The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-09-08

the Northampton team, pennant win
ners III 1912, again the champions this
season, and Brattleboro, the team that
I fin he'd third in a field of four last
season, in the cellar position III a field
OF six. The brand of ball provided
was fully as fast this year as in pre-
vious years and some of the salary
lists undoubtedly largely exceeded the
/ limit Of %225 a week
Brattlcboro, after the loss of IS
straight games i'll the middle of the
season due to the fact that the team
management kept within the salary
limit, had scarcely a chance to win.
+ bat under the leadership of Manager
/ Breckenridge gradually reinforced and
( up to five days OF the close of the
season was making fight for position
that had all of the other teams wor-
ried.
No city or town in the circuit would
have given team, losing regularly
for 50 long Il period, the support that
WAS accorded the Islanders, and part
of this was due to the general under
standing that the Brattleboro manage
ment was living up to the league agree
ment.
Dissension arose in the league. not
ably over the question of having col
! ortd players on teams Bellows Falls
won 81 game from Northampton be
cause that team refused to PLAY against
a colored pitcher, and at a subsequent
league meeting it was voted that the
Twin State league would follow the
example Of the major leagues in the
play in their ranks.
Then, too, there arose the question
OF playing men who were under the
national agreement something that
every team in the league practieed.
including Brattleboro, although the Is
Ianders promptly dropped Green when
he was protested. \ notable example
! of this was when Northampton pitched
Murray Parker of the Eastern associ-
alton in one of the Labor day games
in the crucial series with Greenfield.
! Protests have aVaiIcd nothing and
, rules have been honored in the breach,
} And in this connection it may not
t be amiss to point with pride to the
fact that Brattieboro stands alone in
living up to the protested player
rule. After " Paddy Green has de
ltdttN 1ptIIONS + dlIS III the bHlN LA q
games the Islanders won from the
. Turnstles, Manager Leonard protested
him and ''Paddy' was dropped. Not
another team in the league dropped a
protested PLAYER, even after President
Keyes had declared them - ineligible,
and all the teams had them to the end
OF the season. They continued to play
until they were good and ready
to depart notably Briggs, who riskei
Punishment from organized ban to re
, main with Bellows Falls, whose man
agcr made a speciality OF protests and
rows with umpires.
These considerations materially ait
in alleviating the feeling over the low
~ position OF the islanders.
, With the first team that represented
Brattleboro, after winning four out @
/ the first eight games, the strengthen
ing Of the other teams resulted III l.
straight defcats-a string that was no
broken until the last day of July
when Dixie, who had recently joined
pitched the team to q ~nut-out vIctors
over Kecne. From that time the nep
, team won Il games, lost nine an.
4 played one thinning tie. The gam
Labor day afternoon broke the bacl
Of the team, and although Crandal
managed to pitch d victory at New
port the day following, the four las
= eames were defeats, games that, ha
+ they been won, would have materiall
y improved the standing of the Islander
and shaken up that OF the entr
league, so close was the race.
SO far a the standing is concerne
Kcenc is Justly entitled to second plae
/ \ too
III works out almost one point higher tina
Greenfield. although each team wo
two more games than it lost. Keen
PLAYED the lesser number of game
. and therefore has the higher percen
~ age. What might have happened ha
Keene PLAYED even two more games
reach the total of Greenfield or thrC
more to reach that Of NorthamptC
O and Brattleboro, is another propositio
> Brattleboro and northampton, re
r; peetively the tail and the head of Il
standing. PLAYED all but one game
their respective schedules. Greenfel
Newport and Bellows Falls ea'
lacked two of the schedule of 80 viii
Keene was shy four and the direeto
3 of that team realize that it wou
3 have been advisable, with a chance
uc win the pennant, to have played {
possible games There was tin
when Brattlehoro was anxious to pl;
off the tie game. but it is too late no
The Brattleboro team had ON t
0 payroll. momentarily or otherwl:
Ci- enough men and boys during the $
son 10 have comprised five full tear
and of this number II were pitehe
Just one of the original team, Light,
pitcher. finished the season. He
credited with five wins and nine {
0 feats and one of the latter was
l inning affair at the hands of Keel
lee He won all three games he pitch
4 against the Champs and won two fr'
= Newport and lost three to that tea
& Dixie won five and lost five, and
2 four games against Greenfield he. Y