Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-25
TODAY MARKS THE CLOSE OF THE
 1922 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

knocked out by Luis Firpo, is on his way back to the U. s. Tracey fights Homer Smith at Kalamazoo, Mich, De- cember 15.
 Christy Mathewson, the Giants "Big Six of other days, is going to Ne" York next month to lend a hand in the Red Cross sale of Christmas Seals for the benefit of tuberculosis victims in this country
 Johnny Buff, former bantam and fly weight champion, will not retire from the game. In company with his mana ger, Buff will leave for the Pacific coast before the holidays where he is billed for several four-round bouts.
 R. Earl Johnson, Pittsburgh distance runner, will defend his A. A. |. nation al senior cross country championship ill the annual title chase over the Van Cortlandt Park course Saturday aftcr- noon.
 George Ward. of Elizabeth, V. J., for. mer pal but now a bitter rival of Mic
 
 the latters welterweight laurels be- cause Ward insists that in past matches he has more than held his own with the new champion.
 Phil Neer of Portland, ore. 1921 na- tional interco legiate lawn tennis cham pion, who has returned to his studies at Stanford University says that defenders 1 of the Davis Cup in the future will prob ok INa oI0 fnn .f 41,o erican college players.
 Former welterweight Champion Jack | Britton and EdGie Fitzsimmons are both on a hunting trip in Maine which will last for three weeks. Britton says l that he has no intention of retiring and 1 that he woud d be ready for the first of the year to box the best of the wei 1 ters.
 The knockout defeat suffered by Johnny Wiolgast at the fists of Eddte i Birnbrook in Baltimore last Monday night was one of the biggest surprises | of the season. It was the first time the 1 brother of Ad Wolgast, the former worlds lightweight champion, was counted out
 Jimmy o'Connen, outfielder for the San Francisco Club of the Pacific Coast League, who is to report to the New York Giants next year. is ill with scar let fever at his home at Boy.es Springs Cal, it was learned recently. O'Conne.l was sold to the Giants for S75,000.
 Interest at the Naval academy nov centers in the game against the Mil. tary Academy to be played in PhLadel- phia on November 25, all other game. on the team schedule for 1922 having been played. The Navy is now one gam. ahead of the Army on the series and has won the last three games.
 The boxing commission has lifted tn, suspension on George Engel, manager O Harry Greb, light heavyweight cham pion of the United States. EngeI ex plained to the commission that he dit not accept an offer of a guarantee fo the Greb-Roper fight in Buffalo twt weeks ago.
 Johnny Kilbane's pretege for light weight honors, Alex Hart of Cleve- and has been signed by his manager, tn exiled featherweight king. to meC George K. o. Chaney of Baltimore il one of the star eight-round bouts a the Ice Palace in Philadelphia in Thanks giving day afternoon.
 , Tom Thorp will referee the Army Navy game and will have A. c. lyle . as umpire and Harry Kersberg as lines man. Dr. O'Brien of Tufts will refere the Harvard-Yale affair, with Erni Quigley, the National League umpire, a second in command. Vic Schwartz an
 Fred Murphy will also help run th game
 : Six stars of Princeton's "Big Three football champions will be lost by grad
 uation. Jack Cleaves, who was the bi gun in Princetons attack last Saturda 1 against Yale, is one of those who wi make his exit. Tommy Thomson How'd
 Gray and Captain Dickinson will @ their dip oInas in June. There, howeve
 still remains material from which 1
 build another eleven next year.
 Bill Ryan, the Giant pitcher Is fo
 lowing Frank Frisch into matrimony. 0
 Thanksgiving Day in Worcester, Mass
 Wilfred will be married to Miss Ann E Helena Reidy, Pat Sea, whom, the Giant Q sent first to Indianapolis and then if San Francisco, has come back home I Holyoke, Mass. to also take to himse Q wife, and then he will go back { d California
 = Jimmy C1abby, formerly of Norwi, - and veteran western middleweight vi .s IS still more than able to hold his ov al with any of the topnotchers has beC l. signed to meet Denver Tommy Comi -o key in a twelve-round decision conte | to be staged at Denver on Friday nigf To The men agreed to weigh in at | ,e pounds at o'clock the day of the CD
 test.
 Dave Shade, recognized as Mick Walkers most dangerous contender, VI ~ has challenged Jack Britton's conquer to a champion match, has been match
 with Jimmy Kelly, the Bronx welte d weight and well known here, for bo
 to be staged at the Commonwealth ell
 of New York on December as. Sha
 and Kelly had 1t out last year at t
 same club in a sizziing encounter. se A Belgian. team and an Italian col he bination were added recently to the a
 nual December six-day bicycle race 4 Madison Square Garden, on Dec, B. 1 ar phonse Spiessens, a member of the 1 Is nous Belgian Bearcat' combinat;
 last year, will ride with Marcel Eye
 man, a new Belgian rider. The Itali r. team will be Anthony Oliveri and Fra n- cisco Gay, Eyckman and Gay will
 making their first appearances in
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