Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 22, 1918, Page 3

28 Shetucket Street FOR EVERYTHING INSURABLE ¥ L LATHROP & 8ONS Norwich, Conn, Start 1918 on the SAFE SIDE—see us NOW about additionak Fire Insur- ance in our strong companies. + EXPERT SERVICE ISAAC S. JONES insurance and Real Estats Agent Ric! hards’ Building 81 Main St ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Brown & Ptrh:m Miomeys-a-la Over Uncas Nat Bank, Shetucket St. Entrunce _stairway near to Thames Telephone 38-3 Yale to Enter Big Events. Yale will be repreeented in the Bos- ton Athletic association and Meadow- brook indoor mets by a university team. Trials for the varsity relay and freshman fours are now in progress, If conditions are propitious a Yale freshman R. O. T. C. team will meet the Harvard freshman team at the B. A. A. meet on Feb. 2. The Willisbrook meets, which are intramural affairs, are now being held and include stu- dentg irrespective of the fact of their membership on non-membership of the R O. T C ‘The distance men are working with Billy Queal, the coach, in the baseball cage. It is possible that Yale may knock an informal team for duel meets with Princeton and Har- vard, the reports being that both at Harvard and Princeton informality will be the order of track preparations, 1st, LEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE The Board of Relief of Voluntown, Ct, will meet in Union Hall on Feb, 1918, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., e 0 their duties as required” by Ened) GBORGE P, BRIGGS, GBORGE A. TANNER, WILLFAM H. DAWLEY, Beard of Relief. Dated, Voluntown, Jan. 21, 1915, NOTICE The Board of Relief of the Town of Franklin_will meet at the Town Hall in sald Town Friday, from 11 a m. to 3 p.’' m. Feb. 1st, 1918, to hear ap- peals from the doings of the Assessors, to attend to any other business and that may legally come meeting. Adjourned meet: beld Franklin, Ct. Jan. 21, belore as the law require: CHARLES P. BECKWITH, ERNEST E._SMITH, JOHN BRASSILL, Board of Relief. 1918, NOTICE said ngs will be The Board of Relief of the Town of Ledyard will meet at the Town Clerk's Office in said Town on Friday, Feb. 1, 1918, to hear any appeals from the do- ings of the Assessors, and to attend to sadd ary. y business meeting. GEORGE W. PALMER, JAMES B. GRAY, ISAAC G, GEER, Board ‘of Relief. Ledyard, Jan. 19, 1918. Lisbon will said roper to be done at journed meetings will be held through the month of Febru- NOTICE. . The Board of Relief of the Town of Town on Friday, Feb. meet in_Town House ‘in , 1918, from 10 a m. until 3 p. m.; also on Monday, Feb. 11, and Monday, place and hour, doings of the Feb. 18, at same to hear appeals from ors, or to do any other legal business that may come before said Board. Dated at Lisbon, Jan. 21, 1918, JAMES B. PALMER, E. B. CHENBY, JAMES BROUGHTON, Board of Relief. Lisben, Ct, Jan. 21, 1918, NOTICE The Board of Relief of the Town of Sprague will meet at Town Clerk's Office Monday, Feb. 4th, Saturday, Feb. Sth. 16th and 23d, to hear appeals from doings of the Assessors, and to do any other business which may come béfore said Board. (Sigped) Bal PAUL E. BREONNAN, THOMAE KELLEY. CORNELIUS DONOVAN, Board of Relief. 21st, 1915, ie, Jan. =t, NOTICE We. the undersizned, members of the Board of Relief of the Town of Pres- ton, wil) be at the Town Hall Feb. 1, 16 ‘and 21 hear an- Assessors. come before the said Board. Jan. 19, 191 WILLIAM B. MITCHBLL, EVERETT T. BARNES, PHILIP O. YERRINGTON, Board of Relief. from 10 o'clock to 4, to appeals from doings of the or any other business to NOTICE The Board of Relief of the Town of Lebanon will meet at the Town Clerk’s Office in saild Town Friday, Feb. 1918, from 11 o'clock 3. m. until o'clock p. m., to hear appeals from the doings of the Assessors and to attend to any other business that may legally come befcre £1id meeting. The Board will- also_meet In the Town Hall on Monday, Feb. 4, at the same hours, and adjourned meet law requires. % 3 = will be heid as the The adjourned meetings will be held !n the Town Clerk's Of- fice. TLebanon, Conn.. Jan. 21. 