Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 3

"NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915 INSURANCE SAFE IT'S GOOOD POLICY to place your INSURANCE with an agency that writes the most FARM IN- SURANCE of any Eastern Con- necticut agency, representing the three Strongest Mutual Companies in the State. S AND SONS dJ. L. Lathrop 28 Shetucket St. . By you shou L uerty protected again: ure. First: An Insurance Policy a little com- pared with the protection it affords. Second: Fires break sut in a night in the most unlooked for places. Third: It is the best investment of a sr_nall amount of money you can possibly have, and will add greally to your Yale's Great Footbail Player Dies L “Tom” Shevlin Passes Away at His Home in Minneapolis Wednesday After Six Days’ Iliness of Pneumonia— Work With Yale Team Left System Exposed. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 20.—Thomas: credited with the record of never hav- L. Shevlin, millionaire lumberman and Yale football coach, died at 7 today of pneumonia. with the malady six days ago after being weakened by overwork and ex- posure in drilling the Yale team this fall. a. m. He was stricken At the close of the Yale season Mr. Shevlin went to California to recuper- ate. Wednesday. developed. Last night four physiciaas of the Twin Cities gave up hope saving him and summoned a specialist from Chicago, who made the trip on a special train in record breaking time. He returned to his home here last On Thursday pneumonia of Shevlin ranked as one of the great- est players the gridiron game ever produced, and his love for his alma mater was so great that he really gave up his life to serve it in its hour of need. Shevlin captained the 1907 Yale team and then after graduation went intc the lumber business in the west. inow | In 1910, when the Yale team wa peace of mind and comfort to know |In 1910, £ E el that you are sufficiently protected in|to pieces. a call was sent for “Old this important matter. Reliable Tom,” and he answered it by rushing to New Haven, whipping the ISAAC S. JONES Insurance and Real Estate Agent Richards Building, 91 Main Street teem into : Frirceton and tie Harvard shape and en: g it to beat season, when the Yale team tloundering in the mire of defeat, vlin was called upon to serve his ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW college, and he answered that call. = He wo.ked day and night in his at- AMOS A. BROWNING, tempts to develop the material into . y chsmpionship calibre. He surprised Attorney-at-Law, 3 Richard’s Blds. 'Phone 700 Brown & Perkins, Aiomeys-at-law Over Uncas Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. Entrance _stairway near to Thames National Bank. Telephone 38-3. a NO FUSS ABOUT PLAYERS. President Tener Pleased Over Outcome | of Peace Meeting. | President John K. Tener of the Na- tional league has returned to his of- fice for the first time since the peace agreement was singed in Cincinnati | last week, and expressed himself as| greatly pleased over the outcome of the negotiations. President Tener said he believed baseball in 1915 would en- joy the greatest season the game ha ever known. both from a plaving standpoint and from that of attend- 1832, ing from Pottstown, In 19¢9 he married F = athietics, ta the football world when his rejuvenat- ed_outfit beat Princeton. Shevlin was born_in Minneapolis in He went to Yale after graduat- Hill school. beth Sherley, Kentucl Shevlin's 000,000, v belle. estate His w ust a few months ago S a $1,000,000 insurance policy omas Leonard Shevlin wa ;s the most popul duate. He was the son of Thomas hevlin of Minneapolis, the m who died born . and pr He ale examinal ntered in 19 cvlin began to dis ance. baceball and foo President Tener explained that there|to captain the would be little or no trouble in the ! season of 1 He was chosen by Wal- distribution of the Federal league|ter Camp as the Al i for players. They were all declared eligi- | tiree suc n was ble, and the Federal league will as- ing his end circled by his opponents during his three years as Yale end. As ar undergraduate Shevlin went inio everything with an enthusiasm WEich was characteristic of him: in Coilege, whether in sports of New \m!{ student life, in which he fig- uted largely. It was said of him that tlere was nothing in college life that Shevlin did not get out of it. He Wwas said to have spent more money thar any student in Yale, his expen- itures for ome year amounting to $17,000. But although Shevlin was so lavish in spending, he was known to have helped many a deserving class- matc and many owe their college de- grees to the generosity of the popular Yale athlete from Minnesota. FRANK HINKEY TELLS OF SHEVLIN'S PROWESS the Whitest, Squarest of Men | Have Known.” “One of New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29.