The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-23
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

Walter Smell, the former Brown uni
yersity baseball player, has been re-
leased by the Boston Americans to the
| Toronto club of the International league.
Last season he was with the Twin State
league and during the latter part of the
season appeared with Boston in few
games. He is considered a very prom
| ising youngster.
j. A. Mclaughlin, captain of the Col
gate university baseball team, has re-
ceived an offer from the Washington
Americans to sign three-year contract.
He is an outfielder. He has not decided
whether he will sign or not.
Grover Land, the young catcher of the
Cleveland Americans last season, has
skipped to the Federal league. He has
signed two-year contract with the In
dianapoIis club Of the Federals.
Manager Chance sees where he cannot
use Birdie Cree during the present sea-
son. He has already released him to
the Baltimore Orioles. Cree was at one
time one of the heaviest hitting out
fielders in the game. OF late his arm
has gone back on him and his batting
has taken woeful slump. It was re-
ported he received handsome offer from
the Federal league recently.
The Brooklyn Feds have secured
grounds at Pensacola; Fla, for spring
training.
Iris Speaker, the Red Sox outfelder.
has said that he would not sign any
contract with either the Boston Red Sox
or the Federal league agents until he
had looked over the field.
1t appears that many Of the men
claimed by the Federal league have
signed only optional agreements. Hap
Myers, the big first-sacker switched by
the Boston Nationals last fall to Roch-
ester, is floor walking in New York
state dry goods store for winter d.
version. His agreement with the Feds
contains clause that gives him the
right to approve the roster of the club
he is to join before he signs regular
contract. Should he dislike any OF his
playmates he can tear up the optional
agreement.
President Ebbetts of the Brooklyn Ma
tionals says all of his players have signed
up with the exception of Tinker, Roman.
och and Gagnier.
After several weeks of successful con.
quests, the st. Paul school hockey seven
of Concord, N. H., met defeat at the
hands of the strong Dartmouth team.
The score was to 2.
Edwin Eustis, the star Wesleyan end
who graduates from college this spring.
has been selected to act as coach Of
football at the Middletown university
this coming fall. He has played in
regular position with Wesleyan during
the three years he was eligible He has
the happy faculty of imparting his
knowledge of athletics to others.
Thomas F. Mccarthy was appointed to
act as scout for the Boston Braves this
week. Mccarthy is from South Boston,
where he made his debut into profess
sional ball 30 years ago with the Boston
Unions. He has had considerable ex-
perience since his active days of base |
ball
William Sheehan of Salem, Mass, who |
eaptained st. Johns prep team last |
spring, has been signed up by the Chi |
cago Americans. He has already report |
ed to the White Sox management for !
spring training
A triple tie resulted in the intereol- |
Iegiate ice hockey series by the outcome
Of the hockey games Saturday night. |
Princeton evened up matters with Har-
ward, winning by the score of 4 to 2.
Yale, Princeton and Harvard are now
tied with two wins and two losses.
Dave Shean, formerly an infelder with
the Boston Nationals, has signed a con-
tract with Manager Donovan of the
Providence Grays to play third base.
Shean was with the Providence club last
season,