The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-12
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

/ The baseball team of the University
/ of Keio of Japan will visit the United
States this spring, playing some OF the
strongest college teams in the country.
| Already games have been arranged with
! the University OF California and games
are desired with some eastern college.
! The management of the Keio college
! are in communication with the Yale
authorities and series of games will
quite probably be played.
The Federal league circuit has been
completed for the season, containing
eight clubs Montreal is the latest city
to make application for admission
President j. 4. Gilmore turned down
| their proposition. Cincinnati was re-
Gently refused a franchise for the same
reason.
| Edward Robinson has been re-engaged
as coach of fotball at Brown university
notwithstanding the opposition received
! from Capt. Seth Mitchell OF the 1914
team. Robinson has been coach of the
Brown football team for several years.
He will be allowed to select his assist
ant coaches along the lines laid down by
the other big colleges in the east.
The Harvard rifle team schedule has
been completed and Norwich university
appears for the opening date. All the
shoots OF the Harvard club will be held
at Cambridge
At Melbourne. Australia, recently the
New York Giants defeated the Victorian
nine of Melbourne by the score of Is TO
TO- The yictorians is one of the strong
est teams in the country. The playing
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the Australians.
Frank Gilhooley, the youngster Sc
cured by Manager Chance OF the High
landers from Montreal last season, has
signed his contract for the 1914 season.
Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago
Feds, has signed several prominent ball
players for his club. He is negotiating
for the services of Packard and Brennan,
two prominent pitchers. Packard be-
longs to the Reds and Brennan to the
Philles. He is also after Dave Altiser
of the Minneapolis club. Tinker says
that but two members of last seasons
club will remain and they are John Far
del, short stop and Ned Pettigrew, an
outfielder.
1t has been reported that Dill Danen,
the former Dodger manager had re-
ceived an offer to manage a Fed. team
and that he will accept.
Wesleyan university seems to have
lost its stronghold on the basketball
championship At Princeton on We'd
nesday night the strong Wesleyan team
was showed under by the score of SO to
Is. Wesleyan has practically new line
up this season.
On Washington's birthday Abe Attell
and John Kilbane will meet at San
Francisco in a twenty round bout. At
tell will spend many weeks in training
before tackling the champion Since
last summer Kilbane has developed
punch and one of his latest victims was
Eddie O'Keefe of Philadelphia. Kilbane
can easily reduce to the American
weight limit, contrary to many rumors
that have been circulated to the con
trary.
Pennsylvania NAV drop Penn state
from its football schedule in the fall. In
order to retain Michigan and the In
dams it is said that Penn state will
have to go.
The Federal league team in st. Louis
is even more fortunate than either of
the major league clubs in the selection
of a site for their grounds. The site is
nearer the center of st. Louis than
either of the other two clubs.
In view of an attempt to arrange
game with Annapolis next season, the
Pennsylvania football authorities have
dropped Brown from their 1914 football
schedule. Brown has proved one of the
big attractions of the Penn schedule for
several years.
A big shake-up was effected in the
makeup of the club CT the New Eng
land leagues at the annual meeting held
at Boston this week. The league has
shifted its circuit to the north of Mass
achusetts The Brockton franchise has
been transferred to Lewiston, Me. The
New Bedford franchise has been shifted
TO Fitchburg and the Fall River club TO
Haverhill. The present makeup of the
league includes the following clubs;
Fitchburg, Haverhill, Worcester, Law
renee Lynn, Lowell, Portland and Lewis
ton, Me. The schedule will open on
April 20 and close on September II, con-
tanning l2l games.
Jim Corbett says that the present day
heavyweight fighters lack the class that
the old fighters possessed. In his way of
thinking, the old timers were better
when viewed from every angle.
Tufts showed some class in hockey on
Thursday night by trimming Amherst
IL to l. The night previous the best
that Harvard could accomplish was
to 0 game.
Exeter academy has turned Albert
Robinson down on his application for
admission through its gates. Robinson
was recently dismissed from MERGERS