Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-25
,ent I have HI keep them out of or-

cent I have I'll keep them out of orr ganized baseball forever
 The man who called up the Sport ing Editor to ask the distance from Metz to Berlin had the right idea. The Kaiser and his whole boche out fit have aroused the sporting instincts of some twenty three nations and at this distance it doesn't look much like a dead heat. The e Kaiser and the Half crown Prince, as Punch" calls him, made astrong bid for the pole three or four years ago, but there is going to be a l-- of, 'a1so run ning' before this event is over.
 Half Crown Prince'' is all very well for Punch" but we. preferring the. cockney to the Kensington Gar den of it, would rather call him a mere Tuppenny Brighter.
 Yale expects no organized inter- collegiate athletics this year. Prof Robert Corwin head of the Yale Ath- letic Board of Control, said that he | expects that sports modelled along 1 the Plattsburg lines would prevail but the time and attention allotted to 1 athletics would be limited. No com plete statement of Yale's plans will be possible till the arrival of the government army officials here who will undertake the organization of the university under the new Student Army Corps regiment.
 | No more will the bleachers roar at l the umpire or go wild over a home run at Ebbetts cid, the big baseball l liamond of the Brooklyn Nationals as the government has communicated it as cold storagee plant. According to Charles P Ebbetts, owner of the club, Uncle Sam will try to make good use of it for the army and navy Other famous ball fields, including the | Polo grounds, home of the New York ] Giants, may also be taken over for similar purposes. It. is heartbreaking to the fans, of course, but they real ize that it is not a good-by, but au revoir, to baseball.
 | A British record for throwing the shot was recently made at the Cashed Sports by J. O'Grady, who recorded 3S feet, beating his previous record of S7 feet 61A inches. The worlds record for the event is held by John Flana- gan,, who in 1905, at New York, put the weight 39 feet F inch.
 Miss May Spencer, of the Garstor 1 Swimming Club, at the Livingstone Street Baths, Birkenhead has suc- ceeded in lowering the 200-yard wom- ems breaststroke worlds and A. s. A record of 3n. II 2-5s. made by Miss Lucy Morton, at Manchester, in 1916 to 3m: Ss. Miss spencer is only six teen years old.
 tag i oicam e,e eeeee bbmmm m IT Trapshooting has been taken up bS the Athletic Associations in the East ern shipyards, and trapshooting league has been formedamong the em- ployees of the yards on the Delaware River. These yards will bee repre- sented by teams in the league: Hos Island, Sun Ship, Chester, Pusey
 Jones' Harlans, Cramps, Merchants Traylors, New York, Pennsylvania anC New Jersey. Indications are tha trapshooting will be an essential par of the athletic program in the shil yards of the United States.
 | President Johnson of the Ameri
 can league and President Comiske! of the White Sox have gone on brie
 outing in Wisconsin in company witt
 small party of friends. Object: Bas
 and muskellunge. he, annual trip o the Woodland Bards to the nortl
 country has been postponed until afte
 the war. Comiskey started to mak
 the trip to Mercer, Wis., by automo
 bile, but Johnson preeferred the rail roads to avoid tire trouble.
 Charley Brickley, the old Harvart
 star, now an ensign in the navy, can
 keep away from the football field. H
 has organized a team in Hoboken
 Mass, and his first game was playe'
 yesterday.
 Larry Gravar, the ed Sox secretary
 is clearing everything up in prepara
 tion to enter the service. He will tr.
 to enlist in the navy and go to tn
 Great Lakes naval station, wner
 many of his friends are located.