Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-23

port baseball club. Waller died about three years ago from tuberculosis.
 Dennis Murphy of Taftville. former of the Lawrence Eastern League club, is now catching for the Newport Naval Reserves lie played basketball during the winter with the Fairhaven Naval Reserve team but was transferred to Newport few weeks ago.
 Larry Doyle's big bat is getting re- suits just now. The popular second baseman received a royal welcome when he first showed with the Giants.
 Fred Luderus, the Phillies' clever first baseman, is on the job as usual doing his best to help Pat Moran. Luderus is one of the players who never make trouble for their em- ployers.
 Bob Harmon, who has returned to the Pirates after spending last year on his Louisiana plantation, pitched great ball in 1916,, but became dis gusted when the Pirates dropped into the cellar.
 Branch Hickey says he will sup plant the Cardinal holdouts with youngsters. He also states that he does not intend to be held up by star ball players and will not sell Hornsby un- der any conditions:
 The Memphis club of the Southern Association has two gigantic pitchers. One is Bill Thweatt, who is feet 6 inchSs tall and weighs 215 pounds, while the other is Ed Wilson. feet 2 inches in height, who tips the beam at 205.
 Charles Street, battery partner of | Walter Johnson and for many years and later a catcher with the Yankees. has given up baseball to go into tie army. He is now Sergeant Street of Company D. Thirtieth United States Engineers.
 They say Tom Sharkey is now an armed guard at a-New Jersey muni- ton plant. Tom works six days a week. carries a rifle wears a uniform and is, called Lieutenant Sharkey. The reason is that the former ring star is broke. Since that day in 1yYS when Sharkey, the unknown sailor lad, fought four rounds with Jack Gardner he has had a wonderful experience. Gunboat Smith will quit the boxing game. The crack Californian, who has made Brooklyn his home, announced in the big town that he intends quitting the game for good after this month. Smith has not been meeting with the
 best sort of luck and his friends be- lieve that this is the cause for his de-
 cision to quit the game for all time.
 The recent trip to the coast was dis
 astrous one for the Gunner. Manager Fred Mitchell of the Chi
 cago Cubs says he will have no pea nut parties on his bench. MitcheUs , description of a peanut party is a , bunch of players gathering at one end
 of the bench and munching goobers
 while a game is on, paying no attention
 to what is doing on the field. Such
 indifference, says Mitchell. stamps a
 player as worthless and the first time he catches any of his men in such party" it will cost them the price of
 a thousand bags of peanuts.
 With the Giants's manifest superior
 ity in National such that they sh0dld : again qualify for the worlds series. } equally so is the present strength of l the White Sox manifest in the race of the American league. With the lone
 exception of the Red Sox, there is no
 club in Ban JohnsonS organization II that has a possible chance, judging
 on dope and statistics, to beat last years world champions to the wire. Of
 all the clubs in the American league, | the wonderful machine Comiskey built
 up with years of careful selection and
 purchase of stars is practically intact, l no club in the organization suffering from the army draft.
 Hey, Heinie, how's Collins T'
 shrieked one soldier lad at Heinie 7 Zim during the Camp Kelly Agame with the Giants. There was a laugh. Pin 3 yer ears back, Zimmerman, so we can
 see the bone better On the Polo
 grounds Zim would have turned f around and delivered a few choice re- 8 marks in rebuttal But on Kelly Field t he just laughed and bounced his bat
 bit grimly on the plate. This bat
 bounding should have been warning . i to friend pitcher. When Zin bounces q his bat look out for squalls The sol dier twirler didn't know much about ). him. And, besides, he had slipped over two strikes on Heinie.
 = Baltimore although fallen to the s level of minor league town, is a city Il Of historic interest ana deep 1dSclna- IEion to the student of baseball history
 Good ball clubs have been numer. n ous at Baltimore, and the diet O V oysters and terrapin to say nothing oi e Baltimore rye, seems to have made : the players hailing from that towI
 always fast, gingery and scrappy. Un
 der the guiding hand of Hanlon. great P est of all the Baltimore teams. was thu o one which won the National Leagu n pennants in 1894, 1895 and 1S96. Thi "a club was not only the greatest eve
 seen in Baltimore uniform, but one o
 the grandest in the records of tn game. Ned Hanlon picked and drille' |. the men, and had the fortune to assem n ble good batsmen and fast base run n ners, who were also of the scrappies
 and most waspish temper on tn
 field.