The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-15
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

! -Four members of the Cincinnati Reds
| have been marked for the market. Joe
Tinker has asked for waivers on Suggs
Egan, Shackard and Bates. Every club
in the National league has waived or
Egan and Bates and President Herr,
man IL trying to make deal with some
of the American league clubs. 1t is ex,
pected that trades will be made either
with Chicago or the New York clubs
for Egan.
Great surprise was sprung in the
sporting world this week when Bill
Prout, the former Brown quarter miller
and captain Of the Boston A. A. track
team, resigned. Prout has affiliated him
self with the new athletic organization
that organized itself under the laws OF
Massachusetts this week, to be known
as the Irish American A. A. OF Boston.
A large number of prominent athletes
have signified their intentions of Join.
ing the new organization. With the
new club in the field, competition in ath.
letics around Boston is bound to become
keen.
Pitcher Hedgepeth of Norfalk, Va,
has been purchased by Manager Clark
Griffith of the Washington club In two
games he recently pitched he allowed but
one hit.
Mike Donlin, the one time star out
fielder of the National league, has been
Internationally released BY the Phil
adelphia National club. He was bought
from the Pittsburg club but never re-
ported to the Phfladelphia team.
he nIr i
catcher Mark Stewart from the Nor
folk club of the Virginia league.
Leonard Agazelow, the former track
and football star OF Phillips Andover
academy back in 1907, has decided to
enter Harvard university this fall. Since
leaving Andover in 1907 he has been
at his home at San Francisco. He Will
prove to be excellent timber for track
and football for the Crimson. On the
track team he ran in the sprints and
quarter mile On the football team he
gained prominence as a half back and
end.
Milan, the star outfelder of the Wash
ington club, gets more hits off left hand
pitchers than he does off right handlers.
He is a left-handed batter.
The St. Louis Nationals have bought
pitcher Quinlan from the Scranton club.
Quinlsn is considered one of the best
pitchers in the Tri-State league
The word goes round thai Gabby
Street. the former Washington catcher,
may be given another tryout in the
big leagues. Street is catching a great
game for the Chattanooga club. Sew
eral big league clubs are said to have
.Ha f,,
Claiming that discipline is supreme
among the Giants, Johnny McGraw, the
little general, refused to allow outfelder
Burns to drop off at his home town,
st. townsville, n. Y, while returning
from Syracuse this week. The whole
town had turned out to give him
rousing reception, but when McGraw
heard of it he refused to allow Burns
to stay over.
The Detroit Tigers have angled for
pitcher Harry Covaleskie, the person
made famous when he deprived the
Giants of the National league pennant
back several years ago. Covaleskie has
been pitching for Chattanooga. Down
there this season his work has been
nothing short of phenomenal.
doc" Keegan, the former Norwich
athlete, has bobbed up again in the lime
light. He was with the Springfield club
to start the season and was later with
Now Northampton has Sc
cured his services to replace Swasey, the
Amherst student, who struck a batting
slump recently.
Manager Burns of the Northampton
club has indefinitely suspended pitchers
Paul and Jennings for Indifferent work.
Both men were accused of taking things
too easy in the box, much to the detri-
ment of the teams chances in the league
race. The Northampton club held a
lead until lately, when the
Greenfield organization crept up and is
now tied with them. Burns will use 9th
err green pitchers in their stead.
But one whole game now separates
the four leading teams in the New Eng |
land league. Lowell stands in fourth pe- |
sition.
The National baseball commission is
making plans to open the worlds series
baseball games at the Polo grounds in
New York on Oct I. The games will |
alternate between New York and Phil
adelphia.