Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 31, 1909, Page 3

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INSURARNGCE Nerwich Union Fire Insurance Society, u. s, ; Asoots §2,759,422.10 Westorn Assurance Co. U. 8, Assate §2.397,608.00. declld THE OFFICE OF WM. F. HILL Real Estate and Fire Insurance, is jocated In Somers’ Block, over C. M. ‘Williams, Room 9, third floor. feblda ‘Telephone 147. BROWN & PERKINS, Atoreys-at-Law over First K Nat. Bank, Shetucket St Entrance Stairway to Thames Nat. Bank Tel. 38 urday evenings. The Thames National Bank oct29d Norwich, Conn., Dec. 24, 1909. next The annual meeting of the Stockhold- | ers of this Bank, for the eleotion of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may legally come be- fore them, is hereby called to be held at their Banking House, on Tuesday, January 11, 1910, at 11 o'clock a. m., from which place said meeting will be immediately adjourned to meet at the Directors’ Room of the Norwich Sav- ings Society, at 11.30 a. m. for the transaction of the aforesaid business. CHARLES W. GALE, dec24d Cashier. The United States Finishing Co. 320 Broadway, New York, Dec. 16, 1909. Goupons No. 11, due Jan. 1, 1910, on eonsolidated mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonde of this company, will be paid at the office of The Trust Company of America, 37 Wall Street, New York Ofty. Coupons Ne. 17, due Jan. 1, 1910, on first mortgage § per cent. bonds of The Sterling Dyeing and Finishing Com- pamy, will be pald at the office of The Trust Company of America, 37 Wall Street, New York City. F. 8. JEROMBE, ‘Treasurer. The United States Finishing Co. 320 Broadway, New York, Dec. 16, 1909, Preferred Stock Dividend No. 42. The Board of Directors have this day declared the regular quarterly dividend of one and three-quarters per cent. (1% per cent.) upon the Preferred Stock of this company, pavable Jan. 1, 1910, to Stockholders of record at the close of business Dec. 20, 1909. Common Stock Dividend No. 4, The Board of Directors have this day declared a dividend of one per cent. (1 per cent.) upon the Common Stock of thiz company, )u.yslbk Jan. 1, 1910, to Stockholders of record at the close of business Dec. 20, 1909. F. 8. JEROME, declsd Treasurer. JOSEPH BRADFORD, Book Binder. Blank Books NMade and Ruled to Order, 108 BROADWAY. Telephone 252 decliid oct10d WHEN you wani to put your busi- ness before the put there 1s 710 me- dium better thar tarough the advertis- ing columns cf The Bullstin | ‘tournaments to by | needs of the government loans which | riod. Larned In Front Ranks of Tennis Ratings Arg lssued—Californians Are Not in First Five— Hack the Day. and Alexander \ New Yqrk, Pec. 30.—The -annual ranking 6f the lawn tennis players of the United Statés for the past season was issued today. Willlam A. Larned, the national champion, again stands at the top, in a class by himself. < As to the remainder of the list, the work of the ranking committee—Dr. P. B. Hawk, University of Illinois, Ur- 111, chairman; Beals C. Wright, ind <. F. Watson, Jr., Orange, N. J—was a surprise, although in its main features, the singles list, always the most important, is regarded as the best that has ever been tabulated. The unexpected happened when Wal- lace F. Johnson, University of Pennsy] nia, found himself in third place. That he richly deserved his position was the opinion of the experts, yet the two Californians, M.. E. McLoughlin and M. H. Long, because of their posi- tions on the Davis international cup team, were regarded as being sure of a rating within the first five. Instead, . W. Niles, Hs rd, and R. D., Lit- tle complete the small but honored group at the top. McLoughlin and Long, it is said, hardly accomplished sufficient work to entitled them to- higher ranking. H. H. Hackett and F. B. Alexander, national champions, lead the doubles. s challengers, M. E. McLoughlin and G. J. Janes follow, with the Harvard pair, Niles and Dabney, next. In some quarters there is a feeling ‘that this arrangement has worked an injustice smuch as many believed that T. R. and W. C. Grant won sufficlent lift them into third place. Altogether 93 players were ranked in | singles. — 0 Matches Young Allen With Wilkerson. Bill