The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-03-24
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

| The Tri-State league will open on
April 80. The salary limit OF the league
has been readjusted, the limit being
lplaced at $500, to 81 600 last season.
The individual player limit is $3.50 per
month";
| Roy Thomas. coach Of the University
tof Pennsylvania baseball squad. says
that he has now the best material that
the university has had during the past
five years. Harry Imlah, who caused
sensation on college circles last spring By
his pitching is captaining the team.
The small town OF Hardwiek in Gale
donia county is strongly asserting its
rightsto the lightweight wrestling cham
pionship of Vermont by merit of having
numbered among its inhabitants, 'sSmil-
| ing Billy" Pera. This week Pera will
meet Billy Mossa Of Newport. Mossa Is
q member OF the Newport basketball
team and controls considerable prestige
in northern Vermont through his ability
on the mat
During the past ten years Yale has
had l3S Y men in football
Connie Mack's athletics will come to
the championship opening backed by an
Neet-tbAh GtAnS iSNeihs <Aitddi TINY
have. won l3 straight victories.
Jimmy Callahan is very much pleased
with the showing Of recruit pitcher,
Russell, whose work this spring has
stamped him for a temporary berth with |
the Cubs. Russell in a recent game with |
Redlands, Cal, famed sixteen batters IN |
the game. This mark equals that OF /
Rube Naddell but its significance il
widely different as the record was made
against minor leaguers.
Hughie Jennings is finding lot of /
fault with the Tigers at their training |
quarters in the South Jennings says /
that none Of them can bunt when a
pitcher serves curve and so is keeping
them constantly on the jump to perfect
this fault. Ty Cobb, the peer of Ameri-
can batsmen, has been hitting like fiend
and fielding faultlessly. Hope that
Fourier will win out in the competition
for this sack is steadily waning.
The Athletics will continue to wear the
white elephant emblem on their uniform
this season.
Amherst college intends to adhere to
the policy of remaining in its own field
when selecting football schedules The
only large college eleven in the country
to be booked by Amherst for the coming
fall is Dartmouth. Harvard has been
dropped from the 1913 fall schedule and 1,
IN its stead has been placed Wesleyan.
CONSERVATION is prevailing to some
sxtent in the Senator's camp. Last
Thursday John Henry, who last season
Trenched his knee, threw the knee out OF I
oint again. The attending physician ex-
smined the injury and declared that his ;
eg is just as bad as ever
The Chattanooga ball club is being
this season by Kid Eberfield, !
he former big Lacquer. Gabby Street.
Who had a eheckered career in the Ameri- .
an league, and Covelskie. who assisted
he Cubs to win the National pennant a
ew years ago, are also with Eberfeld vt 9
chattanooga.
Eddie Onslow will play this season
With the Providence club rather than re-
ain seat on the Tiger bench. {
Basketball at the University of Rhode 2
sland has been abolished as a major
port. For the past few seasons the Z
anne has never attracted much atten- .
ION and the financial returns have been k
epreeiating. 1t was deemed advisable n
y the athletic committee that the spor. ri
hould be condemned.
Manager Hughie Jennings seems to n
link that George is about the proper
anne that person entering professional J.,
aseball should bear. There are now five ),
layers in the Tiger fold who bear tie u
ppellation Of George. They are Mulliu,
oehler, Dams. Gibson and Moriarty. e
John Mcdonald. one of the best ball u
layers ever graduated from the Univev-
ty OF Vermont, who completed his In
nurses at Burlington last June, \ re- ev
orted to be agreeable to playing with hi
ittsheld this summer. Mcdonald upon hi
raduation last spring was intent or
blowing his practice in the vicinity OF
oston. but the lures OF the diamond
as too strong for him. The husky Yer
ont outfielder had been tempted With q
veral big league offers. and signed with ~
Ie Philadelphia National. The PhilIies OF