The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-03

wearing baseball shoes the duskv won
der turned the trick at a benefit field
day in Los Angeles in Is As seconds.
The postponed games in the Twin
State league can be PLAYED off easily
on the days in the week when no
games are scheduled.
Sisler, the Michigan university re-
cruit with the st. Louis Americans.
played first again yesterday. He cot
two hits in four attempts.
Cravath brought the Boston pb;laaeI.
phia National league game to a close
yesterday by the very simple expcdient
of banging out a home run in the LAST
thalf of the ninth.
| Joe Hornung, left fielder of the cham
pion Boston team of 1888 and later with
the Giants, has been made a special no
lice officer at the Polo grounds and IS
stationed in the center field bleachers.
Manuel Octavio Bolivar, Cuban who
has just graduated from the North Adj
ans, Mass, high school, is to enter Mid
dlebury college this fall lie is a foot
ball player of more than ordinary abil-
lity
Connie Mack is out with statement
that he will not quit and will NOT he
told how to run his team He adds that
NAAS obilC1 OWnC u the AInIGt1cS
drive him away, but he will not 90
voluntarily.
Kauff has refused to play with the
Brooklyn Federals because of some dis
agreement over his salary. He wants 70
jump to the Giants again. as if his first
attempt did not cause enough trouble
for one spell
President Thomas of the CHICAGO
CUBS says he had a chance to get Her
zog and President Hermann of the
cincinnati club says Herzoo is not for
sale or trade. Take your choice. One
thing IS certain, Herzog wishes he was.
The meeting of Jack Coombs and
Chrlsty Mathewson yesterday revivcs
memories of the world s series of
l9ll. 1t was in that series that
Coombs sustained the injury which
Kept him practically on the retired
list until this spring.
Schang, Mack s star catcher, is play
ing third base. Mack is determined 70
get all the benefit possible out of his
batting strength, and as Schanc can
play fair third base and is a hard
hitter the move to have him fiji Frank
Baker 5 shoes temporarily is probably
good Judgment.
Benny Kauff has been fined 800
by the Brooklyn Fed management for
refusal to play because of a DISAGREE
mcnt over salary due him. IRVING TO
keep in trouble Kauff has sued the
Giants for $4,000 claiming this
amount was due him for signing
contract for three years which he did
and was not then allowed to play.
Norman Taber, first biossomed as a
read mile runner III Springfield.
Mass. In the New England intercol
le9late meet of 1912, he did the mile
IN 4-25 2-5 on Pratt field. A wear
before that Taber could only finish
fourth in 4.24 %, and at Brown was
considered good only for 4.40 Taber
has certainly improved and the credit
for his work falls on Eddie O'Connor
of Worcester, who recently quit as
Brown S track coach
George Brickley, who PLAYED bah with
Newport of the Twin State league and
who at one time was signed with Con
me Mack, according to the Hartford
Courant is to enter Trinity college this |
fall. This same paper is authority for
the statement that he will play semi |
professional ball for the remainder of |
the season with the Unionville team of |
the Valley league. This league is com
posed of fast teams in Connecticut. |
George s brother, Charles Brickley has
Just graduated from Harvard after a |
brilliant career as an athlete.
Haas, the former Worcester academy |
star, who is being tried out faithfully |
by Connie Mack, received Mack s at |
tention, so he says, because of his re-
markable control. Haas pitched for |
Northampton against Brattleboro here
on July 2S of last year. He issued nine |
passes in that game, five of them in
succession in the third inning Four
of the five runs Brattleboro scored in |
that game were by men who had |
walked. Haas allowed O'Hara S team |
only three singles and none of them |
figured in the scoring. He struck out |
seven men. In his first game for the |
Athletics he made a world 5 record bv |
passing 10 men, besides hitting three |
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