The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-12
Sporting Notes.

Mara and Krepps shut out New
hampshire college Saturday without hit
II run while Tufts made ) Nolk got
hree hits, one double
Bellows Falls, by defeating Newport
lNt) at basketball Saturday night, SO to
., has clear title to one championship.
hat of basketball for the state.
breckenridge must have had a lot Of
atistactlon Saturday in watching his Col
:ate team trim the Middies, the team he
Used to coach, by the score of to S.
DIR. Ben f. Roller, who was booked to
yrestle Cyclone Mattson in South London
Jerry last Tuesday night, is now sched-
lied to be there the night after the Roller
Bailey bout in the Armory.
Arthur Pel1ey, the former white hope
Who once stayed with Willard for 10
<ounds, was Knocked out in the eighth
ound OF l0-round match by Joe Jean
lette at Montreal Saturday night.
Coach Haughton of the Harvard football
cam IS showing tendency in the spring
ootball practice to develop some of the
ateral passing that was a feature of
-oach Hlnkeys Yale team last fall
Kansas is the wealthiest state in the
mion with Massachusetts a close second
Massachusetts will not be even close when
less Willard gets back home to Kansas
with his winnings of the next few months
Harvard football authorities are consid-
ring the plan of forming an appendixless
eleven. Walter H. Trumbull, left tackle
acting captain during Brickleys absence,
vas operated tpon Saturday fer the usual
trouble
Jim Thorpe, the Indian outfelder of the
'iants, spends his time at bat biting at
every curve offered him This tendency
said to have him slated for the bench
spite Of his steady work all the spring
On the regular team.
Smiths slow windup and Michler's poor
throwing allowed Georgetown 10 stolen
1ases in the game against Williams at
Washington Saturday and Williams. al
most entirely because of these battery
aults, lost the game, 3 to l.
The Illinois state normal school has
started ''jitney' baseball Six hundred
tickets, each good for five at-home games.
have been sold for % cents each This is
expected to cover the expenses of the
cam and assure good attendance
Sam AIcVea, colored and one of John
sons seconds in the Willard battle. is
confident that johnson was fixed He
'"S NAiNA - f1N ICui NiiiCS men, 70 Say nOUn-
ing of one or two colored chaps, who can
whip Willard. The white men he names
are George Carpenter, Frank Koran, Jim
Coffey and Gunboat Smith
This boxing match tonight in the Ar
mory between doc" Roller and George
w. Bailey may not be for the world S
championship, but it is between two big
men who both claim to be clever with
the gloves. If Roller is half as clever
with the gloves as he is on the wrestling
mat Bailey has got to show lot of class
to make things interesting for the physi-
clan.
An outfelder in the Federal league. who
stops ball by throwing his bat, glove or
any other part of his equipment at it,
will present the batter with home run
by his action, according to new ruling
announced by James A Gilmore, president
Of the league. The ordinary rule provides
for three-base hit in such a case. The
three-base rule viii stand, Gilmore said
for a similar action by an infelder.
The Federal league season opened Sat
urday. Brooklyn beat Buffalo, Is to o
in "a game that dragged along over three
hours. Magee, manager of the BROOKLYN
| aggregation, was put out of the game il
the first inning and it is likely the game
will be thrown out because of Land. 3
| catcher, being sent behind the plate afte,
he had been pulled out of the game to al
low someone to run form him. Nice start