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read this -dvurflumm. Is gour property 3 _runs twlrht; ség 1 the base will e nhw, so that Carroll will for him v ‘boy. at ‘the | st and the sail- ge 3 5 5 35‘ Is thm at-the ‘end of , th ficteenth round the fight fans are zo- ing to 'zet the' biggest run they ever got in ftheir life u,nd it will be a-fight ‘'they won't soon forge! ‘ew London P e Jimmy Clabby Enlists, Jimmy Clabpy of Hammond, Ind. U. 8. A, heavyweight champion of stralia, Au hag- enlisted in the Anstra- Iu-p-—lnchw Bntw, Order | lian infantry md is' in ‘camp at Mel; of Odd Fellows, has £ i lexander's records = prove his T ‘to be selected Tor the position of boxman on an all-star 1317 National Ieague team. He led the league i sof innings pitched and allo- per game t.han any o i -Alexander ‘was also fourth. in. ntage on the games won and lost sis, and his. combined : bacting ; aad flelding - av S pmduee a. higher grand nveu?:s' an any of his rivals. Perritt and upp . of ‘New' York, Schneldar. Cincinnati, and: Vaughn, _positic ‘but none. quite approaches Alexander’s nandat Catcher Killifer, ho 18 Almndet- battery mate and who was sold to the ‘l‘:h(\:nga Nationals ' recently “with the pifcher; easily makes the place behind e!|the~bat. His grand average is .29, 8 points_better than that of Rariden of New York, Gonzales of St. Louis is t.hh;:land ‘Wingo of Cincinnati. fourth. ong the. first basemen Konetchy of Boston and Chase of Cincinnati are almost tied for first place;: the Braves' initia¥ sack guarfian winning the po- sition by, the seant margin of. 3 points in apd average, Chase hlp 5 nointl ‘the better of the batting averages, b Konetchy is 11 pnlntl b ner in fle!aing 35 to the work of the American commit- | _ tee for Armenian and Syrian relief. . Wauregan—Miss Helen E. Atwood- has returned from Detroit, where she has been visiting -her sister; Mrs. Ar- thur Copperthwait, several weeks. ¥ Middletown At & siesting _ of m‘ Wmnqmeornm C. K Hale was presented.a m 1 dent's gold badge by !hsqemberz of | the corps. ! .MAfiKEf.W S UNSETTLED. Aty rans - Opflhd Stréno, But Thére Were Re- v.rnh on Adveru Indus! Waterbury.—The sale of tiekets for | the concert by Frieda Hempel, the fourth in the Prentzel subseription se-'| - ries, on the night cf‘hh 14, has l(ll’t: ed oft well Branford.—Miss Doris ¢ P adverse in- | dustrial reporis. Specialtics, such fertilizere. leath: Weflmntar As fnils. tobaccos, schools in the city’ for ers apd” motors andl gains of one to four poini These 4s- eues were among the first to recede bmv;dan the' free offerings of the off its foundation by the recent & ‘Ansonia—More than 1,000 pounds of sugar were distributed at the city General news in its relaunn to quot- ed values was somewhat contradictory. Foreign , advices, ‘particularly. the cu- | mulative indications of unrest within |/’ the Central Empires, were helpful to ago gucceeded in ntfin: five the scarce article. fied in' part by the political situation in Washington, -The money mrkst/was perceptibly easier, call loans declining to 4 1-3 t isix. Short laxed | slightly, ‘but Madison—Mise Elizabeth . Hepburn in the E. C. Scranton ra- ry and will be in charge during the also on . ‘the more representative (:;‘.h inaq States Steel reacted over Z points from its best, closing &t 90 7:8, a net loss of half a point. The steel meet a week hence to ect on the dividend for the last quar- ter ‘of 1917, Bnfla ‘were dull to the point of stag- nation and shippings moved erratical- Iy, Marine strengthening in. 1‘1;5 &u dealings. - Sales amounted to hares . advance of 2 1-2 points in Dis- tillers' Securities was almost the sole feature of the irregular bond market. | ‘fi. o -~J. nels nar- | Liberty 3. 