Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-20
SPORTING NOTES.

Just few days ago. in Cincinanti, Heinie Groh batted what is supposed to be the shortest single ever rapped since the game began. The ball glanced off his bat. fell on the plate and lay there. Rariden, who was catching, didn't see where the ball went, and was frantically hunting for it while Groh skipped to first
 Charlie Hickman is credited with the shortest two bagger ever delivered at Comiskey's park several years ago. He hit one that struck just be- yond the edge of the plate, but instead of staying quiet, bounded sharply back The catcher tried to grab it up and effect putout, but the ball grazed his arm and leaped clear to the stand, while Hickman kept on running
 Under the rules, that was a fair ball for the catcher had struck it while it was still in fair grounds. Also, under the rules, it was not an error. for the catcher merely grazed it and had no chance to hold it-exactly as if it had been hit to shortstop and just tipped the shortstop's glove. Hence it was fair hit. and as Hickman never stop ped till he got to second, it had to be counted as a double.
 Eternal, winner of the S3O. 900 Hone ful stakes, and Purchase. which ran such a brilliant race in finishing third to Dunboyne and Sir Barton in the futur1ty after swerving all over the track, will meet in a special race at six furionSs, or perhaps one mile, within the next ten days, if the Queens County Jockey club decides to offer a special sweepstakes. There is a chance too, that Billy Kelly might come up from Maryland to share in the strug- gle.
 I. Kumagae. the Japanese lawn ten his star, defeated Sergeant Harold 1 Throckmorton of New York in the finals of the mems open singles in inc | Ontario championship tournament. The score was GA, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
 Charley Pick, second baseman of l the Chicago Cubs, whose splendid work during the recent world series games makes him the star of the se- ries, pounded the pill for an average of .389 for the six games. He also | flelded his position without commit ting misplay.
 Harry Wills, who has eliminated sam Langfor4 from the competition for the black championship belt, should have known better than to hit a gentleman of his own race in the l head. That is exactly what he did. He was boxing Jack Thompson in Philadelphia last Saturday and land- cd his left heavily on Thompson's dome of thought. The hand was shat tered and Wills was compelled to box the remaining five rounds with one hand. He won, but he will have to take rest for several weeks owing to the injury
 Jimmy Dougherty, who is to stage a Red Cross boxing show in Phila- delphia on Sept. 2S. with Jack Demp- sey and Battling Levinsky as the headliners, tried hard to get Jess Will lard to consent to meet Dempsey, but failed, Dougherty offered Willard a guarantee of S30, 900. Dempsey con sented that all the receipts except the sum offered to Willard should go tc war funds. Willard's reply was to re- fer Dougherty to a Denver man named H. H. Lammen. presumably the cham pions latest adviser. Dougherty ther abandoned his effort to get Willard into the ring and signed Levinsky tc meet Dempsey.
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