Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 3

FOR EVERYTHING INSURABLE 4 L. LATHROP & SONS ™ Shetucket Strest Norwich, Conn. . The Y. M. C. A, wrestling ment opened in full swing Wednesday institution. Wrestling is a branch of sport that en indulged in during the evening - at the local d the sport Physical Direotor ¢ were five fast bouts and _exciting, the wrestlers showing vonsiderable, skill for begin- lliams wrestled to a draw ners, . Ed. V Wwith Del limit. Hus: minutes. T Carlo in 7 1-2 minutes. Fred Williams of the local rlo and Poloski in Our Companies are the kind that ave REAL safeguards against fire dis- | ski_got a fall £ 3 tion wrestled to a draw_with John astire. INSURE HERE and.you'rs Amy “of the Submarine Base. Amy nafe. was a member of the Gary Y. M. C. A. wrestlin; pionship ¥ There was an ISAAC S. JONES tnsurance and Real Estats Agent Richards’ Buil the 1 ntere: ‘h the largest ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Beown & Perkins, Qver Uncas Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. | Eotrunce stairwcy near to Thames National Bank. Telephone 38-5 ‘I'risn; was in pen Wil . Cr KAUFF'S ARMS MAY toi KEEP HIM OUT OF SERVICE | Benny Has Many Deformities on His Hands and Arms. JOHNSON MAY CHANEE The news that little Benny Kautt|Was Surprised When Sapers of the Giants has waived exemption and has been placed in Class 1-A of the draft list means that in all prob- ability Benny will be in the army by July at’the latest. That is, of course, providing he can pass the physical ex- amnination. While Kauff is a disgustingly heal- tay lad, there is some doubt of his ability to measure up to army require- ments. In the first place his arms are not of the same lensth and in the «acond place, his fingers are twisted lige corkscrews. These physicui defects do not in- terfere with his ball playing. They gy bar him from the army, however, ler Heinie Groh, of the Cincinnati Reds is gald to have beei rejected on.phy- sieal examination on the ground that his fingers were bent in such a way a8 to urevent his handling a rifie pro- Chicago, Jan. 30.—Preaiden Johnson of the American again and have all = the 16, instead of the four ea starting one day earlier western. It ‘was the intention of present the fact that the 15 instead of one dav later, publicity given the change Kauff has had a hankering to get ver since the United} e with Germany. Only the; lie is the main support of y has prevented his :volun- MARKET WAS IRREGU earing When the news that divlomatic re- ations with the kaiser were smashed irst came out the Giants were on way north last spring and play- ng an_exhibition game_with the De- roit Tigers at the to of Manhat- 1, Kauff counidn’t think cr talk 3 % but the war when he Licurd { - New York, Jan. 36 ditions governed tc:: traceable to traders’ comm:! lopmenta outcerne of meeting evidentiy counted., Rails « said then, was to} oSl some kind cf an ar- sald that he had oL a gun from the left sl:o ad of the right and fea s would keep him out of the were dnll th Tlis Kidney li;f;ledy Civ;s Splendid Satisfaction ! i o) S i 1 wish to e that I have sold Dr. Kiimer's Swawap-Koot since the be- | ginning of its manufacture and al-. ways recommend it in the troubles| for which it is intended and have!tween American newer had a single bottle re ed to | interests istrengl me. From personsl experience in{g&roup and metals were res lsewhere amendment to roads out handling this reliable remedy I am|an increase of private consumntion. fident that it has cwative quali-| Poois relieved the mcnoto ties, and my customers praise it very|dull afternoon by fre highly. 1 have just opened a new |variety of speciaities store, the largest in Vermont, and |Zers and allied issue: 1 hope fo have aa increased sale on|shares of the class repre: our product. ral Motors and Industrial Vay iy e, ved their stimulus from LOUTS €. RI | ! May 8. 1916. Montpelier, Vermont. | 1Tnited & and. a fe { leaders rallving fractional Letter to | setback of the intermediate Dr, Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Prove What Swamp-Root Will DoFor You threw Dawley in 13 team and was a cham- ng exhibition basketball game, following the wrest- T lar meeting of the scnior vears Physice! Director R. the ussociation BIG LEAQUE OPENING the News of fhe League Opering. iern teams than Price Changes Were Caused by Shift- ing of Traders’ Commitments. having been dis- and uncertain of esented by led at“ihe close, | {from th Sales amounted to 465,000 shares. Bonds were irregular, a few specu- lative industrials advancing one to 2 1-2 points. All the Liberty issues re- corded new minimums, 2 1-2's declin- e ] tourna~ own statement, surprised to read it /n the is being | Dreyfus: Crosby. which | in We saw no press repr the next morning the ni ed: the time date, April 16." “BILL” CORRIGAN WILL rom Del associa- Emergency. Boston. Jan. 30.