Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-29

to back him against anyone in Eng land. While on the way to England wealth, jumped overheard.
 SPORTING NOTES
 The wives and sweethearts of worlds series winners got their share of the gate receipts early yesterday morning. haven't lost a player through the draft yet. but they're going to take married | men as well as single.
 Earle Neale, the Reds outfielder | and former star football player, coach ed the eleven at West Virginia Wes- l legan this fall and scored a distinct | triumph in this role.
 The Dodgers are going to play a se- ries of exhibition games before the l baseball season opens. The Dodgers | are also going to play exhibition
 Leo Flynn has novel excuse for Kid Norfolk's recent defeat at the hands of Sam Langford. He claims the attitude
 
 and not Langford's stinging blows.
 K. o. Palitz, who fought here a few weeks ago, is to fight Johnny Martin of New Haven in that city early in January. Both men are to weigh in at 143.
 We read with interest the head Yale Captain is Selected for 1918" over the story of the election of Fudge Hemefnger'S nephew manager of the aforesaid team in the Denver Post.
 No chance of Rube Marquard get ting away from the Brooklyns. Col. Ebbet's team has already lost Pfef- fer. Galore, Sherrod Smith and Mil gers, so in desperation he will hang on even to Rube.
 Horace Milan, utility outhelder of the Washington Americans has Joined the army aviation corps, and Billy Murray, one of the newly acquired out f1elders, has Joined the army quar- termaster corps.
 Tom O'BrIen secretary of the East ern Baseball league. has completed his compilation of the averages for the 1917 season. The averages will tend to show just why New Haven was the best team in the circuit.
 Every time you see tears in the eyes of & club manager you can take 1t for granted that he's just said goodbye to one of his young hopefuls who has en- listed. The tears flow not 50 much from sorrow, as they do from worry over where to get another player to fiji in. 1 Z. - E ..- --.,-
 The famous $1oo 900 infileld of the Athletics is but a memory. When Stufry McInnis enlisted recently the last of tho famous quartet parted company with Manager Connie Mack. McInnis is tho second of the four stars to enlist Jack Barry having gone in- to the navy.
 Bill James. the Tigers big pitcher Ia cavorting in the Rocky mountains. where he intends to hunt until the (meantnE animals, of course) in the Rockies is clearly worried over the prospect of possible coming within range of Big Biirs artillery.
 Glenn Riddell, leader in the Eastern bowling championship series has been forced to retire from the competition owing to a broken finger on his bowl mobile crash several nights ago and has not been able to handlo a ball since that time. The retirement of iddell gives Mort Lindsey and Harry Cohn an excellent chance for the title.
 Morgan c. Bulkeley; first president of the National league, celebrated his SOth birthday in Hartford Wednesday. MT. Bulkeley is former U. s. senator, an ex-governor and an ex-mayor of Hartford. Among thu congratulations received by MT. Buikeley, who Is preI,- ident of the Aetna Life Insurance company. was a cabloEram from his son, who is now in France with Per- shing.
 Out of the twenty -four football "P" men in Princeton university when the United States entered the war twenty three are in active service, of whom thirteen possibly fourteen. are either at sea or in Europe. All the rest are with units which expect to be sent to sea or to France in the i'm not now in active service is under age and IS still in college. of course the Princeton R. O. T. c.
 Bridgeport Farmer: We read an in tereSting account of a purported turn down" received by Dick Curley, noted boxing promoter, in his efforts to get into the game in New Haven. Yet notwithstanding that every means pos sible is being used to bar him from the Elm City, the writer knows that curiey .+ yields "a a csrtln xe Power, power which hlsa there, or else will go far toward hurt in gthose who are trying to hurt him. Prejudiced press agents reports can not harm him."
 John Quinn, racing man, sometime ba sebau club owner, and real philan- thropist (meaning the kind that never lets anyone know that he is philan throping) gets the watch for the story of the day. "I was out on the coast" says John. Two negroes were match ed for fight. One was big and slow and the other fast and little- They r,f into O ri n man knew what was happening he found himself on the mat after a chin raising wallop. He fell in the corner where his seconds were. Get up you big hound. said one of them. They what I wants them to do,' said the b. b. And he turned over and went to sleep.'