Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 3

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The sleeve may be finished with a deep cuff or in short length with & turnback cuff. The pattérn is cut in four sizes: 10, 13 Em. 14 years. 1t requites s L3 y;rdu of 44-inch material for a 12-year e. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in_silver or stamps. Order through he Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. PARISIAN COMMENT ON NEW GERMAN NOTE La Libertie Says It is a Trap in Which Allies Will Not Be Caught. ..Parils, Dec. 27, 10 5 m. — The newspapers today commeht freely on Germany’s reply to President Wilson’s note concerning peace. ANl of them ! affrm that it contains nothing not con- tained in the first communication of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg’s, the Ger- man imperial chancellor, except that it proposes a conference in some neu- tral capital. “Germany,” says the Temps, .Invites her adversaries to a conference with- out making to them any disclosure of what she proposes to say until their delegates surround the green cloth.” ‘The Temps then attacks in detail what it terms the systematic mendaci- ty of Dr. von sBethmann-Hollweg re- specting the origin of the war and al- leges that he changed the date of the note of Cout von Berchtold,-the Aus- trian foreign minister, of which the chancellor spoke recently in the reich- ®f The newspaper asserts that while Count von Bernstorft says one thing in the United States, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg says another in Germany and expresses the hope that ‘Washington will now be able to meas- ure ‘the sincerity of the German gov- ernment’s declaration. . “Germany desires peace, that is evi- Jent,” continued the Temps, “but it will be a German peace which she will tear from her adversaries by a ruse, not having the power to conquer by force. That is the significance of the manoeurvre which outlines itself more clearly every day.” La Liberte remarks that Germany received the American note December 22 and that hor reply had already left Berlin the 26th. “Never in the exchange of commu- nications with the government at Washington,’ says La Liberte, “has Wilhelmstrasse shown such celerity. In the period of ‘the torpedoing of the Lygitania Germany allowed entire months to pass without communicating to Mr. Wilson explanations embarras- sing gnd belated. * *_ *¢ 'The Ger- man note is -stlent on the essential point; it evades. that entirely. Our enpmy . declines to unmask her bat- teries. The trap is more evident than evér, but the alliés will not be caught.” BELL-ANS| - Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage provesit.. 25cat albdruggists, THE AKTNA BOWLIN AND BILLIARDS. R aieve les. The best Fight for National Junior Championship Drawing to a Close —BectTenmsPhmenderoneauonge in the " Country Are Competing—1900 Entries at the Opening . New York, Dec. 27.—The record field of 1900 competitors for the national junior - lawn tennis - championship singles .narrowed to sixteen survivors here today. Among'the best of the young players, under 20 years of Ase #aflrs:m B places, . were: mc’l °’ nis, ‘Yale, = ar 5. Goldinan, Brinceton, 16, b8 4, Willar@ Botsford, Co!umbia. who beat Paul Kerezy, Fordham, 6-2, 6-2 E. H. Hendrickson,.the. Ambherst. star, who defeated ' F. Dornh Philadel- phia, Penn' State boy champion, §-1, 6-0; H. B. O'Boyle, Georgetown, who beat Alvin Filer, 6-1, 6-0, ana’ <C. Warner, Lehigh university, who de- feated W, M. Warner, Hill school, Pottstown, 6-2, 6-0. The playing. of .Elliott H. Binzen, Fordham, the champion, was excel- lent. He had such speed and accur- acy that he easily outplayed F. Barrett, Newtown High School, 8-2, 6-1. Filer, whom O’Boyle defeated, created one of the upsets of the day by beating Fred Matthews of the Amherst team, 6-3, 6-8 and 9-7. B. M. ArnoMd, Jr., of Cateret acade- my, New ersey, worked a surprise by eliminating F. A. Middleditch, Prince- ton, 6-4, 6-0. Merritt Cutler of Pratt Institute, later defeated Arnold, 6-3, 6-4. Owing to stormy weather it was necc- essary to play the matches by electric light. T&s matches in the doubles was that in Which the Hipkins brothers of Yale defeated H. D. _ Kerezy and O’Boyle, Georgetown, 6-4, 6-4. 