Collins has matched his protege, Kid Wilkerson, of Lowell, Mass., for a six round go with Young Allen of this city, provided the Norwich boy can make 133 pounds. Allen has accepted the proposition and believes he can come down to the mark that he must make to meet Wilkerson. The boys are to go on as a preliminary at Westerly the second Wednesday In January, when Col 8 ed to meet Rog- ers, a FFall River wrestler, who chal- lenged him through .The Bulletin. For the benefit of Buck Falvey of New London, whom he challenged some time ago, Young Allen states that he is still prepared to back up First in Doubles—Sports of this challenge and can be ready for Falvey any time after January 15. 3 Basketball Challenge. Neil Crowley, who has been selected as manager for the Second basketball team at the Central Athletic club, trot- tde his squad out on the floor Thurs- day evening for a tryout against a picked team calléd the Heavyweights. The Seconds more than made good, as they had the Heavyweights on the run all the way, leading them 2 to 0 at the end of the first half and beating them 8 to 6 at the finish. The lineup of the winners was: Bren- nan ¢, Pitzgerald lg, Simcox rg, Connell rf, Crowley If. Carroll sub. Friswell was referee. Simcox shot a pair of baskets. Fitzgerald and Connell got one each. Manager Crowley wore a broad smile after the game and announced that he was ready to meet teams that wanted games, and would like to hear from Taftville or Jewett City. Uphold Athletes’ Susnension. Following the recent action of the Military Athletic league of Pennsyl- vania in suspending Melvin W. Shep- pard and Willlam J. Hayes, the regis- tration committee of the Atlantic di- vision of the Amateur Athletic union has decided to uphold the suspension. Chairman Chadwick at once notified the Metropolitan division of the Ama- teur Athletic union and the national board of registration of the action taken. The men failed to compete in a military athletic meet in Pennsylva- nia after having agreed,+it is alleged, ta enter the petition, Business Men at Basketball. The basketball team of the afternoon business men’s class has picked Wil- liam Frisbie as its manager and he is dating up a few matches for the five. He has written to the New London as- sociation for a game with the business men's class there. SPORTS 3 -I2 Trophy Presented to Ty Cobb. The George Honeyboy Evans trophy was presented to Ty Cobb Tuesday night at Augusta, Ga., at the opera house, for being champion batsman of the world for 1909. An immense throng packed the building to see the presentation. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL STOCK MARKET CHEERFUL > At the Drawing to a Close of the Year —Active Maney Market. New York, Dec, 30.—The drawing of the year towards it close was marked characteristic developments in financial markets today. Preparations for the unprecedented disbursements | of interest and dividend payments in January went forward more actively | today, and the restriction of money supplies which resulted in the stock market kept operations there under re- straint. There wag enough desire man- ifest to break through this restraint to depict the sentiment of hopefulness and satisfaction on the part of secur- ity holders and to color the tone of the whole market. The 7 per cent. raté touched for call loans marked a new high rate for the present year, comparing with the ¢ per cent. maximum on several former occa- slons. The comparison, if carried be- yond the present year, marks a very moderate degree of stringency for the season, which hag had a higher rate in every year but two in at least a decade. Last * December, when but 41-2 per cent. was reached for call loans, the country was just emerging from its period of industrial and fina- cial depression, and demand for com- mercial credits was at a minimum. The same was true in lessef degree in 1904, when 5 per cent, represented the hizh quotation. At the other extreme rras the 125 per cent. rate of December, 1905, when speculation in the itock market was rampant and refused’fo re- gard the imperative rvecall of credits from London which had been advanced earlier in the season in furtherance of the spéculative campaign. not