The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-19
Sporting Notes.

A lovely crop Of early season double I
headers is growing.
Mclnnis is the latest victim of the
broken nose epidemic. /,
Hartzell of the Yankees has walked to |
first nine times in FIVE games.
jim 1effries has been heard from. |
lie is critically i'll with pneumonia
George Crowther, a former Twin
State favorite, has signed with Paw
tucket.
Johnnie Evers is out Of the Troy
hospital and is able to walk around a
little, bum ankle and all.
There have been "A postponements in
the two major leagues to date this month
and there were only eight in April
The Claremont team, by the way, is
TO be known as the Braves. There its
similarity with Boston team may end.
Harvard might do worse than to en-
gage the veteran Bill Sweeney as base
bail coach, He has applied for the
job.
The Yankees under Donovan appear to
be acting much like the Braves did last
year under Stallings, only the Yankees
have started earlier.
Jack o 'Hara worked out with the
Tip-Top team of the Fed league in
Springfield yesterday, playing second
base. Look out Claremont.
If Harvard wins the Yale Harvard
beat race the Harvard rowing commits
sion will send the crew to the Pacific
coast as treat. Some inducement
Luderus of the Phillies now leads the
National league batsmen with an average
of 1896. Fourier of the Chicago White
Soy tops the American league batters with
an average of ABB.
| Coach Lush Of the Fordham team, who
has been on the job one week, is the idol
Fof the campus. The team has started a
winning streak and Monday walloped
Dartmouth to the tune of IL to 3.
Jack johnson is heard from in Paris
which city he reached by means of an
old passport He wants to get TO the
battle front driving one OF his ma
chimes as Red Cross ambulance
George Whitted, the ex-B Brave who went
to the Philhes by trade and has been
well, broke two bones in his right ankle
the other day and will be laid up long
time
In order to improve the batting
strength of the Cleveland team Joe
jackson, the outfelder, has been shift
ed to- first base and Elmer Smith
pinch hitter, goes to right field as 8
regular.
darlington, with $40, and Cram, with
300, are two Brown baseball players who
; have hit better than the 300 mark tc
date. Murray is the only other member
of the team who has hit well and he has
a mark of 267.
Tom Keady's hard-hitting Lehigh team
could not hit the floating slow ball o.
Z Gerard, the Lafayette pitcher, in the. frs
game of the Lafayette ehigh series Sat
mday, although Twombly of Medford lee
, off with his usual home run.
) One sporting writer declares it was pitt
full to see Roller and Zbyszko in the las
30 minutes of their match in Springfield
Monday night, SO utterly exhausted wer
both of them. Zbyszko has never lost
3 fall since he took up wrestling.
. 1t is doubtful il any of the fast outfield
j ers in the big leagues have the speed il
going after fly balls that Jim Thorpe, tn
Indian, has, but he lacks the Judgment o
Speaker, Cobb and other finished work
men in playing for the batsmen.
5 sAndover academy has produced broal
; Jumper who is in the class with the bes
n of college jumpers. Lincoln Prescott q
}. Andover jumped 23 feet inches at til
= Harvard interscholastic games and might
: few college men are reaching the % foo
II mark.