3 OPEN GOLF CHAMPION TO TEACH BATTING “FORM” Charles Evans, Jr, to Instruct Chica- go National Baseball Club Players. Chicago, Dec. 2T.—In announcing that Charles Evans, Jr., national ama- teur and open golf champion, is Roing to teaching batting “form” to the C cago National baseball club, Presi- dent Charles H. Weeghman said today that he believes BEvans will be able to improve the batting of every player on the team. “There is form in the driving of a golf ball,” he said, “but there is none in driving a baseball. Applying the form of golf to baseball was responsi- ble for the wonderful power of Frank Schulte and Heine. Zimmerman. It may be argued that Schulte knew nothing about golf, -but he uncon- sciously used the _same. swing.” Evans’ amateur standing will not be affected, it was-eXplained, as he will not receive any money for his services. He merely will be Mr. Weeghman’s guest on the spring train- ing trip to Pasadena, Calif. NOTED SCOTCH GOLFER NOT DEAD AS REPORTED James Braid Reported Billed in Train Accident. James Braid is not dead. At least the eminent Scotch golfer, who was reported as having been killed in a railroad accident a fortnight ago was not killed at all. He is very much alive and looking forward io coming tournaments not only in Great Brit- ain, but this country: THe ~ James Brai® who was killed was 4 profes- sional employed by the South Sea club, and, so far as known, no rela- tion to the James Braid who. with Ed ‘Wray, Harry Vardon, J. H. Taylor, and one or two others, stand out as the most famous exponents of the an- clent game. At all events the great Braid will have the pleasure of reading several hundred columns of obituary notices that have appeared in American news- papers and periodicals since the re- port of his death reached this country. Braid is a silent canny Scot, not with- out a sense of humor, so it may be imagined he will derive some enjoy- ment from the screeds of our goifing writers. Incidentally the news will come as a pleasurable shock to the legion of admirers of the great goifers on this side of the Atlantic. Wherever golf- ers congregate one of the chief topics of conversation recently have been as- sociated with his supposed death. For several years Americans have been looking forward anxiously to a visit from the altitudinous Scot who has always weakened at the eleventh hour in his intention of crossing the Atlan- tic, apparently unable to overcome his fear of the sea. A few months ago, however, Braid definitely announced his intention of coming here. He is still one of the most talked of professionals in the ‘world. His record showing that on MARKET WAS STEADY European Conditions Seemed to Have Little Direct Influence. New York, Dec. 27.—Trading in se- curities-today differed in no important essential from the preceding session, except that dealings.embraced, a larger number of issues, with gerater uni- formity of tone. European conditions seemed to exercise little direct in- fluence, but Mexican affairs contrib- uted to the reactionary tendencies of stocks whose interests are bound up in the destinies of that country. Absence of public inquiry, except in some of the investment stocks, tended greatly to curtail operations. Busi- ness during the intermediate session was attended by frequent intervals of absolute apathy, with occasional bear attacks upon the more volatile spe- cialties, particularly motors and allied issues. Mercantile Marines, weak features of the previous day, hardened visibly on circumstantial reports that Eng- land’s proposed control over shipping would not necessarily imply any change in the probable dividend action of the company. Other shipping stocks were strong, Atlantic, Gulf and ‘West Indies adding, at its best quo- tation, 4 1-4 points to yesterday's substantial gain. Industrials were in fair demand, | United States Steel making a' gross ladvance of 1 8-4, with 2 to 4 points ‘in others of the same class. Equip- men!s and metals also averaged 1 to 3 points, with sugars, papers and the usual less representative specialties. Papers were favorably influenced b: the increase in the dividend on In- ternational Paper preferred. Rails Con G 3 Consol Gas. Can Corn Prod pr Crucible Steel Cuba Cano Sugar Cuba Cane S pr 0 Den & Rio G Det Unit B R Dist_Sccurities Driggs S Ord or General Elect . General Motors pr. Gt North