The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-25
STONE WALL INFIELDs.
Mack Has the Only one-other Big
Managers Are Experimenting.

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1t is worthy of note that Connie Mack
is the only major league manager who
has an alright intield which needs no
improving. In McInnis, Collins, Baker
and Barry Mack has a real stone wall
defence. McGraw of the Giants hash
decided whether Fletcher or Shafer will
be the shortstop Chance S infeld on the
whole is an experiment. particularly
with Hal Chase at second base. Dahlen I
of the Brooklyns is putting Kirkpat /
rick against Bob Fisher at short field, /
the weak spot in the Dodgers inner
defence.
Evers of the Cubs is trying to fill /
Tinker s place with Bridwell, Corridor
of Berghammer. Callahan of the White
Sox hash t decided whether to play
Lord or Zeider at third base. Tinker of
the Reds is trying to distinguish be-
tween Grant and Almeida for the
same position. Fred Clarke of the Pr
ates is still experimenting with Butler
at second base, but must now try Me
! Carthy on the bag owing to Butler :
/ illness
/ Jake Stahi of the Red Sox, who
| wants to manage from the bench, is at
/ tempting to provide an able substitute
in Harold Janvrin for the first bag
Manager Stallings of the Boston Ma
tionals is mp against puzzle, Second
Baseman Sweeney being the only in
fielder sure of his position. Doom of the
Quakers still believes Magee ought to
play first base instead of Luderus and
is in doubt as to whether Lobert should
1 be kept on third. Hugh Jennings is
sure of Bush at shortstop, but the other
intield positions are in doubt Higgins
of the Cardinals is without the services
of Shortstop Hauser, who has a dislo-
Gated hip, while George Stovall of the
Browns is trying to develop a young
, ster to displace the veteran Wallace
at short field. Clark Griffith of the
l Washingtons is dissatisfied with La
porte at the middle bag and his scouts
( are looking for a new man. The Cleve-
lands, managed by Birmingham. again
will experiment with Chapman at short
stop, while Bates, recruit, may dis
place Turner at the third corner.
Bridgeport has quite an array of
baseball talent in organized baseball as
! the following list shows: Ray Heating,
= pitcher, New York Americans; Neal
Ball, infelder, Red Sox; Tom Downey,
infielder, Baltimore Orioles; Howard
Baker, infelder, Waterbury, Eeastern
= association; Al o Dell, infelder, At
a lanta, Southern league; Jack Egan
E catcher, Washington Americans; Jimmy
i o 'Rourke, infelder, ST. Paul, Ameri
can association.
Yale appears to be showing better
Il form in the Southern games than does
5 Princeton.
Frank Gotch has been training fol
I, some time for his match with Zurich
. He says he will be down to 215 pound,
: when he goes on the mat.
Although Cornell lost the indoor NEE
with Michigan Saturday John Pau
= Jones hung up a new two-mile recor,
: of 40 As. Those figures broke tn,
- Michigan indoor record.
i Mathewson is continually i'll breeding
# by referring again and again to the al
p legged mix-up between Wood and o 'Briel
during the last world s series, a stor,
that has been denied repeatedly by al
- of the Red Sox players.
- Young Foster is showing continue
N good form with the Red Sox. He wa
Il. developed by the same minor lcagu
% magnate who developed and sold Tri
If Speaker to the Red SoX.
is The Montpelier high school basket
es ball team claims the championship 0
secondary schools for the state and wit
40 reason. The team has not been defeate
- and scored 459 points to 181 by oppC
or nents. The Laird brothers, who were tn
~ most prominent players on the footba
o. team in the game with Brattlebor
~ high last fall, are the stars of tn
w. basketball team with Capt. Smith.
n Mare S. Wright, the Dartmout
nd pole vaulter and world : record holde
to broke the old record Saturday by vaul
ing II feet, six inches.
] An agreement on dates is all that Or,
IS vents the cinching of the big YAH
s. Harvard Oxford-Cam track NEE
IL Pop" Edgar, who played wit
% BrattIeboro two years ago, is coachin
ad the Connecticut agricultural colleg
p- team at Storrs. Edgar s home is i
es South Manchester and he will pla
tie during the summer with the club rel
as resenting that town, under the MAJ
)r. agement of Jimmy Koran, the forme
Brattleboro player. Koran is gettin
nv into condition by playing wit
as the Catholic university team in Wasl
I'm ington.
to The United States naval academ
1m baseball team, of which K. L. Brecl
in enridge is coach, defeated Pennsy
las vania to o at Annapolis Saturda
all Timely hitting gave the game to ii
a Middies.