Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-13


 chances for the Jewett City boys to score. The shipbuilders made their only tally in the ninth.
 Polls of Hartford beat the Groton Iron Works team to 1 in Hartford Sunday afternoon in a game which had to be called after five and half in nings on account of rain.
 Manager Barnett of the Academy football team has not yet arranged his schedule for this fall,
 Jiggs Donohue, the old time Chicago American first baseman rated by most authorities as the best initial sack man the game has ever seen, died several years ago in an insane asylum.
 Lieut.. Ed. Mckay, now of Camp | Custer, is spending few days here. He is looking fine and apparently en- l toying the army life.
 If, as 1t has been announced, the ! majority of college men are to be in 1 active service by next June, prospects | for any baseball at all next year are | exceedingly slim.
 Carl Parker, captain of the N. F. | A. 1918 baseball team, who resigned last fall, has enlisted in the navy as a musician. He also played football at the Academy.
 Miss Molla Bjurstedt the National Singles Woman champion has con | clusively proved her right to the title. She has won it for four successive years.
 Blank McCloskey of Chicago recent | ly stayed with Jack Johnson for four rounds at Madrid Spain. He got the entire purse of $S,000, as Johnson had agreed to knock him out in four rounds or forfeit the money. | Prospects for a championship foot ball team at the Academy are exceed ingly good this year. In Captain Jesse | Wilcox the team has a man who is wonderful ground gainer for high school player. Counihan, Tirrell, Sup licki Covello and R. Wilcox are also good men and may be expected to shine this year.
 Trapshocting has been adopted at | twenty aviation schools in this coun- try as a means of making the f1iers accustomed to shooting at moving ob- jects.
 One of the latest recruits secured by Platt Adams, who is seeking men to go over seas as athletic directors was Edwin H. Crowdis who played guard at Princeton at the same time as Big Bill Edwards.
 At least one big figure in sport can
 play on and not be accused of slack
 erism, although of military age-Miss
 Molla Bjurstedt.
 Pop" Anson wants a ruling which would do away with the gloves on all players except the catcher and first
 baseman. He says it would make the
 game faster.
 Who is the oldest trapshooter in the
 country? Uncle Joe" Heineman of
 Wasam, Wis. is s3 and is still shoot , ing at the Wausaw Fish and Game !, club. He can make a good score with } the aid of eyeglasses.
 The fans that attended the recent , Phil Bloom Joe Yelling battle that was staged in Weehawken a while ago had a narrow escape. Before any of
 the fans were let into the club they , had to show their registration cards : and those who didn't show them were turned over to the police, who had
 about 20 police wagons stationed out side the club.
 There will probably be a reversion to straight oid-fashioned footbtll in
 the colleges this fall as with the
 military work the teams will have bIe:
 little time to learn any complicated
 plays or formations. In the official war report issued in Washington on Saturday was the an-
 nouncement that Lieut. Billy Moore
 former athletic and gridiron star of
 Princeton, has been decorated with
 the distinguished service cross. Benny Kauff is reported to have
 pulled a good line when he reported to his draft board for military service } Well, here l am" piped Benja
 ready to swap the outheld for the . Enfeld!"
 According tc Harry R. Stringer ot the War Department commission or , Training Activities who has just re. 2 turned from trip to France, base
 ball will be an international spor- \ after the war.
 According to James Mcclure. EditoI
 of Outdoor Life the lordly moments
 doomed to follow the buffaiv and tht
 antelope if the practice of killing tho cows for meat is not stopped Capt. A. H. Hardy in an article written for the American Shooter de. = clares that it is as IAuch the duty O = every man registered in the draft tC . learn to shoot before entering the arm, e as it is the duty of the football team q to practice before a game. { State Game Commissioners ant t sportsmen everywhere report tha f more game birds were killed durinl f the last open season than ever be 7. fore. They attribute this the aboli '. tion of spring shooting under tn }. migratory game law.
 t Gun clubs all over the country ar, . now setting aside one day each yea. S as "Old Timers Day" It is as gooc
 as a G. A. R. reunion to hear the olc e fellows talk of the days when the tar } gets were live birds.
 :; Johnny Martin did so well agains ). Walter Butler in Boston that he ha ). been signed to box Dave Powers. Mar o tin, so we understand, is courting = sound lacing.
 5 Nineteen hundred and two person n -1605 men and 297 women receive : instruction in trapshooting at the At
 lantic City Million Dollar Pier thi
 summer up to Aug. 1 who had neve
 before handled a gun. 5 The Cincinnati Reds players hay " subscribed for s45 900 of Liberty bond e Hoboken, N. J., claims to be tn H. first home of baseball, the game bein ' played there in 1883. You can't prov IT it by us le The boxing promoters are hopef, = of being able before long to stage 10 n round bouts in Seattle, where the linn T it of the ring contests is now fixed 2 II four rounds.
 g The new home just opened by tn tS Milwaukee Athletic club is declared I Fl be one of the finest and best equippe :, clubhouses of it's kind in the entir LII country.
 sr Lovers of this sport say that trar 1- shooting will be the greatest sport ,d the world after the war for they clail " that he men who have used a gun j 10 the army will want to keep in touc 10 after they get back
 Tennis appears to be holding it's ow
 better than the majority of sports
 these days of war. ,e The Wisconsin Boxing commis sion is on the warnath aoain nh