pr Greene C Cop Tllinois _Central Int Agricul Kansas Kelly S Tire Kennecott Lack Steel Laclede Gas - Lehigh Valley T.ce Rnb & Tire Toose Wiles Man_ Shirt Co- Maxwell M Co Maxwell M pr Maxwell M 2 pr Mex Petrol Miami__Copper 200 Mo., Kan & T suffered from further neglect during the forenoon, but_ strengthened later. Union Pacific, New York. Central, Southern Rallway and Rock Island leading that division. Prices receded very generally toward the close. Union Pacific was first among the important transportation systems to submit November returns, with net ecarnings showing a net gain of almost $800,000. Total sales of stocks aggre- gated 870,000 shares, United States Steel contributing more than its quota. There was a further shading of for- eign or international bonds, the Ang- lo-French 5's and Paris. 6's being - dis- tinctly heavy. Total sales, (par value) amounted to $3,345,000. U. S. bonds were unchanged on call. 'sTocks Sales. g 200 Adv Rumely 500 Alaska Juneau 2200 Allls Chalmers . 1500 Altis Chalmers r 100 Am & Ohio 400 Balt & Ohlo pr 200 Barrett Cp 100 Nerth North Pacific .. Ohio Citics Gas Owens oBttle M Amer Stutz Motor Tenn - Copper Texas & Pacific Texas Co ... Texas Co rts 1600 Wells Fargo 2600 West Mary 00 West Union Tel 2700 Westinghouse 5200 Willys Overland Total-sales 812,380 shares. MONEY New York, Dec. 27.—Call money steady; high 8 1-2; low 2 1-2; ruling rate 8; last loan 2 1- offered at 2°1-4; closing bid 2 1-; COTTON New York, Dec. 27.—Cotton futures closed steady. January 1720; March 1729; May 1788; July 1792; Octobér 1636. Spot quiet; middling 1735. CHICAGD GRAIN Open. High. 159 165% 69 73K 167% 173% K 19T% 9% 93°9-16 9% 91 9% 90% 3 81 leu th:.n tlve oounm—-om a perlpd blonstip T Brtatn” D]O of Great Bri T'he !u:t raid is still alive 'fl have no immediate effect on Ame golf. Not only Braid, but several of the oc.her leading _professional planned to come- here, but flnmy de- cided to der!er their trip until the end of the war. ' All the members, of the so-called “Pig Four,” while not on the firing line have been doing their part for England in the present war. Bvery few days they appear in ex- hibition matches, the proceeds derived "therefrom being turned over to the Red Cross, or similar bodies. PALACE BOWLING LEAGUE. Team 3 Takes Two Games From Team 1—Team 2 Loses Three Straight. | In the Palace League Wednesday night Team 2 took three games from Team 4in_a one sided game. Gris- wold was high man with 110. The| scores: Team No. 4. Carty . 94 87— 247 Stenson 81— 246 Murphy 84— 257 : Cilly - 70— 225 Fillmore 82— 269! 104 1240 83— 84— ¥ g1 Griswold 97— Hanifin 80— 2: 435 Zereski .. 1105 99 Lassome B S MecAllister gL 8T, Fanifin 81 94 Hagberk 87 87 455 441 Team No. 3. Maynard * 85 J. Clarke 38 Stinson 93 Mott . 92 £puthgate 116 474 437 139%0! MAGNATES FIND WAY i TO EVADE LIMIT LAW. National Commission May Grant “Special Dispensation” if ‘lInjuries Cut Too Deeply Into Lineup. As the recent National league meet- ing slips further and further into the dim and hazy, and the Tener magnates forget their vows of secrecy, many a stray fragment of the inside story of ! the gathering is finding its way into general circulation. The latest con- tribution to the “low-down” history of the assemblage has to do with the new 22-men limit rule, the abolition of the disability list and a cute little means whereby the club owners purpose to evade their provisions should occasion demand. As the limit rule now reads, it is without a single loophole. There can be no such juggling of players and eligibility lists as was possible under the old arrangement. During the so- called closed season each club can have 22 players at its disposal and no more—unless granted a special dispen- sation by the league. When it was proposed to abolish the disability list. a club whose re- serve list is pretty well burdened with players under war-time, no-release cop*: “ts wanted to know what alter- _—~ve to playing pitchers and catch- ers all over the place it would have if, by any chance, five or.six of its field- ers and outfielders were injured or in any other way incapacitated. “Suppose our entire infield and two of our outfielders were, through in- jury or illness, unable to play,” this | club argued. “With a 22-men limit in effect and no disabled list we would be unable