Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1916, Page 3

El INSURANCE The Best Christmas Present A #A man can make his wife, / is to : AETNA-IZE against sickness and acoi- dent. Write or call ATHROP & SONS Shetucket Street J Xmas tree fires are remarkably fre- quent—make certain that your prop- erty is PROPERLY and FULLY In- sured by seeing US TODAY. ISSAC S. JONES, Insurance and Real Estate Agent Richards’ Building 91 Main St. BURGLARY INSURANCE —IN— The -Travelers Insurance Co. B. P. LEARNED & CO. Agency Established May, 1846. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Mivmeys-at-Law Erown & i’erkins, Over Uncas Nat. Bank. Sbetucket St Entrance Nationsl Bani. stairway near to <Thames Telephone 38-3. The South Shore Country Ciub, of Chicago, Ill, will stage the Grand American Trapshooting tournament— the blue ribbon event of the trapshoot- ing world—in 1917. This will be the eighteenth running the famous han- dicap, and it will be the fifth time that Chicago has been honored with the event. Several weeks ago we predicted that the 1917 Grand American would be held in Chicago, and we are gald that our prediction came true. Right at this time Chicago has more to offer than any other city. and at this particular time the Interstate Association for the Encouragement of Trapshooting feels that more good can be done for trap- shooting by having the event held in Chicago than anywhere else. It was a pleasant surprise to the »fficers of the Interstate Association to aave five cities bidding for the “trap- shooters world’s series.” In the years gone by one or two cities usually put In a bid, but this time there was keen competition for every one of the sub- sidiary handicaps ,as well as the Grand Amercan. The competition is the best proof of the great interest the sporting public has in trapshooting. The Chicago Interurban League of Gun Clubs was an applicant for the tournament, too, and the league officers announced it would support the South Shore club in its effort to make this the greatest trapshooting tournament of all time, that there was no dissen- sion in the ranks of the Chicago trag shooters, The Interurban league want- ed to stage the event at Grant park, where the classic of 1915 was hald. The other bidders were the Indianap- olis Gun club, the Park Gun club of Kunsag City, *Mo., and the Toledo Power Boat Gun club of Toledo, O. When a decision was reached that 16 or more traps would be needed for the 1917 tournament Indianapolis with- drew its application, their offer being five traps. Three times has Indian- S been favored with the Grand n Handicap, and on a five-trap no doubt would have Ame competition landed it in 1917. The South Shore Country club is seven miles from the heart of Chicaxo, on Lake Michigan, adjoining Jackson park. It has a membership of more than 2,000, is the wealthiest and most beautiful country club in America, and promised the Interstate association that they would spare no expense in making the 1917 classic the greatest trapshooting event the shooting frater- nity has ever attended. The club 1as 1€,000 feet of lake front, and the tar- gets will be thrown over the waters of Lake Michigan, which will give the frapshooters a sky background. During the week of the tournament the coun- try club will hrow its doors open to the general public. So much interest was centered in the 1917 tournaments that mayors, presi- dents of the Chahmber of Commerce, tourists’ bureaus, comrmercial clubs and boards of trades of several of the interested citles appeared before the Interstate association and urged tha selection of their cities. They aH look upon the trapshooting tournaments as city boosters, because of the class ¢f| 11700 Central me nand women they attract. Cities have awakened to the merits of trap- shooting as a business as well as a sporting proposition. St. Josephs, Mo, was awarded the Western Handicap over the gun clubs of Omaba, Neb., Waterloo, -La, the Badger Gun club -of Milwaukee, Wis., the Toledo Power Boat Gun club of Toledo, the Park Gun club of Kansas City, Mo., and the Starved Rock Gun club of Salle, 111 Hartford Gun club_of Hartford, Conn., will stage the Eastern Handi- sap. The Southern will be staged by he Roanoke