The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-25
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS


Arrangements between the New York
Giants and the Highlanders for the joint
use of the Polo grounds have been com
pleted. The two New York clubs will
play on the Polo grounds for one year
anyway, which is substantiated by a
contract agreed TO by the two clubs.
Either by trade or sale, Charles Muir
ply is DESTROYS of securing Pitcher Sal
lee and First Baseman konetchy from
the ST. Louis Browns and place them at
the disposal OF the Cubs Murphy said
that his trading material consisted OF
Cheney, Safer, Sheckard pnd Phelan.
Harvard's to 3 victory over Prince
ton Wednesday night places the Grim
son as topnotchers in the college hockey
world. The Cambridge seven is an even
! ly balanced outfit, while the Tiger ice
team consists of cne-man team,
Hobe Baker playing the leading role.
| Louis Drucke, one of the Giants slab
sters, has been released to the Sacra-
mento club of the Pacific Coast league.
Mel Brock, one of Canada's best ath-
letes, who represented the dominion in
the middle distance races at the Swed-
ish Olympics, has been disqualified from
the Canadian A. A. Brock was disqual-
fled on the charge of playing profess
sional basketball
Williams college is waning in basket
ball. The little college that was for
merly the peer of all other eastern col
eges in this branch, is losing it's pres
tige. Last year the showing made by
the college was below its standard and
this season it has tasted of its defeat
in the outset by Union college on its
own court.
There are but three men on the ath-
letic roster at Harvard college that have
earned letters in three branches of sport.
They are George Fearing 1893, who won
his letters in football, track and row
ing. Tom Stevenson, 1896, won his let
tiers for football, baseball and rowing.
Bob Herman was awarded his letter for
football. baseball and track.
Sam Langford, the Boston '4tar baby
is returning from Australia, where dur
ing the past four months he has cleaned
up the elite heavyweight aspirants of
that land. Ii is said that Langford is
TO fight Joe jeanette 30-round bout
at Vernon, Cal, at MeCarey's open air
club.
At Honolulu there are five baseball
leagues and no two of these leagues
speak in the same tongue. There is
an American league, japanese league,
a Portuguese league, Chinese league
and an Hawaiian league.
The showing of Jennie W., the mare
circuit, was disappointment at the
ice races in Montreal this week. Be
fore the race, Jennie W. was booked as
the favorite, but the officials returns |
placed the old Sunderlin horseifor fourth |
money. Clare Paul won the race. The |
best time for this free-for-all was 2:l6 /
Ia.
Worcester academy is gaining the dis i
tinction of being the nurturing grounds /
for strong men. Recently one of its |
graduates, w. 4. Roos, won that title
At Yale Arthur Bartlett holds the same
lonors at Brown university.
The national game of baseball has been
by another league, whose cir
,uit is wholly within the confines of New
England, giving New England greater
prestige in the sport. The new league
will be conducted under the name of
he Northeastern league. At meet
ug held at Manchester, N. H.. this week,
representatives from Manchester, Con-
ord, Nashua. N. H., Gloucester, Sa
EN- and Fitchburg. Mass, and Lewiston,
Cortland and Bddeford, Me-. We're pres
mt. A board of directors and other pre-
imnary committees we're elected. The
xact outlay Of the circuit has not yet
'een determined. II
According to statistician, who has {
he inside run of baseball, digging up /
oung baseball players is somewhat sim i
lar to digging for gold This dopester
laims that the Cleveland club has tried ,
ut 500 players in the last six years and
mt Is have retained their seats in the /,
Jig show.
George Van Haltren. who held posi- !
ion several years ago in the celebrated ]
liant outtield with "Silent Mike" Tier !
an and Eddie Burke, has been ousted 1
rom his rank of umpire in the Moth
'estern league. Van Hatren's eyesight
as dimmed and while popular with the !
ans is decidedly not so with the man.
ger.
New England intercollegiate athletics =
,st one of its most formidable ex-
onents when Francis Nardini, the Colby
printer, abandoned his college course s
wing TO eve trouble. Nardini was one q
the most versatile athletes that ever \
ore the colors of Colby. To succeed v
IN to the captaincy of Colby track, e
ebert Bowen of Waterville, Me-, was Il
ected n
Fernando Altimano, who finished third y
the 10000 metre walk at the Swedish
Iympics last summer, has arrived N al
lis country and says that he intends 20 t.
axe America his permanent abode. In CT
lis Olympic event George Goulding OF Il
lnada finished first and 4. j. Webb of 81
ngland crossed the finish line second. I
Jack johnson is still favorite pr
nongst the boxing element of France. dl
sliablc papers in France confirm the re- m