—Frank Hinkey, head coach of the Yale elev en, who develop>d Shevlin into one the greatst of Yale ends, paid the fol- lowing tribute to his former pupi _ “The news of Tom Shevlin's death is a great shock to me. He was among the greatest plavers, the best ccaches and_ the finest captains who cver handled the pigskin for Yale. ¥ bad an almost inhuman power of instiling the fighting, do-or-die spirit into Lis men. Tom was one of the whitest, squarest men 1 have known. There were few in New Haven who knew him as I did and I feel his loss keenly. WILLARD-FULTON FIGHT DEFINITELY DECLARED OFF. Jones and Burns Disagree—May Take Place Feb. 22 in Milwaukee. Orleans, Dec. fight for the heavyweight cham- ip, scheduled for March 4 in v, between Jess Willard and “ulton of Minnesota, was defi- clared off here late today by Jones, Willard’s manager, and my Burns, local promoter, who ~—The twent; 1 promoting the fight. disagreement between Jones and rus over the latter's insistence that ton meet some other first class iter before the Willard match wised the cancellation. Jones said to- Lt there was a strong probability Willard and Fulton would fight for |n | to sume responsibility for their contracts. The adjustment of their salaries will be a question for the clubs themselves to decide. The question as to whether the Fed- eral league players will be let out of the circuit to which they belong with- out first asking waivers from the other | clubs will be decided by the National ! iomm!ss!an at Cincinnati on Janua'ry; Al: Over the World— almost from pole to pole, in practically every country, there is but one beverage upon the excellency of which all agree— Bass Ale On Draught and in Bottle Everywhere w Special Pin-Casks (5 gallons), for family use on draught at home, from any dealer or jobber. BASS & CO., Importers, 90 Warren St, N. Y. Frederick T. Bunce Expert Piano and Player Piano Tuning and Repairing Scratched or marred cases restored | to original finish { 32 FRANKIN ST. *hone 1214-3 Norwich, Conn. The Thames National Bank Norwich, Conn., Dec. 22, 1915 The annval meeting of the stock- 1olders of this bank, for the election it directors and the transaction of uch other business as may legally ome before them, is hereby called to 'e held at their banking house on tuesday, Jen. 11, 1916 at 11 o’clock a. o CHARLES W. GALE, Cashier THE AETNA. BOWLING. BILLIARDS. MAJESTIC BUILDING. 7 Alleys. @ Tables. Bulletin Pointers iend Your Laundry to Rogers Domestic Laundry nd get ono vote for every penny in | e Great Library Contest. Telephone 914 DR. C. B. ELDRED DENTIST 4 Broadway, Central Building Telephone 341-3 B M. A. BARBER, Machinist and Engineer. S Engine Ren-irs. b FHERE 18 MO £CTCIIBIAZ mecrum In Jastern Cunnecticut equal to 1he Eui- Ain fer hnsiness reautta, i Acute Political fety over the fore! tu Britain, together with tation for served as a check to day. ment also as a of equipment by the railway optimistic forecast of steel trade thorities. of the market, followed by rallies, in which conspicuous. leading rails inclined to St. Paul proving the m ception on its rise of 1 3 prior to the publication of November earnings, disclosing a_net $2,000,000. Canadian Pacific responsive to that road’s remarkable exhibit, a net gain of $3,710,000, Erie first and second preferred hard- ened on announcement of the terms of the new converiible bond issue. lar course, General Motors losing 19 at 474, and Bethiehem while war descriptions were points lower. forward in the final hour, age gains of 2 to 3 points wise the list showed little Total sales amounted to 400,000 s new low price of much conjecture as to the principal sources of the selling. Offerin shadowed all other features bond list, one lot of bznds at 94 immediatel ing the new minimum. issue aggregated $£2,000,000, 4. but Austrian and Russia; agaln approached since the war. Adams FPxpress Alaska Gold Alaska. Alts-Chal_ctfs Allis Chalmers pf am. im! e Amer Am. Am. Am. Am. A Ansconda Cop L. Atchison, T. & S F ... Atehison, T. & S F pf Baldwin’ Loco Bult. & Ohio Batopilas Min Bethlchem St. . Brooklyn Raplr Brunswick Imp Rutte &Sup Cop . Butterlek = B. F. Goodrich California Pet. . California Pet pt Canadian Pac Centrul Leather Ches & F MARKET WAS DULL. Conditions Served as Check to Speculation. New York, Dec. 29.