The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-24
Sporting Notes.

ANANASA
has a one-legged student who plays
tennis and baseball.
The University of Pennsylvania foot
ball schedule for next year calls for only /
nine games, the smallest number in years. |
Yale squash tennis players drubbed
Harvard squashers Tuesday in New York, |
demonstrating that there are some
games Yalesians can play.
For fear they may forget it Harvard
students held big banquet Tuesday
night in Boston and ate and drank and
sang to the recent 41-to-0 affair with
Yale.
As the result of sales of football
tickets to spectators there are over
400 Harvard men on the blacklist. Flu
ture applications from them for tick
cts viii be ignored.
Thus far Trinity has been able to ar
range football games only with Norwich,
Brown, Springfield Y NJ. c. A. college,
the Army and Boston college. So much
for the Brickley incident.
The Williams college student body
wants Fred DAILY, the old Yale man who
is coach of athletics at Williams, to stay
there, There has been some talk of DAILY
being induced to go elsewhere,
The Pittsburg university football has
two new teams on the schedule for the
1916 season. They are Syracuse univer-
sity and the University of Pennsylvania
Rather interesting games, those.
The resumption of basketball at
| Brown university as a major sport has
been topic of discussion and interest,
and 436 undergraduates have petitioned
the faculty to approve it, but it is not
likely that they will be successful.
Savage, the University of Maine
| hurdler who won both events at the
| New England Intercollegiate meet, is
laid up with blood poisoning in one
| foot. He will be unable to compete
in the winter indoor meets, it is feared.
| Hamilton college is negotiating for
dual track meets with the Carlisle In
dian school and the University of Yer
mont, the event with the Indians TIC
take place Decoration day. Neither
Vermont nor Carlisle has ever appear
ed on the Hamilton track schedule.
Benny Kauf, the Ty Cobb of the Feds
lis in New York trying to make peace
with McGraw. Kauff evidently figures
that the Feds are about done and wants
to play with the /. ANTS He signed witt
l
and now has a suit pending against The
Giants alleging failure on the part of tina
club to keep a contract with them.
DR. Richard NJ. Zones, head maste
of the William Penn Charter school O
Philadelphia, the first school in tina
section to employ paid football
coach, is out with the suggestion tina
paid coaches be retained but that N,
To- Ia hon n
the students being assessed enough O.
term bills to maintain the team. Tina
school has had such coaches as Cor
win, Woodruff and Sharpe.
Frank J. O,Neill, & otherwise Buck
lO'Neill, the old Williams star end VIII
has made the Syracuse university footba
team so famous, will not return mex
lyear. His business interests proven
his continuing as a coach. O'Neill wen
to Williams from st. Johns mlitar
those institutions he was a star feotba
end In a game against the Carlisle II
dams at Albany. n Y, while membe
of the Williams eleven, he picked up
loose ball and ran 100 yards for toucl
down, the only one Williams made in tha
game.
Ia IuC lIdhS-IbIi UP VI IL
Brown university eleven, captained b
n 81 Buzz Andrews, who played fir
base for Brattleboro two seasons bae'
will cost $4,000. Brown men are NJ
so confident that then team viii VI
as they were when It vas first arrange
n to have the Oregon college team as Il
IL opponent. The shift to Washingtc
n State, an unbeaten team of undoubtt
= calibre, took lot of confidence out
= Brown alumni and undergraduate
= The game is to be played New Year
- day.
W One of the reasons, it is said, why t
- Feds could not afford to continue as
- league was because of the inflated salari
paid players to leave organized ball. 1t
u estimated that more than IS had thu
y salaries that were paid by organized b
I'd doubled to jump to the outlaws. An {
r ample might be made of Joe Tinker, W
Of received So, 800 from organized ball a
al 81, 600 from the Feds. Hal Chase W
- raised from $4,000 to $4,000, and kar
= who now wants to play with the Clan
'e was receiving $4,000 as player in
y ganized ball and left to accept sala
of $500. It's no wonder players
lb organized bali and likewise it is not $
II, ~ I'd, not CT nd