Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-05

will be the fighting spirit which he will instill in them. Sc long as the spirit isn't distilled, it will be all right.
 It is estimated that there are at least 100, 900 trapshooters in the Ma tional Army.
 When the time baseball was start ed in this country until 1859 the catcher had no protection and remain ed 20 feet behind the plate, taking the 1 pitches on the bound. In 1850 the | still unprotected catcher began to come up in back of the batter and in l 1876 the catcher's mask was first used 1 by Harvard man.
 The art of shooting in the field is one which cannot be mastered in a day, or a year but which must be practiced assiduously for a long time.
 Connecticut is one of the 14 states which have women state trapshooting champions. Mrs. c. H. Beere of New
 Haven with score of 5S leads our women shooters.
 George A. Miller of Brewton, Ala,
 aged g, and Capt. Andrew Meader of
 Nashville, Tenn, aged 79, were the youngest and oldest shooters in the
 Grand American handicap last August
 Master Miller fired the first shot and
 broke the first target thrown at the
 shoot with a 20 gauge gun, the only
 one used. This is the third year that
 Captain Meader has been the veteran
 shooter at the annual classic.
 Trapshooting and golf seem to be
 the sports for all ages Ages from
 to 79 in shooting and IA to 62 ir
 golf in contestants in title events fur nish ample proof of this statement.
 Among the American engineers whc rushed to the aid of the hard pressed
 British at Cambrai was Top Sergean Jim Duncan, Discus champion and rec.
 ord holder of the little old U. $. A A. N. $. Jackson, the famous OK, ford athlete who humbled John Pau
 Jones, Norma Taber at the Stockholm
 Olympics has been made a Lieut.
 Colonel and has been awarded a sec
 ond bar on his D. S. o. decoration. f Abe Kiviat, pride of the American I A. c. writes from France that his bar
 rack room is so full of athletes that ' makes him think of the old dressing F room at Celtic Park
 I At a recent track meet in Rom l the feature was a race between Lieut. e L. V. Windnagle, U. S. Aviators an r Lieut.. Emilio Lunghi, Italian Flyini S corps. Windnagle won by a marrow
 margin. Both men are former trac e stars. An Englishman named Hay [ finished third. During hIS three year = of service he had been gassed sho : through the leg and had his knee dis t located. Still he made both the other }, hump themselves to win.
 n Gus Welsh who was rated as on 4 of the greatest quarterbacks who eve
 donned the moleskins at Carlisle ha l, been made a captain in the army. H e is the first Indian to hold a captain }. commission since the Civil War. Y Arthur Blumenthal, one of the great }, est center 'rushes ever turned out 8 d Princeton was killed in an air battl
 behind the lines in France on June f Corporal Fred W. Griswold, cham r, pion quarter miller of the Pennant 4 c. of the Bronx is the first of the 6 n members of that organization to di
 in battle lover there"
 ~ A well known trap shot in speak $ ing about the game said that the mot $ to of every noive should be "Safet If First and Perfect Scores"
 Il The woodcock one of America
 finest migratory game birds is de e creasing in alarming numbers. T e say that it is one of the vanishin - birds is not to overstate it. d Excellent use is being made of tn = shotgun in this war. It has bee
 heartily endorsed by General Pershin: t Representative Tilson of this stat l. told the Harware Manufa cturers' AS S sociation that 10 900 trench guns wei 'a s1ppEA7 te ellrl 4n.4A.4h a+ n-aa time