—Increased anx- tion, par- ticularly the Austrian outlook and the acute political conditions in Great new low Anglo-French specu Trading suffered some result of the hich interrupted communication with the this center. Adverse developments were partly nullified, however, by others of a highly constructive character, such as additional record-breaking November railway earnings, the further strength of exchange on London, heavy buying and the au- Heaviness prevailed at the opening spasmodic ties were most ted States Steel and lower lev notable e: U increase was un- of but Specialties later pursued an irregu- Steel 10 at 460, 1 b % Ofl shares were brought The fall in Anglo-French fiv 93 7-S occ ¢ e . touch. Sales of tr Demand bills on London rose 73 8-4, with s steadiness in francs, remittances lowest rates quoted to Bonds as a whole reflected the heav- iness of the Anglo-French issue. Total sajes, par value, aggregated $4,650,000. United States bonds were unchanged on call. STOCKS. Juneau Car & Foundry Car & Foundry pt'. Coal Prod Coal Pr pt Express Tee Secur Locomotive Locomo pt Sm. & Re Sm. & Re pf Sec S pf (A) . St. Foundry Sugar Ret Tel & Tel Tobaces Woolen Woolen ctfs. Wool ctt pt Siinc Tr rus Bros Ohlo .. Western: & Co. & 3 Ca Kansas Kan City So pf Lack Steel Laclede Lake Lake E & W pf Lehigh Valley . t & Myers Lorillard ey Muxwell Motor Maxwell Motor pf Missourl Pac Missouri Pac ct 157 100% Pitt Copper Co. & Ace Baz & P pf . n Pacific Puc pt Willss 0'lanc Wisconsin Cen Woolworth New York, Dec. 29.—Cotton futures clcsed barely steady. January 11.98, March 12 May 12.46, July 12,61, Oc- tober . Spot quiet; middling 12.20. MONEY. New York, Dec. 29. — Call money firmer; high 2 1- low 1 1-2: ruling rate 2; last loan 2 1-4; closing bid 21 offered at 2 1-4. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. WHEAT Open. Wigh. Low. Closs. Dec. 123% 1203 May 125% 122% July 6% 14% TORN: Dee. R 1 partner of Dominick J. Tortorich | tge championship in Milwaukee Feb. Arrouncement was made by Tor- tcrich and Burns on Dec. 11 that they had Ccecided to iry to substitute Frank Moran of Pittsburgh for Fulton in thd match with Willard. A few days later Jcaes announced he was willing to take over the Willard-Fuiton agreement and stgo the fight here as originally ar- ranged, excepting that Wiilard should take a percentage of the receipts in- stead of a $32,500 purse. Jcnes arrived today from Chicago and conferred with Burns inan en- deavor to settle the hitch over the match. Announcement of the cancel lat:on followed. Jones said he would noc agree to Fulton's meeting another fighter before he fought the champion and insisted that Willard would fight Fulton before taking on any other chailenger. Jones showed a telegram from T. S. Ancrews of Milwaukee offering Wil- lard $25,000 for a ten round champion- ship match with Fulton in Milwaukee Feb. 22. Unless a better offer is re- celved, Jones said he will accept An- drews’ proposition. Burns telegraphed to Frank Moran's marager at New York late today of- ferlog Moran $7,500 for a fisht here w.tl. Willard. Jones said if Moran ac- sted and if suitable terms for Wil- lard could be arranged, the champion weuld meet Moran in New Orleans on March 4 or 6. The agreement for a twenty round cnampionship bout here in March be- tweer. Willard and an opponent to be sclected by the local promoters by Dec. 16 was signed Nov. 2. A month later the promoters announced that Fuiton had been selected as Willard' orpenent. Fulton was signed in Chi- <&go for the match on Dec. 15. I 1216 MAY BE SOME YEAR FOR SPORTS. Great Upset Predicted in Coming Ath- letic Season. bankrupt, and the under dogs of ath- let will perch on the pyre ruined some lively happenings land should win the v &hip in baseball and declare a dividend of 28 per cent. Yale will win the in- tercollegiate baseball championship Walter Camp will pick 11 players f the East for his All-American team, exclusive of coAches. Harvard will pre duce 1 crew that can beat Yale on the Thames. Olin Downes will be the ama- teur tennis champion. Writers Will All Agree. in 1916. Cleve- 1d's champion- the topmost lightweight honors, ters will all agree in a boxing de- on. played in Cleveland and St In connection with the ticket distribu- tion and the to an orphan asylum. Charley race previous to Oct. 1. Percy D. Haughton will agree to number his football players and Dart mouth will get a place on the Harvard foothall schedule. A block of 50,004 tickets to the Yale-Harvard game be sold to the general public, with 10 per cent. off the face price for Restaurant keeper: not raise the prices on their menu at the time of the big football game. All the New York, New Haven & Hartford trains will be on time. Eddie Plank Will Retire. Bennie Kauff will quit giving inter- views to