1918, C. H. Board of Relief. NOTICE The Board of Reliet of the Town of Na wich, Conn. Tall Building. | from Feb. n Assessors, and to tram: will meet in the City n sald Town, each day, st to 3 . m, to 4 p. m., to to appeals from the doings of ct any r business proper to be done at meetings. Pated at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 19th, 19l8. FRED G. PROTHBERO, JAMES C. FITZPATRICK, *=SBUIAH J. DONOVAN, Baara of Rellef. Teams 2 and 7 Have Each Won 16 Games and’ Lost 1 ~—Three Teams Tie for Second Place—Anderson Holds 3 Y— After nine weeks of play in thesingle with T4 Palace Bowling league, Team No. 3| Wednesday night Teams 3 and 5 and 2nd Team No. 8 are tied for first place, | Friday night Team 2 and 6. The each team haying won 16 games and | score: <F lmdmh;.fl& 14 3 up for P games won and 18 lost. Anderson of Team § still "E:Mfd"“ - BN holds on to the high average with | "r‘hr T sor 115-8, while Leopold has high singie | 17 =§; = b 4 stowed away. The standings follow: G = 318l W, L e Team No. 2—Capt. Hagberg .. 2§ 11 415 1293 No 1Cant. Mekamwey - 14" 13 Team No, 1—Cap! vey T::: No. 1—Capt. McCarty .. 14 13 |McCormick ., 73 90— 246 Team No, 5—Capt. Murphy . 13| Wilson ... ... s1 11— 232 Team No. 3—Capt. Dunn . 14 | Stevens .. 94 . 96— 260 Team No. $—Capt. Gifford . 16| W. Harrington . 86 112 11— 309 Team No, 6—Capt. Kendall .... 10 17| Counihan .... 90 91 102— 283 High single—Leopold 150 S High thres string—-And 393 409 451 470 13%0 High team total—No. 3. High team single—No. 1. Individual averages: G PF. Ave Anderson .. ....12 1388 115-8 Peckham . - 15 1660 110-10 Dunn . 28 2423 108 Plerce ... . 3 630 105 Hickey .... 3 1879 104-T Callahan 27 2810 104-2 Patterson . 24 2477 1035 Ramsie . 24 2490, 103-18 Hagberg .. 27 2802 103-11 Leopold . 2491 108-19 McKelvey 2777 102-28 Nevins 2749 101.22 J. Murphy . 2426 Bolton ... . 2720 Petrone . 27113 Bellamey .. 908 Budnick . 901 Roebuck . 302 McVeigh .. 892 Yarrish .... 15 1491 ‘Woodmansee .. . 12 1186 Lynch .. 18 1773 Mott 15 1455 Barry 15 1454 Nelson .... 27 2597 W. Miller . 24 2325 Maynard .. 24 2326 Smith *15 1431 Carty . 21 2581 95-16 Hoyt 21 2003 95-8 Gifford 12 1122 93-6 Burns 844 93-7 McClune 1402 93-7 Connelly 2245 93-13 Appleby 1964 93-11 Shegoda 573 92-1 Kendall . 21 1922 91-11 R. Miller 21 1899 90-9 Lesman . .12 1075 89-7 R. Murphy . 15 1339 89-4 McKenzie 24 2131 88-19 Bush . 21 1818 86-12 Mikolasi 15 1290 88 Elks’ Bowling. The match Monday night at the Elke" alleys was between Team No. 1 and Team No. 4, the latter team taking Lwo out of the three games. 'Captal Heath of Team No. 1 made a special trip from Philadelphia to participate in the match. The match was excit- ing throughout with every man doing his utmost. Lyons, substituting for Harrington, rolied high total with 309 and Purdon of Team No. 1 took high i | owners following out a schedule map- BATTLING KUNZ GETS DECISION OVER CHIC BROWN. Norwalk Lad Has Easy Time in 20- Round Bout—Pete Hartley a Winner. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 21.—Battling Kunz of Norwalk, who claims the lightweight championship of Connecti- cut, had no trouble in winning a 20- round bout here tonight over Chic Brown of New Haven, claimant of the New England lightweight title. They fought at 142 pounds ringside and a referee’s decision was given. Pete Hartley of Derby battered Bob- by North so much in four rounds of a scheduled 10-round go that the referee stopped the fight and gave the honors to the Derby boxer. North was once a sparring partner of Benny Leonard, Joe Currie of New Haven outpointed Battling Green in a six-rounq prelim- inary. . Tendler Wins Over Callahan. Philadelphia, Jan. 21.—Lew Tendler of Philadelphia won the popular de- cision over Frankie Callahan of Brooklyn in their six round bout here tonight. Callahzn had the better of the first two rounds, but after that the local lightweight was the aggres- sor and won on points. The fight was fast throughout. Pratt Deal Uncompleted. | St. Louls, Mo., Jan. 21.