The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-04

also laid up for several weeks with
bad knee.
Johnny McGraw, the New York Giant
manager, figured in the limelight at
Houston, Tex, on Tuesday. McGraw re-
eeived split lip as a souvenir of his
entrance to the Houston park. Pat
Newman, field manager of the Houston
club, was the perpetrator of the deed.
McGraw says that, while he was not
looking, Newman landed his punch that
knocked him to the ground Art Flet-
cher, the New York shortstop, who was
with McGraw, mixed into the game and
sent Newman also for the count. Flet-
cher was unable to play that day be-
cause of swollen hand. NIcGraw's face
is expected to be normal in few days
| The mixup was the result Of words be-
tween Newman and Snodgrass the day
| previous.
Its tough for a curve ball pitcher to
work against a fellow with a splitter"
says George Moriarty of the Tigers
"The spitball beaver gets the ball wet
and keeps on adding moisture as the in
nings roll on, Pretty soon il is impos-
sible to handle the ball. on take a curve
ball pitcher and he's got to get grip
on that ball in order to make his curves
break right, and how can any pitcher
get tight hold after a spitball hurler
has been fussing over the sphere for five
or six innings. I'll is impossible. Ii is
no more than right that rule should
be passed by the league and umpires
giving authority TO allow pitchers to
demand and receive a new ball"
Enthusiasm is the keynote of the
movement to reorganize baseball team
to represent Graniteville the coming
summer. Already very much interest
has been evinced among the residents of
both Upper and Lower GranitevilIe. For
many years past the Graniteville club
has always been contender for honors
in this section of the state. The team
will play under thee caption of the NJ.
W. A. At the start of the season the
team will have attained strength and
will be pitted against prep school teams
in the northern part of the state. Later
during the summer months the club will
enter into its campaign for independent
state clubs. Among those players who
will be availahle material for the team
are Joe Feeley the former Goddard
catcher, McIver, d. Fraser, r. Fraser,
Gagner, Farrell, r. Finnegan, +. Finne-
gan, Aldrich and Pirie.
Huber, former Massachusetts Tech
athlete, who is now residing on the Pa
cific coast is the first entry to be re-
ceived by the Boston A. A. for its an
nual marathon race on April 10 from
that section OF the country.
The Chicago White Sox are far from
being in condition to open the Amer
lean league season. According to sta
tisticians, the White Sox have Sl07,00
worth of cripples on their hands. The
following is the list of the White SoX
cripples and what they would be worth
to any big league club in the best of
Ed Walsh, $4,000; Ray
Schalk, $4,000; Larry Chappell, $4,000;
Red Kuhn. $1,000; Silk Kavanaugh, 49,
900.
Dick Rudolph the star Brave pitcher,
is showing wonderful early season form
in the South. He was allowed to pitch
a full nine inning game against Macon
this week and held them to four hits.
Jim Thorpe, the. great all-round ath-
lete, is playing with the New York
Giants second team during the south
ern training trip 1t was confidently
said that Thorpe would be in the regu-
lar lineup during the season. Indica-
tions seem to denote that he had not yet
developed sufficiently to hold regular
berth