Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-21
PeaIe Successfully Defends Title
 to the End Van WickIe Medal


 Third Vice. Presidezt-C. E. Crow-E Brattleboro.
 secretary-Arthur L. Peale, N5r~t..n
 Treasurer--Janles L. Case, Nor~scf,.
 Official Editor-L C. Williamson. Washington, D. C.
 The following committees welc ~ pointed by President W. A. Roul-l- e the American League tu serve ths cAs;- ern division
 delphia, and tle following members 2: committees; ruiea. Eddie Clark rrornc, ton. Arthur L. Peale; fnanca, James !. Case. The committee on court coi.asr.,e>- tion for the American league, Pr-kid Rounds appointed follows: All-rs Gates, Chicago; NJ. T. Reeves, Coll1,I,.,A Indi; A. Kramer, Washington. D. C.
 The resolutions Ly which the ru~:a. association voted 10 annalgamata w;:a the American Roque League wera pr=- sented by Prof. il. |. Slaught. 1Aey are as follows:
 Whereas. The American Goquc Les que, an incorporated national organlzl- tion of roque cubs and associations numbering more than five hundred il- dividual members, las during recent years, been very active and effective in developing interest in tn game of roqua, especially in the middle west. far west and south, and influencing Chambers sf | Commerce, Park Comm .ss oners and oth- es in authority to recognize roque on coordinate basis with gof. tennis etc. by constructing cour.s and caring for them in the public parks as a legiti ] mate expenditure Of public funds f-r the benefit of the playing psal1c and the entertainment of spectators so that at present the game has a pupGlar stat us not only in many Of tn. larger west ern cities. but also in northern sum- ner resorts and southern wins@ resorts and in scores of smaller towns and even in some country. p.aces, and Whereas. It is the rarop.e of the American EOque League to ~ntinue this propaganda for roque til 1t shall be possible for devotee of ee gam. to find a court and fell-w dev-s~s within, easy reach of wh4ever !ocaesru he may find himself for s~s<4, or i for an extended outing ana
 Whereas. It is the pur2~A sf the i American Roquc League to = stand ardize tiie game that tn. -~e>e of p~y l shall be universally td -.s-4 ard ad- hered to and to so standarA five the c,n- 1 struction of courts that eye-~>SN,re the arches. carom borders and p}ayina sl. 1 faces shall he the very best that official 1 specifications from the engineers of the league can provide; and
 1 Whereas. It is the purpose of the | American Roque league to organize di- visions of the league wherever a num- i Der of Roque clubs with sufficient play i CTS can combine together for holding 1 tournaments and promot ng the local l interest of the game-such divisions hav- i ing already been constituted or being | in progress of organization in the Mis- 1 souri valley centering aound Kansas i City. in portions of Ohio. Indiana and 1 Illinois. centering around New Paris Ohio, in St Petersburg Florida. in the Chautauoua grounds at Winona Indiana on the Pacific coast. entering in Los 1 Angeles, California and
 | Whereas. The officials of the Ameri- can Roque League, including the presi- dent w. A. Rounds. of Cleveland, O. the editor Prof. T. E. Saught of Chi | cago, Illinois. A. E. Griffith of Cleve- land. Ohio. and NJ T. Reeves of Co- l lumbus, Inlfana and St. Petersburg Florida. have come to Norwich at this sociation of Ameica to become the East ern division of the American Roque Lea que, thus uniting all the roque force. l in every part of the United States into one co-ordinated body for the purpose of promoting in the most effective man ner possible the seatest of out dool sports-recognjzing. however the very notable service that the National Rout Association of Ameirc' has already ren dered to the cause throughout it's 4( years of history in fostering the game and in training expert players whose names, example and inuence have ex | tended all of the country and giver 1 inspiration to hundreds of players anc I tFe sociation of America shall keeps it. honored name and fuil autonomy in al it's local management agreeing only tC add to it's name the officiat title "Eas l ern Division of the American Rouu, 1 League to he shown on letterheads anc
 all printed documents pertaining to tn, | association and to h7 inscribed on th reverse of all medals conferred by tn,
 association and proposing that al
 games of the association shall be piey
 ed according 10 the ruIes Of the Amer
 can Roue League already agreed upol l here by the joint committee of the lea
 que and association. and finally. ask
 ing the association to unite in all pro l motional propaganda for the benefit c
 roque throughout the country therefor
 be it
 Resolved. By the National Roque As
 sociation of America, in annual meetin,
 assembled at Norwich C G,n. Aueus
 goth, 1920, that this Association shal
 now become and shall henceforth he tn
 Eastern Division of the American Eoqu
 League on the basis and with the un
 derstandiug set forth in the above pre-
 anble; that henceforth th~se shall b.
 adde1 to the name of the National Ro
 que Association Of American the ofIicia
 title ''Th, Eastern Division of the Amer
 ican Roquu League" to be. inscribed ol
 all official documents and on the re
 verse of all medals cor--~res by tn
 Association: and that an gam ; tn
 National Rogue Association of Amer
 ica shall hereafter he played in accord
 ance with the rules of the America
 Roque League as agreed upo,: by tn
 joint committee
 It is further mutually understood
 That the American Roque League shal
 at once add to it's list of ofTisars vic
 president to be nominated Ay the Ma
 tional Roque Association of America
 who shall be a member of the execu
 tive committee Of the leagur and wh
 shall be the Field Marshall ssr tn
 Eastern Division of the League thu
 the League will add to it's Committee
 on Rules Promotion and Finance
 member for each to be nominated b,
 the Association: that the Amer can Ro
 que League will supply the Rules Boal
 and all otfe publications ot the Lea
 que to the National Roque Association
 of America on the same terms that !
 supplies other Divisions; that it VII
 supply the regulation League Medai
 made from it's official dies to the Ma