Gun club of Roanoke, Va. ‘and the Pacific Coast Handiap oy the San Jose Gun club of San Jose, “al. .The . Riverside Gun club of 3! ester, N. Y, and the Oriole Gun lub of Baltimore, Md., were the other applicants for “the”Eastern Handicap, ind the Los Angeles- Gun club of Los 1, and the Spokane Gun e,, Wash,, were ‘the pplicants for the Pacific coast nent Memphis Gun club of Tenn., offered to take the Handicap if no other club for it. #*rand American Handicap 1ged in St. Louis, Mo., and iary handicaps were held in " ja, Pa., Memphis, Tenn., La. Neb., and Portland, Ore. They + all successful, had more shootars an ever before, and the gensral that the year of 1917 will be ever. . Ivoryton—-George H: Blake & Co. jave sold their ice business to J. R. Wood, who will take charge on Jan- wry 1, 1917 . For the first time in nine years an all. European won the six day cyele race at Garden Saturday night when Oscar Egg.and Marcel Dupuy, the Swiss-French combination, finished a lap ahead of the remainder of the field. The grind wound up in a semsational climax, the foreign pair lapping their rivals only two and a half hours before the conclusion of the struggle, and breaking a six cornered tie for first plate. Twenty sprints were crowded into the concluding hour. Throughout Egg and Dupuy were content with holding their lap advantage and ned us- ually in the rear. The fight for sec- ond place resolved itself into a duel between Root and Madden and Mc- Namara and Spears, the former gain- ing a commanding lead by winning seven of the first thirteen sprints. Root and Madden finished second in the race with a total of 69 1-2 points; Spears and McNamara, third, with 88 points; Kalser and Cameron, fourth, with 108 points; Hill and Drobach, fifth, with 116 1-2 points; Debaetes and Walthour, sixth, with 12). The riders covered 2,624 miles and 4 laps in the race. ‘With the end of the six day race in sight Egg and Marcel Dupuy, Swiss-French team, threw Madison Square Garden into an uproar last night by catching the other riders of the field asleep and gaining a lap in one of the most sensational sprints of the week. The incident, coming at a time when it appeared almost certain that the race would end with six teams tied for the lead in the matter SATURDAY’S MARKET Two Hour Session Was Dull on Ac- count of Approaching Holidays. New York, Dec. 23.—In striking con- crast to the heavy and excited trading of the last few days, the two hour session of the stock market today was jull, with the comparatively meager .urnover of but 500,000 shares. Dealings were curtailed largely in consequence of the approaching holi- days. Operations were almost entirely limited to professional traders intent upon leaving a ‘“clean slate” in the present juncture of uncertainty. Irregular changes at the opening were almost immediately followed by recessions of 1 to 3 points, particuiarly in the previous day's rebound, U. S. Steel fluctuated between 107 3-4 and 105 3-8, closing at 103 1-S, a loss of 1 point. Bethlehem Steel made an extreme decline of 14 points, with 1 to_3 for related issues. Metals were more unsteady than other prominent shares, losing 1 to al- most 3 points, although Central Lea- ther and American Hide and Leather yielded as much, with motors and oils, while Industrial Alcohol virtually made good its extreme loss of over 2 points. Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies was about the only stock to display pro- nounced strength at a gross gain of al- most 10 points, the movement being thé more noteworthy becau: of the irregularity of Mercantile Marines. Some utilities also were firm to strons. People’s Gas of Chicago rising 2 1-2 points. The bank statement reflected only a mild way the extraordinary moaey movements of the week, induced chief- ly by the enormous liquidation. The nominal increase in actual loans and the slight cash loss were at utter var- lance with forecasts, but these items are likely to undergo further correc- tion next week. The moderate con- traction of reserves leaves actual ex- FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL EGE-DUPUY TEAM WINS BIKE RACE| Swiss-French Riders Took the Lead at 8:20 O’Clock and Late ’Ififlig'gsggn One package Soviots Foillid