—The failure of Manager Huggins of the New York Americans to arrive today prevented _lhe completion of a deal for the trad- ing of Derill Pratt, second baseman of the St. Louis Americans. EASTERN CLUBS MAY TRAVEL BY AUTO The Schedule for 1918 in the Eastern League May Be Arranged With This | Idea in View. Assuming that the Eastern league is 2oing to get going this year and that conditions will so shape themselves as to permit a somewhat shortened cam- paign, it wouldn't be the strangest thing in the world to find the club MARKET WAS DULL Apathetic Condition Was Offset by Firm Undertone. New York, Jan. 21—The most ob- vious effect of the first heatless day in Wall Street was a marked reduc- tion of businesss on the stock ex- change, operations being conducted in a frigid temperature. Contraction was progressive, trading becoming almost motionless in the later hours of the session. 5 This apathetic condition was coun- terbalanced by the market's firm to strong undertone. Traders were at first disposed to extend short com- mitments, but reversed their posi- tion when selling pressure proved in- effectual. Banking interests adopted a more hopeful view of the Washington situa- tion and Director General McAdoo's statement that he did not believe in government ownership of railroads evoked considerable comment, although rails were especially lethargic, with few exceptionss. The weekly review of the war de- partment and further conflicting ad- Vices . re ing negotiations between the Russian delegates and the Cen- tral Powers were again without ef- fect, lires and rubles remaining un- changed. Specialties of the war and semi-war gropps, notably coppers, oils, leath- ers, sugars, tobaccos and fertilizers, at gross gains of one to five points, contributed largely to the light turn- over, Utilities, notably People’s Gas and Western Union, also advanced 2 to 4 points, but shippings were back- wagd. Sales amounted to 290,000 shares. Rails and industrials evinced a bet- ter tone in the narrow bond market. Liberty 3 1-2's were quoted at 98.48 to 98.40, first fours at 96.80 to the new minimum of 96,64 apd second fours at 96.24 to 96.12. Bond sales, par value, aggregated $3,250,000. TU. S. bonds, old issues, were un- changed on call e STOCKS. 400 Afsx Rubber .. 909 Alaska Gold M 5600 Alaska Junesu 500 Am 2700 Am 600 Am 2000 Ama 1100 Am 1900 Am. 1400 Am. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes |eu- Indigestion. Druggists |, ™ refund money if it fails. 25¢ 100 Case, 3. T pr 200 Cent Fary pr 2800 CantLeather 100 Cend Motor & Ohlo Lk St P L P pr . W - SR I&P6opctpr. .1 & P 7 opet pr Copper o Con_ Cop 100 Cot Fuel & Tron 700 Col Gas & Elec 200 Chos 100 Cuba Cane § pr 100 Den & Rio G pr 3200 Dist Sceurities 200 Erle Ist pr 160 Gaston_Wis. 700 Gen. Ficetric 1300 Gen. Mot_Corp 160 Goodrich B ¥ 400 Gt. N Ore Subs 200 Int Agricul pr 500 Ins Cepper 100 Inter Con pr 100 Int Har of N 5600 Int Mer Mar 50700 Int M Mar pr 600 Int Paper 1100 Tot Nickel . 100 Kelly S Tiro 2600 Keunecott 200 Lack Steel 100 Lehigh Valley 100 Lee,_Rtub Tire 560 Maeattal El 18200 Mex Petrol 100 MiamiCopper 1200 Midsale _Steel 100M StP&SSM 300 Mo Pacific . 500 Nat. Enam & S 300 Nec C C 5 600 Centr 10 N. ¥, N H & H 200 North. Pacific 1900 Ohio Citles Gas. 100 Pacific Mai) 100 Pan Am Pet pr 200 Pern B R 1900 People’s G & 100 Pitts Coal 1000 Pits & W Va 300 Bres_ Stel Car 1300 Rtay Con Cop 2000 Reading . 1300 Rep I & Sieel 700 Rosal Duteh 200 St. Touls & S 00 Seaboard A L 160 Seab A L pr 800 Sears Roebuck 300 Shattuck A C 2400 Sinclair Ol 100 Sioss Sh S & T 100 South Pacific 500 Southern Ry 200 Southem Ry pr 109 Studebaker 400 Superior Steel 200 Tenn C_Chem 6300 Texas Co. . 7400 Tobacco _Prod 400 Union ~ Pacific 300 Unlon Pac_pr 100 Un. Alloy Steet 2900 U. Cigar Stores 500 U. §. L Alcobol 100 U. S. Rubber 100 U. S Bub 1 pr 1400 U. 8. Sm & Bet 58000 U S. Steel .. 100 U, . Steel pr 2500 Gtah _Copper 1900 Va. C Chem 100 Wabash .. . 400 Wabash pr A j00 West _Pacific 2200 W. Union Tel 60 Westinghouse 2200 Wilson & Co. 100 Wite Motors 1000 Wiilys Overland 100 W. Pamp pr A Total sales 285,720 shares. COTTON. g New York, Jan. 21—The cotton ex- change was closed today. MONEY. New York, Jan. 21.