The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-06
SPORTING NOTES.

Charles P. Rice of Uxbridge, Mass
the great rival Of Howard Drew, the
Springfield lad, entered the University
of Maine. He will be valuable addi-
| tion to the Maine track team and should
prove a prominent condter for sprint
ing honors in New England and other
eastern colleges.
One of the big surprises OF Saturday :
football games was the outcome of the
Dartmouth-Colby game. The week pre-
vious, Colby went to Providence and hui
inflated Brown with 10 to 0 defeat.
Colby was expected at least to make
things interesting for Dartmouth, but
the match proved to be runaway af-
fair.
Final arrangements have been made
between Penn state and Harvard for
the game to replace the Norwich game,
which was cancelled because Of the
death of Vernon Belyea. Penn state
should make an interesting game for
the Crimson.
A surprise found in the results OF Sat.
urday's football games was the defeat
of Holy Cross by Massachusetts Aggie.
Boland, who played quarterback on
the Lafayette college team three years
ago, has been declared ineligible at
Princeton.
MlEh interest is taken in football at
vilIanoya this season. Already there
have been four teams constantly drilling
daily.
Tommy Connell, who played quarter
back on the Yale football team last
fall. has been shifted to halfback, where
de is performing creditably.
The University Of Washington base
bali team is touring Japan at present,
playing the most prominent japanese
college teams.
The major league baseball clubs in
the East completed the present season
Saturday, while the western clubs
brought the season to grand close
Sunday.
+. C. Hapgood, well known in Barre.
is again officiating at football games
this fall Saturday he acted as referee
Of the Tufts.New Hampshire state game.
Ralph Rose, the famous shot putter, is
critically i'll at his home at San Fran
cisco with typhoid fever. Rose IS the
champion shot putter of the world.
The Boston clubs finished closely for
positions in their various leagues. The
Red Sox, last season champions of the
world, were barely able to land in first
division, ranking fourth in standing. The
lowlly Braves proved true to early spring
predictions and moved up from the eel
lar to fifth position in the National
league.
candy" Smith, the veteran coach
known through his affiliations with
Pennsylvania of late years. is now
coaching at Perdue university at la
fsyette, Ind. Smith was last season in
charge of the Penn team, being succeed
ed by George Brooks.
Manager Jimmy Callahan of the Chi
cago White Sox is being hailed as the
to have smoothed over the differences ex-
listing between Lord, Chase, 0Brien and
Cicotte.
The St Louis Browns have a long
list of excellent pitchers at present, but
badly need strengthening in other de-
partments of the game. The Browns
list OF pitching material is as follows:
Leverenz. Welman, Hamilton. Schwenk, |
Stone, Charlie Taylor and |
Roy Mitchell. Many persons are advis |
ing Manager Hickey to trade off some |
Of the surplus pitching matter for men
to bolster up the other positions on the
team.
Clyde Engle, the husky infelder OF
the Boston Red Sox, will go TO Cuba
this winter to manage team at Matan-
zas. He will probably take many play
ers from the United States with him.
The New York Highlanders have moth
ing to fear from unlucky signs. The
New Workers have won four games this
season on the 18th of the month.
Because of the fact that the Wash |
ington club has no right field hitters !
in its ranks, the management has moved |
the right field fence back a distance
Of 30 feet to put stop to the home
run hitting of visitors. In the past
visiting teams have piled up numerous
our-ply hits over this short fence. !
Joe Tinker. manager of the Cincinnati /
Reds. is still the old scrapper of old.
Tinker has received suspensions for two
fights this season. The first occurred |
in June with Otto knabe of the Phil
lies. His other alteration was recently
with Maranville of the Boston Braves.
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