newspaper men and Connie Mack will pay an average of more than $6 each for plavers. Dave Fultz and the Players’ league will enter no protest against the slavery and servi- tude of ball players and Ty Cobb will quit writing for the newspaper syndi- cates. Eddie Plank will retire from baseball and Jim Thorpe will be able to hit a curve ball world’s serfes games will not go into vaudeville. No foreign wrestlers will take part in the mat programme excepting those hose names can tey Spears will be coxswain of the Dartmouth varsity crew. News- paper men will be welcomed at secret football practive at Harvard. Yon've got a great chance to shine In sport annals, 1916; go to It. NEW YORK YANKS AFTER FEDERAL LEAGUE STARS. Bids For Zwilling, Flack, Fisher, Allen and Knetzer. ‘That the Yankees are sparing no ex- pense in their efforts to build up an has become further aparent rvious Federal notch talent. On top of their efforts to land Frank Baker and Lee Magee, the Yanks yesterday opened negotiations another sextet of capable performers. President Ruppert wired Charley Weeghman of the new Cub-Whales to give him a price on Archer and Bill Fischer and Outfield- ers Zwlilling and Flack, should any of the quartet be on the market. Fischer - i§ the former Brooklyn catcher, who has improved a great deal since he has been given more work. Zwilling was drafted by the Braves when he jumped, and Flack is strictly a Federal League develop- League camps for top taken over by Organized Baseball. Archer, of course, never was with the Federals, but Ruppert put in a bid for him in the event that Tinker would stand pat on Fischer and Art Wilson, Ruppert also wired to Gwinner, of the Pittsburgh Federals, for a price on three players. including a pair of former Dodger pitghers, Baron Elmer Knetzer and Frank Allen, Both of these boxmen did good work for Pitts- burgh, though Allen never amounted to much in Brooklyn. l SPORTING NOTES. Richmond hopes to keep its berth in the International league. Red Sox will meet Brooklyn instead of the Cincinnati Reds next season. nd m Bat Nelson will come back and grab Tom Jones will spend $10 in a_contribution charity and the New York sporting | When the world's series games are Louis there will not be a whisper of scandal National commission will | turn its share o fthe gate receipts over | bets | will admite that Brooklyn is out of the 1 | the winter days every h. in New Haven will be pronounced. | American League winner in New York | when | President Jacob Ruppert wired the va- for | Catchers Jim | ment and one of the best players to be | who did the catching on the Whales. | lnelden a hard ryp for a regular po- | sition. President Baum of the Pacific Coast Leayue thinks the Feds are to be left holding the bag. Boston, Chicago and New York were the best baseball cities in the United Statee last season. Fred Beebe, star twirler with the Buffalo Internationals last season, will coach Indiana’s ball team next season. In McTighe, Princeton has one of the best basketball centers in the East. He is a fast floor worker and good shot. Although Mrs. Britton admits that baseball is a man's business, she is nevertheless reluctant to give up the zame. Pete Crompton, one of the latest of the Braves, is a benedict. He has married a Miss Fay Smither of Kan- sas City. Even with a losing team, football paid at Yale this year. It is estimat- ed that the Elis will receive $231,500 from the sale of tickets last fall. C. B. Ferguson, a former twirler for the Braves and Giants, has made good as a baseball coach at a medical school in the West where he is studving. Pitcher Hub Purdue has purchased a half interest in a cafe in Gallatin, Tenn. This is almost conclusive evi- dence of his carrying out his Intention to quit the game . Fielder Jones has a list of 59 players from which he will pick his team for next season's race. He will be an ex- perienced chopper when he gets through swinging the ax. Owrers of the Utica franchise of the New York state league may withdraw If the vear 1916 is going to be such|the club from the circuit. They say a wild baby as its immediate prede- | they are tired of digging into their cessor, 1815 by name, there are going ' pockets to amuse a few fans in Utica. to be some unseemly and unexpected R —— upsets in the widespread realms of | Boss Stallings is not satisfied with sport during the approaching 13|his outfield and he is in the market months. Sure-thing champions will | for outer gardeners. Sherrie Magee totter and sure-thing bettors will go!is probably the only fielder that will be kept on the Braves' list next year. hop N Ty € d some wealthy mer- Upset Things. chants e bought a plantation of 6.