—Call 200 R§ Steel money firm; high 6; low 6; ruling rate 6; [ closing bid 5 1-2; loan 6. offered at last CHICAGD GRAIN WARKET. Open. Tigi 127 1% 124% 1% Jan. 5% e Nor. May % 516 T3% ther than drawn to fit train sched- ules. 3 ~ In many ways the so-called trolley league idea has many advantages par- ticularly in the minor leagues, where .travel expenses have a mighty impor- tant bearing in the operating costs. Curtailment of passenger traffic, which seems to be a necessary adjunct of war times and which has already been started to some cxtent, may malke matters somewhat difficult for the Eastern league in playing out a_day- by-day schedule ang in this situation orises the greatest transportation re- lief of modern times, the automobile. The Eastern League without Port- land and Lawrence included falling back onthe uncertain railroad tran-s portation, which seems altogether ikely this coming summer. Careful attention to the jumps when building the schedule can result in providing short trips for all of the clubs and a little 'labor and study can reduce sin- gle journeys to & matter of not more than three and one-half hours. ‘The cost of such an undertaking must also be considered but so effec- tively has automobile transportation already been worked out that it is be- lieved ball clubs meed not pay any more than they would be turning over to the railroads for similar service. ¢ It isn’t necessayy to depend on au- tomobile transportation alone either, for with the exception of Portland and Lawrence, the schedule can be so ar- ranged as to give the clubs a chance to use electric transportation if ne- cessary, although the main fault with this method is its slowness and un- certainty of making close connections. Under normal condition railroad trans- portation of course is the best, but with war conditions imposed the league club owners would do well to look into the automobile transporta- tion idea. How well this idea takes is indicated by a recent discussion among base- ball men at Cincinnati. The ajor leagues take the position that ail base- ball burdens should be removed from the railroads as much as possible and find that this can be done in the east where players can be transported by boat and auto. The major leagues be- lieve that the eastern cities are close enough together to make such a plan feasible and moreover make it possi- ble to take the jumps in fast time. These eastern jumps are considerably longer than those of the Eastern league and if the majors reason they can use boat and auto, the merg lcague men should have no fear in making the attempt. If there are any college ball players of promisc this season, and the majors o not grab up everything in sight the Fastern league by announcing as late an opening as May 22, has placed it- self in a position to grab up some of this talent. Time and again it has been stated that the idea! minor league is ](he circuit that develops players for sale. If the majors should leave young- sters alone long enough to enable the minors to do this the smalier leagues {would be given a chance to realize [more effectively on their investment but unfortunately nowadayss it is hard to get hold of a promising youngster Who has not alreadv been tempted. by fame and glory in the big ring. If ever there was a chance to experitent with youngsters the coming season is the ime, and those whose theories' have never been given a fair ‘test see the opportunity for finding out once and for all just how much they are worth. TRAPSHOOTERS HAVE LANGUAGE THAT IS ALL THEIR OWN By “Trapshooter.” To the outsider the fellow who perches on the top rali of a fence or lolls in an easy chair on the club- house gallery watching the gun bug “bust 'em,” trapshooting vocabulary is red out according to auto mileage n-' BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Decrease in Clearings—Few New Building Projects. The exchanges of the Hartford clear- ing house for the past week, in com- parison with the same week of last year, show a decrease of 7.2 per cent. In New Haven for the same period | there.is a decrease of 7.3 per cent. | Again the past week realty sales show a_decrease from the like week of 1917. During the current week sales by warranty deed in the cities of the | state reported in the Commercial Rec- ord numbered 207, as compared with 370 in 1917, while mortgage loans for the week were only $602,352, as against $1512,025 a year ago. Five petitions in bankruptey, having total asssts of $13,370 and liabilities of $28,176, were filed last week. Last year at this time no bankruptcy peti- tions were filed in this state. The seven new companies formed last week have a total autMorize