Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-16

bOAlIS 6a peTlS l0lt us that b0nnS Leonard hasn't reached his best form. Heaven help the other lightweights when he does.
 Eighteen colleges have dropped ath letics owing to the war, And still the government urged that athletics in colleges be continued
 Although college basketball through out the eastern states shows the effect of wartime curtailment, the court game is being well supported. A majority of the leading colleges and universi- ties are represented by teams. and a number of contests will be played with various training camp fives during the next few months.
 Outfelder Ikauff of the New YorS National league baseball club is re- ported as having signed for 1918 at a reduction. His famous wartime con- tract ran out last fall and it is hardly to be expected that he would be offered the same salary for this summer de- spite the two home runs he mad in the last world series.
 Jack Dempsey, the California heavy weight sensation, will be seen at Bos- ton on Jan %, when he faces Battling LeVinsky for F rounds to a decision. This match will either make or break Dempsey, who has been going great guns in the four-round affairs out in the far coast If he makes good he will be in line for a battle with Fred Fulton, whom he already has chal- lenged.
 ~ TT ball captain, who has been captain of the eleven of the Second naval dis l trict, and himself a boatswains mate of the naval reserve force, has won a commission of ensign and has been recommended for duties on vessels oi | the fleet which might require all round knowledge. Black will be sent to the naval academy to undergo a course of 16 weeks, when he will be given sea duty.
 | Despite the fact that Promoter Shev. lin of Cincinnati is willing to offe1 Battling Levinsky, the Hebrew heavy. weight, a guarantee of $1,000, with ar option of 20 per cent. of the gross re. celpts, to meet Harry Kreb of Pitts burgh in a ten round bout the latter part of this month, Levinsky has beer compelled to call off the negotiations as he cannot get long enough leav. Of absence from Camp Devens, Aver Mass, to meet Kreb.
 Having removed Texas Tate iron his path to the championship, Fret Fulton will next attempt to eliminat the best light heavyweight in the box Ing game, namely, Billy Miske, of St Paul. Fulton and Miske are schedule, to box ten rounds in a decisionles bout in St. Paul next Friday night, an, there is ground for the belief that tn St. Paul boy will give the tall Kansal more trouble than he hae encounteret in any of his recent contests.
 The Wilding memorial fund bein, raised by Australasia tennis players t purchase perpetual trophy to com memorate the memory of Anthony F Wildfng has passed the $500 mark an, gives promise of doubling these fig ures. The New Zealand Lawn Tenni association has been presented wit the racket that Wilding used in tn
 Davis cup matches of 1908. The racke
 was first offered as trophy in a war
 tme tournament. and the ultimat
 winner deeded it to the association a a perpetual property.
 ' There is possibility that Grove
 Cleveland Alexander will be in the ma t1onal army before another baseba
 season rolls round. The star twirle
 of the Phillies last year is 30 year
 old and his number in the draft } down about $500. He is the suppol of his widowed mother, but he ha r brothers and an exemption clai1 might not be allowed. Alexander ha
 been angling for part of the none
 that sent him to Chicago. but it look
 as though he will not share accordin
 to an announcement from Philadelphi
 recently. If he does get any he
 have to get it from Weeghman. but
 is doubtful if the Chicago owner wi