- The vear of 1915 has been an ob- avannah river in streperous one. The baby, when only rs will stock the a few months old, began upsetting|Plantation a it for private hunt- i and making good prospects |ing eround. like cheese. There wasn't a sure | i T— . thing in the world of sport during the| Joe Engle, former Washington course of the whole annum, and the|Pitcher, who was with the Minneapo- At b b of muscle-making | ISi club last season, comes to his home have not yet resained the poise that | town. Washing praising Bill Mor- was theirs in the ancient and more |ley, former H: tstop. who | slotious days. | played on the same club as Engie last If the newly-born babe of time is|Year the same unconventional rascal as his ' TR year-old brother. there are going to be| When Percy Haughton is ready to retire as football coach at Chariie Brickley will probably get the Hagvard, post. Brickley made good in his first vear as a coach at Johns Hopkins and has been re-engaged at an increase in ry. Frank Smith, former White pitcher, and last year with feds and Brookfeds has quit the game. He is working with the Pennsyivania railroad in Pitcaim and says it wants him to stay and run its ball club next summer, and he is thinking seriously of doing it. Sox The next amateur boxing ment at the New York Athletic Club will be held on January 6 and 8. A heavyweight event has been added to the classes, open only to those who have not won a first prize at the club. tourna- pound classes. Walter Johnson, Washington Ameri- can’s great slabman, declares he has taken on a little weight, but that will come off before the 1816 curtain fs yanked up. Johnson owns a large farm and considerable adjacent territory in Coffeyville, Kansas, where he spends ear. Dr. Carl Williams, the Penn strateg ist in football, puts much of the blame for Penn's poor record last fall. upon the folly of scheduling a green team to meet two such seasoned elevens as Pittsburgh and Penn State in_October. Bot hphysical condition and morale were ruined by such early games. Billy Bartin, former Georgetown athlete, who for two years has been a member of the Braves, has signed a contract with John McGraw's ew York Giants, and will go training with his club in Marlin, Tex., next spring. He is an aggressive player and stands an excellent chance to be one of Mc- Grew's regulars next season. Heroes of the —_ Jack Barry of the world’s champions says that Leo Frank of Dorchester, who will be a candidate for a position on the Holy Cross nine next seacon, is one of the best schoolboy performers he ha sseen in action. Fox is a fresh- man and if Barry is any judge of ball players, as he should be, another Holy Cross will go to the big leagues. The English racing calendar which has just been issued announces the coming af the steeplechase season at Gatwick next Saturday. The stewards is likely to give any of the Yankee|JUS TA LITTLE the Buf-| The other events will be 108, 115, 130- | BIT DRESSIER THAN HER SCHOOL COAT [GoinG visiTING l This child ha of striped velvet brown. plain with Ti lined coat tones of beits are of s the bonnet A warmly in two Collar, cuffs and brown vel its ti: is on aJnuary zs wiii_guide will do with and <es him over, no matt that to be paid. will & thi ment ed will whick of »f the con ich will start nd continue to the isher of Indianapolis challenge cup which t manent property of t ning it three tim will be event, The New the only is after but v as The Detroit d for Catcher ¢ as the rs have Bill Rarider Indian E and accord! dope, h not been get anp of the out ard from. F 3 baseball hool of O mound career amny former le and _amateur plavers, won every game on its sched- ule, and all claim tbat the old Bos- er was responsible for the howing of the team King Cole has announced his inten- ¥ tion to quit the game because of ill- health. If the Yankees succeed in obtain- ing Zwilling, the outfielder of the con- solidated National and Federal Chicago clubs, they will grab an outfielder that i Varna, reported to have been at- tacked and also reported to have been captured by a Russian force operating from Russia’'s Black Sea ports, is Bul- garia’s principal port on the Black Sea. Any considerable Russian force VARNA RUSSIAN OBJECTIVE BASE FOR ATTACK ON TEUTON-TURKISH LINE BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25¢ at all druggists. DR. A. J. SINAY Dentist Rooms 18-19 Alice Building, Norwich Phons 117i-3 New Styles Fall Millinery, MRS. G. P. STANTGN 62 Shetucket Street A full line of Goods suitable for NEW YEAR'’S GIFTS THE WM. 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