Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-22

that they have accepted the Pershing
Stadium at Vincennes as the place for
holding Of the Olympic Games in 1924.
The government will advance 20,000000
francs for the games, 10,00G,009 each
in 1922 and 1923.
"our pitching staff eIght to go great
guns with Jones, Bush, Shawkey, Hoyt
and Mays on the firing line said Man
ager Miller Higgins Of the Yankees
recently. "ODoul looks fit and is
much improved ball player. Murray
looks good to me, and I also like the
way JoAey moves around that pitching
mound. Skinner and Haines are real
outfield prospects. That fellow Haines
will be a wonderful player if he gets
hitting, and he seems TO be getting his
eye on the ball right now.
Headed by C7ach Lawson Robertson,
the University. of Pennsylvania four
mile relay team, and a representative
of the student body, left Tuesday on
the Aquitania for England to com
pete in. the London relay games.
With the few last lingering echoes
! of an eminently successful basketball
season dying away, undergraduate At
tention at the Connecticut Agricultur-
! al College is now turning to the p-o-
gress being made by the baseball
squad which has begun workouts IN
Hawley Armory in real earnest, slim
ulated by the prospect of outdoor
workouts on Gardner Dow Field within
the next week.
! Players with handicap of four
strokes or less will be the only en-
the country club, Brookline, Mass, be-
trants accepted for the national anna
teur golf championship to be played at
ginning September 4.
4 Charley c. Buell., Hartford athlete,
who. with George Owen blazed the
way for the Harvard eleven to tumble
Yale in the football battle at Cambridge
last fall, is candidate fer the Grim
son baseball nine.
Hughie Rorty, prominent in sport
dom throughout New England as 9
baseball and polo official and boxing
promoter, has been offered the umpir
ing work at Yale University this yea
and the chances are that he will &C.
cent the Blue proposition.
The Newark international League
baseball clubs spring training squaC
left Monday for High Point Nortl
Carolina. Forty five men, in charge o
, Manager William derby BID ClymeI
were in the party.
Ed Rommel, pitcher, and Joe Hauser
first baseman, obtained from Milwau
kee in the American association, re
ported to Manager Mack of the Phil
adelphia Athletics Monday. The ar
5 rival of. these two players brings al
y the Mackmen to camp. Both had bee
g holdouts until last week.
e Springfield college wrestIers hav
:. packed away their toys for the seaso
I after finishing six-meet schedule, III
l. last of which was lost to the Pen
y State grapplers after long trip t
State College, Pa. The team cam
through, however. with a good reco-t
winning four and losing two. Ninety
); one points were scored by Springfield
u to 81 by their opponents. Capt Moone
e won every bout in the 175-poun
class.
Z Alfred Grenda and Reggie McN1ma
> ra. winners of the last six-day bicycl
y race at the Garden. sailed Tuesday fc
g France. where they are to compete in III
= Paris six-day grind. Walter Ruiz viii a
S Sc sail on the Aquitsaia He is return
S ing to Germany. ALI Goullet, is rlarnin
g a trip to Bermuda for D rest before til
d ocening of the spring season at Newarl
/. Percy Lawrence is also planning 4 va
Y cation to recuperate from the three race
: he competed in this winter.
q George Kerrigan. the young golf Pre-
e 1eSSlonal, or the Nnlte Beaches Countr
8 Club, Of New Jersey won the annual S
6 Augustine open championship tournamer
: at St Augustine Fla. Monday with I'll
fine score of 145 for thirty-Six hole
4 This Is the second tournament youn
: Kerrigan has won in the South this VIII
4 ter. About week ago he won the Flor
da open championship at Jacksonville.
- Monday 1t became apparent that Wesl
ington and Jefferson would not have va
sity representation on the diamlnd Il
coming season. While the athletic a,
;. thorities have not taken formal c,io
:" the sentiment among the powers that
:, is Overwhelmingly against baseball.
, Buck" O'Neill, mentor Of the CoIur
y bta University football squad, will beg
spring training for his warriors in Apl
u 10. practice gridiron will be prepar
- on the Dyckman tract, recently acqui
81 ed by Columbia through the generosi
% Of George F. Baker, 50 as not to int
Ig fere with the baseball and track practi
on South Field.
= Al Norton, one of the most prOmisil
l. weherweights now doing business, "
De return to the ring after a prolonged a
st sence when he meets Wildcat Nelson
n the star bout at the Columbus S2ortil
~ Club Of Yonkers on next Thursday nigl
The battle is scheduled to so twcl
ID rounds Norton was COMPELLED to cane
at several important ring engagements f.
a lowing an operation on his nose.
at
From all accounts the Cubs were t
- softAsf hind of nickinG for the Paci