to fill the gaps in our ranks ex- cept by playing pitchers and catchers in many of the wacant positions, for the very simple reason that we could | not sig mmore players without exceed- ing the legal limit, ur club would probably lose its every pennant chance right there and the entire league would suffer finan- cially, for nowhere are the fans so gullible that they would pay to see {such a team perform. This supposi- tion may seem a trifle far-fetched, but that a series of accidents which would cripple almost an entire club is not to be regarded as beyond the realms of reason was clearly demonstrated only last season, when the Yankees had eight of nine men laid up at one time.” “In that case” the protesting club was informed, “the league would grant a special dispensation which would permit you to sign as many players as you might need for as long a period as they might be required.” From which it would seem that the| National league has written into its rules a clause which may be violated any time the league deems it advisable to break it! TWENTY-SEVEN TRAPSHOOTING LEAGUES IN UNITED STATES They Are Scattered All Over the Coun- try and the List is s Being Augmented Each Year. By Peter P. Carney. In this great and glorious country of ours—the land—of the free and the home o fthe brave—-there are 27 thap- shooting leagues, and the trapshooters connected with these organizations could be massed into quite an army— and trapshooters are pretty fair shots. However, the idea of this article was to deal with trapshooting leagues—not with war or its prospects, We are not strong for that battlefield stuff. It is all right in the movies, but not in real life. There are some people more or less interested in sporting eents who thought that the only sport in which there were leagues was baseball. Such®i snot the .case, fair reader. Trapshooting leagues are all the rage these days. Go back a dozen vears and there was only one league—the mis- named Philadelphia Trapshooters or- ganization. Ten years ago there were a _couple and today we have 27—and additions every year. There are no failures in trapshooting. Leagues come and go in baseball; when ‘the people do not turn out the leagues - “blow” but once organized a trapshooting league sticks forever. Reason: It is not a proxy sport. Every contestant is interested; it is some- l‘ Mohican Crembry BUTTER 39c BROKEN HEAD RICE GOLD LEAF S. B. BEETS CLOVER HILL VINEGAR found all over the country from New York to Oregon. Pennsylvania has more gun clubs than any other state and naturally has more leagues—seven. lllinois has isix. Little New Jersey has four. The time is coming when there will be as many trapshooting leagues as there are base- ball leagues. This sounds big, and is. But an assertion five vears ago that there would be more than 600,000 trap- shooters and 4,000 gun clubs today would have brought a smile at that time, vet they are here with us and the fraternity is being augmented every day. Here is the roster of the trapshoot- ing league: Arkansas League. ‘Ayer-Croton (Mass.) League. Berks County League. Central League. Central Ohio Trapshooters’ League. Central Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ League. Chicago (I11.) Interurban l.eague. Valley Trapshooters’ - Clinton Leomister (Pa.) Trapshooters’ Illinois Trapshooters’ ers’ Leabue. Connecticut Trapshooters’ League. cy pan Lemons, fiz. 121/,c | ONIONS. MOHICAN CATSUP ............. Y, pint bottle COLUMBIAN RIVER SALMON ........ % Ib. tin REPUBLIC STRAWBERRIES .............. can LIGHTHOUSE CLEANSER .......... 5¢, two for 9c MOHICAN CORNSTARCH ......... 1 Ib. package 6¢c Clinton County (Ill.) Trapshooters League. Cambria County (Pa.) Trapshoot- Eastern Illinois Trapshooters’ ter County (N. V.) Trap- League. A Fow Suggestions In Pure Food That Would Save You Money LET US SHOW YOU HOW IT CAN BE DONE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 13c 20c 16¢ 17¢ 25¢ eplne wee.... 13c can, two for 25¢ GOLD LEAF SMALL R.EFUGEE BEANS 13c, 2 for 25c Intercollegiate ciation. Intertown League. Illinois Valley Trapshooting League. Middlesex County (N. J.) Trap- shooters’ League. Trapshooting Asso- (Massi) Trapshooters’ Monmouth County (N. J.) Trap- shooting Association. Northeast ~Kansas Trapshooters’ League. Northwestern (Portland, shooting