The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-03
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

] /. D. Mckenzie has been elected cap
tain of the Princeton track team foi
1915. Mckenzie has been one OF the
consistent point getters for the Tiger;
for the past two years. He comes iron
Hartford, Conn. In the mile run a.
Harvard on Saturday he finished third
Rankin johnson still holds the upper
hand of Walter johnson, his namesake
| The Boston johnson won his first battle
against the mighty Walter, but IN the
second encounter lost. He came back Oh
! Monday, winning pitchers battle by
the score of 2 to /.
Doc Crandall, the former Giant pitcher
still retains the supremacy OF the red
cral league pitching department. he mas
won six games and lost none.
! Baseball patrons of Pittsburg have
entered a petition to President Tener OF
the National league, protesting against
Umpire Rigler appearing on Forbes feld
at Pittsburg. This is practically an UNI
heard of procedure in the major leagues.
Britton of the st. Louis team has made
similar petition to Pres. Tener.
George Stallings. the Brave manager,
is of the opinion that both the National
and American clubs of the major leagues
are well represented. Stall was con-
tent that St Louis should beat out
Buck Herzog's bunch Of Reds.
Last weeks games proved disastrous
for the Pirates. The Pittsburg team
opened the week with win and then
lost the following FIVE games in success
sion. By this the team dropped out of
first position.
George Burns, the little outfelder of
the Giants, is leading the National
league in hitting Burns is hitting for
1868. He is closely trained by Catcher
of tie st. Louis team, who is batting for
.352. Byrnes and Wagner of the Pirates
follow in the order mentioned. Wagner
is hitting for .342, a rather poor aver
age for an old man like the Dutchman.
Boston fails to land single batter in
the 800 class.
Old Sam Crawford, another veteran
is the leader in the American league bat
ting order with 1853. Clyde Milan of
the Washington team is second with .340'
Joe jackson tell to 1926, while Cobb is
still stationed at 1924.
Ray Fisher, the Mddlebury college
twirler still holds his prestige in the
American league among the pitchers. He
stands in second position with four wins
and one loss. johnson is well down the
list with eight victories and four losses.
lie will undoubtedly be well up in the
list towards the close of the season.
Charlie Herzcg is play,Ag the game
of his life and is handling his team in
fine order. Herzog is making the Red
land aggregation play pennant winning
ball.
President Somers emphatically denies
the rumor that Joe Birmingham is to
bt replaced as manager of the Cleveland
club of the American league. He is
perfectly satisfied with the way Brming
ham is handling his team. 1t is pos
sible, he says, that some of the old
timers may give to youngsters who can
hit.
One ST. Louis paper says that st.
Louis will be weakened to such an ex
tent should Jack Miller jump to the
Feds, that they viii be lucky to finish
ahead of Boston. Boston people claim
that they will be lucky anyway TO finish
ahead of the Braves.
Benz, the Chicago pitcher, twirled the
first no hit game of the season against
Cleveland on Sunday. Errors behind him
permitted Cleveland to score one run.