capital stock of $300,000. A year ago 11 concerns filed certificates of incor- poration, with authorized capitalzation of_$737,000, Building permits for the week make a very poor showing ,only 14 permits Laving been issued in the cities of New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, Pridgeport and New Britain, as com- pared with 56 in the same week of 1917. THe cost of new construction work this week amounts to $43775, while last year at this time permits were issued for mew work to cost $165,860. one-family houses Bridgeport, Waterbu: and Soring- fi2ld; residence i orfolk; alterations to business biock in Springfield; re. pairs to central block in Hartford iwo-family houses in Bridgenort and New Haven and alterations to a build- ing in Waterbury for restaurant pur- poses, Among the new projects of tiie week are addition to schoolhouse in Bristol, three-story store and apartment build- ing in Bridgeport, business block and five-story apartment block® in New in New Haven, Contracts awarded last week include | Plans for remodeling the house at Thamesville formerly owned by Sam- | el Anderson and recently purchased| by the Winchester Woolen company are being drafted by .Architects Cud- worth & Thompson. The plans will call for the remodeling of the house nto a sleeping apartment with about twenty rooms, with three baths. The barn in the rear of the Rouse i= to be remodeled for kitchen, dining room and sleeping rooms. - The heating sys- tem will be extended and new plumb- ing and lighting installed. The con- tract for the work has not yet been let. Power Rlant in Thamesville. The plans for the big power house to be erected at Thamesville for the { Eastern Connecticut Power company, lare now being completed by .the Harry Hope Engineering company, 185 Dev- {onshire street, Boston, and it is ex- pected that they will be out for est |mates within a short time. The build- {ing will be of brick. so constructed that 1 other units may be added at any time in the future, with two brick stacks. The equipment will consist of two 10,000 k. w. generators with the neces- sary boilers, coal handling devices, THAESVILLE HOUSE T0 BE REMODELED Frame Houge Formerly Owned by Samuel Anderson at Thamesville to be Converted Into Boarding House— Plans for Power House Beihg Drafted—Other Build- ing Operations in Norwich and Vicinity. turbines, etc., and the cost of the plant will be_in the neighborhood of a million dollas's. Remodeling Potter Block. The work on the remodeling of the Rev. building a house on the New London turnpi The foundation has bgen laid building . has been boarded building is ment basemient. AH the contractors er forced to shut down their places of business and confine work that requires no heat. of the builders report that they still because of the cold weather. Potter block on Thames street is pro- gressing rapidly and the buildi now ready for the plasterers. building is being converted from a two tenement block in a four avartment building. the contract. 7 is The Fowler and Rathbun_ have Erecting House at Montville. Mr. French of Montville is ke near the Witch Hazel mill. and the in__ The 0 stories high with ce- Carponters’ Shops Closed. ho employ pow- hops have heen in their work themseives to Several are unable to do any cement v Haven. residence work in New Haven, isridgeport and Hartford, rebuilding of church in Ha#finden, new -town hall building in Plainville business blocks in Darien, new residences and other houses in Greenwich and vublic garage in_Hartfor: er contract state. Stamford, addition to e in New Haven and smali- in various parts of the Norwich had two sales of real estatd last week to eight for the same period last year. The mortgage loans for the two weeks were $8,700 and $13,900, re- spectively. At New London there were four sales' of realty last week to 17 for the same week last year. Mortgage loans for ;hg 9??pemive weeks were $13,100 and 48,989. A MIDDLETOWN. § At the meeting of the:board of trus tees of the Connecticut hospital fo insane, In:ld recently, it was voted o leave the entire matfer of reconstruc- tion of the burned section of the main building to the finance committee, which cansists of ex-Governor Frank B. Weelss, chairman; George * Forster