The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-30
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

| There is some talk that Buck 0'Brien,
the former Red Sox pitcher, may be
taken on by the Cleveland Maps. Should
negotiations materialize, 0'Brien will go
with the Maps in exchange for three
other players, O'Brien has had several
offers from the Federals, but refuses to
consider any of them.
Doescher, the former Rutland pitcher,
| is playing with the Atlanta club of the
| Southern association. Mcconnell. also
an old Northern Lacquer, il playing at
the keystone base for the Atlanta club.
Raoul, the heavyweight wrestling
champion of France, is touring America.
He is at present appearing in Canada.
He defeated tom" jenkins at Ottawa,
Canada, last week in straight falls. He
will appear in many of the American
cities before returning to his home.
The Boston Nationals have offered
three Cuban ball players to any East
ern association club that wishes to ex-
plot the dark hued diamond stars as
box office attractions during the com.
ing season. Manager Stallings has found
that he cannot use Luque, Nillazon or
Gonzales. Last season these players
were with the Long Branch, n. j.. club
of the new Atlantic league. Luque and
Villszon fairly burned up the league
with their pitching, Gonzales played
whirlwind game at third base, both field
ing and batting. Manager Stallings has
found that the players are not of ma
jor league calibre and prefers to farm
them out for experience.
According to all reports, Hans Wag.
ner has not lost his batting eye. In a
recent game between the Pirates and
Fort Worth, the Flying Dutehman came
in for three hits
Brown university has dropped Colby
in football next fall Last season Colby
defeated Brown, 10 to 0.
Cambridge won the annual track meet
from Oxford last week at London. There
We're several Americans who competed
with Oxford. Norman Taber the Brown
runner, who has failed to come MP to
expectations on the old sod, finished sec
ond in the half-mile run. Atkinson,
Cambridge runner, won handily by IL
yards A. n, 5. Jackson, the brilliant
miller, cut down his own record for the
event by few seconds.
Iris Speaker, who toured the world
with the Giants and the White Sox,
says Il do not see how the Giants can
fail to cope again. RUDE Marquard APP
pears to have everything right now, and
the boys tell me he was never in such
good condition as early in the season in
previous years. Merkle is a great bali
player, don't you forget it. This second
base stuff held over Merkle all these
years makes me sick, and every other
man that knows anything about base
ball feels the same as | do. If Tesreau
Demaree and Matty are as good as |
hear they are, | don't see why McGraw
should have any fear of any team in
your league. The men look. good to me.
They are a fine lot OF boys and hope
shall have the pleasure of meeting all
again in worlds series this October"
The baseball team OF the University
of Kentucky state went on strike at
Lexington, Ky. this week because of
the announcement that the spring sched- |
iile had been cut from IA to II games.
The boys insist that the entire schedule |
be cancelled if the two games in dis |
pute are not played The team has
games booked with the leading colleges |
of the south. The athletic committee of |
the faculty cancelled the two games be- |
cause in its opinion the sport took too |
much time from studies.
w. Earl Sprack1ing of Cleveland will |
be assistant coach of football at Brown |
in 1914. With the addition |
of Sprackling to Coach noninson's staff, |
Browns football stock is bound to rise. |
Spraekling is one of the best football |
players ever developed at Brown uni |
versity. He was All-American quarter |
back in 1910 and 1911 and also captain |
of his team in 1911. 1t was his spectaeu-
lar work in conjunction with Haifback
Mckay that won the Yale victory in
1910, Before entering Brown he was
captain of the football team at Fast
high school, Cleveland, O., winners of
the Ohio state championship.
One of the most promising pitchers /
at the Cincinnati spring camps is King |
Lear the former Princeton pitcher. He |
has knuckle ball that looks especially |
good. Manager Herzog says that he win |
not part with any of his men until the
training camp days are over.
Connie Mack would prefer to have his
son a musician than to be follower of |
the national game. Young Mack Jos
sesses some musical talent. The older
Mack desires to have the young man re-
,eive a musical education in some of
The great European universities.
w. Fl. Sweeney of st. Paul, Mimi, has
been elected captain of the 1915 hockey
team at Yale university.
The Dartmouth baseball game
will take place at Boston on April IL.
George Brickley, the Everett, Mass,
ad who was with the Twin State league
asst season, is showing up in grand style
With the Philadelphia Mackmen at their
raining quarters in st. Petersburg, Fla.
His hitting has been one of the sensa-
ions of the rocky team.
Dartmouth's two-mile relay team may
compete against Oxford for the four
nile relay championship of the world at
he Penn relay carnival on April 25.
5harles Dryden, who is following the
Ihicago Cubs in their training camp, ac-
cunts for the recent slump of Bill
a a