The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-16
Sporting Notes.

is some track meet.
Proulx at third for Taunton in the
Colonial league did not get hit but
accepted his three fielding chances.
MuTvey for HaverhiIl yesterday
scored a run, made two hits and had
three eros in 10 chances at third.
Amherst college has voted to re
sumo basketball, a game that has been
off the curriculum of that college since
1905.
White and Munroe won three points
last night from Harris and Griffin in
the candlepin tournament at Buzzell s
alleys.
If a few more Williamses break in
to baseball, the demand for front
name initials viii necessitate a longer
alphabet.
j. J. Lannin, president of the Red
Sox, has bought of the Taylors their
share of common stock in the team
and, is now sole owner.
If, as stated, every one of the Ath-
letics has his money invested in real
estate, the Giants must have contrib
uted a corner lot or two.
Royce, pitcher of Hamilton college,
famed 81 of the Rochester university
players yesterday. Two weeks ago he
| famed 20 Of the same team.
The next game of baseball here will
be played on the Island. That reduces
the number of available excuses for
not attending high school games by
several.
The Red Sox will soon take the
old time name of that Chicago team
| hn ;
difference will be found In the stand
ing of the clubs.
Middlebury beat Breck's Colgate
team yesterday at Hamilton, n. Y, l.
to 5. The teams made 81 errors be
tween them. Breck used three pitch
ers and his team made only seven hits
! We read of the Vanitie that "Wher
well heeled she will have an unusually
long wetted surface" In that re
spect this later cup defender is no
distinctly different than some men.
Andy Coakley the former Ath
letics and Red pitcher, and a forme
well-known college coach, is now ;
magnate. He is manager and owne
of the Bloomfield club of the Atlanti
league.
Yelle at short for Lewiston had tn
pleasure of scoring the winning ru1
over Fitchburg on wild throw b,
''Rube" Sager, who did the twirlini
for the losers. Yelle got two hits an
accepted FIVE of six chances in tn
field.
8 Jack Knight, the baseball jumping
jack, says if he has to be released thi
J season or next, he wants the manage
ment to remember there is a fair GU
on the coast next year and that a sea
o son In the Coast league wouldn' t be
6 bitter pill to swallow.
|. Dutch Leonard of the Red Sox ha
pitched six games, three of whic
have been victories, two losses an
one a tie. Yet in all these games b
] has allowed but four runs to be score
s against him. With Leonard it is
J, case of shut out opponents or lose.
Tansey's Leominster high scho,
team got an awful drubbing Thur
day at the hands of the Worceste
academy second team, the score bein
IL to 2. The academy team score
) eight runs in the eighth inning an
the game was finally called withol
anyone being put out in that innin
Il Four of the players with the Kee1
Twin State league last year are boo
ed for organized baseball. Ostergre
of Holy Cross has signed with IL
Boston Americans, Fish of Seaton Ha
n with the Baltimore Federals, Durgin
Al Brown with Newark of the Intern
se tional league, and Bob Smith, pitche
e is already playing with the Buffa
IS Federals under the name of Brown.
II According to JOHNNY Evers, Jol
) King, the old catcher of the Cub
Y Braves and Reds, has just turn,
L down the biggest offer ever made
player in organized ball. The Pirat
"a who are pennant crazy, want him
help out Gibson, the only real catch
y they have. King refused becau
u when released by Cincinnati he prol
~ ised that if he ever played b;
u again it would be with that team
r. Ray Caldwell s string of consecuti
ro wins is still unbroken. The defe
W Thursday goes to Heating. AS the
be troit runs were made by men W
reached base on Heating those ru
are charged to him. This is the pr
cedure in both leagues. Ban Johns
IL once ended Walter Johnson s winni
streak by ordering runs charged
IL him which Tom Hughes put on t
bases, but afterward saw the error
his way and instructed his scorers
"a hold pitchers responsible for any ru
~ ~ scored by men reaching base duri
-. -. said pitchers tenure. Which is OF
10 fair.