of Rockville, Prof. Robert H. Fife, Jru William W. Wilcox, Samuel Russell, Jr., and Ferdinand Gildersleeve of Portland. The trustees made a thor- ough investigation of the fire, which practically destroved the south wing of the burlding, but have not been able to determine the cause., The building was of brownstone construction, about 200 feet lang and four stories high. BUILCING OPERATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND, | . Statistics of building and engineer- |ing operations in New England as ited to “pull” “dead” br' “pull.” st.” But among the elect of clay target shooters is spoken a gibberish that by first,” ete. vernacular. For instance, a shooter might des- cribe the results of five shots some- thing after this fashion: “Yes sir; I toed the firing line, put the iron to my shoulder drew a humdinger from the box and killed it. was a lazy boy, flying straight away but I went to sleep and the pigeon nested in the grass. The next mud pie sailed to left-quarter. but the old pea-shooter simply knocked the fuzz off. The fourth dickery bird was smothered as soon as it,was hatched. Then a cripple fiuttered out and died. Next came a right-wheeling streaker and 1 pulverized it.” . The fact that trapshooting is the humane substitute for live-bird shoot- ing probably accounts for some of the “cruel” terms that are included in the language of the inanimate target game. the simplest of Not Hampered by New Rules. So far as has been heard the teams of the Intercollegiate Basketball league have found no great difficulty with the changes in the rules as made at the recent meetinz of the Intercollegiate Basketball league. Jourdet, the Pennsylvania _coach, however, feels that the game would be better without that change which or- ders an extension of the playing floor directly behind the baskets. The ex- | tensionsis made in the form of an act, itwo feet at its greatest width. It was i the opinion of the rules committee that {a player oftentimes was deprived.of a | basket by overrunning and being out RED SOX HAVE ABSCRBED HALF OF FAMOUS ATHLETICS The Sale of Mclnnis Disposes of Last \Cog in the Great Machine. The trade which sends John ‘Stuffy Mclinnis,” to the Boston American League club marks the complete Gis- integration of what, in many respects, was the greatest professional base- ball machine ever assembled in either of the major leagues. Meclnnis, the last cog in the combination, moves on to a rival team which has absor! fifty per cent of the players whom Connie Mack welded into an inyincible group of diamond stars supreme hetd- ers of pennants and world champion- ships. ‘The Philadelphia Athletics reached the zenith of their team play during the season of 1913 when they simply walked away with the American Lea- gue championship of that year and followed the capture of the pennant with a decisive victory over the New York Nationals in the world series of that season by four games to one. The Athletics finished the regular season wit ha record of 96 games won; 57 lost; and a percentage of .627. This was 43 points better than the average of the Washington team which closed the year in second place. Connie Mack's players took .the lead in the pennanmt race during the sec- ond week of the season which opened about the middle of April, 1913, and were never headed or tied in’ the struggle for the title thereafter. « The records show that the Athletics led the league in team battling with .285 5, | and in fielding with .966. It goes without saying that. Mack would naturally present his strongest combination in the world’s series and the line-up against the Giants in the battle for the premier baseball honors of 1913 may be taken as the best and most powerful arrangement available. This combination which defeated the New York team four out of five games played as follows: E. Murphy, rf; Old- ring, 1f; Collins, 2b; Baker, 3b; Me- Innis, 1b; Strunk, cf; Barry, ss; Schang, c; Lapp, c; Bender. Plank. or Bush, p., During the regular season other NR}I@YE ‘were used and were fac- tors in winning the pennanat but the men mentioned were the pick of the combination. : Today not one of these twelve play- ers ig a member of “the ‘team and A & P 2 oe = ) = £ g 2 a & B . Murpay, rf .. ldring 1f ... Collins, 2b . Baker, 3b Mclnnis, 1b Strunk, eof Barry, ss Schang, Lapp, ¢ Bender, -p Plank, ' p ‘Bush, p Connie Mack is engaded in an attempt to rebuild his baseball machine with inew material. Murphy was sold to i the Chicago Americans for $5,000; Col- lins went to the same club for $50,000 us did Lapp without cash considera- 'tion. The Boston Americans took five men of the combination at one time or another. Strunk, Schang and Bush became the property of the Red Sox in the recent 360,000 deal. McInnis has followed his former teammates as the result of the latest trade, although so far as is known no money considera- tion is involved. Barry _precedefl these players to Boston bringing the Philadelphia club $8,500, and last sea- son managed the Red Sox. It will be seen that if the publicly announced figures in connection with these deals are correct the Boston club paid $68,500 in addition to ssme players for these five Athletics. ~The | Chicago White Sox paid $35,000 for Murphy and Collins. The New York Americans also contributed to _the Philadelphia strongbox as the Yan- kee club owners gave $37,500 for Baker and $5,000 for Oldring, al- though it was reported later that the Philadelphia Club returned this sum, or a portion of it, when Oldring failed to continue. with the New York team. The two pitchers Bender and Plank were unconditionally released by Man- ager Mack, thus completing the break in_the famous combination. The disruption of the Athletics also formed one of the most sensational features of modern baseball history. The team started poorly at the begin- ning of the 1914 season but swung in- to its stride early in June and agafn cantered home an easy winner. The Athletics_were favorites to defeat the Boston Nationals in the world series straignt games thus ‘establishing a record in this department of the na- tional sport. Manager Mack did not attempt to hide his chasrin at this un- expected set back and without enter- the downfall, decided that drastic changes were necessary. It took him three years to complete the dispersal of the famous baseball machine but the passing of McInnis closed the final chapter in the history of a great aggrezation of diamond stars. The ability ‘of the players who formed this team may be seen from their batting and fielding records made during the pennant and world series play of 1913, when the group was at its best. Avergge earned runs per game'* 5 comparison makes baseball's “died at sporting The second saucer but the Braves startled the baeball world by defedting the Mackmen four ing into a discussion of the causes of of bounds when he was about to shoot. This two-foot rule gives an zddi tional leeway under the basket ard gives a speedy forward a better chance to make the shot good. Under the rew rule, the side and the top of the back- board are in bounds. When the ball hits the sides of the backboard and drops back into the playing territory, it now is in bounds, whereas it was out of bounds in previous seasons. The design, of course, is to speed up the zame, Belmont to Instruct Boxing. Albert Delmont has been appointed boxing instructor at Phillips Andover academy. He has had 17 years of ex- perience in the .ring. and 'during that time has participated in more than 300 bouts. In 1907 the Boston boxer, who weighs 124 pounds, went to England | and defeated Digger Stanley, a formid- | able opponent. 4 1 Andover's hockey team has been| practicing under Frank L. Quinby, the | faculty coach. It is the coach’s inten-i tion to use two or more players in every position except goal, where Da- | vis appears to be a fixture. The other points will be fiilled as follows: Chit- tick and Clough, r. w.; Capt. Dodd ar.d, Paul, £.; Flanders and Thomas, r. o.; Adams and Gratwick, L-w.; Temple and Kahn, c. p.;; Wheeler and Wilson, P Nash in Washington. Kenneth Nash, the former MWater- ;bury shortstop, who quits baseball to {go into politics, is now engaged“in | Bovernment work in Washington. Jack (Flynn tried hard to get him for the; 1 o O i Bowling- THE AETNA - Billiards 7 ALLEYS Phone Conn. 6 TABLES ¥ Ma;;es(ic Building, Shetucket St. Norwich, Conn. Bowl and play Billiards for exercise and recreation M. A. 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