Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 6, 1918, Page 3

’ ISAAC S. JONES Richarde’ Building WR. 3. W. COOMBS of ume’ampton. R L writes that be put out a fire In & s of_letters I Te- of. the Phoenix Dry Exdnguishers. - Forty- near his home on eght fires shave put_out by & &3‘ Omderwritess Tiguid | Bxtin Why not have some of these WhmymFlRElNSUR- this | ‘varsity nines in New Yofl..m lo—AlM there | are not as’ many baseball games scheduled for decision. by the ehstern college_and wniversity teams thissea- son @s in normal years, there Will be close to 300 contests. played during the next three months,-weather per- mitting. About ninety per cent. of the institutions which have supported e b e sual lists of twenty' to thirty games hlve ‘been cut, (nmmflle!.tu‘hfll& If this number. unnwmpucmmuqummmm and in some instances outdoor prac- h],gh stapdard_that has marked this department of' intercollegiate sport competition in recent seasons. In many cases the regular’ three- game_series between ‘old-time rivals have been reduced to two and no pro- - | vision made for a third contest should the teams break even in the two & | matches scheduled. Wednesdays and Saturdays are the ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW “"EDWIN W. HIGGINS Attorney-at-Law N. L. Co. Mut. Fire Ins. Co. Bidg. 59 Broadawy. Brown & Perkins, Batrunce National Bank. Iierweys-at-Law Over Uncas Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. stairway near to Thames Telephone 38-3 favorite days for staging these college games, although almost every day of the week, except Sunday, finds a few scheduled. ' The greatest number of matches are planned for May and very few of the college teams will continue play after the first week of June, FURTHER ARRANGEMENT Seven Franchises Have Been Granted and Applications of Newark Are Be- ing Considered. EXHIBITION BASEBALL JBESULTS Houston, Texas, April 5.—Score: New York, April 5—After an all- day session which lasted until late to- night the promoters of the new In- Brookiyn Nationals . 5 11 0|ternational League adjourneq to meet Boston Americans . 8 3|again at Buffale on Thursday, April Coombs, Pfeffer and “'h?:lt Mc- |11, when a schedule for the coming Cabe, Jones and Agnew, Mayes. National Indoor Tennis Championship New York, April 5—S. Howard Vo- s title, and |J. shell, holder of the sin baseball season will be considered and adopted. The committee in charge of the schedule as appointed today con- sists of President J. H. Farrell, Joseph Lannin, Buffalo, and Charles T. ¥. B. Alexander won their semi-final |Chapin, Rochester. matches in the singles today national at the Seventh Regiment Armory. Voshell used his overhead dfter a brief period of unstea {0 defeat King Smith, 10-8, 6-3. erander, a triflie handicapped by fnfured ankle, matched strates: against speed to defeat William T. gen, st.-tnrmer Pennsylvania star, af , 10- Engle Goes to Southern League. Al Atlanta, Ga., April 5.—The Atlanta Southern Association club today 4 Pitcher Joe Engel ‘ashington Americans. pur: national League last Queensland Treasury returns February show that the 16 £686,000, as compared with £4S o@0gtor tire “tor £471,000; as” compared W £424,000. was £266,000, as compared last year. in the indoor tennis championship strokes, ess, an i from the| Engel played | |, with' the Buffalo team of the Inter- | (NIFLY 4ays of the glose of the season. for revenue | arvy 1947, &ndexpendl- The excess of expenditure | over revende for the last eight months ! with £210,000 for the corresponding period Seven clubs representing Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Bing- hamton, Baltimore and Jersey City capitalists, have been accepted to league membership. Three applica- » |tions from Newark, N, J., for the, re- maining franchise were under consid- ¢ | eration during the day. It was decided that no more than the regular war tax t|of te nper cent. would be added to th will be 28, 55 and 83 cents, according to the location of seats. Doubte head ers will not be allowed during the firs be allowed to transfer a_player within Th, club owners have agreed that th ying season should begin May 8 and nd September 15. .