only is the present condition one of compara- ive ease, but a supposition is fostered that marked relaxation is to occur after the turn of the year. The course of discount rates in foreign money mar- kets and the weakness of the foreign exchange market as well as the easy e money market give supposition. TIts certainty is not altogether conceded by bankers, who point to the heavy requirements for corporation financing which haye to™be met with the new year. The will have to be made both in Englan and in this country are to be comldcr?T ed also. In the cheerful spirit prevailing in the stock market today there was a disposition to make a favorable inter- pretation even of the active money market. The heavy disbursements are pointed to as evidence of large profits to be distributed, and the large bond issueg in prospect are looked upon as signg of the opnortunities for produ tive enterprise. Suggestions of chances for dividend increases are sufficiently numerous to keep alive this confidence. The resumption of dividends on Pitts- burg Coal preferred after a suspension since 1905 aws the case in point today, although that stock dropped back from | the extreme advance which has occur- red in_anticipation. Further returns of railroad earnings | for November continued the favorable | showing of the nct return for that p The tightness of the money mar- | Jet conduced to the special favor shown | towards low priced stocks, owing to the | smaller amounts required to carry the stocks of those securities with commis- sion houses. This cl of securities was stimulated also by the gpecial de- mand in evidence for thé Wabash | group, carried an impression of deter- mined accumulation and kept alive conjectures of special developments in progress regarding those properties. There was a_certain amount of re- alizing going on in stocks in which past Telephone 901. DOMINIGK & DOMINICK Established 1870 Members of the New York Stock Exchange BONDS AND INVESTMENT SECURITIES Orders executed in Stocks and Bonds, Grain anq Cotton Yerwe* Chapman Building, 67 Broadway FRANK 0. MOSES, Manager speculation has been active, and this kept the price movement irregular. Bonds were firm. Total sales, par value, $4,279.000. = United States fours coupon advanced 1-4 per cent. on call. STOCKS. Sales. Hig 600 Allis Chalemrs ptd 34890 Amal. “Copper 100 Am. Cotton OII . Hide by 1% 6% 37 % 11 % t ] 500 Atlanti Co 2800 Baltimore & Ohilo. ——— Do. pfd ..... 400 Bothiehem ~Steel . 900 Brooklyn Rapld Trai 1900 Canadian Pacific . 16490 c-m:xflu.u;u # 100 Chicago & Alton. 3800 Chicago Great We 1800 Chicaso & X. W. & South 400 Do. 1st pfd 100 Do. 2d pfd 11200 Consolidated Gas . 1600 Products 700 Do. ptd 900 Distillers” 2500 Erle ... % | with his left. Harvester. Inter Marine pfd . 100 International Paper 1400 International Pump 1000 Jowa Central .... 00 M., . & 8. 1200 Missourd Pacific $100 Mo., Kan. & Ter. Pl ... National Biscuit . $100 Pennsylvania 3500 Peoples Gas ....... 900 Pittsburg, C. C. & 300 Pressed Steel Car ——— Pullman Palace Cai 1100 Pittsburg Coal ...... 600 Rtailway Steel Spring. 1400 800 St i 1%00 1000 12800 11300 . 8. &1 outhern Pacific . thern Rallway 90 Tennessee Copper . 900 o, 100 T e -2 ted States Tiealty. e st G pid '™ Mary! A Western Unlon . 2700 Wheeling & L. Frle. Y% 100 Wisconsin Central . 49% 700 Am. Stecl .. 64% Total sales, 679,900 COTTON. New TYork, Dec. 30.—Cotton spot closed quiet, 20 points higher; mid- dling uplands 16.15, middling gulf 16.40. Futures closed steady. Closing bids. December 15,78, January 15.79, Febru- ary 15.94, March 16.10, April 16.23, May , June 16.30, July 16.40, August , September 14.79, October 13.99. MONEY. New York, Dec. 30.—Money on call strong and higher; 41-2@7 per cent, ruling rate 6, last loan 41-2, closing bid 41-2, offered at 41-2. Time loans easier sixty days 41-2 per cent., ninety days 4 1-2, six months 4 N N MARKET. High Low. Close nsy 119 n% sy 11 15-16 112% 111% 112y ° 102 102% 101% 102 82% 63 6 . 2% 67 6% 66 15-18 8% 6% 6% Fiorida, Valencia,” Graj California, 3 3 tor Al&}e-— Parsnips, esflfl. 