Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-05
SPORTING NOTES

SPORTING NOTES Willie Mitcheh and Bert Ellison, l former Tigers, are at Camp Pike.
 Fritz Pollard, the negro star will not be at Brown university this fall
 The Shore Line team is closing it's season with no debts. They have something on the All-Norwich team. Babe Ruth continues to be the sen sation of the American league race. Rogers Bresnahan to save expenses, | is covering center field for his Toledo team
 | The veteran Tommy Leach was the lead-off man on the Chattanooga team this year.
 Harold Carlson, former pitcher of the Pirates is at Camp Grant, near Rockford, III.
 All the heavy work done in prepart- ton for the Willard Fulton fight was dore by the press agent
 The Pirates have released Bill Ffsch- CT to the Binghamton International League club. Fisher was holdout.
 Tommy McMillan, once star short stop in the big minors, played that position for Mobile until the league suspended.
 "Dud" Donnelly, former Bulkeley football star, was recently married to a New Haven girl. Dud is now in the naval reserve.
 It is remarked that shipyards may be bomb proofs for the ball tossers, but they can't escape General Crowd CTS searchlight.
 Marc Wright Dartmouth, pole vaul ter% who has a mark of Is feet, ? 1-4 inches without a plane has entered the aviation service.
 If Joe Jackson can swing that paint hrush in the navy yard as artistically as he swings a baseball bat, he will be quite an artist.
 The Thread Go. team of Willimantic | IS III the SdIIlG DOdl WILL lIIC -NOA . wich team and will probably disband.
 Sherman was right.
 The Clevelands have purchased
 Catcher John Peters from Sthe New
 Orleans club to replace John Billings,
 who has gone into the army. In the 13 years during which the Grand American Handicap tournament
 has been shot there have been a total
 of 2,434,288 targets thrown. Now they tell us that if the war keeps on the boys will have to use ; horsehideless balls. If the war keeps on they won't have to use any balls l Manager Hendricks of the Cardinals hhas abandoned the idea of switching his batsmen according to the appear ance of an enemy right or left handler in the box.
 } The greatest players of moderr times have cost the club owners lit 8 tie or nothing. Mistaken judgment oi baseball ability has cost the magnate: fortunes however.
 s The Connecticut state champion, Dr
 B. F. Bishop, of New Haven, is th' s only man in the state eligible to shoo t for the national amateur handicap title :. If he does not wish to compete, how l ever, he may designate the runneru i. 1T the state tournament, F. J. Ham d of Norwaik, to uphold the glory of thu 8 Nutmeg State.
 3 For the third time since the annua
 championship of the United State e Football Association for the Nationa
 Challenge Trophy was inaugurated
 five years ago, the famous socce p eleven representing the Bethlehem d Steel Company of Bethlehem, Penn
 fought it's way to victory over the F'al r River Rovers of Fall River, Mass, il d the replay of the final round at th' It Federal League baseball grounds d Harrison, N. J. recently by 8 goals to Although a majority of the Easter1 o colleges which will support footbal
 during the coming autumn have com IS pleted their playing schedules no de It finite acton in this direction has beel r. taken by Harvard, Princeton or Yale
 The situation is still being discusse
 in an informal way by both graduat y and facualty representatives but n n concrete program is: likely to be an '- nounced for some time. That the pro Is spects for the resumption of the gam e at these large institutions are improv ,- ing is indicated by a report that foot ,e ball may be played though upon re s. lstricted basis. It is said that the pro