to Displace: Thot— Tty Suiie 0| PT T CoontaNGlempmm: of miles and laps covered, fairly stunl ned the other cyclists, who been _conserving their strength for the final ‘hour’s point sprint. ~ The other five leading teams pro- tested vigorously that Egg and Dupuy had picked each other up illegally dur- ing the wild dash, but the officials re- fused to allow the protest. The earn- ed lap placed the Swiss-French team in the lead and made it practically cer- tain that they would Teturned the ‘winners. It was at twenty minutes past eight ©o’clock when the sensation of the week occurred. The riders had just finished a mile sprint for a $50 prize offered by one of the spectators and had slowed down after their strenuous ef- fort. Apparently the plodding -grind was to be resumed, but suddenly cut of the group of riders, crouched over his handlebars, 'Egg shot out at full speed. He was thirty yards in front almost before the others realized what was happening. Most of them were just about to be relieved by their team mates and were caught wholly unpre- pared. Four more circuits of the track had been made, Dupuy picking upshis partner when nearly half a lap ahead. He sprinted furious for three laps and then Egg took up the wild das hagdin. Again “Reggie” McNamara, upon whom most of the riders usually re- lied to catch any ambitious rider, had spent his speed in winning the mile sprint for the special prize and his 'strength failed him at ' the critical time. Slowly but surely Egg crept up on the field. At a mile and a quarter the 200 1300 Maxwell M Co Maxwell 3 1 pr . Maxwell M 2 pr Mex Pet 5 Mami C Mo.. Mo " Pacile Mo Pacific Pac w 1 Biscult 100 1200 o, Nat Ontarlo Owens Pacific_ Mall Penn R Peoples G Philadelphia. Silver Bottle 1 Rochuck Shattuck A. South Pacific South Ry d Twin Clity R. T. Union Pacfic Union Pac pf U Cigar Stores cess reserves at about $90.000,300. Bonds were steady on limited trad- ing. Total sales (par value) aggre- gated $1,320,000. United States bonds were unchanged on call during the week. STOCKS 100 Adv. Rumley 600 Balt 3 200 Balt & Ohlo pr. 100 Barrett Co_ . 300 Can Pacifc . Leather 300 Chandler Motor 600 Ches & Ohio . 200 Chie & Alton 2700 Chino Con Cop 00 Cluett Peabody 00 Col Fuel ~&lIron 5190 Col Gaa & Electrle 100 Domes_ Mines 1200 Dist Securities 100 Trie 1600 Erle 15t pr 800 Inter Con pr 100 Int Har of N 00 190 Jemell Tes Kansas City 8 Utah Sec Comp Ya Car Chem Wabash .. Wabash pr A Wabash_pr B Wells Farzo Westinghouse W&LEwW WL &oprwi White Motor < lthe Canal Zone offered every facility ‘Absolutely group. came into sight of the flying Swiss rider. In another quarter of a mile he Lad only twenty yards to gain the coveted prize. After finishing the fifteenth lap of the sprint Egg accom- plished his task. Eddie Root was the last to hold out against Egg’s sprint, but he too had to finally acknowledge defeat. For ten minutes following the Gar- den was a. veritable bedlam. = From arena boxes to tlie roof the spectators were on their feet cheering madly. Then they waited anxiously the offi- cial announcement. Many of those who had been ‘“rooting” for Egg and Dupuy were in fear lest the lap be de- nied them because of some technical- ity. When the announcement nna.ly came that the lap was allowed the deafening cheers broke out with .re- newed vigor, and the foreign riders were surprised to discover that they had more friends in the crowd than they had thought. It was announced that in the event of the -race ending with the teams in the same relative position the point scores would only break the tie for second prize among the five tearas that were then one lap behind Egg Dupuy. These were McNamara Spears, Root and Madden, Hill Drobach, Kaiser and Cameron ‘Walthour and Debaetes. Among these five Root and Madden held the point advantage ,having been charged with only 11 1-2 points for the first five nights’ gsprinting. ~McNamara and Spears had 13 points, Hill and Dro- bach_21 1-2, Kaiser and Cameron 27 and Walthour and Debaetes 30. Shortly ‘ after half-past nine o'clock Hill and Drobach made several des- perate attempts to iap the field. Then i Root and Madder made a similar ef- fort. Each time Egg and Dupuy set after them and caught the leaders, carrying