The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-01
Sporting Notes.


Sporting Notes
McGraw S famous Indian, jim
Thorpe, is a regular with Jersey
City.
Tufts and West Point are the only
college teams in the East not yet de-
feated.
The New England league failed to
open yesterday. The weather was
"agin it.
Morey, former Dartmouth captain, IS
playing with the Manchester team of
the New England league.
Benny Kauf, who caused the trouble
in New York, has been suspended by
the Feds. He declares he has never
signed contract with them.
Joseph Estey has resigned as man
ager of the baseball team and Sanford
Plumb, catcher of the nine, has been
| elected manager in his place.
Amherst college has lost its track
captain. He has been the mainstay of
the team for two years and is now out
of competition because of hernia. Any
how it ism t appendicitis.
Believing that the Tiger football as
pirants will be better after they see
| themselves as others see them, Coach
Rush is having motion pictures of the
| taken In action.
| Jack Coombs, ex-ironmon OF the
American league, who was released by
| Mack, pitched his first full game as Il
| National Lacquer yesterday and beat
the leagues leaders
Bellows Falls s old giant, Bell, who
worked a few games, league rules or
no league rules, is TO have a chance
with the Syracuse team Of. the New
York state league.
| Magnetic is entered in the 2.15 trot,
| purse of $500, on the Westfeld, Mass,
short-ship circuit card. The horse is
owned by f. A. Larrow of Brattleboro
and entered by A. B. Martin.
| McGraw certainly got all sorts of
trouble piled on his shoulders Thurs
day. Besides the row over Kauff,
Merkle had one elbow badly dislocated
and Lobert was badly spiked by Ma
ranville.
A chess expert does not always APP
lpear as a humorist, but the captain of
the Harvard chess club s nine, after a
defeat by score of 40 to /, when
asked if the pitcher of his team had
been knocked out of the box, replied:
Yes, eventually
Fred Ostergren, who was a star first
/ saeker with Keene two years ago and
went to the Red Sox, later being
farmed to Manchester and this year
starting the season with Providence,
has been made a free agent Fred
would like job.
| 1t is easy to estimate how much cut
ting there has been by the National
league to get inside the 81 player linn
it May l when it is known that at
the beginning of the season there were
254 players on the roster of the league
and from now to Sept. l there are to
be only 16S. Some chop.
Brown lost to Virginia in a drilling
rain Yesterday, 5 to A. Dixie connected
for a triple and scored two of the four
connected once safely, but Andrews
hit where they ain Il. . Cram pitched
good ball, allowing only five hits. lie
famed nine and passed two.
Harold Mute, formerly of Barre, won
the bowling championship of Manches-
ter, n. H., this week Mute is called.
the house aire' bowler in that city
and he defeated Steve Whitehead, the
state champion, by 1883 to 1907. Next
Wednesday night Mute will roll against
lMcQuestion of Nashua for the cham
pionship of New Hampshire
Stinson, who pitched for Brattleboro
three years ago, is twirling for Man
chester in the New England league
Torphy, who played for a time with
Bellows Falls, is holding down the first
sack for the same team. Briggs, also
once of Bellows Falls, is in center and
batting in fourth place. After all the
old Twin State league must have had
some class in spots to make so many
Dave Murphy, who was released by
Brattleboro last year after few
games, went to Middlebury to umpire
the Middlebury- Colgate game. He UNI
, pired most of the games there last
, year and gave excellent satisfaction
Murphy turned down a chance Witf
Fall River this year because he sale
the pay offered was less than he could
make as weaver with umpiring as {
side issue.
Colgate and Vermont went 10 in
nings yesterday at Burlington without
either team being able to score a run
Colgate got u man to third in th'
seventh with no one out, but Spea
famed the next three men. West, WHIT
twirled for Colgate, allowed only three
hits and had to work at top speet
} throughout as his mates gathered si1
errors behind him and had him con
stantly in the hole. Robinson, lef
fielder for Colgate, connected for
double and triple. Spear, who piten
ed for Vermont allowed only fou
2 hits. He famed six and issued III
l passes. West passed one and fanne'
one