—That number gle War Me. cluded a The gift ams in oshy re- help out the Red Sox emergency. in Printed t B B April Intercollegiate Title. eastern an- | Many Fast Interesting Bouts Mark Opening Night of Tourna- ment—Williams and Amy Put Up Good Exhibition— | Physical Director Crosby Presented With Traveling Kit. noyed Mr, Johnsom, according to his “That wasn't ready for the public,” #aid President Johnson, “and I was papers. Heydler, Harridge and my- self finished the drafting of.the dates Pittsburgh late in the afternoon. éntatives, but ‘was prini There, was a weak somewhere, We may switch back to the original MANAGE RED 80X ls Opinien of Many Sport Writers— Says He is Willing to Help in an T “Bill" Car- rigan would be manager of the Boston American League baseball club this scason was the prediction made by baseball writers here tonight. former catcher and manager o team is now a banker at Lewiston, He said over the long distance telephone today that he was ready to the war ‘“Jack” Barry, the present manager, ‘'who succeeded Carrigan when the lat- retired from baseball two years 280, is a yeoman in the navy and will not be able to play ball this year. Heathcote Signs Contract. St. Louis, Jan. 30.—Branch Rickey, president of the St. Louis National today announced that Clifford Heath- cote of Pennsylvania State College, an outfielder, had signed a St. Louis con- rague said | tract, today that he might chazre things| Amarican e clubs begin the season | YALE'S BASKETBALL HOPES HAVE BEEN SHATTERED ¢ Blug Has Small Chance of Winning | the sched-} ule committee to withhold for Yale’s hope of scooping the intér teams were to begin playing ball April| collegiate basketball championship has the : apparently gone aglimmeéring becausa f the defeat by the Princeton quin- URSDAY. e LAR | 2406 Crucible Steel 130 Cuba Cane Sugar Cubu_Cane S pr & Hudson Del. Lack & W . Den & Rio-G pr Dome_Mines . 809 Gaston Wrs 1a0n G Frac 1806 Gen Motor Corp o] i 19190 Gen Motor Cerp afinznee | M S e 200 Gocdrich B F 106 Granby - Mining 0 85" et e pre | priced § Alcohol w other period. Send ten cents to Dr. Kiimer & Co., ing to 97.30, first 4’s to 96.50 and sec- Binghamton, N. 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As' Yale lost ifs ‘match to the University of Pennsylvania a week ago by ‘a one-sided score, the.team’s supporters fear that the five is not strong enough to finish in the lead in the championship race. It's only vic- tory to date was over. Dartmouti, at Hanover two weeks ago. Yale’s only hope of finishing in the premier position lies in a remarkable reversal of form, turming the tables oa Penn here and outscoring Prince- ton at Tigertown in the annual bout there. This the staunchest support- ers of the team see no prospect of the five heing able to do. Its defensive game has been consistently weak, and the experiment made Saturday of using Radcliffe Dunn in the guard p sition was not successful, as that play er lacks avoirdupois to withstand such an attack as the Tiger and the Qua- ker quintets have used this season. The team suffered a severe blow | when Bushby left the squad. He was the most promising of the guard can- didates, and the defense of the team, which has been ragged all season, wa. rapidly becoming stiffened .when he was compelled by circumstances ef- fecting his college standing to retir Dann is cleyer and fast, but not heavy enough for the ideal intercollegiate defensive, player. BOWLING Elks’ Tournament. The match at the Elks' alleys last night between Teams 3 and 6 resulted in Team 6 winning two out of the three games. Combies of Team 3 bowled high single with 132 and high tiree string wifh 315, closely followed by Madden, who rolled a high single of 126 ang total of 309. The match was very exciting and both teams worked hard to win. A larze crowd witnessed the contest showing the popularity of the game. .Friday night Teams 2 and 4 will bowl and 2 good match is expected. Scores: Team 3. Harrington 67 30 Somers 80 Lyons 86 J. Young . 94 Combies .. 9% 473—1341 lahan . Madden Quinn Ring Tilley — 247 309 436 PALACE LEAGUE. Team No. 1. 95 Nelson Bush Smith Anderson 58 Wevins: ...... 