the rest along. From that | iime on Egg and Dupuy wfire never permitted to rest for any length of time. They were kept sprinting every few minutes. On severa] occasions the foreigners appeared to be pocketed as the sprints began, but their speed car- ried them to the front. Root and Mad- den were warned twice by the officials for rough riding. ‘Whe nthe final hour’s sprinting be- gan only Egg and Dupuy and the five teams -tied for second place remained on the track. All that was necessary for Egg and Dupuy to do to clinch the victory was to keep up with the other for the remainder of the race. . Before the first sprint Les Darey, the Australian champion pugilist, was introduced to the crowd and received a tremendous ovation. PANAMA ZONE AS TRAINING CAMP .FOR BIG LEAGUE NINES Has Every Facility for Spring Train- ing—Easy of Access. New York, Dec. 24—A prominent baseball authority who recentiy re- turned from a tour of inspection of the Panama Canal Zone is enthusiastic over the possibilities of that section as a spring training camp for big leazue ball teams.- At the request of the Panama Chamber of Commerce 1 studed the proposition from every angle and reached the conclusion that for modern baseball training that is found anywhere within the State and some that are usually missing. The temperature ranges from 71 to 93 degrees with an average of 83 Qur: ing the months of February, Marc and April and there is little, if any, rain during the period when the ball tossers would be unlimbering for the pennant races of the succeeding sea son. The trip from this city can be made in six days and the return to New Orleans in five. It has been sug- gested that after a two weeks’' wi at Panama the team could retu way of Havana and New Orleans play- ing exhibition games in both cities be- fore starting to work their way north by the usual returning routes. On the Isthmus there is every fa- cility for baseball training and the ac- companying gate reciepts that go to lighten the financial outlay for these necessary preparatory trips. At Bal- boa, on the Pacific coast side, there is a new and scientifically contsructed diamond with "a grandstand seating 3,000 spectators, recently erected at a cost of $25,000. At Empire, the gov- erhment military camp , and Colon 800 Willys Over 100 Wisconsln Cen Total sales 480,400 shares. % MONEY. New York, Dec. 23.—Mercantile pa- per 4@4 1-4; sterling, 60 day bills, 4.71 1-4; commercial 60 day bills on banks, 4.71; commercial 60 day bills 4.70 3-4 cables 4.75 3-8; demand 4.76 3-8 francs, demand 5.84 cables, 5.83 marks, demand 72" 1-4; . cables, 72 1-2; kronen, demand 12: cables 13 1-4; guilders, demand, 40 3-4;.cables 40 7-8; lires, demand 6.90; cabies 6.89; rubles, demand 30 1-2; cables 30 3-4. Bar silver 75 3-4. Mexican dollars 5§ 3-8. Government bonds steady; rail- road bonds firm. : COTTON. * New York, Dec. 23.—Cotton futures opened firm. Jan. 16.2 Mar. 16.61; May 16.88: July 17.0 Oct. 15.46. New York, Dec. 2: Cotton futures closed firm Jan. 16 March 16.96; May 17.23; July 17.30; Oct. 15.98. Spot quiet, middling 16.75. * LIVE STOCK MARKET. New York, Dec. 22—Beeves—Rq 1,848 head, 23 cars on sale. Steer:‘l;;’:: ed a trifle irm, closed dull and weak. Bulls and cows generally steady clos- ing quiet. Some late arrivals would probably be heid over. Common to prime steers sold at $7.40@10 per 100 Ibs.; oxen at $6.25, bull at $6@7.25: two_ choice fed at $8@8.50, cows ~ at $3.75@7.25, dressed beef steady at lxld@u 1-2¢ for city dressed native sides. Calves.—Receipts 633 head; 42 sale. Market steady. (,\zmmonz utg prime veals sold at $10&15 per 100 Ibs., culls at $9, Ohic fed and Indiana calves at $6.50@9.00. Dressed calves steady for city dressed veals at 18@22c, coun. try dressed wea kat 16Z20c. Sheep and lambs—Receipts 1,940 head: 6 cars Sheep quiet and feeling easier, lambs very dull and unevenly lower. Common to good sheep sold at $6.00@8.00 per 100 Ibs., culls at $5. Ordinary to fairly prime lambs at $11.75@13.25; dressed lambs easier at 17@18 1-2c; dressed mutton dull at 11414 1-2¢, couniry dressed hothouse lambs steady at $11@12 T carcass. Hogs—Receipts 1,507 head; very few on sale. Market firm, closing higher. Light to medium weights sold at $10.25 @70.75 per 100 1bs,, roughs $9.25. Coun- try dressed hogs steady at 12@1t 1-2c, roasting pigs at 15@20c. Chicago, Dec. 22—Hogs were firm and from 5@15c higher; cattle werc strong and sheep m%“- Cattle—Receipts 8,000 head. Native butchers $5.76@8.7! canners $4 230 10; cutters $5.15@5.70; heifers $5:9 ;! calves $4.50@11.15. : Sheep _and lambs—Receipts 50,000 . earlings $7@11.25; wethers $3.50@10; lambs $9.256@13.35. Hogs—Receipts 30,000 head. Mixed and butchers $9.85@10.05; light $3.50.