1-2's sold at 98.40 to 98.24, mw}y enud Qeath hunt- | first fours at §7.10 to 96.78 and second ing. Mr. O'Connell and M friends fnnn ut 96.3¢ to 96.14. Total -sales, were in the party ‘and ‘one . of , e, aggregated $3,625,000. hunters alipped, @ ‘gun, U B.Jhm\dl, old ‘issues, were un- which was disel chlnred on call. posted at the terminus of ! crews aré thanked for.thelr hearty co- operation in helping to relieve (‘he con. gestion. R ropping . ‘harged. Sflme of the shot hit Mr. O'Connell in the legs and left arm. mddm.—anul Mn son of Rev. A. W, has been practicing law in tis, but s now located in has been dmitted to the bar in that eity, with- sut the formality of examination, upon recommendation of the bar associa- tjons; by Judge Gardiner Greenme,. Bristol—A delegation of local cafe oroprietors, representing licensed dealers in the city, waited on Toseph F. Dutton and announced it they would ‘open their places at 630 L m. instead of § o'clock and’wonld: clo%e at 10.30 p. m. tnneulu:e( 11. The sction was voluntary on of He Cealers. et o ———— Count Reventlow, In the Devksche Tagezeitung, says that Germany does not want Poland unless -hn fi ke e} '::autais;s‘:sgfs;i‘:s;ie{sézz;; H bl geex EEEFREERREEERRERELE Fegenpigaiiie, e 1 L3 nex it. An absolutely free« with anti-German sentiments, fs: rible peril, not only for Germasy, also, and tor !Si!" : i o2 5assiy °g°°f aan SAILOR JIM CARROLL 15—ve—ROUNDS - GEORGE ROBINSON FRANK IRIND‘I vs J’t ROCCO RED RANKIN' ED MACK umn DAVE m:dcm :sii!; L the bull account,. but this was nulli- | ‘increase of|° 7 lhave chosen the. latter éourse. Al % u flflfi ETT) ]‘VA !I% «Jg M!t 3"/: ll9x 120% | ditions not -to his 5 o pr. 1069 it Nickel; B 485 Kelly. S Tire 1000 Yemecott 09 Lack _Stcel i ,E £E £ & i siigéégq 3 Al £t o 23 grezges PET T :Esf,?; & w { EESZI3SIRESREREREaEE i §§§E§ 9. 13 L E}:iu. e’ i “gésfiz dasy 3 * | ! w2f REIEE a §§§¥5§§§§§i§55§§!é§25535 ] o g; <ciiigi & ' Wsdeendnl 0 Paguspatesisgey W‘ | ton toward 5 Nffi!fi ,/are close competitors: for the- » l ¢ tougb bicw by Kaiser ) ago Ed Thorps, | ese at}l!?\e who is in the g goods business, representing | tbe oldest houses in this coun-: wm me that last fall he received r mplete foothall equip some Belgium ‘officers at _ These. men ‘had seen Amer- ‘What a strange. eunt\'nst is the n,tti« tude “of these Belsl“m officers, who have rm);h a re- ‘severe st than the men of any other coun- W % dster with ter Top $830; Beritne $1095; Sedan witk - f{ic AT G I, = Wiy Wheck $1195. F. O.B. Dt~ - attitude of Yale, Harvard and Prince i this same game? Play of the most rugged sort is as much a of the soldier at the front as is food and drink.’ e vast mgjority of ccllege men the same holds good in the abrormal collegiate existence of today. Evough said! Down in Florida approxfinamy forty golf_ courses are recelving their last | grooming preparatory - to the .annual exodus of northern visitors. . There is the winter play-ground of the more well-to-do. Sunlight, warmth. and surf-bathing \vie with golf as allure- ments to aavone who has the price. One. musi.pay heavily for a.place in Florida sur. Nothing comes free in that Land of Promised Youth. Yet the game s Worth the cost and the golfer 'who w' hes can soon. get his stari: ing time for goling under ideal condi- tions.’ Mother Nature, Donald Ross and a host of lesser golf * architeets| have combined to make the anciént game ideal in Florida. Up north golf clubs haye generajl) d-in order to conserve 'fuel andjathletic goes ! el ¢lub life ‘has el ) 3 beyond . that . in een - dealt a | chdracter training. As a-great many 1 and General | men are now giving & this. problem i Von Behindburg. 'Phere are -but two | much’ thought it may be that this war i ‘*csi | | Bedch and Bellajre—this will make }| the ‘popularity of- g Van, Courtlandt Park, New York City, on a Saturday or a Sunday, in summer, w’. w‘ 1 had nothing on the. aristocratic. course 1 % | at Palm Beach in winter.' The past|the college demand actual sport par- 50i chhhapano!'