory lies in the fu- ture Most of mine. I'm afraid, is in the past. I started too late. What I'd give to be 1T again and have Hoyt's opportunity"
 Way has not always been a pitcher. Up at Exeter he did some catching Tn fact, he only turned pitcher in the first year at preparatory school, two weeks before the Exeter-Andover game.
 TT, was a catcher" says Pie. '"Then all of our pitchers went bad; one was sick, and the other two contracted sore arms. The coach asked me if l could pitch. I said I'd try. So I went in against Andover and won my game, 5 to 3.
 "Ever since then I've been pitching. went behind the bat for five innings in the Exeter-Andover game of 1909. It was. my last appearance with the mask, and wind pad.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
GIANTS TO QUIT MARLIN.

By threatening to take the Giants away from Marlin next season Man. ager McGraw has wrung from the leadins citizens of the Texas town promise to erect a grandstand at the ball park at once They agreed to have this done during the winter but when McGraw arrived on the scene he found no evidence of a stand lie wants the stand not so much Tor the benefit of spectators as for protec- ton for the players against the high winds.
 Since reports have gone out that the Giants may quit Marlin McGraW has received many offers from towns which want to entertain the clup next season Numerous Texas towns have offered to build good diamonds and everything else the Giants re- ouire, There is possibln the club may go to California next sea- son. It is over 10 years since the Giants have visited the Pacific Coast and they would be big drawing card out there.
 The Jaspers of the Eastern league beat the Springfield basketball team' Monday night by 36 to 23. Barry and Sheehan, who have appeared Tn this city frequently, played with Springfield.
 Is Douglass Smith, the new south paw signed by Bridgeport, the same chap who twirled for New Britain ana Meriden in the old Eastern assocla- tioo? He won nine and lost eight for Syracuse of the New York State
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
BOYCOTT ON MATCHMAKER
 OF GARDEN LOOKS SERIOUS
Managers of Prominent Boxers Won't Stand For
 Engaging of Jimmy Johnston.

New York, March 7-The boycott to be imposed on Jimmy Johnson, just reinstatedN as matchmaker for Madi- son Square Garden, by Harry Pollok
 Billy Gibson and Nate Lewis, manag- CTS, representing Charley White, Ben ny Leonard, Carl Morris, Jim Coffey
 Charley Weinert and Freddie Welsh. will probably cause James no small amount of trouble, since the boxers involved represent the best of the To- cal box office fattractions. It is going to be bitter affair before the dove of peace comes f1uttering back again.
 Johnston, with Null power to act for the Garden, is very well able to take care Of himself in the matter of digging up attractions for the famous show house. Johnston has one asset left in the way of money-making attraction, and that is Fred Fulton
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
PHILLIPS DEPART
 FOR FLORIDA CAMP

New York, March 7-The first play CTS of the Philadelphia National league club to start for the southern training grounds left here yesterday afternoon on board the steamer Mo- hawk for Jacksonville. The party included Manager Pat Moran Alex ander, Killifer, Mayer, Burns, Fish, Paskert, Norman Lutz of Hamilton, Ont, a new pitcher, and G. Hagger- ty, IT,, of Brooklyn, a new infield- CT.
 The remaining mem bers of the team will go direct from their homes to St. Petersburg, Fla, where the players will assemble Saturday. President W. H. Baker left for the south on Monday and will stop at Durham, N. C., to have a talk with George Whit ted, who has not yet come to terms with the club. Pitcher Lavender was one of the last players to send in his signed contract, said Moran
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

Willard's big Nemesis belongs to the fold, as it were, since he has promis- ed Grant Huugh Browne that he will box for him exclusively.
 Then there is Les Darcy. He may be allowed to box after all. With Grant Hugh Browne he is going to make a personal appeal to Gov Whit man, and lie hopes to convince the governor that he really intends to en- list in the English army when he has had his little fistic fling around the circle.
 Johnston has five boxing dates for which he must find attractions this season. If Darcy is re-esta,b ,blished, Re will not have to worry about the boycott. The, there is Johnny Kill pane, Ertle, Jacson, Moran, Lewis. Dundee, Burman, Gunboat Smith. Richie Mitchell Mike Gibbons, Miske and others to fall back on.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
HALL WINS FOURTH
 STRAIGHT HIN BILLIARDS

Boston, Mass, March Before a lhrge crowd at the Boston A. A. yes- terday afternoon Nathan Hall, of Boston, increased his lead in the tournament for the national amateur 1S.2 balkline billiard championship in class by defeating Ledyard Blake, of San Diego, Cal, in a contest of 30 innings, 400 to 276. The victory gives Hall clean slate, with four victories and no defeats. Hall played good billiards, his even stroke and accur- acy being far better than that of his opponent. Blake's overdrawn and underdrawn shots cost him many a point when openings were afforded him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

with Attention Right face" About face,'' Right dress,'' the way to salute and a few marching forma tons. They were not always in step, and tho southpaws of the team wanted to salute with the left hand, a mistake which the drillmaster corrected with a partly suppressed smile
 The baseball practice was not cur tailed tbecause of the military prac- ttce. The morning and afternoon sleges were both long, and, aided by fine weather, severe. It was along the same lines as Monday. Caldwell. I"ve, Russell. Cullop and Shawkey did the pitching for the batting practice. Caldwell, whether he wintered in Pan- anna of Greenland, has put in two busy days here. Bill Piercy. the youngster, had a long siege of bitch ing off to the side, with Donovan a. close observer. Donovan is asking him to do a good deal so that he will get control
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
WEECHMAN GOT
 INTO BASEBALL BY
 MEETING ON LINKS

