The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-09
COACH STOLTE
OPTIMISTIC
Outlook Promising for Field
Track and Baseball
Aggregations
HIGH SCHOOL HOPES
TO WIN STATE CUP
Victory This Year Would Give Per
manent Possession Four of Last
Years Point Winners Left = Big
Squad Will Begin Work Soon.

Stolte OF the high school athletic teams |
| hopes to have a big squad of track and |
! field candidates hard at work, as well as
the baseball candidates There does not |
appear to be as much material in sight |
| for the baseball nine as in some years
| past, but the numerical strength of the !
| track candidates Is satisfactory. How the |
individuals viii measure up to the stan |
! dard required to meet the demands of
fast competition is something to be deter
mined
1 Had the track at the fair grounds been
/ in condition for any sort of work the
track candidates would have been out all
this week but the belated snowstorm I'M
/ did all the good the sun and winds of
4 March had accomplished in driving out the
| track
| The track team ought to be strong in
J the distance runs. weights and broad
/ jump, but the coach would like very much
! 10 uncover a few more candidates for the
/ sprlnts. They are very scarce. Hurdlers
1 are not very thick among the candidates
| either, but there are one or two men in
| the list of candidates who may turn out
| to be large sized surprise parties in this
| department of track activities
-Four Point Winners Left.
| Four point winners are left from last
years team, which for the second year in
succession won the interscholastic cham
/ pionship under the auspices of the Uni
versity of Vermont They ought to do a
4 great deal towards a third straight win.
which would give permanent possession of
the cup. '@
Capt. Harlow. who won the mile at Bur
lington and was third in both the quarter
and half mile runs, IS expected to show
even more classes-this season. He has
broadened and developed and is in fine
condition, due to his hard basketball sea
son.
Richmond, who won both the quarter
and half mile at Burlington while handi-
capped by badly infected toe, IS also eX-
pected to be faster than ever this spring.
lie, too has played some basketball this
winter and has thus avoided taking on
much flesh. It would not he surprising
to see Richmond take up the 30 yard
dash this spring and he may possibly try
! the high jump. This was Brattleboro's
| weakest point last year at Burlington, the
| only one in which the team did not score
a point.
| Haskell. whose speciality is the weight
| events, having taken seconds in both shot
/ and hammer and fourth in the discus at
| Burlington, is captain of the baseball
\ team, but will have time to keep in prae-
\ tlce for these specialties.
II These four boys constitute the veterans
\ of the team who scored points at Burling-
Il ton, and between them they accounted for
II % Of the total of 30 made by the team
This makes a pretty fair nucleus for a
team that is bent on bringing home the
cup FOR the third and last time.
| Other Promising Men
IL Henry Robbins, who tried hurdling last
season for the first time, is almost sure
|! point winner in that speciality this year.
H He finished second last year in the high
II hurdles, but was disqualified for knocking
II down too many hurdles He viii go into
II the jumps as well and probably will con-
II test in both hurdles.
II Another who will be worked as a hurd
II Ter Is Guy johnson and he has some class
h as high jumper, which means the coach
H viii devote considerable attention to him
II Leon Adams, who was the winner 81
VI the 100yards dash in the grades meet
: but during his two years in the high schoo
- has not appeared as a candidate for tracE
q honors, will come out this spring and vii
II he welcomed a sprinting prospect and {
broad jumper
L Winchester, who has had experience il
running in a Brooklyn school and is now
/ member Of the Brattleboro high school
IL Is expected to make matters lively fo1
II other entries in the 440 run, also in tn,
III $50. He serves to strengthen the pros
liz poets of the team in the longer runs.
Then there are Wilson and Montgomery
II both members of the team last year wht
are good at the half mile, and Nontgom
III cry probably will work out in the mile
Porter Spencer, who is back after an alb
II sence of a year, Is another distance rune
IN and will be heard from.
III Randall who broke the grades recor,
II in the pole vault, and Pearson, who wol
III the quarter-mie run in the grades, ar
III freshmen who should make the team
III Gallup and Stearns are two others wit
grade records.
Il Among the others who are expected t
start training with those named and t
II be strong contenders are Parker, Moran
I Bishop, Doyle, Hall, Houghton an
IN Coombs. As at a meeting not long ag
over 80 promised to take part in athletic
III this season it is evident that not all hav
/ been named. The promise of this numbe
! Indicates the interest the boys are takin
II in sports and speaks wen for the prospect
'of winning that cup for all time.
ma Baseball Prospects.
No such plethora of candidates for has
I bali is apparent from this distance a
though the first game is scheduled fc
April % with Leland and Gray at Town
bend.
Capt. Haskell is expected to be IL
mainstay on the slab. Behind the plat
where Brattleboro high has been weake
for some years; viii be Plumb, who la