The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-16
IN THE FIELD
OF SPORTS

Earle j. Hayden Of st. Adams has been
elected captain OF the 1915 track team
at the University of Vermont. Hayden
has been member of the Vermont track
team for the past three years. He spe-
cialzes in long distance running. Harold
Mayforth, 1915, was elected captain of
the University of Vermont baseball team
for 1915 at meeting of the members
held Just previous to the Middlebury
game on Saturday. Mayforth is regard
ed as one of the best college catehers in
the East. He has represented the college
for three years behind the bat. This
past year has been one of his most sue
cessful. His hitting has been one of the
features of the teams work. Mayforth
has been tempted with several big league
offers during the past two years.
recent tabulation of the batting of
the major college baseball teams in the,
East show that Tufts college leads all
others with a percentage of .294. Har-
ward is second with .292, and Yale third
with .249. Clarke, the Harvard second
baseman. leads the individual batting
with 40s. Stafford of Tufts is second
with $50. Blossom of Yale is third with
$50
The awards of baseball letters to the
Tufts college team this week have two
Vermont boys on the list, Bernard Lee
OF Irasburg, and Stafford of Orleans.
1t is the practice of American col
legians to drop athletics Immediately
after their leaving college. There is
good example of this in Bond and Sew
ard, the Michigan sprinters, who have
signified their intention of dropping the
game. These two men would make fine
prospects for the 1915 Olympics.
Clarence Walker, the new st. Louis
recruit, has replaced Sam Crawford as
the leader of American league batters.
The work of Walker this season has
been one of the big sensations of base
ball. On Sunday he equalled the record
held by Hal Chase, of hitting safely In
% consecutive games. Walker was hit
ting for 1854 at the close of last week.
The American league is minus the large
group of batters that have crowded the
elite class for the past few years. Only
eight men were in the ranks at the close
of the past week. Crawford stands sec
ond with $40. Cobb is down in seventh
place with 800, and jackson eighth with
.3l4. This Speaker, the Boston slugger,
is still well down on the list. Speaker
is only hitting for .275. He is expected
to land among the chosen few in short
time.
Walter Johnson's path is not being
trailed by world beating success this sea-
son. The mighty pitcher of the Amer
lean league has lost seven games to date,
a number that equals or is greater than
the number he lost all during the 1913
campaign. Wyckoff of the Mackmen is
the leading pitcher of the American
league with seven victories and one de-
feat. Ray Collins, the Boston lad, inn
proved his standing last week. He has
won six and lost six games.
Kau1, the little indianapolis player, is
one of the most sensational hitters of
the season. He leads the Federal league
with a percentage of Ala. Campbell Of
the same team stands second with .394
Bradley of Pittsburg and Evans of
Brooklyn rank next in order with high
marks.
George Burns is virtually the leader of
the National league batting. He is hit
ting Tor dol. DalJon OF the brooklyn
team is second with 34s. Wagner
dropped many points last week, but still
hovers above the mark at 3l3.
The Baltimore Orioles are playing pen
nant winning ball and should be draw
ing the crowds from the Federal league.
The Orioles have won l3 straight games.
Beck, of the st. Louis Cards, has one
of the best throwing arms in the big
leagues
The New York clubs head the individ- |
ual larceny list of the big leagues. Mais-
Ell, the little Highlander, leads the Amer
lean league with IL steals. Burns, the |
Giant. stands at the top of the National |
league list with a like number. Anoth- |
er distinction the New York clubs claim
is that both have engineered the triple |
play successfully.
Rabbit" Maranville has begun to /
play his real game for the Boston |
Braves. During the earlier part of the |
season he hit and fielded very poorly |
His work during the past week has been
pleasing to his followers. He
raised his batting average to the $50
mark. and his fielding percentage ia