.heme!m\-chm cammnopen to ‘the devotee of the | will. see its-solution, ~ For. one thing e must either hie himself to] our xréet cantonments offer a fertile e bnd of sunshine ‘and take ‘his|fleld for solving this problem, and in chanves with train Serviée or hie him- | them the sbiution may 'be’found.’ i ¢t to France and take his chances| ‘Theré remains much confusion in the: with the; submarine. : A great m#ny mind of many attacking this problem of f as to just what intercollegiate athletics whick zoes to show that the Ixurious | represent. - Some advanced ' thinkers stand for physical education,” as Tunn[ Car 3745 THE FRISBIE-McGORMICK 00 _..__—-4 7 %m _3743; 'l‘-:mu Gar with Winter T-p 3855 52 Shetucket St., * ‘Norwi-k. Ct. e SN PR SO SR good ball! park, and. c]uhhonse is at their disposal and the weather in March is usually delightful. The latter cannot ‘usually be ‘said about the Alabama capital, Herrmann: waived- all .these comsid- -erations for. the Mnotm ‘reason men- tioned before. Other clubg might have added great- 1y 'to their popularity by selecting sites in the south where they would have ‘been in" proximity to camps occupied {145 | lite of our winter 'and —summer re-|have clearly shown that 'they do not}hy troops, enlisted in' their cities, and 24 |gorts has dealt American man pow- there is no reason to believe lhey would er no dastardly blow, as we have some- | think of that subject in its entirety,{ever have cause to regret i times heen led) to think. . {’bit rather the .soul and spirit of the Managers of winter golfing resorts | college. When that idea is- firmly es® in_the south have heen quick to meet |tablished a big steb will- have been new: conditions. " Those _elegant = tro- | made toward: a solution. phies of former years have - been| 'Those who believe ‘intercollegiate scrapped and the mug hunter who saw ['sport to be physical education can see visions of returning with a trunk. full | no solution by this means of our prob- of silverware because - the | younger | lem of evolying an athietic plan which players would be absent will. find con- | will make for sport for ell. As a result liking. = Entrance | they condemn intercollegiate sport. fees to the varions. and ' numerous | The broader view is to retain it asa tournaments have in many cases been | sub-division ~ of A physical ¢elevated, the same to go to the Red j:both as a goal to strive for and as a Cross,“and the winners are to be giv- | source “of "revenue for the carrying out en-medals bearing the sign of the Red | of some scheme Of physical @ucation. Cross.. ‘Golf in the South this tet | The cantonment idea .of spert is will be ‘more of an old man’sigame, so s rt for.all. It éventually may de- far as the male is concerned. In the op the champion,: but everyone is more popular centres—Pinehurst, Palm ilenired as an - active participant in those contests from which comes. the winner. There is no ‘“great .reason, aside from' the financial one, why such a sch&me may not proye practical in our colleges after the cantonment has shown the way. A similar z2nd.smaller organization along the same lines can be wofked out in the college . which Should prove especially efficient should golfing much like it should be: Of recent"years so has been the game a, tthese resorts, that all litks were cramped and overcrowded. . The public course at few Februarys saw as many as five ticipati by all normil undergradu- : hundred golteru doing the eighteen at ates. - Four years of such trdining dur- Palm Beach in one day. Our million- | ing college life would come near mak- aire never liked that sort of crowding|ing every graduate an athlete; well and a lesse: golfing _partici- | equippéd not ‘only with health - and. nging in. > pants wil? be pleasant news to him. |strength, bat with a love for sport He assyredly cannot object to high|'which would remain with him to his ta.xu inconvenient train scredules and | dying day & marny patriotic donations which) future man- will be asked of him—if h&pvu- did—- . now that he can