The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-16
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

| Young Taylor the indianapolis fighter
knocked out Herb Mccoy the Austria
liam lightweight champion, in Is rounds
at Sydney, Australia, the other night.
President Hemstead of the New Yorl
Nationals will be off in a few days fol
California on a vacation, He intends K
pass much of his time inducing Artit
Shafer to return to the Giants Sold
Hemstead regards Shafer as one of the
best men in the game and will do every,
thing to induce him to return.
/ { John McGraw, the New York Nationa
manager, who recently returned from
| Europe, has joined his Giants at Marlin
Tex.
The Chinese baseball team of Homo
lulu, numbering fifteen, has reached San
Francisco, Cal. They will tour this eoun.
try for seven months, ending the trip
with series OF games in Cuba. They are
the champion of the Hawaiian baseball
league. The team will gradually work
its way across the continent. Games will
be arranged in Barre again as during the
past two seasons.
| In one of the anti-season games be-
tween major league clubs the Chicago
I, Cubs defeated the Athletics ait Tampa
Fla, this week by the score of 3 to 2
The teams We're represented by nearly
their regular line-ups.
l.. Z. Waterbury, the Michigan fresh
man jumper, is but a youth. He stands
but s feet 6 inches, but cleared feet
Oh inches at the Detroit Y. M. G. A.
meet this week.
Jack johnson, the heavyweight fight
err, who was due to wrestle against some
of the big wrestlers in Sweden, was
forced to abandon the country on ac-
count OF hostile demonstrations accorded
him in the big cities.
Bill Sweeney, the Brave second sacker
of the past few seasons, has been turned
over to the Chicago Cubs He was
traded TO the Chicago club in exchange
for Johnny Evers, the deposed manager
of the Cubs, who win be seen at second
base for the Boston club during the
coming summer.
James j. Corbett criticized the pres
ent crop of heavyweights recently. He
said Il haven't seen one of those big
fellows who knows what to do when he
gets a punch in the face or body. Most
OF them become ratified. They seem to
devote most of their time to learning to
hit but lose their bearings when under
fire. They forget why the ring is eight
cen by "a feet square and seldom use
their feet" This was along the same
line of the criticism made short time
ago by Bob Fitzsimmons concerning the
present aspirants for the heavy weight
title.
Frank Moran of Pittsburg, the white
hope, has arrived in this country for a
six weeks vaudeville tour. He will
meet Jack johnson at Paris ON June n
for the championship title. He intends
to recover the title from the big husky
colored man. Moran is very confident
OF his ability to win.
The Cleveland Maps are grieving over
the loss of Chapman, the new shortstop,
who will be forced to remain on the
bench during the greater part of the
season because OF fractured leg bone
received in the southern training camp.
Connie Mack does not seem to be
overeonfident OF the ability of Jack
Coombs or else he is playing possum.
He intends 20 have Joe Bush for one of
his regular pitchers this coming season
and win rely mostly on Bush, Brown,
Shawkey and Houck until the warm