| NORWICH FAMILY MARKET Frults and Vegetables. #ead Lettuce, 15|Eex Plant, 1 Slwri. 5|Red Bananas, cthotuse Toma- WHY AND WHEREFORE OF TRAPSHOOTING. Local Sportsman Gives Concise De- scription of the Fascinating Sport. [y In response to a request for a_con- Cabbage, cise description of “clay bird” shoot- Carrots— ing. a local sportsman writes: giTable. ™. “In general, trapshooting consists of Teilow, - at. shooting with a shotzun at targets Wit ¥ ib, 10{thrown from traps. The targets or| ?,,, $1 u\ Limes, doz 15 | pizcons are made of either siver silt, eliow Bananas S5 Crvmberms, 20¢ | limestone or clay and pitch or tar, Grlvzfruh 6-13|Gar Apples. K. 60 | Figs. 0P Sk 25¢|Musbrooms, 1b, Table Apples, doz.," 0. Ments. Pork— Chops, Sparertba. 22|inside’ Round, Shoulders, 28| Shoulder Steal, Smoked Hams, 35 Emukca 3houl- Lfmb— Shoulders, There is a Noticeable Falling Off in Number of Games Scheduléd—Squads Smaller Than Usual This Year— % —_— FOR INTERNATIONAL MADE by | trip over the circuit and no club will ! nqlasdinto! s shape similax to that of a saucer. These are impelled by the releasing of a strong spring when the ord ‘Bullt’ is called to the trap bay. “The shooters, in squads, usually of five, take their places 16 or more yards | in the rear of the traps, and shoof in Fotation. “Your skilled trapshooter is a fellow ith steel nerves, guick and unerring manly qualities were s ment in the trapehooter as they are in the average mmunmmduotuatfiumpand gun took up this most fascinating of recreations. “Pew sports are as scientific as trap- shooting. The rapid calculation of lead elevation,: angle, etc., the nice decision and instant action guicken the eye and hand and deveiop qualities which make for success in the affairs of life. “Work at the traps drives away'brain fag, for thé reason that it requires in- tense concentration on a pleasurable pursait. Thus, the brain worker finds real relaxation in trapshooting, with- out the ‘physical exhaustion which in many games more than offsets the good effects of the xpentdl diversion.” ‘CHIPS FROM THE FLYING CLAYS Paragraphs of Interest to the Trap- shooter: and ‘Others ‘Interested.in the ‘Sport Alluring.” By PETER P. CARNEY Fditor National Sports Syndicate. There will be a shoot for the | championship of the Atlamtic Fleet, U. N, this year. Navy trapshooters are seeking bigger game that the clay | targets. Art Yancey and Tom, the trap- shooting goose; have taken up their| home in Memphis, Tenn. Yancey and the Goose put Jackson, Tenn., on the map. ‘Wherever Yancey shbots you will find the goose standing behind him. The only trapshooting squad made up of sporting writers has been broken up because E. R. Goodwin and Roscoe fawcett. bf the Portland Oregonian, {have joined Uncle Sam's All-American {team. to the number wn in Target of 120,000 were th the cleventh mid-win- |ter trapshooting tournament at Pine- hurst. . ment of Vermont Vol- is ecuipped with riot 10t is the medicine that ensed. The shotgun is {getting official recognition in- nearly every State. That loaded vowder zrows better ke some other things we of—was proven recently at Los i Fred Teeple of | 1ls that had | o Teeple broke straight and Hasling 21525, Brubaush) Mrs, ife_ of the. Gov=~ is ‘an, ardent being a pupil of -Annie a regular in the .Pine- Everding, King of Trapshoot- hoosters, v verding shot ils(ew:(l fevents shooter in the c at rgets in reg- hoots and 10,000 more .in club than any other The Memvhis (Ténn.) Gun Club nows when it has a good secretary. Edward Crooks. who has held down the b for seven years, was recently re- Clected. , of Washington, D. C., 00d 100" at Pinehurst nd 40 straight in, .ehuot off. | % | Theatrical companie 4mmgwn Del,, are that reach Wil- welcomed to the | borroweda gun from 2950; ring pheasants 1342; quail, 26,- 222; k, 25680; wild water fowl, Taccoons, 13,255; shore birds, 17,69 BOWLING AT THE PALACE Team No. 