League. Philadelphia_ Trapshooters. League. Rockfort - Beloit - Janesville-Cap- ron (Ill.) Federation of Gun Clubs. Southeast MMissouri Trapshooting League. Schuy Cre.) Trap- ill County (Pa.) Trapshoot- ers’ League. Susquehanna (Pa.) Trapshooters' League. The Interlake T.eague of Trapshoot- ers, Geneva, N. Y. West Jersey Trapshooting League. tern Pennsylvania Trapshooters’ W ue. Jewett City vs. N. L. Independents. The Jewett <City basketball team will try their strength against the fast New London Independents tonight. The New London team is the f: t team that has represented that city in years, composed of such stars as Law- rence of Kingston, R. I, State college, Keefe and Sylvia of Fort Wright, Ar- nold, McGinley and Doyle, well known here. As both teams are out to win, .Ib. 5c.| SUNKIST ORANGES, dozen........ 1 SAUSAGE MEAT and HAMBURGER 39c Chocolate Doughnuts dozenr= i s o 15e Macaroons, dozen..... 12¢ Whipped Cream Eclairs C T e R A Jelly, Twisted, Raised Doughnuts, dozen.... 12¢c Minced Tarts, dozen.. 12c French Crullers, dozen 12¢ Sponge Drops. . .dozen 12¢ one of the bgst games of the season is expected. Manager Benjamin has the fast South Manchester team coming New Year's, which wiil be a hummer. SPOHT NOTES. n 1915 the Giants had the best bat- ter in the tional league, Larry Doyle, and finished last. In 1916 the Reds had the best batter in thes Na. ltxvmal league, ,Hal Chase, and finished ast. Ollie O’'Mara may prove to te the right man in the right place if tried out 25 a second baseman. Many a rlag- er I developed into a_star in one po- sition_after being only an ordinary performer in another place. Larry McLean Is an enthusiastic as a youngster over his chance to play ogain in the majors. Larry knows baseball and is very pppular in Cin cinnati. . He should prove a valvabl¢ man for Mathewson. Efdie Plank insists that rare use of the curve ball has been the greatesi tactor in. prolonging his career as 2 pitcher. Plank claims that duiing his entire caree he has thrown four fasi balls to one curve. Constant use of the curve soon tends to sap the strength of the salary whip, according to Eddie y the refuse gathered in the sold at auction. " TOP PHOTO -OLD AND Ni gineering feats of modern thing he can do. It is a sport in which you do not have to watch some one else play, and more and more is base- ball being crippled because of this. People are now taking to games in which they can play themselves. In these 27 ting leagues there are at least 25,000 trapshooters. That is a conservative estimate. The Philadelphia Trapshooters’ league ten clubs in and about Philadelphia on its rolls and a mlmha'lhly of more river at Omaha. The installation of this new railroad bridge, capable of accommodating the immense trafiic across the river at this point, was accomplished in less than one hour and the gigantic traffic has |was held up less than sixty minutes. m‘;h;gx provided the tnundg— bridge were used for When the last Undoubtedly one of the greatest en- railroad times was the changing of the long iailroad bridge across the Missouri BRIDGE. —+ — 44 STRUCTURE ON WHICH OLD BRIDGE HAS BEEN PLACED was done on the new bridge, the change was made by slipping the im- mense steel structure upon the old foundation, with the old structure switched to the other side. A peculiar feature of the old structure is that it is as good as when built, but with the constantly increasing traffic at Omaha - the immense tonnage was such that a new bridge was necessary to take it safely. In May, 1916, work upon the new bridge was started on false piers parallel with the old structure. Worl day and night MISSOUR! RIVER BRIDGES -LOWER -1 NEW STRUCTURE. & OLD FOUNDATION.SQLD| BEFORE BEING DISMANTLED men were required to complete it ir good time for the big change. The new bridge is double tracked, the only one across the Missouri river; is 1,722 feet long, weighs 10,520,090 pounds, is seventy feet wide and cost $1,000.000. Six trunk lines of railroads use this bridge. Three hundred and twenty trains, freight and passenger, cross this bridge every twenty-four hours or one every four and a half minutes. Top picture shows old and new bridges, No. 1, new structure; 2, old foundation; 38, old bridge; 4, struct for old bridge before dismantling. king work ' since the inception of the work, 200