@ 10.10; heavy $9.95@10.40; pigs $7.35@ 9.35; bulk $9.90@10.35. 2 there are other diamonds sufficiently fast and true for practice work. More than 10,000 troops are quartered at Empire and there an equal number of American civilians in the Canal Zone to draw from as spectators. There are twd legues playing ball there at the present. time and teams from these leagues could be drafted for exhibition gams. The Panama Canal Zone League plays a series of Sunday contests during the season and the Twilight League has a schedule of about 140 games. All this information will be laid be- fore the major league magnates in the near future and an effort made to se- cure one or more clubs to try.out the possibilities of the Zone during the Spring of 1918. Acting Governor Chester Harding, Generad Edwards, President -Valdes of the .Republic of Panama and Governor Arcia of Colon are all ardent sponsors of the plan and have assured the ball players a warm ‘welcome and every comfort and atten- tion should any of the big league clubs decide to train at Panama. DARTMOUTH ANNOUNCES FOOTBALL 'SCHEDULE FOR 1917 Ten Games on Green and White's List—Four Big Teams do Not Ap- pear. Hanover, N. H., Dec. 24—The Dart- mouth college football schedule for 1917, announced tonight ,includes the following games. . Sept. 22, New Hampshire College at Hanover; Sept. 29, Colby at Hanover; October 6, Springfield Y. M. C. A. Col- = S Tfll ilm |hi| il IE;:”E!”!MH ! E il ail ber 28 are the following add: Major Palme r E. Pierce, U. S. College Athietics as Related to tional Preparedness; Prof. Raymond G. Gettell, Amherst College, The Value CHAVATH’S RECORD STANDS Inut, UNSURPASSED IN NAT. LEAGUE;I“,"m? but he also made his share of runs en other fieids. Next to the delphia cigar box the Polc |Grounds was Cravath's favorite home Cravath Drives Out 81 Home Runs in 3 1 s run setting, and during the past five of Football; R. Tait \Iglflenz:g, . Five years there seldom was a time that M. C,, Prof. of Physical Education, Cravath visited Gotham without iversity of Pennsylva meeting in New and Remaking of a Fighting M periences in the British army). ports of Special Committees: On the Effects of Intercollegiate Athletics, Dr. J. H. McCurdy, chairman; Dr. Roz 1. Lee, Harvard University, The of Harvard Oarsmen; Dr. Phillips, Amherst College,’ Conditions _in Intercollegiat. t: Dr. Edgar Fauver, Wesleyan Univers- ity, The Health of Ethical Problems in Intercollegiate Sport. The recent league Yori witnessed a lot of manipulating and dickering. which never the surface while in none more inleresting than of Pat Moran, the silent manager of |in 1912 the Phillies, to fill the pla g nitter, Cactus Cravath, who has p: out of big league baseball. pumping at least one souvenir ball in- to the ri field grand stand at the came to | Brush Stadium. | th’s feat is all the more note? as he was far past the recruit en the Phillies purchased him and he was not considered a or until he made a pinch home off Matty in 1913 while batting or o pitcher. During the 1908 and 1908 Il give ou Good for Schulte” |seasons Cravath was up in the Amer- said Pat ¢ Jimmy €allanan of the Pi- |ican league and wert from Boston to tes. “I' know you will, but I don’t|Chicago to ngton before he was want Good. Fut as you are a fellow 'sent minors. During his citizen_of Fitchburg I'll help you out, | erican league Cra- Pat. You can have Schulte, and I'll ittle ability, hitting talle Whitted or Stock. 