5. Nelson 123 86 105— 314 Bush 80 97 95— 283 Clarke 88 119 108— 315 Anderson 99 101 116— 316 {Murphy 95 96 126— 317 4 Team P Mellor Throw Zebraski . Ramsie . Petrone . Team Dunn | Harney. Clouthier Lesiman Kendall 444 470 434—1398 Team No. 4 { Brooke 110 117 80— 307 Peckham 89 81 118— 288 Barry 109— 295 evins 95— 289 cCarty 85— 279 457—1458 State Bowi Bridgeport, Conn., April 5—Mort Lindsey of this city today took six cut of nine zames rolled in the Con- of the patriotic sport and. fack Norworth gave the wumuumn traps a trial one iy Tt weelk. Not once in a thousand times' is it possible to pick the winner of a han- dicap’ shoot, but that it can be dene was proven at Pinehurst, when C. T. Summerson made a wager with H, E. Dickerman, of Cleveland, that he could pick the winner of the . preliminary handicap. Summerson wrote his - se- lection on a siip of paper, which was placed in an envelope and sealed. The event was won by Joseph Vause, of Chillicothe, O.. That was the name ‘on the slip when the envelope was opened. A singular incident in_con- nection with the event is that Vause ummerson in order to be able to participate in the Preliminary Handicap. More tnah 30,000 licensss weré granted to hunters in Pennsylvania in 1917, Nevada by a new statute protecting the elk makes the killing or possession of hides or meat a felony. California has passed a law which allows a hunter to hunt deer with-one dog during the open season. Minnesota has shortened the open season on game birds and reduced bag limits. One hundred and _sixty thousand hunting licenses and 30.000 trappirg li- censes were Issued in Wisconsin in 1917, 5 The Chinese Ring Necked Pheasants liberated a few years ago by public- spirited Coloradians, are becoming plentiful in the agricultural dist=ict | around Denver, north to the Wyor 3¢ State line ‘and extending eastward from the foot-hills to a distance of 50 miles. The 1917 report of the Pennsylvania Game Commissioner shows that 680 deer were killed legally and 106 7- legally. The report further shows other game killed as f -~ Bears, 368: rabbits 3 squir- rels. 179,400: grouse, 107: wild turkeys, necticdt State kpin Bowlinz Leaktie with *Admirar Dewey. also. ot Bridgeport. Lindsey rolled spectacu- larly in the seventh game, making tiree strikes and as many spares for a string of 140. The scores: Dewey 85, 96, 103, 113, 93, 114, 112, 96, | 107510 | Lindsey 125, 102, 114, 93, 106, 87, 95, 140, 116—978. Averages—Dewey 102; Lindsey 108. r Axa the nation. tions, der: 28] 35 Smsl‘ud Toznc’— 43’.1 MARKET EXTREMELY DULL. H ity Dried Beef, 60| 8 D . 1. o) - e i (Sales Were the Lowest Recorded Porterhouse Steak. 50| Broilers, Sirlotn, 50) Guln »as, each, §1. 2: 8ince August, 1916. New York, April §—The stock mar- Roast, Lket was' at a virtual standstill during JoR ] 28 o fif’::;; 4500 the greater part of todays session, Fore qs. | 38 exceeding all previous days of an ab- 50! normally dull week in' its unparalleled Sroverten. e apathy. Total sales amounted to 145, Sadiis— Kerosens om, 1000 sharss, the lowest recorded since “Tub, 0[St August, 1916. Creamery, 5| Gmmned, Resumption of the Germar. drive in en 10 1bs. $1.00| France accounted for tie further Am. Cheess 3t|Molasies cessation of operations, even the trad- -~ N ! oo | 118} clement. taking no' Interest in-the etive, Mapt course of prices. e Al O aP: ys.s0| TLesses of points among investment - Live R shares and as much as two points ¥n e specialties resulted from sheer indif- Beer Steers. oy ference or inertia. The market seemed @$14.50 Msoguasy | o thoroughly, liquidated that no pre- Veal Cabve Hogs, 7318 | text for p o’ existed. $1054 €.50 Bulls $71| The decision of the interstate com- m?v" $71@%10 | merce commission to inquire into pe- . Wool Skij Calven, > B 1 BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indi estion. Druggists money if it fails. 