The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-29
Newport Has Best Bunch of
Hitters Besides Two
Excellent BOXmen
FIGHTING TEAM ALSO
AT BELLOWS FALLS
Four Other Teams Classed in Second
Division - Keene a Disappointment
IL Pitching Northampton Also
Has Weak Twirling Staff.

Has Weak Twirling Staff.
y review of the first week of the
Twin State league season shows that
the league, as theteams were con
stituted during this tryout period, is
divided into two groups. Bellows Falls
and Newport constitute the first dl-
vision with the other four teams well
punched in the second division
Newport unquestionably has the best
team of stickers in the league today
and two pitchers, Raglan of Cornell,
who works under the name Of Morgan,
and Winkler, are going good. Eacn
has won two games, the only loss be
ing charged to r. johnson in an IL
inning game against Bellows Falls.
Brickley, Crowther, Q Mara and Nolk
ma he a formidable quartet with the
stick and the rest Of the team are al
most as hard hitters With Wright back
of the plate as first string catcher. that
department is well cared for, and
Wright is no mean hatsman. Carpen-
ter is his understudv and better than
when with Brattleboro last season.
Jimmie Burns, who led Northampton
to the championship last year has
| gathered together for Bellows Falls q
team of players who fight all the was
| Although he has vet to show a pitch
! er in the class of the two leading
/ Newport rwIricTs. with clever Juggling
! of his pitching staff and the steady
! playing of the team in the field hi
went four games before he lost t.
/ Greenfield Saturday. And the mar
who beat them - Ringrose - was til,
same they knocked out Of the box II
! less than one inning Friday. Jimmie :
men are not such heavy hitters collec
lively as those of Newport. iudgin;
from the records of the week but the
keep peclsing at the bali and their pei
and fighting spirit will carry them t
many q victory.
Locals Should Improve This Week.
Brattleboro, Just now in triple ii
for second place with Keene and Green
field, has looked more like a ball tear
in the last two games than it did n
the opening, and with Tommy Leonar
on the team beginning Tuesday, tn
infeld will liven mp. The team Ia
lacked ginger but as it is now const
tuted with another strong pitcher ado
ed it will take a lot Of beating befor
losing. Eggers looks to be the best Q
the twirlcrs to date and Is credite
with both of the wins 10y Brattlebor,
Dixie Of Brown seems good for oniv
few innings. but his stick work an
out-ield play make him invaluable
Blakely is apparently a good stickt
and Il fine outfelder and knows no
to run bases. Hicks Of Colgate an
Sturtevant are two other pitchers WI
0 will be given another chance or tw
The team should improve its standir
this week, even though the league lea
ers must be met in the first two game
Keene is apparently a disappoin
mcnt in the pitching line. X. Murr5
of Holy Cross has failed to make eve
. an impression and Krepps IS not mus
: better. Adams beat northampton, b
\ was hit hard, and Krepps pulled out
:, win over Greenfield, but did not Loo
a to be very effective. McEIwee is i
I ing the best hitting and Lynch, wi
:, Brattleboro early last season, also
r. hitting hard and fielding well. T
i rest Of the team are not ma King re
: ords as hitters. There will have to
!. some changes in tho makeup Of Il
/ team before it gets much higher IN t
- standing.
Greenfield in Hard Luck.
e GroauGaIJ had hard iuptz