Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-10
SAM RICE LEADS AT
 ALL NORWICH MASSACRE
Former Senator Had Local Team We'll in Hand at All Times-Score IS to i,

Sunday afternoon at the Falls dia~ mond the post team from Fort Terry 1 wound up pleasant weekend in this city by soundly trouncing the All Norwich aggregation, an alleged ball team, by the score of 13 to 1. By mutual agreement the massacre was stopped in the eighth inning. which was about seven innings too late. Many of the All-NorWich players had been wondering whether this Sam Rice was all that he was cracked up to be- Sam showed them. He was on the mound for the soldiers and held the local team to four scattered hits, flaming nine of them and issuing two bases on balls. The soldiers had a snappy team, full of pep, but they
 were all that could be asked as
 sportsmen Their conduct, both on i the playing field aud during the two nights they were in town, reflects great credit on the athletic officer, Lieut.. C. Burnett.
 | The crowd was not as large as was
 hoped for but as most of them went
 to see Rice rather than to see All
 Norwich win few went away disap-
 pointed. The crowd as a matter of 1 fact got more than their moneys worth for in Richards. the soldier
 third baseman. they had sort of an
 amateur Al Jolson. Richards was
 sWith the St. Louis Browns before joining the army and is q first class ball player. Aside from his ball play ing he has a wonderful line of jokes
 and his chatter is enough to make q
 cynic held his sides. It is. however,
 of the humorous, rather than of the
 sarcastic variety. Brooks, Callahan's
 pitching ace, retired to the place
 where the bench ought to have been } in the first inning after three men had walked to plate and each one had ], been passed The fourth man was } almost in the same class as 1t took ) but one ball from Simcox to send him 2 to first Brooks, according to Button, { the first base coach. pitched IS balls, . three of which were strikes. SimcoX D appeared in his Remington $. P. uni form and when Richards said the $. P stood for Some Player. he was
 about right Simcox pitched good Q ball had he started even and had D support he might have made things ; interesting As it was he went in be- d hind and with a team that made er- 1- TOTS at critical times behind him. ' Dugas failed to field in his usual form
 but made up for it in his batting
 None of the other. Norwich players
 played worth mentioning.
 Q The playing of the soldier team was treat to watch and the regularity 3 with which their long clouts raised 5 splashes of water in the clamp" left ] field was astonishing. Left field, to e be perfectly frank, was little more ,: than damp as one of the natives d viewed the game from the boat which . he moored to the foul line. Rice
 pitched an easy game and was mas
 ter at all times. In the seventh he gave way to Stewart who had worlc of speed and showed great promise 9 Stewart formerly played in the Three league and is a wonder behind tht bat. The outfield didn't get much O Q a chance to prove their ability bu l Knowles robbed Counihan of doubl on the only ball hit in his territory g The infield went like ciockwork am Q the work of the battery shows plalnl. Q enough in the strikeout record. Bic pitched good ball and secured one hi Iout of four times at bat. getting pass
 ed once. Incidentally to make tn
 game more interesting the late disci pie of Clark Griffith stole home -o Somebody suggested that the gam y be dramatized with the local team a
 the victim of tragedy and Rice an
 Day as the villains. Callahan woui e be cast for the part of the despoile d widow. who loses her all for the lift y straight time. Richards could fill th ss part of the foolish comedian to per l. lection. seconded bv Button