The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-09-26
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS


Red Sox are playing the best ball Of any
club in the American league and he sees
a possible chance for the team to beat
out the Mackmen. The Red Sox have
the same chance to overtake the leaders
of the American league as the Giants
have to oyertake the Braves.
Walter 0'Mara, the little shortstop OF
the Brooklyn Nationals, who has been
laid up the greater part of the season
with a broken leg, is able to be about on
crutches. He will not attempt to play
again this season.
Tex Erwin, the former Brooklyn catch
err, who was leading the National league
in batting when he received his release,
is now with the Baltimore lnternation-
ais.
Connie Mack and Mathewson agree in
their opinions for the slump of the
Giants. They say IL is because of too
many Injuries.
According TO a story being told by the
Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago Cubs have
been sold by Charles P. Taft TO Mrs.
Hetty Green. IL is said that Mrs.
Green's advent into professional base
ball was solely the result of speculative
motives and desire to add to her real
estate holdings of that part of the
Windy City. Nobody has been found TO
confirm the -umors.
Mike Dorizas, the famous college
strong man, is making strong bid for
position on the Pennsylvania football
team this coming fall,
Manager Higgins of the Cards has
signed up Doak for 1915. Doak is the
leading pitcher of the National league
and is regarded as one of the best right
handlers in the business.
But six and half games separate
the Boston and Philadelphia clubs in the
American league race.
A. Alamo Stagg, the famous football
coach at the University of Chicago, is
confined to his bed by neuritis. He was
not on the field during the opening prac-
tice, the first time in 22 years. Eleven
years ago he suffered from rheumatism
by exposing himself to incement wealth
err endeavoring to build up his team to
trim Michigan.
Out in Detroit it is said they are Of
fering odds that the Michigan team trims
Harvard in the big East West clash this
fall at Cambridge Yost is at present
teaching his men some of the points he
picked up from last years Army team |
Richard Harte, the star all-round ath-
lete Of the 1917 class at Harvard, has
been lost to the football team.
BY winning over the Eastern associa-
ton champs this season, the New Eng !
land league champs made it two con-
secutive years. Last year the Lowell
club trimmed Hartford four games to
two. This season New London was de
feated by the same number of games by
Lawrence.
Betting on the coming world series
has diminished from absurd odds to five
to four on the Mackmen. 1t il quite
likely that the Philadelphia team will
be staked against the Braves, who will |
make a more formidable showing that |
the Giants would The worlds series |
will be started on Oct. 3, one day after |
the close OF the season OF the American |
and National leagues. Two games will |
be played consecutively in each city in
stead of alternating each day, as was
the case between the New York and |
Philadelphia clubs. The place of the |
opening game win be decided by the toss
of a coin.
The engagement of Walter Meanwhile,
the diminutive shortstop of the Braves,
to Miss Elizabeth Shea of Springfield,
Mass, was announced this week. They |
will be married at the close of the sea
son this fall.
They are now saying that Josh Devore
has Ira Thomas luck for changing to
pennant winning club.
Hopes are pitched high at Northtield
for victory over Brown in football /
Saturday. The cadets are being coached
this season by Pray, who has coached
Natick, Mass, high school. The Nor
wich team is said to measure up to the
standard of former years. In Providence
the betting is that Norwich does not
score and Brown rolls up a total of at
least 80 points.