21 204 280 101— 294 cdmansee l.eop ;I} 504—1454 AETNA ALLEYS. Willimantic Five. CHAPTER IIT What Has Gone Before Upon - enlistment we had identifica- tion disks issued to us. ' These .were Small disks of red fiber worn around the neck by means of a strihg. Most of the Tommies also used a little metal disk which they wore tround ‘the left | wrist by means of a chaim They had previously figured it out that if their heads were blown ofi the disk on the lett wrist would identify them. If they ilost their left arm /the disk *would serve the purpose, but if their head and left arm were blown off no one would care who they were, so it did not matter. On one side of the disk was inscribed your rank, name num- ber and battalion; while on ‘the other was stamped your religion. C. of E, meamng Churchd of Eng-} {land; R. C., Roman Catholic: W.. Wes- | leyan; P. Presbyterian; but if you jhappened to be an atheist they left it blank ,and just handed you a ick and shovel. On my#disk was stamped C. of B., This is how 1 got it: The lieu- tenant who ‘enlisted me asked my re- ligion. I was not sure of the religion | of the British army, so 1 answered } “Oh, any old thing™ and he promptly | put down C of E. Now, just imagine my hard luck. Out of five religions I was unlucky enough to pick the only one where church parade was compulsory! The next morning was Sunday. I was sitting in the billett writing home to my sister teling her of my wonder- ful explots while under fire—all re- ctuits do this. The. sergeant-major put his head in the door of the billet | and shouted: “C. of E. outside for church parade!” I kept on writing. Turning to me in a loud voice. he asked, “Empey, aren’t you C. of E.?" 1 answered, “Yep.” In an angry tone, he commanded, “Don’t you ‘vep' 'me. Say ‘Yes, ser- geant-major.’ " I did so. Somewhat mollified, he; ordered. “Outside- for church parade.” 1 looked up and answered, “I am not going to church this morning.” H He said, “Oh, yes you are!” I answered, “Oh. no I'm not!"—But 1 went. ‘We lined up outside with rifles and bayonets, 120 rounds of ammunition, wearing our tin hats and the march to church began. After marching about five kilos, we . turned off the road into an open field. At one end of this field the chaplain was stand- ing in a limber. We formed a semi-‘ circle around him. Overhead there was a black speck circling round and round in the sky. This was a Ger- man Fokker. The chaplain had a book in his left hand—left eye on the book—right eye on the aeroplane. We Tommies were lucky, we had no books, so had both eyes on the aero- plane. After church parade e marched back “to our billets, played football all afternoon. CHAPTER IV nto the Trench” The next morning the draft was in- spected by our general, and we were assigned to different companies. The boys in the brigade had nicknamed this general Old Pepper, and- he cer- tainly earned -the sobriquet. I was assigned to B company with another American named -Stewart. For the next ten days we ‘rested,” repairing roads for the Frenchies, drilling, and digging bombing trench- es. One morning we were informed that we were going up the line, and our march began. It took us three days to reach re- serve billets—each day’s march bring- ing the sound of the guns nearer and nearer. At night way off in the dis- tance we could see their flashes, which lighted up the sky with a red glare. Against the horizon we could see numerous observation balloons or “sausages,” as they are called. On the afternoon of the third day’s march were and [OVERTHETO . Copyright by ARTHUR GUY EMPEY I .witnessed my first aeroplane being shelled. A thrill ran through me and The aeroplane was masing wide circles in the air, while little puffs of white smoke were burst- ap- | peared like tiny balls' of cotton, while after each burst could be heard a duil The sergeant of my platoon | German he | could tell from such a distance, be- | tause: the. plane seemed ' like ‘a little 1 expressed my doubt as to whether it was Eng-‘ With a look us that the allied antiaircraft shells when exploding emitted white smoke, while the German shells gave forth black “It our and I know bally nappers and are certainly not strafeing our own planes, and another piece of advice—don't chuck your weight about and 1 ‘gazed in awe. ing .all around These puifs “plop.” informed us that it was a aeroplane, and I wondered how black ‘speck in the sky. lish, French or German. of contempt he furthér informed smoke, and, as he expressed it must be an Allenmand because pom-poms_are shelling, our batteries are not off their until you've been learnt’ something.” I immediately quit weight about” from that time on. up the line Just before reaching reserve billets we were marching along laughing and singing one of Tommy’s trench ditties 80 I dom't want to go to the trenches no L “I want to go home 1 want to home, more. ‘Where sausages and