25¢ Bowling- THE AETNA - Billiards 7 ALLEYS Phone Conn. 6 TABLES troleum freight rates and institute a phydical valuation of varipus ‘tele- graph and cable companies caused 5 wgolL s scarcely a ripple among the shares of (%) s241 |the properties most concerned. A S, Other domestic developments swere Cornmeat $a.90| 2100 more constructive lies, general Hay, vaicd, trade advices offering further encour- g |agement and bank clearings holding well up to recent high levels. More time funds were avaflable at the long prevailing 6 per cent. rna Liberty issues an mrwheunmg quota. to the dars deal- ings in bonds at slight fractional re- Canned Badmon., | cessions. International issues were Cod, 25 | variable, French municipals harden- Halfbut, 20|ins. Total sales, par value, aggre- Salmon, #0-50 | gated $5,260,000. Flounders, 20| U. 5. bonds, old isyues, were un- Mackerel, 26-35 | changed on call. Tl 25 —_— STOCKS. Low. Close. Ki% 681 663 ey 57" 5t R LA 0% 40 38 B T 2 EEEFEE FEERT T | % |opened steady. 200 Coban ru:e Sozar 500 Do.. e 200 Wabash" ptd 100 West Overtand 2 Total sales 140,880 sharen, COTTON. New York, Aprfl 5.—Cotton fuzmes May 2445, July 33.7; October 32.38, December 32.05, Tfl.nuzu'y zxm Cotton spot quiet; middling MONEY. New York, -April — Call money firm; “high 4; low 4; ruling rate 4: offerea at 4; lasi closing bid 3 1-2; loan 4. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. SPORTING NOTES A youngster by the name.of Grabe- ki is showing up good in the box the Academy and may be sent for against the Collegians today. Raymond B. Case of this eity, who is faculty member of the Hartford Pub- lic High School A. A., gave a dinner % |to the members of the Hartford bas- % |etball squad Wednesday evening. Hartford high baseball will open to- day with Taft School at ‘Watertown. Among the players on the Capitol City team is Sam Suisman, who was a big factor in the Academy rout last fall, The marriage of Miss ‘Gertrude L. Lambden of New Rochelle, N. Y., to utenant Ronald V. Vaughn, of the S. Coast Artillery has been an- nounced. Vaughn was captain of the ; | Yale baseball team in 1916. Elmer Q. Oliphant, bane of the ex- istence of eleven young men calling themselves the U. S. Naval Academy football team, has broken another rec- ord at the military Academy. He won % |both the Edgertown and the Army A. A. prize sabres. This 1s the first time in the history of West Point that both sabres have been won by the same man, . College Games Today. At New Brunswick, N. J—Rutgers vs Ursinus. At South Bethlehem, Pa.—Lehigh vs Catholic University. At Washington, D. C.—Randolph Mason vs. Georgetown. At Carlisle, Pa—Dickinson vs, Al- bright. At_Baltimore, Mr.—Johns Hopkins vs. Western eryland At Bmmitsburg, Mr—Mt. St. Mary vs ‘Carlisle Indians. At Philadelphia—Penna. vs. Swarth- more, A At Annapolis, Md.—Navy vs, Ford- am. At West Point, N. Y.—Army Boston College. At New Haven—Yale vs Colonials. Cer;s New York—Columbia vs. Holy At Hoboken, N. J—Stevens vs. St. John'’s, vs. Candidates For the Iron Cross. Another player has been discovered, with nerve enough to wear a mustache in the major leagues, and, like the two mwost recent wearers of hirsute adorn- ment of the upper lip, the latest is a catcher. He is Ed Ghan‘(!y of the Sen- ators. ity insists that he's. go- ing to keep his camouflage, come what Open. High. Low’ %Close. L% 1% 18 g ) se ssw % BY S UM% L8k may, but his friends are warning him that’ when the fans take hold of him he'll drop it quick. Wally Schang cre- ' | Umted States Tires are Good Tires B s : ‘Both requirements are fully met by United States Tires. 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Let him give you the careful and cour: teous service that goes with United States Tires and United States principles of domg business. “Usco’ i i ggw; i ‘Plain’ PHONE 212 ated somewhat of a sensation in American league circles a year ago when he appeared in a game With a full grown jet black mustache, ang he had to take all sorts of kidding from the fans before he told the barber to mow it off. Then John Henry showed some. real nerve by allowing his foliage to sprout on,his upper-lip, but he, too, had to give in to the clamoring of ‘the fans to have the