The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-27
Sporting Notes.

Brooklyn has won % out of the last |
% games. The Braves have won /.
out of the last 49,
Johns Hopkins has the niftiest col
ors for football of any college. They
are black and blue.
Fritz Maeisel of the Yankees hit
safely p times in the IA games played
on the western trip.
Cobb has stolen almost as many
bases as have the entire membership
Of the Boston Braves.
Jim Thorpe, the Indian, is now with
Harrisburg. He was shifted from Jer
sey City at his own request.
Tho Braves are now in tie for
fourth place with New York and Pitts
burg and only half game behind
Chicago.
With four days of playing in Gin
cinnati this week the Braves have q
pretty good spot in which to start
their long western trip.
Sharpe, who kicked around in the
Greenfield outfeld last season, has been
signed by Ramsay, who is managing
the Greenfield club in the new league.
Between Wednesday and Sept. II
Greenfield is scheduled for 16 home
games which ought to 90 a long way
towards making up the deficiency of
| late start.
The Richmond club of the InteTna-
tiOnal league, where 'Rube' Cram.
former Twin Slater, is displaying his
curves, is said to be on the verge of
being transferred elsewhere because of
| lack of support.
Greenfield has pledged the necessary
| $500 for the baseball team and the iIIst
game is to be played tomorrow. Man
| ayers of the Northampton, Pittsfed and
| Greenfield teams are already claiming
| men signed by others, 50 it acts like
a regular league.
| Red Ames, who has been with
| Cincinnati since his release by tie
Giants last year, has joined the IT.
| Louis club. He made his first appear
ance for that club as the third pitcher
against Brooklyn yesterday and like his
| predecessors was hit hard.
| Alexander has won eight shut out
| games, three one-hit and four two-hit
| games. In three Of the games that he
| lost his team gave him only two runs
as a working margin in each game and
| IN the fourth his team did not score.
| lie has won 10 games and lost four.
The North Adams Transcript is au-
| thoritv for the statement that Arthur
| Pelkey, the Chicopee, Mass, ex-white
hope, is wanted by Brattlcboro box
ing club to oppose d.. Ben T. Roller in
= boxing match So far as size goes
the men would be well matched.
| According to averages published to-
day in the Springfield Republican
Goodridge of Bellows Falls is leading
the Twin State league in batting with
an average for l9 games of AIS.
o 'IIara IN , games is hitting for .2g2
Dixie for .233, Johnston for POO and
Fishburne for .123.i -
Harry Harper, the pitcher who ha.
just been recalled by Washington from
the Minneapolis club. where he wa:
sent to work the wildness out of hi,
delivery, in his last game with tina
| club set Il record for witness In tht
American association by passing p
men.
They are shouting in Boston tina
. Rabbit Maranville has returned K
his form of last season. And Johnm
fveFs has returned to the game. An,
if both of them stay there the Re,
SoX may not be the only Boston team
concerned in the world championship
fight.
Two candidates for the Navy foot
ball team are naively reported a
'sfinas' One is A c. Gilman, VIII
played tackle at Cornell and end q
Colgate and also rowcd on. the Cocnel
varsity crew, and the other is +.
Smith, . 210-pound fullback, WIN
played on the SeEanee eleven.
Hanlon,' said Jennings, ''wol
the pennant in 1894 with IA men. II
had seven feeders, two catchers an
5 five pitchers. He had no extra Out
! | fielder and no extra infelder Keele
] played couple of weeks with felo
on his finger. Men didn't want t
/ get out of the game in those day
f | Five pitchers are better than min,
| Knowing about these extra. men tn
Z fan nowadays yells, Take him out
when it would be better for that pa
{ | ticular pitcher and the whole staff TO
hin, to stay in and work out his ow
salvation Then he'd learn to pitch.