whizz-bangs are galore. Take me over, the sea, where the Alle- mand can’t get at me, Oh, my, I don’t want to die, I want to go home"— when overhead came a three others. “chucking .my “swish” through - the air, rapidly ‘followed by Then about 200 yards| to our left in a large field. four col- umns of black earth and smoke rose into the air, and the groun dtrembled from the report—the explosion of four | By ARTHUR GUY EMPEY @ AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO SERVED AS A MACHINE ? GUNNER IN FRANCE AND WENT. front line. It was dark as pitch. now and then a German star shell would pierce the blackness out front with its silvery light. I was trembling all over, and felt very lone- Iy and afraid. All orders were given in whispers. The company we re- lieved filed past us and disappeared into the blackness of the communi- cation trench leading to the rear. As they passed us, they whispered, “The best 0’ luck mates. I sat on the fire step of the trench { with the rest of the men. 1In each traverse two of the older men had been put on guard with their heads sticking over the top, and with their eyes trying to pierce the blackness in “No Man's Land.” - In this trench there were enly two dugouts, and these were used by Lewis and Vickers, machine gunners, so it was the fire step for ours. Pretty soon it started to rain. We put on our “‘macks”, but they were not much protection. The rain trickléd down our backs, and it was not long before we were wet and cold. How I passed that night I will never know, but without any unusual occwrrence. dawn arrived. The word “stand down” was passed along the line, and the sentries got down off the fire step. Pretty soon the rum ‘issue came along, and it was a Godsend. It warmed our chilled bodies and put new life into us. Then from the communication trenches came dixies or iron pots, filled with steaming tea, which had two wooden stakes through their handles, and were carried by two men. I filled my | canteen and drank the hot tea without taking it from my lips. Tt was not long before T was asleep in th® mud on the fire step. My ambition had been attained! I was in a front line trench on the western front, and oh how I wished I were back in Jersey City. German five-nine’s, or ‘“coal-boxes.” CHAPTER. V A sharp whistle blast, immediately Mud, Rats and Shells followed by two short onmes, rang out from the head of our column. ‘We divided into small squads salvo. shell fire. Fro all enthusiasm, solumns of fours and proceeded on our way. About five that night, we reached the ruined village of H—, and 1 got my first sight of the awful destruction caused by German Kultur. Marching down the main street we came to the heart of the village, and took up quarters in shell-proof cellars shell).. Shells were constantly whistling over the village and bursting in our rear, (shell-proof until hit by a searching for our artillery. These cellars were cold, damp and smelly, and overrun with large rats— Most of the Tom- mies slept with their overcoats over In the middle The had T immediately smothered myself. in my overcoat, but could not sleep for the.rest of the big black fellows. their faces. I did not. of the night I woke up in terror. cold, clammy feet of a rat passed over my face. night. Next morning we sector of the line. wended our way through a communication trench, six deep with mud. This called “Whiskey Street.” on our right and left. crumpled nel-proof helmet. weak. I felt In about 30 minutes we reached the This was to take up “artillery formation.” and went into the fields on the right and left of the road ,and crouched on the ground. No other shells followed this It was our first baptism by the waist up 1 was ut from there down, took over our In single file we zigrag inches trench was On our way up to the front line an occasional flare of bursting shrapnel would light up the sky and we could hear the frag- ments slapping the ground above us Then a Fritz ‘would traverse back and forth with his “typewriter” or machine gun. The, man in front of me named Prentice up without a word. A piece of shell had gone through his shrap- sick and I must bave slept for two or theee hours, not the.refreshing kind that re- sults from clean sheets and soft’ pil- lows, but the sleep that comes from cold, wet and sheer exhaustion. Suddenly, the earth seemed to shake and a thunderclap burst in my ears— I was splashed all over with sticky mud, and men were picking themselves i everything was missing. 