The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-22
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

Richard Crutcher, the new recruit
pitcher of the Boston Braves who was
secured BY draft, has the distinction
OF being called the strikeout king of the
Western association. He is the small
est pitcher in stature in the Western
league. His first engagement in organ
lied ball was in 1908, when he played
with Louisville. He played with st. Jo-
seph the past season.
The three leading batsmen in the
American league are left handed hit
tiers. Cobb, Jackson and Speaker are
the king pin hitters.
Williston academy, one of the strong
est prep schools in athletic circles of
New England, has dropped Dean acad-
envy and Yale freshmen from their foot
ball schedule this fall
Willie Hoppe, the worlds greatest bill
HARDEST, has been matched to play Fir
min Cassignol, the French billiard cham
pion, at Paris in few months. Hoppe
made arrangements to meet the French
expert last spring, but at the last mo-
ment the French authorities put ban
on Hopes appearance. Hoppe, it Is
said, once offended the French authori.
ties by playing tournaments in the
French academies, at which only citizens
of France are permitted TO play.
Harry Yardon and Edward Ray, the
two English golfers, who took part III
the open national tournament at Brook
line. Mass. last week. will not return
Immediately to England. They will play
in Chicago the first week in October.
Carl Morris, the prominent American
heavyweight fighter, defeated Al Reich
at New York last Friday. He put him
away in the second round of the bout
Reich was the most recent aspirant for
the American championship.
Wescott, who was the star baekfield
man of the Dean academy team last fall,
has entered TUFTS college and is one of
the most promising candidates for the
backfeld Tufts will probably be repre-
scented this fall by about the strongest
eleven that has ever %orn the brown
and blue.
Carlisle started the football season
auspiciously by defeating Albright col
lege Saturday by the score of % to 0.
Proctor high school defeated Bellows
Falls high school Saturday by the score
of 20 to 10 at Bellows Falls. The game
was the initial one of the Bellows Falls
season.
Al Sharpe, the Cornell football author
ity, will endeavor this season to perfect
an organization to defeat Pennsylvania.
In the 30 years that the teams have
been playing, the Ithacans have secured
but one victory.
1t is quite certain now that the Army
and Navy will stage their annual foot
ball battle at the Polo grounds in New
York. There will be about $4,000 seats
available for Army and Navy men, while
about $4,000 will be for public distribn-
ton.
Standard, who is trying for an end
position on the Tufts college team, for
merly played with Waitham, Mass, high
school.
Coach Cavonaugh of the Dartmouth
football team will try Stanley Level
Ign, the track man, out for line po-
sition. Llewellyn is a rather rangy per-
son.
There have been but few better races
staged in New England than those held
at White River Junction on Friday.
Every race was race, many of them ex-
tending into extra heats. The few
thousands that attended we're certainly
afforded some excellent sport.
Lowe, the new Washington pitcher,
shows signs of developing into a real
first-class big league pitcher.
Carlisle is expected to place an eley-
en- to the front this season that will up
hold the reputation of the college in this
line of sport. Coach Warner has lot
of new material to weed out as there
were but few veterans left from last
season. Their first game of the season
was with Albright college on Saturday.