35-50| Parsley, Baldwins, Sples|Cabba Greeni Beets, bafrel $3.50|Sweet Potatoes, Pineapples, 15-35|String Beans, Grapefruit, -15 2 gts. New Figs 20{ Potatoes, 20 New Dates, 10{Squashes, Alligator Pears, 35{Onions— Pomegranates, Red, 5-10| Yellow, 25| White, 40| Turnips, 90 Meats, Connecticut Pork—|Inside Rounds, Roasts, 18|3houlder Steaks, 14 Chops, Shoulders, ams. Western Pork— Spareribs, ‘hops, Shoulders, Smoked Hams, 16 to 25 Smoked Shoulders; Smoked Tongues, | Shoulders, short cut, 22| Native Veal— Dried Beef, Legs, b Corned Beef, 16/ Chaps, 16 Porterhouse 'Steak,| Shoulders, 2 28| Sausage, 14-16 Sirloin, 25 Poultry. X Faney R. L Ducks Fowl, 22 Phila. Chickens, 30| Vermont or west- \Native Chickens, 25 _ern, frozen, 2 Broilers, $1.25-$1.50| Squabs, 37 | | ’l-lg Canlifiower, 15 Spinach, 20 Hothouse Strawberries, 20 15| Western Legs, 17| Shotiders, Cnops. 16{Native Lamb— 16| Less. 14| Chops, Shoulders, Western Veal— mb— e 14-16 10 18 Phila. Capons, 35|Native Turkeys, 35 Guinea Chickens, $L75 Grocerijes. Sugar— Granulated. 17 1bs. $1 Brown, 18 1bs. $1 Cutloaf. 13 Ib. $1 Powdered, 14 I’hl. Molasses— Porto Rico, gal. 50 N. Orlgnns gal. 60 Maple Syrup, 2| hr(;tl e, P 42 25 Kerosene oil.13@15 Fixh. 10 30| Phila. Turkeys, 32 Butter— Tub, new, Creamery, 44 ‘heese— Boy Dat b ng. Dalry, 25 Sage, 23] Edam, 9%-$1.50 Camenbert, 35 Bges. local, doz. 45 Pickies, gallon, 75 Honey, comb 22 Vinegar, gal. Market Cod, Of S. Haddoek, 8-16/ Steak Pollock, 10 Am. Sardines, 5@15 Sayaines, 25 Oysters, qt.. 40-50 Boneless C0d,10@15 Weakfish, Blackfish, Brand, box. 60 Bluefish, Spanish Mackerel, R. Clams, pk. 70 Round Clams, op. q Canned Salmon, . 2 for Lobsters— Live, Boiled, Steak Cod, Flounders, Impt. 25| Na Stockfish, 5 King Mackerelp 18 Kippered herring, doz., 60 Hay, Gral No.-1 Wheat, $2.20 Bran, 1.40] Middiings, Straw, cwt., Bread' Flour, 5 d Feed. Cornmeal. cwt., $1.50 $1.40|Hay, baled, $1.10 top, $1.10 Provender. 0 . $7.5 cwt., $1.65 St. Louis, $6.90|Cottonsed Meal. Rye. 5| Lin. Oll Meal, $1.90 Corn, bushel, cwt., $1.85 !2“6 Oats, bush., 55! JOHNSON IS PUZZLED. Fears Corbett Will Teach Jeffries An- other Style of Defense. Heavyweight Champion Jack John- son, although taking a temporary rest from theatrical engagements, is using his time to good advantage by renew- ing old acquaintances and looking over some property in Chicago which he | expects to purchase with the proceeds | of his fight with Jeffries on July 4. 1 Fearing that Jeffrles will change his fighting position from a crouch, the | champion says he is trying to figure out just what positiont Jeffries will as- sume when the fight starts. Realizing Corbett's judgment of fighters, Jack fears the ex-champion will teach Jef- % | fries another style of defense which | will 'make it harder for him to land | effeciively. Jack admitted that he had figured |out a style of attack which would en- | able him to land some punishing blows " | if Jeffries assumed the crouching posi- Ition. Just what this attack was he would not say, but he intimated the { fight would not last long if Jeffries | fights him as he did the other men he has met. The fact is admitted by the cham- { pion that he uses his right to good ad- | vantage whenever the occasion arises, | but he claims he can hit just as hard He also aserts he has | not met a fighter in the last four years | who has forced him to extend himself, | He says when he fought Tommy Burns | and Stanley Ketchel he had the feeling that the people thought he was a big, | powerful fellow and ought to whip | fighters who were smaller in every way. He said he was content to go along, spar and exchange wallops with his opponents until he found a good c?unue to put over one of his fayorite blows. NELSON’S FOUR FIGHTS. | The Battler Will Be Busy Man in the 1 Next Two Months. Battling Nelson’s latest statement is to the effect that he has agreed to take part in four glove contests in the next two months that will net mearly 1 $23,000. he has accepted an offer of a $12,000 guarantee to fight 45 He % | rounds with Ad Wolgast before Pro- { moter Sid Hester’s club in San Fran- cisco in February; that he has agreed | to take $7,500 for a 10 round bout with Dick Hyland in Kansas City at a time t to be named, and that he will box nknowns” at Saginaw on Jan. 4 and | at_Madison, Wis., on Jan. §. | Nelson . to state how Hester can pull off a 45 round bout