Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-21

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 SPORTING NOTES hear whether he can manage the Car dinals or rot
 The Major league season will open a week lateC in 1918 and probably close three months earlier.
 Basketball seems to be an amateur sport this season There doesn't seem to be much money in it.
 Our idea of hard luck: Jess Willard is to have his title taken away from him five days before Christmas.
 The National League is an unmerci- full organization It has sentenced John K Tener to serve another year. patriotic enough and give Uncle sam four per Cent of all the money they spend foolishly in New York.
 Camp Devens athletic directors are figuring on building the duplicate of the Madison Square Garden track This will be a great encouragement to athletes there
 Battling Nelson is travelling with a wild animal show" Dan Saunders in the Boston Globe. We know a lot of aIleked boxers who should be travel
 Benny Leonard returned to New York carly yesterday morning with black eye and nearly four thousand dollars Who wouldn't take a dam aged lamp for that amount?
 Georgia Tech scored 222 points, an average of about five points a minute. Those points were scored quicker than at many. a track meet we've seen-.
 With the repeal of the F-awley boxing law New York fight fans can noE turn to wrestling matches, grand opera, sfx-day whirligigs, the Central Park zoo. and other exciting pastE1es.
 There seems to be a patriotic at nosphere in Boston sg according to recent despatclJes the entire Harvard baseball team together with large percentage of the Red Sox and the Braves have joined the coiors-
 William F. Erwig and Joseph captain of tie Fordham university football team, at the election. Each had a strong following. the battle re- suIting in voctory for Erwg by a vote of to 6.
 In Waterbury they run a dance after the basketball game in the gym on Saturday night This certainly is a athlete and the society man among the younger element of the city. be- sides attracting girls to exhibitions of clean sport
 Celia of Rome, Italy, won the first handicap trap shooting tournament of the Pinehurst season yesterday witfisA score of 9=- including a handicap of best shooting of the day. He broke ss. but his handicap of left him in second place at s.
 For the first time in a quarter of a century the Penn State team will not have a game on Thanksgiving The annual game with Cornell will be played on the Saturday before the Ma I1Onal nOll0aN-
 Georgia Tech has been placed on the schedule in place of Michigan, which has joined the Western Con ference.
 f. as seems probable the Big Three have only informal e1evens next fall. it would be good thing for the great fall game if the teams of the two great service academies at West Point and Annapolis could meet The absence of the annual Navy-Army game has been felt more throughout the country than the absence of the Ya1e-Haryard classic
 Prank Baker, the third baseman of the Yankees has the highest rank among the New York players in the American League Aiding averages, which were announced yesterday. Bak- ts is tied with puck Weaver as the leading third sacker cf the organiza- tion. with q mark of .949. Joe Gedeon. who played in only thirty-one games has the highest ranking among the second basemen. but Eddie Collins of the White Sox is the real leader.
 The presence of more than fifty nrorrinent Wesleyan athletes in inc ranks of the corrrntryss forces in the world war testifies to the sort of patriotism existent in Middle town, Conn All of these men were in college last April when the United States declared war on Ger many, and in addition to these many members og the Wesleyan alumni who were identified with enc sport or another in their col lege days also are in the service.