Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-08
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league cities are needed at once to |
assist the baseball situation.
cornell has started a drive to raise |
cash to finance basketball, baseball |
and track. That college is going along
on the theory that intercollegiate
games cannot be dispensed with At
least the students and alumni feel that
way
About $4,000 in prizes is to be dis,
trlbuted at dog show in New York
the 18th. The A. A U. should look
up the amateur standing of these
dogs.
All the big football teams will be
on the gridiron next year. Yale,
Springfield boat club, Harvard prince
ton, Dartmouth. Brown and the
Atlanta boat club.
Only those who can spare the time
from their large business interests
will play big league bali this year.
i Bill Carrigan announces from the
Wilds of Maine that it would take a
| team of oxen to get him back to base
ball In winter Maine roads can be
negotiated only by oxen.
The short ship trotting circuit meet
ing the 10th at Worcester promises
to be one of the best winter gather
ings of horsemen in years. Horse
men are unusually optimistic, especi-
ally those who are well acquainted
with Sage park, Windsor, CT. In the
eastern part of the state enthusiasm
is keen.
Boston is the star city of the Amer
lean league. New York of the Ma
tionaI and Springfield of tn Eastern
1t is claimed that Newark is the live
town in the International
Hearing that the Springfield fancy
skating club had organized a hockey
team Harvard Immediately rounded up
its candidates of all classes.
:! Leslie Mann is not to retire from
baseball, not this year anyway He
has talked things over with the Cubs
and has decided to pass up Young
Mems Christian association work and
college coaching as counter attrac-
tons to major league baseball. He
will sign his contract the 18th when
all of Chicago's players get their
documents.
After d swift glance at the stu
alton as per Tyrus Cobb. the con-
clusion is as swiftly arrived at that
the uncrowned king of baseball
2 players is entirely a free agent and
: at full liberty to sign up again with
the Detroit club.
As old Kid 1918 sunk for the
5 ter. well, I blew the Bum Sports
Club of Potsdam, Germany, out o
existence, even if I had a soul
record in other respects"
Those closely aligned with the
promotion of sports, whether the!
be amateur or professional, canno
help but look forward to thu
/ new year with a feeling of contidenc,
5 and optimism While the comins
| twelvemonth will be largely a perioC
. of reconstruction, still the removal o
4 | the restrictions which make Spor
3 promotions so precarious from the ii
! nancial standpoint, makes it look a
though things are to rapidly reacl
their normal stage. There are thos
= who profess to believe that sports ar
= due for a revival and there Ger
tainly is every indication right nov
z that this is about to become a bii
fact. 1t is this expected boom il
, sports that has started a boosting
campaign all over the country mad i
y. the natural result Of the relief from
the strain of wartime. The onl
b., possible drawback to be seen RICH
now is that in some cases Their
may be sports which will be a littl
5 slow in coming back. and becaus
. of this. too hasty predictions wi
Z not matarialiZe right away.
= The point is difficult to escap
that if there is to be experiences
cports of any kind, the services o
= the professional coach are indis
! pensables This point may under
mine the systems of and caus
2 mental anguish to certain earnes
- persons, but one may state hare
s il} scapabIe facts. may one not?
One year ago this time til
y greatest of sports was hunting tn
I. untamed anthracite with a hOd l
one hand and many wrinkles 0
= the brow.
81 John E. Bruce. secretary Of tn
u National Baseball commission, wa
= resting easily yesterday after a fall o
=. a slippery pavement recently ths