The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-10

against the Cardinals on Saturday, but |
may be Tesreau and Wiltse had gone to /
a matinee.
If Falkenberg did lose his game yes
terday he won q son for he received a
telegram during the afternoon to the |
effect that a son had been born to his |
wife in Washington.
Doom S Philadelphia National league
team has made 10 of the 6S home runs
made in the National league this
season. OF these Magee, Luderus and
Cravath have made u.
So far as can be made out by the
scores, says the New York Sun, the
Detroit team has pitchers House. Dauss
and Clauss. If they all go into the
game there II be an awful time for any
scorer who has a souse
Abbott Mills, the old Williams third
baseman and captain, who was once
with Cleveland, then with Toledo and
New Orleans, has been sold to the Wa
terbury club and is to report June 20.
He is studying at Harvard.
It took the Red Sox with Bedient
pitching to stop Cleveland aud lose for
Falkenbergh his first game of the sea
son. Still, with 10 wins and only one
loss SO far the elongated ''come back >
has pretty fair record to date.
Yale won again yesterday but it
took II innings to defeat Princeton, )
to I. 1t is the first time in four years
Eli has captured the Princeton series
and the first time since 1895 that Yale
have won two straight games from the
Tigers.
The Athletics have played Is error
less games; the Red Sox -. In the
| National league the Braves have play
ed only five errorless games while the
Phillies have played is. They represent
the two extremes in team fielding in
that league.
Captain Doust Of the defeated Aus
tralian tennis team showed himself a
genuine sportsman when, after being
| defeated by Mclaughlin, he grabbed
| megaphone and called for three
cheers for the team that had just put
the Australians out Of the race for thc
world 5 cup.
The high school students took hole
of the proposition to give Ray Adams
a benefit game in good shape and near
~ 200 tickets were sold Yesterday af
ternoon and evening and today. Their,
is absolutely not a cent of expense thi
afternoon so that every piece of none,
taken in goes to the injured catcher.
; The Highlanders have won tw
tstraight on the homo grounds In
accidentally they are the first two vie
tories of the season for that club i
, New York. Chance has been lon
) time building up his team. He ha
! completely changed his inteld and
now getting some team play and spec
out of it. Give him time enough an
the New York Americans will have
real ball team
Fred Falkenburg, the winning pitcl
= er of the Cleveland team, started
1903 with the Worcester club. He W;
: with Pittsburg in 1904 and went I
Washington until 1908, when CleveIar
took him. He was with Toledo pa
. of last year and went back to Clev
; land as come back this seaso
He has delivered the goods
Cornell 5 track captain for next Sc
son is A. NJ. Shelton, who is not a - c
man. 1t is the first time IN the histol
Q of the institution that a man who h
4 not been an intercollegiate winner h
e led the team. Ia this instance he "
detected as the best man for the pla
because no junior won &C. and on
sophomores remained to the team amo
- those who have won that honor
st ball player who wouldn t, at fiji
sight, be considered an educated ma
tn is Mendez, the black Cuban pitch,
" Just for fun, says Armadillo NJ
sans, of the Cincinnati club, ''some
us rented a banquet room in Hava
OF last winter and gave Mendez fea
elr Even those of Us who had been pls
ing beside him for years knew nothi
to of his off-the field character, and
IS thought it would be great sport to he
'H. this ignorant Negro talk and to
The him conduct himself at a swell fe
for Mendez left US tied to the post, as
to were. All night long that black n
said nothing whatever as to baseb
dice, gin, or even chickens He
pPo- there, faultlessly dressed, and tall
pc pc of music, poetry, Shakspere q
'no Cervantes, of world politics and
balance of power, of abstract scie1
lrd, and the advance of medical kno
.tty edge