The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-08-03
BrattIebOrO One Game Nearer
Newport Increases Lead
Over Keene
LARKS HAVE BEEN
COMING UP FAST
Brattleboro, Bellows Falls and Green
field Men All Below 800 Mark In
Batting Changes in Team Batting
Order-Pitchers' Records

Order-Pitchers Records.
BY a peculiar coincidence the teams
in the Twin State league are in eX-
actly the same positions in the stand
ing they held week ago except that
Northampton has broken the tie with
Greenfield for fourth position. But
Brattleboro has cut down the lead of
Newport one full game and has a lead
of two games over Keene as against a
half gdme lead week ago. North
ampton has been coming like a whirl-
wind the last few games and has1
crawled close to Keene while Green
field has pulled away from Bellows
Falls and is only one game behind
Northampton. a.
Brattleboro won four and lost two
during the week, the last game a
heart breaking loss in the 18th inning
after having it all but won III the
ninth. Newport won three and lost
three. keene won two and lost three.
Northampton, after losing the first
two, finished with four straight wins,
including a double header with Bel
lows Falls Thursday. Greenfield split |
even on the week, winning three and
losing three. Bellows Falls won only !
two during the week and lost five,
having the hardest schedule Of any
team with two double headers on sue
cessive days; one with Newport.
! Changes in players and in the bat /
ting orders Of the different teams have
/ been numerous. Practically all of the
| teams have changed their batting or
/ ders and several have dropped old
/ players and added new men in the eff
{ 1,
! Blakelv has shifted from Greenfield to
! Keene. Burns has added new out
/ fielder in Parker, and Martin, who
| had played in every previous game,
was benched Saturday. For some rea-i
son or other Brickley has not been in
the Newport lineup the last three
/ games. and Parle, who had been hit
ting for better than 800 for Bellows
Falls, having been released, played with
( Newport in Brickley's position Satur-
day 4s
Hicks, who was released by Brattle-
boro, after the acquisition of Snyder.
went to Northampton and Saturday
pitched a shutout game against Green
field. Walker, who was released by
| Greenfield and joined Bellows Falls,
has displaced Francis behind the bat
the last three games and has battcd
well. Burns let the veteran first sack
er, Bill ~ Yale, 60 after few
games. He was not there either IN
batting or in fielding. Carroll, a re
cent acquisition who played third dur
ing the first few games with the Turn
stiles. has been converted into a first
baseman with apparently good results.
Swasey, captain of the Amherst team
! cf 1915, who has been playing the
outfeld regularly with Greenfield, has
been out of the lineup because of
3 weak hitting. Lynch, with Keene this
70 season and last year with Brattlcboro
until he quit because he did not like
to play on a losing team. has been
benched in one game and shifted from
leadoff man to seventh batting posi-
tion because of his batting average
{ which has dropped from $40 the mid
die of July to .23l up to the game
Il Saturday. NTcElwee. Of this team al
u so has fallen off badly, although still
II over the 800 mark
r Perrin of Keene still leads the
n league in batting with an average OF
L .345, including the game Friday. HI
Fl has played in . games The other
n regulars who are among the leaders
d are Conrov of Northampton with $40;
o Keaney of Newport with $50; Saun
Il ders of Newport, 1913; Shea, North
ampton. .325; Babington Northamp
II ton, .32l; R. Johnson, Newport, 800
e Wright, Newport, .312; Conley, North
1 nmpton, .304.
It 1t is noticeable that Northampton
l. has greatly improved in batting dur
l. ing the last week, for four of the reg
IS ular members of that team are nov
le over the 800 mark. Brattleboro ha
N not a man. except Hazlett, chang,
q catcher (who has not been in a gam,
ct since joining the team), who is il
r the 300 class. Hazlett has a battin;
d mark in II games, Of 1913. The Below
lie Falls and Greenfield players also ar
all below the 800 mark.
@ Some of the pitching records are in
Ol teresting. Sherman of Greenfield ha
o won five and not lost a game. Snyde
oI of Brattleboro has won three and /
oil yet to be credited with a loss. r
I johnson, Newport, won six, lost one
% Nichols, Keene, won four, lost one
0l Morgan, Newport. won four, lost two
q Eggers, Brattleboro, won seven, los
al three; Winkler, Newport, won six, los
three; Hdmmersley, Northampton, wo
I five, lost three; Crowell, Bellows Falls
won four, lost three; Adams, Keen,
g won four, lost three; SwormsteaC
0 Brattleboro, won three, lost two, He
. rington, Northampton, won three, los
. three; o 'Mara, Newport, won tw,
Q lost two; Martin, Keene, won one, los
o one; Hicks Brattleboro and NortI