The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-01
Sporting Notes.

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can keep on losing and yet repeat that
miracle Of last season.
Evers had to quit the game yester-
day, his weak ankle not standing up
under the strain of play.
One of the Shannon twins with the
Braves got a chance in left field yes
terday after Connolly had been hurt.
Dave Henry, pitcher for the Glare
mont team, figured in a sensational
stop of a runaway horse the other day
Faber Of the White Sox has won IA
games to date and lost only two. lie
won his last one with a triple with the
sac ks crowded.
Pennock tried to beat his old mates
yesterday, but was taken out after three
innings, during which the Athletics had
accumulated three runs.
Mack started Haas again yesterday
He lasted one and one-third innings
against the Red Sox, giving in that
time four passes and being nicked for
| two safeties.
Zimmerman says he is divorced from
the Cubs because of fine of 800 inn
posed by Manager Bresnahan and his
! wife is seeking to divorce him from
her. Zim is in bad all round.
The daily triple with men on sacks,
which has been winning games for the
White Sox was delivered yesterday by
Felsch. This was the fourth day III
succession that triple won for Chica-
GO.
Ty Cobb is on his way to the 100
mari, in stolen bases. He Is already
within 81 of Milan s high water mark
| Of So. No one in 10 years IN the big
| league has stolen 80 bases in one sea-
| son.
Pitcher Clemens of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
/ pitching for the team representing
| that city in the Western association,
held the Denison, Texas. team score
| less in a double-header Tuesday. lie
| has not been scored on in % innings.
If Johnny Evers 5 ankle is still off
| color his jaw works as well as ever,
apparently, for he has been sued for
$4,000 by an irate fan who had an
argument with Capt. Johnny in the
| first game in which the veteran has
| been able to appear since April.
When a drive by batsman is tray
cling so fast that, taking bad bound.
it hits an outfelder on the Jaw and
knocks him out, it is quite likely the
| ball was fgoing some That hap.
Ipened to Connolly in Philadelphia yes
terday when he tried to stop a ball from
Cravath S bat.
The Leland Stanford university
crew are in New York The boys have
money enough to get home, bat have
not enough to pay for shipping their
shell there. 1t viii remain in the Co
lumbia boathouse until enough money
is gotten together to pay the expense
of shipping it across country.
This marks the third time Greenfield
has almost had league baseball team
this year. First the Twin State iuggled
its geography around until the city was
! left out. Then the Three-H came along
with a proposition and that blew up.
And now comes the q almost deal Of
the New England league Still there
are cities in the Colonial that are like
I1y to lose their franchises soon and
Greenfield may make it four. - Spring
field Republican.
The 1916 national championship
track and field meet of the A. A. U.
viii be held in Newark, n J. The
city will be celebrating the 250th an
nivcrsary Of its founding and has Of
fcred $4,000 to the union as a mini
mum over expenses to hold the meet
there. A large stadium and track will
be built for the events. It will be
the first time in years that the cham
pionship meet has been held in the
vicinity of New York.
/ Rookie pitchers in the big leagues
are certainly starting under heavy fire
Crowcll was stacked up against Cald
well, the. Yankees best pitcher, and
three days later against Walter John
son. the best in the American league
Haas went first against Warhop and
Yesterday against Foster, the Red
Sox' best pitcher this season, while
George Davis, on his first appearance,
with the Braves this season, had nc
less a pitcher than Grover Cleveland
Alexander to oppose yesterday.