The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-23
Sporting Notes.


cuse Thursday, to Q.
Hess of the Braves made his first
start of the season and shut out Chi
cago.
Roos, Yale IS shot-putter, is i'll with
a fever and not expected to be in the
intercollegiates today.
Wesleyan beat Breek s Colgate team
yesterday, 5 to 4. Two errors in the
last inning cost the game.
Joe Birmingham declares he holds
the hard luck championship. No less
than seven of his athletes have been
seriously MANNED since the beginning
of the training season.
Houck, the young pitcher whom Con-
ME Mack tried to turn over to the
Baltimore Internationals, signed a
three years contract with the Brook
lyn Feds.
Norwich university was blanked
yesterday by Massachusetts Agrieul
tnral college, 8 TO 0. Norwich made ON
~ two hits and u men famed off the
delivery of Davies.
Young Foster Of the Red Sox shut
Chicago yesterday, his fourth straight
shutout victory, which makes 81 innings
he has twirled without a run being
scored against him.
Dartmouth qualified 20 men in the
prcliminaries of the New England col
leees intercollegiate meet at Cambridge
yesterday. The Green has ut least one
competitor in every event except the
hammer throw. Vermont did not quail
fy Il man.
Heating has drawn some tough birds
as opponents in the pitching line.
| Against johnson the New Yorks made
only four hits, only two off Dubuc,
three off Leonard and five off Haml-
ton. Heating had 10 buck against all
Of that feathery hitting.
The story comes from Pittsburg that
there is disSension in the camp Of the
/ Boston Braves, which accounts for the
/ low standing of the team. Perdue, it
/ is claimed, is at outs with Stallings
/ and Maranyille is displaying too much
/ ofiiciousness to please his companions.
Brown, who played short for Brattle
! boro towards the last of last season
! and who did not try for the Williams
varsity nine this spring because he
/ failed of election as captain Of the
/ team, is bIossoming forth as a pitcher.
i He pitched for the seniors against the
juniors and held his opponents to two
hits.
i Stress of circumstances forced
/ Chapee to.toss Dick Gossett into the
/ pit Sweeney Is still in bed and Nuna
/ maker 5 split thumb will keep him out
4 until the middle of next week. Cos
sett 5 ankle looked very weak every
/ time he attempted to run. but the third
string catcher did some very able back
stopping despite his handicap.
Larry Lajoie picks Washington to
& beat out the Athletics this year. The
!. King has little faith in Connie Mack )
pitching staff He thinks that John
son, Boehling and ,Ayres viii carry the
Senators along nicely most of the way
and that if it comes to pinch the
great Walter will turn the trick the
last couple of weeks. Larry can I see
the Tigers. Cleveland never could see
any good in Detroit.
; A device for pitching baseball to
a batter. built into a system of planes
whereby the batted ball, no matter
where it is slammed, viii return auto
matically to the pitcher, has been in
vented and set up at Princeton by
Alexander Macmillan, son of Profss
sor Charles Macmillan of the Prince
, ton faculty. 1t is said that the inven
tion solves the problem which con
fronts baseball managers which has
> heretofore required them to have !
regular human pitcher with some bal
( | ehasers in the field before they coul,
I give their team batting practice.