The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-18
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

| Joe Wood has returned to the game
and his pitching should make consider
able trouble for some of the first divi-
sion clubs. Wood pitched sensational
game on Monday against st. Louis, hold
ing them to three hits for shutout.
The Chinese university team which
appears in Barre against the Italians on
Wednesday, June "a, continue to play
winning ball against the eastern college
teams. Lafayette was defeated to
] on Monday.
Artie Shafer wants to go back into
baseball according to report received
recently from the Pacific coast. He
wants to play with the Los Angeles
team. Shafer refused to join the Giants
this spring and instead entered business,
Joe jackson, the sensational hitter OF
the Cleveland Maps, will be out OF the
game for month. He is troubled with
water on the knee. Jackson's hitting
this season has been at lower ebb than
in previous years since his advent into
the big leagues.
Nelson "Pie" Way, the Yale pitcher,
won over Harvard in the first game of
the annual series on Tuesday at New
Haven. Ways brilliant pitching held
Harvard to four hits and one run. He
prepared at Exeter and later attended
Norwich university for a year. He
transferred to Yale year ago and last
season played on the freshman football
and baseball teams, He played varsity
football last fall
Both Boston clubs have been travelling
winning clip during the past two
weeks. The Braves have won eight
out of the last eleven games and the
Red Sox nine out of the last eleven
games.
Charlie Herzog thinks that there will
be no more assertions from his Cincn-
natl Reds. Herzog admits, though, that
Marsans was fine ball player and as
serts that had he given the best that
was in him the Reds would have held
their own against any club in the cir
cult
Catcher Gray, the star catcher of the
Notre Dame college team, has received
an offer from the New York Highland
ers. Chance is anxious to secure the
youngster, who is considering the offer.
College records to date show some
remarkably slow base running on the
part of three mines. In nineteen games
Tufts college did not steal single base.
Neither did Syracuse in seventeen games
nor Williams in twelve.
Foster of the Red Sox has shut out
five teams this season--the Browns
fxpIr aI
York.
McRae, the star Splinter OF the An.
dover track team, will enter Michigan
next fall Williams, Orr and Walker,
teammates, are to enter Yale in the fall
and efforts are being made to induce
McRae. Should the quartet enter, it
would afford Yale the best outlook for
sprinting in years.
Hank 0'Day, the Chicago manager,
says that the Chifeds are losing in popu-
lsrity every day. He claims that they
started the season right, drawing big
crowds, but of late have made no in
roads on either the American or Ma
tional league clubs. The Sunday crowds
are only fair now, while the daily at
tendances are very meagre. He asserts
that this is true all over the league.
Charlie Schmidt, the big first sacker
of the Braves, is considered a diamond,
in the rough by the Boston fans,
Schmidt is not only fielding excellently,
but is flirting very near the 800 mark.
He is also instilling great deal of pep
into the proceedings.
According to Dannie Murphy, former
captain of the Mackmen, who has been
interesting Eddie Collins in the Federal
league, the star keystone man of Mack's
100000 infield will join the Brooklyn
Federals next season. He will not Join
until the expiration Of his present con.
tract with Mack. The new contract viii
cover period of three years, STIMULATING
$4,000 per annum. Murphy says that
Collins is not the only man of the
worlds champions who will be in Brook, 4
Ign next season.