The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-06
Sporting Notes.

NOGCSs
Our old friend Paddy Green has come
across with a win in the New England
league.
The great Alexander is no longer Alex
ander the Great. He has met his first de
feat and at the bats of the lowly Giants.
Jess Willard is offered 10000 fat for
| a 20-round decision go with Gunboat
Smith in Denver. Not yeti Not yet!
Big Bill James of the Braves appears to
have struck his gait if his exhibition
against Brooklyn yesterday is any critic,
ron.
Johnston, Darlington, Andrews and
Cram each got hit in the Amherst game
yesterday, but Dixie and Crowell went hit
less.
On paper it is difficult to see where
| Harvard can finish better than second
in the dual track. meet with Cornell
Saturday.
When Penn State could beat Yer
mont by the score of only / to 0 it is
safe betting that Z. Y. NJ. has got
some team.
| If it cost Herzog five days suspen-
sion and fine Of 50 to be whipped
! by Umpire Rigler what would have
been the penalty had Rigler been de.
Ifeated?
The victory by Williams over Yale yes
terday was the seventh in the last nine
years. Pitcher Young of Williams batted
in all the runs made by his team and Wild
threw in the two made by Yale The score
was 3 to >.
/ Dartmouth loaned three men to Norwich
university yesterday for the first few inn
! ings of the game at Hanover and finally
trimmed the soldier boys, l. to , An
automobile accident held up a part Of the
Norwich team.
| Now that the Massachusetts Woman
Suffrage association has offered So for
every home run made by Boston
player on the home grounds they ought
to be certain of vote from every
recipient of a check for So.
Joe Briekley, captain of the Everett
high school, got four hits, one a
double, in the last game played by his
team. He is a younger brother Of
George, now with Lawrence in the New
England league and formerly of Twin
State fame.
The Cleveland Leader says this about
the Tigers: Outside the hardest
hitting outfield IN the game, half
dozen good pitchers, some nice infeld-
ers, couple of catchers, a pretty
good manager and a lot of pep, there
ism t much to those Tigers.
''Big Bill Luby, who wants to man
lage Bellows Falls and who is coaching
the New York university team, has
shifted his team around so often and
so extensively that the players do not
know before a game what position they
are to fill.
Out in the middle West an umpire
appeared in the middle of the dia.
mond with an automatic shotgun and
} he kept it until he had given his last
) decision. This was the result of an
agreement all-round. Ri2ler says he
does not need a gun and Herzog agrees
with him.
Coach Rush of the Princeton foot
ball team is to have FIVE assistants
among whom is J. L. Cooney, who
will coach the tackles. That means
that if the Tigers can find two
men who have any sand and any
brains Princeton will be strong in the
tackle positions.
The ballfeld on Island park, nov
that it has been cleared of debris, /.
!. found to be in better condition thar
5 it was after the flood of two years ago
NJ. J. Moran of the management plans
? to have it freshly seeded down a
0 once and give the new grass a chance
otto grow before it is used for baseball
9 if it is finally decided to use it again
3 for that purpose.
3 What is probably the final cut of til
season in the Brown university frs
squad was made Monday by Coac
Harry Pattee. Outfelders Hall an
Jemail and Catcher Cleveland wer
sent back to the second team. Blu
two outfelders remain, one of whom j
Dixie, and it is more than likely Grow
ell and Cram win be altenated in tn
outer garden and on the mound.
A civil case will be tried in the distric
court at Northampton Monday morning
Ill The Newport Baseball association sue
d the Northampton Baseball association t
ID recover $50 a fine imposed on the lect
association by Twin State League Pres
dent Z. NJ. Reyes last season, whe
Northampton forfeited a game to New