decoration removed. It was stylish in the old days for the players to have mustaches or beards, but of late years, or until Schang showed his nerve, neither of these has been worn by a major leaguer. ROSS BETTERS ANOTHER WORLD’S RECORD Was In an Exhibition Swim So Does Not Stand. Francisco. who broke four world's swimming records last night, swam 500 yards in 5:53 1-5. nearly 11 seconds faster than the former indoor world's records, at the Natlonal A. A. U. swimming meet which ended here to- night. The mark will not stand as a record. however, as it was made in an exhibition. In the National A. A. U. 100 yards women's swim. Miss Olga Dorfner of Philadelphia. finished first, making the distance in 1:0 1-5. State Bowling. New Haven, Conn., April 5.—John- son, of New Haven, defeated Fran- chini, of Naugatuck, five games to four in a state duckpin bowling tournament match here tonight. The score: Johnson 97 113, 93. 111, 94, 105, 111, 118, 113—total 955; average 106. Franchini 98, 9. 112; 107, 105, 97, 117, 100, 106—total 941; average 104. Eleven Games For Brown. Providence, R. L, April 5—Manager William Fay of the Brown University baseball team tonight announced that eleven games have already heen War- ranged for the spring schedule. six of them -to be played, in Providence. The first game is scheduled for April 13 at Providence. “Thousands of Seals. In the absence of the Hersilia an Chicago, ' April 5—Norman Ross of | Argefitine vessel. the Espirito" Santo, touched at the -Falklands for; water. Her captain told young Paimer. that 'he wag bound for a place where: there were thousands of seals.. - : The Angentine sailecaway before the Hersilia came back, but on his vessel's return young Palmer. insisted-that she put after the Espirito Santo in“hope of finding the strange island. This was done,-and after mazy -days sailing the Yankee brig founid-not:only the. vessel she had followed. but:islands to that time unknown.in North Amer- ica, the South Shetlands. In 1821 Natheniel Palmer, ‘48 com- mander of a Stonington. sloop,’ the T Hero, sailed again to the lands . for se Jei nearly _extermirated farthér and farther in 1 search of sealing grounds, stopping only when he sighted land no down chart. There © #nd beyond them a wild coa dim - mountains: % One. night the Hero if a thick fog-tiat env ‘a 'blanket. After taking at the helm struck one sound repeated twice. happened at ‘two bells \ and on becalme: ed her 1i the -deck ‘midnight for- the middle watch, Capta Palmer was astonished when his 11, to hear t The same thing so “on perstition had! days, and the were alarmed. lifted a little vere seen not After the 1s run up at.the 0, one of the war de with an in- through the not Teft the & h. eas in th | ships sent a 1 | vitation' from Ci Y‘ellmg» hausen, of the Ru: ‘eaptain cf on b i r‘mmm "Taimer went just as he was, dressed sou'wester.| 1 The scene trasts when_ ¢ one of impressive con-i Palmer stepped linto the conimander's,luxurious cabin. The polished, accomplished Russian comander insisted on sitting down. to luncheon with the rugged youns Yankee in sea boois, a meal tthat found elaborate after Hero. o Captain’ Palmer the fare on the The Russian officer had been. two on of discovery. e mined keenly the chart and 1ogbook Hero and questioned Captain at length concerning the land fim: hand head, an | have-discovered nonor; but and the. 2 —+T nzme the land you t master boy, 3 Lulv larger than T-lands named Peter and Alexandsr Jare still so designated on charts of that part of the Antarctic; But the land found by the boy captain of Stonington appears on every chartiof ‘| that - part the: world ‘as “Palnier Archipelag ok Tt was nearly twenty years after Cap- tain' Palme! overy that the rimsaf {the Antarctic continent was explor 1 by an Englis the femous Erebus and Terror ex- Wf en Ory FOR FLETCHER'S 'cASToé THBRE is mo advertising me Eastern Connecticut equal to The Bul letin for business res ‘Palmer Land’ in your| in =earch ‘of { overed by a! 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