Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-30
SPORTING NOTES

1 Wonder how Walter Camp will pick an All-American football team this year with Yale and Harvard out of it ? l They say Pittsburgh will have some | body to fill Wagner's shoes next year. 1 It can't be done. Honus sleeps with | 'em on.
 Many wrestlers who have been ] drafted are complaining about army
 life. It seems they have to work for l what they get now.
 Hugo BeZdek, Jack Coombs and | Fred Walker are among the athletes
 who specialize at baseball in the sum ] mer time and are now engaged in l teaching football. As a quick thinker Heine Zimmer- | man is one of the fastest runners in l baseball, but he can't beat Eddie Col [ lins who uses both his feet and his brains in baseball.
 In the last few days of the National league pennant chase, Pitcher Nehf of the Braves went through a stretch of 10 innings without allowing his op- Lonents to score a run. Dan Reed, one of CornelPs most val ued football tutors, has decided to visit the American training camps in France in the interest of athletics for the soldier boys.
 The University of Nebraska team must be in fine early season condi- tion, judging from the way the Corn huskers trampled Iowa to the tune of 47 to o.
 Johnny Kilbane Is now a lieuten-
 ant at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe
 Ohio. The champion featherweight of
 the world is teaching the drafted mon
 he orf af
 Even Windham made a better show
 ing against Hartford than the Acad-
 emy. They only lost 20 to and they
 sides.
 If Benny Leonard would only don
 the uniform and fight with a Krag split him up into regiments and save
 Russia.
 One of the best backs of the present Pittsburgh. He is a veteran and has made sensational runs in almost every game this season.
 Although Jack Dillon was supposed to be in the navy. he still manages to stay on land. He has been matched to fight George Chip in Duluth, Minn., on November g.
 Harvard hockey team and the mem bers of the New York amateur hockey league have decided not to play this winter. Very well! It means that there will be fewer broken noses and shins to be mended.
 Johnny. Kilbane has been made second lieutenant in the army. Johnny probably thinks it will be easier to dodge German bullets than Benny LeOnard'S haymakers
 Some one asked Jim Corbett the other day who he thought was the greatest of the cid time fighters. Jim didn't answer the question outright, tut he did a lot of thinking.
 Benny Leonard was arrested the other day for not blowing his horn We'll hand it to Benny, he's the first boxer who ever failed to perform this service, especially if the blowing was about himself.
 Rariden, who was not seized with stage fright during the big series with the White Sox. The veteran backstop earned batting average of 300 and heldlng figures of 1000 for four games.
 One nice thing about having an i'm formal football team a la Harvard and Yale, is that if some small school pedlS -lHeIH IL won count. Harvard should have thought of that before the Tufts and Yale games last fall.
 Next Saturday at New London the Academy plays the big game of the year and they can stand a 1ozen de- feats by Hartford even of 64 to 0, if they arrogant Orange and Black of the City by the Sea is cnly humbled.
 Saturdays defeat by Hartford knocked orar uyif !, Westerly for the Eastern Connecticut championship in the head. Westerly may not be playing strong teams as the Academy but she is still victo- rious.
 Both Zimmerman and Kauf Of the Giants hit for over 300 during the l regular season, and for .143 and .14O. | Robertson. who hit for less than .25O | during the season, whaled the pill for .526 in the big series. 1 the public that Benny Leonard Twill | put his whole soul in the work of in l structing the soldiers in boxing He's l prcbab bly, so thankful to escape the !! trenches that he will do anything ex. cept what he ought to do.
 From all the noise the Academy backs make Eastwood eXcepted) a i spectator might think that the games | on the campus were prayer meetings l and the cheering squad was saying | Amen. How different from the days of l Brad" Ricketts and "Cy" Young
 In answer to the query of a fan who | wanted to know where "Shoeless Joe" Jackson of the White Sox got his name, . New York writer says Joe was in the Carolina association in lis early days and one day just as the game began, his shoes hurt him. So ! le played the contest in his sto&<ing eet..
 Kid Norfolk, the colored heavy weight who has come to the front at rapid rate in boxing circles lately, s having a hard time getting bouts Norfolk has developed the nasty habit If giving his opponents sound drub- ,!ng, which, of course, accounts for ,ia fdleness