Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-02
SPORTING NOTES.

SFCK lNG NOIES.
An eminent professor connected
with one of our larger universities
sees in mass athletics the cure for the
alleged college athletic evil. The army
with its mass athletics plan has shown
him something far superior to the
varsity sport notion. Under the army
system every man was a participant
and not bleacherite he says. Yes
and under the army plan mass ath-
letics did not eliminate the big team
idea. Far from it. The camps had
their varsity teams as well as their
numerous minor combinations. Mass
athletics is not a substitute for the
varsity. 1t is a complement of the
varsity. Both belong on the college
sport slate.
The North Shrewsbury river New
Jersey. is to see some great iceboating
January IS if the weather is favor
able. Ice yacht and skating races will
be put on afternoon and evening, for
the promoters of the carnival feel
surer about the weather than do
skating promoters of this city 1t
may be said that there is no skating
war along the North Shrewsbury,
Mike MCGOWAN, manager of Gordon
! Key the middleweight of the west. is
very much peeved at some of the
championship contenders' who he
claims are lodging his protege
Joe Dillon. of Brooklyn, who is max
| ing quite a name for himself in the
New Jersey rings has been matched
to meet Joe Jackson in an eight round
bout 4 { Nashville, Tenn, on January
10.
Advocates of boxing in Illinois and
Nebraska are encouraged by the
prospects for the legalizing of the
sport in their states. Illinois is put
| ting up an especially strong fight for
the return of the game. If the sport
is recognized the bodies governing
them are likely to include representa-
tiyeS of the army and navy Commits
sions OF the right kind are needed to
keep an eye on things. for no game
can run wrong faster than the one
with the gloves.
President Harry Frazee of the Bos-
ton Red SoX does not enjoy the
numerous stories that his ball club is
TO be sold. Such talk cheapens the
team and the game, he says Ban
Johnson has been the leader of the
sale talk lately but Frazee himself is
the one who started the yarns about
the selling of the Boston club. He
introduced the general subject by
stating that he would sell out if he
got his price At that talks of sales
hurt the game, if no change of owner
ship actually transpires.
Day by day the baseball situation
becomes more critical. There's get
I ting to be less and less rumor- chasing
to be done by the scribes.
University of Michigan football
+ players are disgruntled because they
+ are not to be given the gold miniature
footballs as in the past. The athletic
/ authorities think the awarding of the
/ letter M enough but the varsity
men are sore because other western
/ colleges have passed out of the highly
priced watch charms. Colleges are in
no mood these days to hand out any
thing in gold TO varsity athletes.
The little gold tokens are becoming
/ things of the past.
It is very evident that the training
/ table and other luxurious accessor-
les are to be abandoned by the col
/ leges. That was to be expected. The
/ rubber must go to work, the scout
/ is to be dropped and only those abso
/ lutely necessary for the handling OF
! the form of desired athletics are ia
/ be, retained. The coach must submit
/ to cut in salary and probably he
! will have fewer assistants. Activities
/ of alumni bodies may also be limited
/ as far as sports are concerned.
The best form Of mass athletics is
field hockey played in the street with
q tilted tomato can as puck. Goal
posts may be dispensed with in this
game.
The triangular college chess tour
nament having got under way, NOV.
ing picture takers will now have {
chance to get some great actor
scenes.
1t is sqUarely up to high schoo
basketball coaches to restrain the
! pugnacious. The boys should be forced
TO understand that slugging has NJ
part in any school sport
The Boston athletic association viii
in all probability put on its usual in.
door championship meet early in Feb
ruary The old "B. A. A. games wer,
started over % years ago and an in
door season without them would in
deed be fiat.
England will send a bunch Of gol
r pros over here next summer. Thi
will Eive the empire a chance to ge
back some of the money it has beef
= 4l'-N 4llS " pay 4Ol munitions anu SOcI
Fred Dyer, boxing instructor u
Camp Grant. announced recently h
has been matched to meet Ted Levi
in a twelve-round bout for the weller
weight championship in Boston o.
January G. Dyer was scheduled to TAX
q part in boxing match in Phila
{ delphia on New Years Eve.
! Joe Burman. one Of the best ban
f tam-weights Chicago has turned GU
- in years, is anxious to get a, crac
3 at Jimmie Wilde. Burman gained
< decision over. Eddie Winter in Balti
more few nights ago. and his styl
Of fighting impressed the fans of tina
city so much that arrangements ar
being made to get Johnnie Ertie t
5 meet Burman in two weeks there.
5 William c. PrQut former presider
i Of the New England branch of tn
amateur athletic union. expects to 500
= De released from Fort Sill, Okla, wher
- ne has been serving as an athletic di
$ rector. The New England branc
D could use Prout nicely in stimulatfn
interest in track athletics.