play golf without . ing:- rushed. TET B, Vincent, Mflpt of the | REDS CHANGE TRAINING CAMPS General Education = Board ~ made ' a splendid address at the.zecent meetin; of the National egiate Athletic As- sociation, in which’ he pointed out the great” advantages.in the mass drill d ‘mean much for the er of this land., (Copyright, 118, by Sol Metzgér.) AS_A- PATRIOTIC MOVE. Wil Play Exhi ition - Games ; for sthe "/ Bénefit of Soldiers. ' Perhaps i no “more pau-kmc move could haye been made in baseball thdn that ofithe Cincinnati club in changing its training gquarters from ‘Shreveport, La., to ‘Montgomery, Ala.'to be in a posimm to play exhibition games with 2nd furnish -amusemeént " for - the' 'sol- diers 'in_camp at CamprSheridan. ‘A majority of the troops in'campat Montgomery are from Ohio’and many’ of 'them come from Cincinnati. i In making- the change Garry Tr- mann’disregarded-many ddvantages he might have had at Shreveport for: tie' pure patriotic' reason of furnishing al;:: and - entertainment for’ the 'sol~ of physical education of Denmark. - He ‘aléo let it be Known between the unau that he regretted our colleges ga: Hittle. opportunity r; such phyaical training and that intercollegiate ath- letics might be héld responsible for this.. He ‘had gretted very much that the good Lord bnd not endowed him The Reds have trained in S).\iuvepox;t for many years and have found it o of the most ideal camps in.the’ south. called | The players have made friends’ there, bote] atcommodations are’ excelient,,a education .| says he will ne Baseball is facing a snpremq test through -the duration of ‘the war. Its popularity at ‘the ‘end off the -war, should the ' conflict last“two or more years, is problematical’ and" the atti- tude of magnates will have a great deal to do ‘with the:outcome. After England had been at war for a year public presaiire was so brought to bear on/ professional athletes that most of ' them were forced to enligt. Even now the National Sporting clhrb of London, the oldest institution of its kind in the world, has informed ‘Amer- ican boxers that unless they come:in uniform they need not expeet to, be permitted to box before its membenrs. SPORTING NOTES Dick Hoblitzell - is' about ready to leave the hospital, where he was. op- erated .on about 2 month ago.. He will spend the next few weeks recuperating at Parkersburg, W. Va. George Whitted may ‘be lost’to ‘the Phillies 'when the next drafl issued, ~Whitted Wwill, be 'amq first to. be -drawn .as his number was almost reached-in the first call. Jack outfielder - of the . St. Louls Cardinals, 'is the first acknowl- edged Holdout of the season. Smith play ball unless he received $300 mere than Lhe contract sent'him by Ricky al ¥ Mflnager C!la.rk Griffith hss reached no° decisiort \as to his’training camp. He is considering. several:places, but | the choice appears tojirest 'between Tampa, Fla., and, Augusta, Ga.; where the Senatora trained last season. Phfladelphna critics be believe that Os- car ‘Dugey, - utilit; Lh Frank Schulte, -the "veteran uubflelder are.to be twrned loose by the Phillies pmba.bly as part payment for some- of the young players picked up by the Phflhe! Barney Dreyfuss. says.-that he had a- deal for the ‘purchase of Hornsby and - Snyder practically closed when Mrs, Helen Britten disposed of the St. Louls club to'the company wHich now operates the business. hen the deal el .t‘hrouxh —_— lbzees contrdet n'om the St. Louis, Browns calls. for- lss of i-mhlnlr-o u jioct them? You 3 oSy | tosth Ailed, e , *‘m@mm&m onmnm cups. wwm mm: VATH. BEBT WORK 3, - ]~ RoBet 3. cocflms'* the sum which he drew in 1917 Ma- gee has receiged $25,000 for the past three vears. The Brookfeds paid him $3,333.32 in 1915 and the Yankees paid the same each year in 1916 and 1917. There is a hitc Q:e h‘nsl‘& of Willie Stumpf from the Tacoma club to the Pirates. The. 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