The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-08-07

exercise his option, since the latest bull
| letin of the National Associational Of
Professional Baseball Leagues show that
Triple has been purchased by the Yam
KEGS.
The Rutgers college football squad
has been training for some weeks on a
| specially hired farm with the idea of
being in perfect shape, both from ply
steal and gridiron standpoint, when the
season opens next month. just what
Princeton will say about carrying the
black to the farm" campaign to this
extreme, in case Rutgers defeats the
Tigers on Oct. 2 should prove interesting
reading.
Some novel ideas are being advanced
in connection with the proposed reorgan-
! ization of the South Michigan Baseball
league for 1916 One plan calls for
81 500 appropriation from each city rep
/ resented, together with the assurance
that at least l,l00 season tickets at SIS
each will be sold before the club signs
| its players for the season. In return,
| the club agrees to play free baseball
every day in the week except Satllr-
DAYS and Sundays, when a nominal ad
mission charge viii be made. Municipal
parks and piers are not new, but base.
| ball clubs under practically the same
, classification are bit advanced, to say
the least. II may, however, be but the
the forerunner OF government ownership
of the big leagues.
Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago
Federals, has not reached the free or
municipal-owned baseball club, but he
does believe that the general scale OF
prices in the big leagues could stand
little pairing down. He suggests that
the tariff range as follows; Box seats,
rs cents; grandstand, so cents; pavilion,
25 cents; bleachers. Is cents. Elaborat-
ing on this idea, Tinker says;
"The time is sure TO come when the
fans will not be asked to pay such high
prices for seeing baseball. IL : asking
too much Of the public TO pay 25, 30 -
cents and 81 every day to see a baseball
game which lasts less than two hours.
believe II the price of the bleaehers
was reduced TO Is cents IL would more
than double the patronage, and the same
would hold good in the payilions, grand
stand and box seats.
Almost anyone can afford dime or
a quarter, but ask them to give up 20
cents and 81 and they turn deaf ear.
Ii / were the president of the Federal
league / would cut the admission fee
down TO the prices have suggested, and
believe il would pay two-fold at the
box Office, especially when the new league
is putting up just as good an article Of
ball as any other big league
Trainer Jack Moakley arises TO re-
mark that the performance of Norman
Taber in breaking the worlds record for
the mile shows what the college athlete
can do when he has sufficient time in
which 20 train. Assuming that Moak-
ley's contention is correct, A. A. L. ofii-
Gals are understood TO favor the clos
ing Of all American colleges az least six
months previous 10 the next Olympic
games.
Otis Crandall, formerly OF the New
York Nationals and now pitching for the
81 Louis Federals, is credited with the
invention Of a new delivery which has
been named the Snake ball" While
the ball does not bite the batter, Il Is
said 20 be almost as fesrsome. Accord
ing 20 the reports OF opposing bstsmen,
the sphere floats mp 70 the plate in a
series Of eccentric circles that give hick-
orr swingers The staggers trying 10 fol-
low its course. If the tale BE- true. Il IL
small wonder that Fielder Jones kicked
about the brand Of umpiring bis team
received recently.
one answer 20 whats the matter
with BASEBALL = was given BY the fans Of
Boston. New York Philadelphia and
Brooklyn recently. when more than l25-
600 paid admission to the ball parks 81
these cities in two days.