1 thought I|UpP from the bottom of the trench. should die with fright. The parapet on my left had toppled After a while, we re-formed into|into the trench, completely blocking it with a wall of tossed-up earth. The man on my left lay still. T rubbed the mud from my face, and an awful sight met my gaze—his head was smashed to a pulp, 2nd his steel hel- met was full of brains and blood. A German “Minnie” (trench mortar) had exploded in the next traverse. Men Were digging into the soft mass of mud in a frenzy of haste. Stretcher- bearers came up the trench on the double. After a few minutes of dig- ging, three, still, muddy forms on stretchers were carried down the com- munication trench to the rear. Soon they would be resting “somewhere in France,” with a little wooden eross over their heads. They had done their bit for King and Country, had died without firing a shot, but their services were appreciated, meverthe- less. .Later on, I found out their names. They. belong to our draft. I was dazed and motionless. Sud- denly a shovel was pushed into my hands, and a rough but kimdly voice said: “Here, my lad, lend a band clearing the trench, but keep your head down, and look out for snipers. One of the Fritz’s is a daisy, and he! get you if you’re not careful.” Lying on my belly on the bottom of the trench, I filled sandbags wth the sticky mud they were dragged to my rear by the other men, and the work of rebulding the parapet was on. The harder 1 worked, the better I feit. Although the weather was cold, I was soaked with sweat (Continued Tomorrow) | Schneider . 84 86— 285 { “unning} 99 102— 274 94 T4— 312 93 87— 283 110 127— 240 185 4Ts—1403 Norwich Five, EeHoney ... 83 99 85— 258 Male: 11 8T 100— 298 Follenius 95 14t 114— 353 Johnson .88 79 102— 269 Bibeault .91 90 113— 204 / 463 490 5141472 Shoe Salesmen. 91 . T3— %4 87 86— 268 106 90— 309 L. 4 9 85 94— 276 Bowne 86 92 92— 270 i1 sl s Honolulu Five From Baltic. Swanson ... 96 88 81— 265 G. Almquist 95 85 88— 268 Jones ......... ‘90 83 80— 253 A. Almquist 98 85 84— 267 Hines .... 93 83 83— 28 472 424 4161312 Anent Bighead Riley. “Ever hear the true story of Bighead Riley?” queried & veteran billiardist. “Well, Riley was a billiard player in the *70s and ’80s and made his head- quarters in Detroit, the home of John Sereiter, another player of note. Riley ‘was about five feet six inches tall and weighed 97 pounds, but had a head so remarkably large that his sobriquet of ‘Bighead’ was inevitable. At times when the billiard industry was slow Riley and his friends rad a sure meth- od of replenishing the exchequer. Riley would go up to the top story of Fire- men’s hall and put his head out of a window. His confederates would stop pedestrians and get’them to bet on Fact!” ForR THAT ESRLE S 9 ON THE WAR PATH SPORTING NOTES Jim Coffey vs. Jack Dempsey, the coast heavy, is another ‘heavyweight bout that may be seen in this vicinity in the near future. Against each other they would make a great contest. Tommy Robson of“Malden. Mass,, and Walter Mohr of New York are on the schedule for the next feature bout at the Douglas A. C. at Chelsea, Mgss. On paper it shapes up as one classy muss. \ Bernie Wefers has issued a call for track candidates at Fordham universi- ty. Several scholastic graduates are booked for the Bronx college and when these are enrolled Wefers expects to have the makings of a strong track team. e R e The long awaited announcement of the Pennsylvania university relay races has been made. Yale, Harvard, Cor- nell, Columbia, Princeton, Chicago, Dartriouth and other big colleges will enter teams this year. The event will be held in April as in previous years. Fans who have seen Weinert and Cowler in action like the big Jerseyite to come through a victor in tonight’s contest in Boston. Whether he does or not, if the men box straight rules and the club referee keeps ’'em going the fans are in for 12 rounds of stiff biffing. Frankie PBritt and Shaver O’Brien are reported as matched for next week ACLEA at the Armory A. A, Boston, which should be productive of considemable action, though the Whaler has already defeated him. Rather looks as though the Whaler did not care to meet Gus- sie Lewis of Philadelphia, who has been challenging him for weeks. Joe Pepe Heard From. Joe Pepe,"a member of the New Ha- fous to return to that city. In a latter received by President Collins of the club recenily Pepe, writing from his home in Binghamton, N. C., stated that he is a free agent and would welcome an opportunity to perform again. Pepe played good bali at shortstop for the Binghamton club of the New Yurk State league last season and would uxexa-nubtedly-flll in nicely in the im-- ven baseball champions-of 1912, is anx- | fi > IS THE BURNING QUESTION OF THE DAY. 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