in Friseco when | a city ordinance forbids more than 20 | rounds there. In view of the fact that | Hester made a newspaper offer of $75,- 000 for the Jeffries-Johnson fight and then failed to put in a bid with a $5,000 forfeit, it is believed that Nelson is bluffing for the purpose of forcing Promoter McCarey of Los Angeles to come through with a $13,000 guarantee | for the proposed bout with Wolgast, Meanwhile Nelson is paying no at- tention to Owen Moran, the English pugilist, who has just challenged him to fight for the lightweight champion- ship of the world, and is also ignoring % the various propositions made to him by Freddie Welsh. To a man up a tree \TI 3 SHARE OF PURSE. Counted Out Probably ‘Last Time—Not Much Class to Opendnts ol ' a trifle more than $5,000 which will come In nicely just now the an- cient Robert Fitzsimmons was beaten in to a state of insensibility Bill ng, a second rate heavyweight, at ydney, N. S. W., the other day. ‘When Fitzsimmons consci- ousness he burst into tears, while the crowd cheered him wildly for his pluck. He declared that old age was to blame his undoing, and that he would ne¥er fight in. It had been planned to pit the old fellow against Squires and even Burns, but it is probable that there will be nothing further doing in this line. Although Fitzsimmons, who is nearly 48 years old, showed a flash of his!old 1 and was e to the core, the end came in the twelfth round. In days ofgold when Fitzsimmons was a world’s champion he would probably have disposed of Lang in a couple of rounds, and the fact that the freckled pugilist managed to stay a dozen rounds in the mill appears to be excel- lent proof of the inferior quality of his antagonist. GIBSON’S CATCHING RECORD. Friends of Jim McGuire Dispute Claim to First Honor, but Pittsburg Man Has More Supporters. Friends of Jim McGuire, now man- ager of the Cleveland club, claim thelr man is entitled to consideration for the honor of catching consccative games. George Gibson’s rooters figure that the record of 150 games male by Gibsn last season has never been beaten, According to the official. re ords for ths National league in 1875, McGuire caught in 132 of the 133 games Washington played. . Teams n those days were supposed to play 132 games. Washington played 128 decis- ive games and five more draws, mak ing a total of 133. The box scores of 1895 say that MecGuire caught in 1 games. It is apparently an established fact that in one game in which Me- Guire made his debut as a shor:stop he had previously heen eatching. McGuire did wonderful work thet year with Washington, but not as gool as Gibson the past year when he ured in 150 games. All told, Gibson caught 141 full games and part of 5 | nine others. But if games wete throwa 51out of consideration when a player had a substitute in the closing mo- ments, it would be found that neither Gibson nor McGuire caught 100 con- secutive games. Working along that basis, Gibson’s greatest stretch would have been 40 and McGuire's 42. On May 5 last year, Paddy O'Connor, t! old Springfield player. took Gibson's place for his only full game. Simon, another Pittsburg catcher. played in the ‘games of July 2. August 3, 9 and 12 and September 20, 29 and 30, anl October 3, Gibson laid off on May 5 ‘because of a collision Chance. In the games from which he withdrew Pittsburg always had a com- manding lead when the change catch- er_went in. Undoubtedly Gibson’s stunt of catch- ing 150 contests for the Pirates last season was better than McGuire’s trick of doing backstop duty for the Wash- | ington team of 1895 in either 132 er 133 games. In the old days the wind- paddist did not go up behind the bat uniess there were men on the bases or the count was two and two on the bat- ter, The spitball was unknown then, too. The baseball public will readily believe that Gibson last season was a_ harder-worked individual than Jim McGuire was in 1895, but there will be many members of the fgn colony to support~the deacon in his conten- tion that he has as good a right to the National league record for catch- ing consecutive games as the Pirate receiver. TED COY'S ELEVEN. Walter Camp Thinks the . Players Could Have Coached the oCachers. Walter Camp, Yale’s