The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-08
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
SPORTING NOTES.

SPORTING NOTES.
In a recently published ranking of col
lege baseball teams for the past season
the Springfield Republican places Will
liams college first, Princeton second
Brown third, and Vermont fourth.
The Keene club of the Twin State
league has former Virginia league
player on its pitching staff. He halls
from the western part Of Maryland.
Smell. the former Brown catcher and
now playing first base for the Brattle-
boro club of the Twin State league, is
hitting the ball for an average of .4es.
Mayforth of the same team is wallop-
ing for well over 800.
II is reported that Breckenridge, who
successfully coached baseball this past
year at the Annapolis naval college, will
return next year to his former position
at Amherst.
Morgan, the Washington second base
man, will soon be recognized as one of
the best second basemen in either league
| The youngster is very heady. He is
fielding like veteran and hitting like
a fiend.
Rivers, the young western lightweight,
who outpointed Ad Wolgast at Vernon,
Calf. on the Fourth, is anxious for a
return match. 1t can come none too
| soon to please the Los Angeles lad. He,
as we'll as the rest of the spectators,
was displeased over the decision. His
manager, Levy, stepped up and requested
| Referee Welsh to start the bout over,
but Welsh made tracks.
Jack johnson made S3l 900 of easy
money on the Fourth. Flynn is at
Las Vegas, nursing a broken nose. On
his way East, the big colored cham
pion attracted as many people to the
stations through which he passed as
ii he were the head of the nation. John
son says that all who desire an oppor
tunity to take the title away from him
win have TO struggle with him before
Labor day, for on that day he is to quit
the game.
Manager Hoey of the Waterbury, Con-
necticut league, team has suspended
Pitcher Parker until he rounds himself
into shape. ii Hoey could have had his
word Parker would have been released
long ago.
Old Orchard beach is booming into
ttit tiHltiiRht Us u NthISt. II may
not be long before the Maine seashore
will be rivaling the Palm Beach shore la
Florida II has long been asserted by
summer vacationists to be the best on
the Atlantic coast In the race meet
last week, some of the best auto racers
in the country were gathered there.
Jackson, the Cleveland star outfielder, |
who was leading the American league !
in batting week ago, has fattened his |
average this week so that he is sailing
well clear of 400.
1t seems that Harry Davis has struck |
Just the man he wanted in Griggs for |
first base. All his tryouts on that bag
were useless. Honnhorst was not up to |
expectations, and Lajoie fits in better
on second, making the infeld stronger,
Rube Waddel, for years associated
with the Philadelphia American league
team, tainted at the close of the St.
Paul Minneapolis game at Minneapolis
the other day and is now seriously i'll |
at his home. He is troubled with acute
indigestion.
For a toboggan speed record, the Ia
coma baseball club of the Northwestern
league stands far ahead of all other
teams in modern baseball. This club in
a week descended from first to last
place.
The returns from the football season
at Yale yielded better than any other
sport during the year just closed. Base
ball also brought in a round sum of
money.
In Australia, where they say that base
ball is making rapid Roadway, there are
on record two unassisted triple plays.
Hank O'Day will have to be content
this year with fourth position in the
league race. First place is out of the {
question as New York has blasted all +,
hopes of all the other contenders for the
position. The Cubs and Pirates are
little stronger than the yorktown boys,
them back into fourth place.
Many doubt if they are developed to re- I
tain that place. 4
Roy Peck, the Los Angeles profession {
nj motorcyclist and one of the best rid
ers in the West, defeated Arthur ChaPpln
Of New York at the latter's own stand !
on the afternoon of the Fourth. Races
Of this calibre give one line on the rela {
tive strength of the two men.
Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight, ,
won a decision over tommy DIXON on
Thursday at Cleveland. The young
champion has wonderful defense, max
ing it very difficult for Dixon to land :
him. Kilbane still retains his title as
champion. {
Interest in the National league PEN /
nant race this year is on the wsne. All !
interest now eenters in the American :
league. as it is foreSone conclusion
hat New York win capture the cloth q
With ease. In the American league be- :
fore the season is over there is to be a
, tough race between Boston. Washing /
on and Philadelphia, with a possibility Q
If Cleveland. /
President Farrell of the New York {
will not regret giving Ed a
Sweeney, his big backstop, raise in d
,alary. The big catcher since he came t
rom Chicago has greatly strengthened s