1 and 164 at appealed to some friends to hold him his hands, so he would not lose his C temper. All of which is interesting, but what GIBBONS WILLING TO MEET LES DARCY AT NEW ORLEANS Offers to Fight for $15000 at Mardi Gras in the Gulf City. 5 les- in the ays to keep hustling. avath could hardly be comeback, as he Gid not real- »until 1912 . New Orleans, La., Dec. 24—A local ght promoter telegraphed to Les| Darcy, the Austrailan middieweight, now in America ,an offr to fight Mike Gibbons here for a purse of $i5,000. Gibbons, it was stated, was ready to sign articles. One of the conditions is | t gardener | n wanted us's shoes, as hitter ha *hiladelphia and t hereafter all h v g will be done in the more sa lubious climate of his native state, Californ: Schulte to iebr: week in February next. Reply #o Geroux Challenge. Sporting Editér: In rep! challenge Arthur Geroux, wrestler, Taftville, I wish to state that Homer | Monte will accept the sweepi lenge he made in Tuesday’s Conditions, winner take. all. promote the bout in any place suitable to Geroux about January 1st, 1917.. I await his reply in Tuesday’s Bulletin— George H. Monte. s AA minor league President Bar- rod of the International League is of the opinion that the present agitation vill bring about reform in the present rafting system which <wili greatiy benefit not only the Class AA minort |but the minors all the way down the line. “There are many objectionable fea- tures of the present drafting method hich I believe the commission will said Barrow the other day “For instance, the big leagues nave been in the habit of drafting clubs in- {stead of players. We would have.them, ‘put in drafts only for players if they |cannot see their way clear to elimmat, | the ¢ ly. For instance, a big {league ciub does not draft a Newark {played, but the Newark club. That gives them the privilege of selecting |any plaver on the entire Newark team But what I want stopped is tke ruthless drafting by some big league clubs. Some clubs have at times. put lin as many as twetry-five drafts and then cancelled all but two or three. It |the commission prohibits cancellatior iof drafts and prevents clubs from trading it would be a big step for the ‘umxft of minor league conditions.” nz; sojourn with more home runs in five years than any other player has ever knocked out in the major leagues in a similar. period since the real early days when scores | ran all the way to 100 runs and over per game. Cravath came to Philadelphia in 1912 and during the next five seasons he drove out 81 home runs, an gverage of almost 17 a season. Cravath started ith 11 home runs in 1912, jumped to 19 in 1913, repeated with 19 in 1914, reached his top figure of 24 in the Philadelphia pennant year, 1915, and receded to his 1912 figure last season, : Baker, Schulte, Wagner, Harry Da- is. Seybold, Crawford and other fa long distance hitters have never approached the five year figure which Cravath set up during his stay in Philadelph The short fences in the Philadelphia _ park unquestionably helped swell Cravath’s home run out- th hit Games Wanted. The Atlas Basketball team of Hart- ford, who last year went through the season without being defeated, would like to arrange a game with fast teams in Norwich or vicinity. For games ad- dress E. Pendervile, 27 Seymour St., Hartford, Conn. Hartford—Brigadier William A. An- drews and Mrs. Andrews of the Sal- vation Army will celebrate their sil- ver wedding anniversary Jan. 9. They ‘were married in Chaths New Bruns- wick, on Christmas da: 891. lege at Hanover; Oct. 13, Massachu- setts Agricultural College at Hanover; October 20, West Virginia University at Hanover; October 27, Princeton at Princeton; Novermber 3, Pennsylvania State College at Hanover; November 10, University of Pennsylvania at Bos- ton; November 17, Tufts at Man- chester, N. H.; November 24, Brown University at Springfield. Of the teams played this year, Bos- ton College, Lebanon Valley, George- town and Syracuse do not appear on the new schedule, their places being | filled by Colby, the champion of the| Maine Colleges, Springfleld Y. M. C. A. College, expert in the use of the for- ward pess, Pennsylvania State, which will play a Dartmouth team for the first time, and Brown, which will meet llts old rival for the first time since NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ASSO. MEETS IN N. Y. DEC. Number of Noted QMIQN Wil Ad- | on Collegiate Sport. dress Mesting : ects which will be. fhe cioveats National Col tion to be hel