football guide and athletic director, discusses in the Yale Alumni Weekly how. Ted Coy's eleven was developed, and brings up the question whether Coy’s winning team could beat Lee McClung's and Gordon Brown’s famous elevens. He ridicules the idea set up in some quarters that the Yale eleven might have been coached from the side lines, claiming that could have coached its coachers. Part of his statement follows: ? “To the old question that has fur- nished food for many a winter night's football discussion, there has been added a new one., Formerly it was, Could Gordon Brown's eleven beat Lee McClung’s? Now there is added the new on€, Could Ted Coy's beat either or both? The same quality that made McClung’s team of the old days so great made the team of 1909 Strong and that was poise, individual self- reliance, and that, too, a self-reliance based upon knowledge. In that re- spect Coy's team, taking all its com- ponent parts with the substitutes in- cluded, was ahead of the team of Lee MecClung. That aggregation of McClung’s ‘knew all that was neces- sary for them to know, but this team had to know more on account of the infinitely greater variety of rules. To think of strings being pulled for this team by the coaches from the side lines in the big game is indeed ridiculous, That is not the way Yale makes her elevens, and, win or lose, she stands to it. and Coy and Howe demonstrated this. “This team in that game could have coached its coachers. and they went to work just as all Yale men do, de- pénding upon the quarter and captain. Harvard has been playing a mighty good game of football, and the Yale team knew it. Harvard had certain marked weaknesses which had been printed in every newspaper, and It did not take any clairvoyance on the part ‘of Yale to know these weak- nesses, Harvard had certain strength which Yale knew equally well. Yale also was under the impression that Harvard knew even more about Yale than Yale did about Harvard.” it Mighty Five vs. C. A. Cls. A basketball game for Friday night at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium was ar- ranged for on Tuesday evening be- tween Manager Benjamin Bruce of the p?imwe. but will have weight and height C. A. C! The lineups n the Y. M. C, A. five. for the C. A, C. will ullivan ‘e, Riordan rf, Kearns M, ihgn rg, Slattery and Shufis. ‘The Mighty Five will play their usual team’ PRES. TAFT'S SISTER-IN-LAW BUYS PHILA, BALL GROUNDS. Gives 99 Lear Lease to National Leagud Team. Philadelphi: Dec. 30.—Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, sister-in-law of President Taft,_and the wife of Charles P. Taft 1 of Cincinnati, is the néw owner of the Philadelphia National league baseball grounds. The deed and lease for the propert ywere filed in City hall late today, and show that Mrs. Taft, and not her husband, has the title to the grounds John 1. Rogers and A. J. Reach, the former owners of the grounds, trans- ferred the title this afternoon. Charles #. Murphy, president of the Chicago National league club, represented the purchaser, who was announced as| Charles P. Taft. The purchase price | was not given, but the papers filed in the recorder of deeds’ office show that the price was $250,000. The Philadel- phia National ‘League baseball club is glven a lease on the grounds for 99| years, with the privilege of buying the plot at the expiration of twenty years. TUCKEY DROPPED. Naugatuck Boy Will Not Be With lh'{ Boston Nationals This Season. Tom Tuckey, the Naugatuck boy, ! who pitched many seasons for the| New Haven State league baseball | team, and was drawted by the Boston | | Nationals from Meriden in 1908, after |a season with Norwich, is booked to| retarn to the minor league. Boston | has asked for waivers on “Tuck.,” and | | it seems that none of the big league j teams care to take him on. Tom went to the National league with Frank | with bells on. He met with great| ccess as soon as he landed with the { Boston team along the close of the | meason of 1908. FHe won most of the games and received some flatte ing | press notices all over the circuit. Of | course, he was held for the next sea- son and looked upon as the mainsteay of the Boston team. But somehow or| other Tuckey went to the bad last sea- | on. He couldn't | manage to win a| game, and was soon turned over to the Lynn club of the New Enzlnnd; league. - Tom pitched strong ball in New England league company, and ft looks as if he will either hit the New { England or Connecticut league for the | coming season. | BETTER SPORT CONDITIONS. A. A. U. President Looks for Develop- ment of International Idea. New York, Dec. 30.