Charles Henry Weeghman, the Apollo, the Beau Brummel and the John D. Chesterfield of magnates, the handsomest man who has ever owned 8 major league club, the prize beauty of baseball high finance the-out words are futile to describe the manly pulchritude of the president Of the Chicago Cubs. What was intended to be said was that MT. Weeghman will have a birthday party tomorrow, when he will attain his forty-third mjle- stone in ifes journey. Richmond Indiana, has the proud distinction of having been the birthplace of Weegh- man, and March 8, 1S7, the red-let- tered date. Prepare to ring the joy bells-and the dinner Ibells!
 Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger and ltother writers of inspirationar ntera- ture for the juvenile mind used to tell of poor but honest youths who, by honesty and industry, became bankers, railway presidents, senators. and such like Fie upon such stuff! If Mr. Optic or MT. Alger had dangled before us the possibility of becoming g, baseball magnate, a major league club owner, able to hire and fire the heroes of the diamond-well, life would have been very different for a lot of us.
 Weeghman's life story makes the heroes of boyhood tales look like pix CTS. Behold, then, the poor but am; bilious Hoosier youth of eighteen shaking the Richmond dust from his feet and going forth to the great city of Chicago to win fame and fortune. The worlds Fair was imminent, and |, f11l 0f inh it. CTS, but Charlie Weeghman, being handsome, smart and willing, found no trouble in landing position. This was in Kings Restaurant son Fifth ' avenue and the salary was ten dol lars per.
 Consider several years to have pass. ed. It is now 1907. MT. Weegh- mans salary has increased to forty bones, and he is assistant manager of Kings But is he satisfied? Nay. He wants to go into business for himself. But how? He has saved but $500. TO cut it short, he takes in a couple of partners, and all borrow some kale, and they buy restaurant for $2.S00.
 Several more annums have passed. The original Weeghman lunch room has expanded into a string of such es- tablishnents, the nucleus of what is now the biggest restaurant business in Chicago The owner of this flourish < ing seats'' concern being affable as we'll as handsome. has made many friends. Among them is Charles Webb Murphy. then the owner of the Cubs, Weeghman often accompanies Murphy to the bali games There the budding restaurant king observes the big business carried on by the coffee and lunch stand at the West Sice park. It was the spectacle of those hordes of hungry fans gobbling the eats that aroused the Weeghman ambition to become 8 baseball magnate. N
 The rest is modern history Weegh- man is a golfer, and on the links one day he met Gilmore. president of the defunct Federal league. Gilmore in duced Weeghman to take a flyer in Fed league stock. Having taken a hand in the game, Weeghman didn't stop until he had put small fortune into the Whales. Then, when the~war ended, he bought into the Cubs, and became the president of the club. There you are!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES
 PERFORM AT Y. M. C. A

Yesterday afternoon some of the y. M. c. A. High school boys were tested in athletics under the direction of As- sistant Physical Director Grasso1. Some of the boys did well for the first time.
 In the running high jump George Oberley beat the record with 4 it. 1-2 in., followed by E. T'1lmot, it. 4 IF in.; G. Sturgee, it. 1 1-2 in; R. Wet stine. it. 1-2 in.; w! Driver, 3 ft 10 1-2 in; J. Wershw, fit. g 1-2 in; B. Colew, 3 ft. 8 1-2 in.
 In the three standing broad jumps Y. Oberley reached the highest score with "A feet.
 The result for the 100 yards casa are. Lyon, 13 seconds, 8; Oberley. 13 sec onds, 2; Wilmot, 14 seconds, 6.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07

Chicago, March 7-Owner Comis- key of the Chicago White Sox is said to have paid SS,000 to the Cleveland club for the release of First Base man Chick Gandil. The White Sox have vafnly tried to develop Fournier and Ness to cover that position prop erly, but both have failed to come up to the required standard. Gandil led the American league first basemen in fielding last season with a percentage of .995. His batting average was .259 in 146 games. Comiskey believes that Gandil will improve in batting and that his recognized skill as a first baseman will greatly strengthen the infield of the White Sox. Gandil was purchased from the Montreal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-07
CATCH THIEVES BY FOOD CARDS

Berlin, March 7.-The food card system in Germany however much of a nuisance it may be for the house. wives, has materially aided the police and military author ties in one re- spect. It has just occurred again a thing that had often occurred be- fore-that a man wanted in connect tion with crime surrendered him. self to the police because he had found it impossible to get enough to eat without a set of cards, and these he could not obtain without register ing himself at the police-station os his precinct