Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-01
SPORTING NOTES

, Marty. McHales the former Yankee pitcher, recently amused the men in training at Camp eDevens with stories of his big league life.
 Byron Houck thinks that he is worth more money than Phil Ball stipulated ia his contract Houck returned the papers to Ball unsigned.
 1t was rumored some time ago that Bill Sherdell, a pitcher with the Cardi- nals had enlisted in the army. Later the twirler denied the report.
 So popular did baseball prove last season in war-ridden Europe that prom oters are now endeavoring to or ganize a six-club professional league to play out a five months schedule, Derrill Pratt is the only Yankee who has received e line of publicity over contract Wranging. The officials of the club evidently do. not believe in letting the eans know who the hold outs are.
 Some remarkable shooting with a .38- -caliber revolver was recently re- corded at New York where a marks l man named M M Sterling scored A | consecutive bullseyes before getting outside of the black.
 "A former Lowell pitcher is going to get another trial with the White 1 Sox this spring. He is, Leo Constanti neau and last season was shunted off i to the Northern Maine Canada league. He afandS faet and SOIlthnaW Navy, which has closed it's basket 1 ball season. won 13 out of , contests,
 scored 637 points to 224 for opponents. l Navy averaged slightly better than 37 l points to the game. just two and a ! half times as many as it's opponents The White Sox have new pitcher l this year named Paul sMusser. His minor league record in the matter of l control isn't over good, but it's as ] good as that made by Red Fisher when in the bushes, and Manager
 Rowland has hopes.
 l One of the things that helped to make Happy Felsch a great outfelder l ip the opinion of that worthy IS the | fact that the newspapers didn't herald his coming in advance. Fsssch says more good players are spoiled by the newspapers than made.
 Red Ames. the veteran twirler old
 est minor circuit. may not. take the field next May Many club owners are selling their best. players and the mana gers are looking for new jobs Sunday baseball would save the lea que from going on the rocks.
 Joe Wright has the largest squad
 of crew candidates of recent years at 1 work for seats in his. varsity boat From the looks of things down at the
 Philadelphia boathouse, Penn is sure to be represented by a championship contender on the water this spring.
 Jess Harper, the retiring footbal mentor of Notre Dame, was one oi | the first football coaches of the coun- try to see the possibilities of the for l ward pass and it was his eleven which l swamped West Point with this play a few seasons back Eastern coaches
 soon followed in his footsteps.
 The Chelsea, Mass, all-star team will journey to PiStsfeld, Mass, to-
 night to meet the local aggregation The Pittsfield team has number of wei known college stars on it's roster and 1 if victorious in this game an effort will be made to bring them here to op-
 pose either the Y. M. H. A. or in l dustrial AIl-Stars.
 Johnny Fitzpatrick has assumed his new job as chief instructor at Tiger town. The decision of Dr. Spaeth to enter the service of Uncle Sam left
 Princeton without a coach. However in Fitzpatrick they have mentor whG
 knows as much about the sport as is ! necessary for the development cf a