—~Harmony out of discord, a more compact ;organization {out of disruption, and a neéw national and international birth for sport is what James E. Sullivansformer presi- dent of the A. A. U, believes the future holds in store for sport in general. Mr, Sullivan in his review of the general situation was not only opti- mistic over American sports, but was confident that the international idea would develop rather than to recede. “Up to the present, however,” he #ald, “the function of the international | board has been merely to declde upon the date and place for the Olympic games, leaving the actual control of the annual events to the board of whatever country 1s conducting the games. We must hdve, and shall have, some day, an international board of full | control, h international rules and regulations. Alteriations Completed at C. A. C. Rooms. Under the direction of Joe Desmond, to whom this work was turned over, the change in the arrangement of the | Central Athletic club rooms, to accom- modate the winter sports, has now been completed.. Thns provides one room for the apparatus work and an- other especially for basketball. This game is all the rage in the club now. Desmond has been hustling to get it all In shapé in time for theh smoker next week, when the hasketball flends | will have a chance to show thelr speed | and other departments of sports will be on the programme. Recently the mem- bers have been enjoying a Chrismas tree In the shape of a five pound box of | candy provided for them through the good will of Druggist H. B. Smith. Penn Won the Needed Game. New York, Dec. 30.—Pennsylvania won the eleventh annual chess tourney between two students each from Brown, Cornell and the University of Psnnsylvania. Pennsylvania took the one necessary game from Brown. Cor- nell won two games in the final round, one from Pennsylvania and the other from Brown. Pennsylvania gets the championship and the trophy donated by Prof. Isaac L. Rice of this city, Phillies Secure Three Players. Philadelphia, Dec, 30.—The Philadel phia National league baseball club nounced today that it h cured the | following players: Pitchers Humphries of Grand Rapids, Mich, and McBride of East Liverpool, O. and Infielder Walsh of South Bend, Tnd. Three clubs were after Humphries and on the dpaw the Philadelphia club won. Challenges Soldier Basketballists. The athletic committee of the Cen- | tral Athletic club—Luke Riley, Tim | Flelds and Jack McGibney—has chosen Joe Desmond for manag ketball tcam. Manager lenges the Third Co, Coast team to a game at an early date. Nelson-Hyland Match Canceled. Kansas City, Mo, Dec. 30.—Battiing Nelson will not be able to meet Dick Hyland in a boxing contest here until February. This cancels the proposed | mateh, as Hyland cannot be here.at | that time. To Throw Out First Ball. ! President Thomas J. Lynch has ac- | cepted the invitation of Charles H. Ebbets, president of the Superbas, to! throw out the first ball at the open- ing of the season at Washinzton park, Brooklyn. probably on April 14. Unexcelled freight and m]}'.o'””“ ‘:"Ild trom New York Al taid, terooms, “Norwich Tuesdays, Thursdays, M‘Aym!?‘l!da it § p. m. s, al i?hanc or’ write &' folder, Freight received untll § p m may4d 10 NEW YORK NORWICH LINE The water way — thé comfortable way of traveling. Steamers City of Lowell and New Hampshire — safe, «taunch vessels that have every comfort und conven- lence for the traveler. A deiightful voyage on Long Isiand Sound and a superb view of the wor- derful skyline and waterfront of New York. Steamer leaves New London at 11 p m. weekdays oply; due Pler foot of East 22d St 545 a. m. (Mondays ¢ .- cepted) and Pler 40, North River, 7 Fare Norwich 1o New York $1.75 Write or telephone W. J. PHILLIPA Agent, New-London. 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