The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-25
SPORTING NOTES.

Ora Morningstar, the holder OF the
is'i billiard championship, will place his
title IN jeopardy on March 10 when vii.
lie Hoppe tackles him. The former has
held THIS title for some time and Hoppe
intends TO wrest il from him.
When Connie Mack and his band OF
baseball talent left to-day for San An.
tonic, Tex the veteran Harry Davis
mad reservations made for the trip.
Mack succeeded in securing Davis for
The coming year. Davis managed the
Maps last season, but before going 10
Cleveland he captained the Athletics for
six successive seasons.
This week vii see the migration of
both clubs representing Boston in the
major leagues to their training quarters
in the south. The Braves will be at
Athens, Ga, in full force by next Sun
day. vanguard OF the Red Sox will
start their way to Hot Springs, Ark,
this week but Il will be some time next
week before the full contingent will be
~ readiness to assume the burdens OF
preliminary practice.
shorty" Fiske has not appeared on
basket ball court this winter since he
played with the Tufts team in this city
against the Shamrocks. This game was
early in the season. Fiske sustained
an injured knee and has been troubled
TO some extent since.
BY merit OF its showing in the Hart
ford games on Saturday it is apparent
that Dartmouth will be prominent con
tender in the intercollegiate athletic
meet this spring. Harry Hillman has
met with wonderful success in develop
ing his outfit and is confident that they
win make stronger showing than in
former years.
Syracuse has a protege in the pole
vaulting event. Kenneth Il. Curtis,
while a student at The Tome school,
made record of III feet 9 inches. This |
season he is freshman at Syracuse.
Freddie Welsh, the British lightweight |
boxer, will sail for the United States
during the middle Of March and will i'm
mediately, on landing on this side, issue
challenges TO Willie Richie and Ad VOL
CAST, the two foremost lightweight
lighters in America.
Princeton has lost the services of NJ.
:. Hayes, the half-miler, for this year,
rs the result of failure in mid-year ex-
Hayes was the best middle
distance man at Princeton, but his place
viii be filed by Mckenzie, the former
Exeter academy half-miler. Mckenzie
lolds the lnterscholastic half-mile record
md under the watchful. eye of Keene
he will progress.
President McAleer of the worlds
hampiors is hot on the trail to bring
bobby Wallace to Boston. McAleer has
een a constant admirer of Wallace ever
ince the latter broke into major league
all. McAleer figures out that with
Wallace on the Red Sox squad an able
nfielder would be available to replace
basemen. Wagner is in
onstant danger by his hazardous means
t blocking base runners. During the
ear Wagner averages few weeks
ay-off on account of this cltopping
own that he is subject to. When Wal
ice leaves this week for the South.
e starts on his eighteenth year of major
,ague ball.
Charles Wheatley, recruit Detroit
licked up from the Springfield, O., club
the Central league last year, has
gned his contract for 1913. He was
sed few games last fall by the Tigers
nd Jared well. Wheatley has been in
Professional baseball for four years and
still in his teens. s
1t is said that Chief Meyers for the
iants did not know any more about
isebail when he Joined McGraw than /
IN Thorpe knows to-day. MeGraw I
lould pray, ii such is the case, that
horpe shows the adeptness of Meyers. !
The directors of the Western league
I've completed their baseball schedule
r the coming year. The list will be
imposed of l6s games, commencing on T
pril Is and continuing until October S.
The candle-pin bowling match be-
1een Paul Poehler and John Christie c
Ter which was to have been held at u
'ston the latter part of this month,
S been postponed by the former until :,
e middle of April. The match will be :
r the championship of the world y