The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-18
Sporting Notes.

-hlthIBdH ana 1oiHell nave signed
for football games in 1917 and 1918.
Fred Fulton and Frank Moran are
reported TO be matched for a 40-round
bout at Havana, Cuba, in February.
The Cornell football schedule made
public today includes a game with Col
gate This will be played Oct. % at
Ithaca.
George Brickley is expected to ma
circulate at Springfield Y NJ. c. A.
college next fall, which will give that
college a valuable football and baseball
player.
William \. (Bill LANCE, famous centre
fielder of the Chicago Colts, is in a dying
condition in San Francisco, Cal, as the re
suit OF blood poisoning in his lip. He has
been i'll for several days.
Henry Miller, right end of the uni
vcrsity of Pennsylvania football team.
has been elected captain of the elaven.
He is brother of Ollie Miller, who
captained the 1905 team.
Sol Metzgar, in praising the cool
medicines of his ". & J. fullback
McCreight, says that the latter, yelling
to a certain man TO take out an oppo
ncnt, also yelled thanks as he sprint
ed past the little pile.up on the way to
the goal hne.
President ?. D. Haughton of tn,
( Boston Braves is anxious to hav,
changes made in the playing rules
| which will lessen the domination of the
4 pitchers. He sugg asts that only on,
/ foul strike be called, instead of two
] give a free pass on three balls instea,
/ of four and abolish the resin, emer,
and spitball deliveries.
Rutgers has pretentious football plan.
for next year. 1t is negotiating for I
battle with Michigan at the polo ground,
the Saturday following Thanksgiving day
and contest at Fordham on election day
Princeton was asked to play on the Sat
urday following the Yale game and nat
urally declined. Penn State, West Nir
giria and the Navy are likely to play Eos
ter Sanford's team.
Chief Bender, the Indian pitcher, VIII,
was famous on Connie Mack's world cham
pion Athletics, has severed his connection
with the Philadelphia Nationals Tn
Carlisle graduate has been appointed man
ager of the Toronto Intcrnationals, SUE
cecding Russell Blackburn. Bender, one q
the shfewdest players who ever put on
glove, Is the first Indian to manage tear
in one of the larger leagues
logger Elcock, one of Dart
mouth S many illustrious football son
who have succeeded as coaches, leave
Washington and Lee after having lif
ed the Generals from gridiron obscu
ity to a place among the leaders G
the South. This year they played Geo
gia Tech, claimcnt of the Dixie title, ,
a tie, 7 to Z. Elcock goes despite til
entreaties of w. & L. men.
The Company l basketball team Wi
go to Greenfield Thursday night to pla
the Greenfield Athletics. Next Satu
day night the team will go to Sprin
field (Vt.) to play return game vii
the Springfield Independents, wi
opened the season here. The next hon
game will be with the Bellows Fal
, Knights of Columbus team, which WI
} play at the Armory Saturday evenin
: December 80.
: Harry f. Pattee, coach of the Bro7
A university baseball team for thr
: years, has signed again to coach t
, team for q term of years. He has be
, very successful there. OF the succe
= full team last year, Capt. Johnston
= short and ''Buz Andrews at fir
:, who played with Brattleboro in t
: Twin State league, were among tho
5 who graduated. Seven letter men, no
ever, are left as a nucleus.
1t is unusual for a pitcher to +;
nounec his retirement after a season
which he managed to pitch no-f
q no-run game, the ambition of eve
major league twirlcr. Such a person
George Foster Of the Boston Red S
and George, by the way, made
record against the New York Yanke
u a mighty sweet hitting team. Eos
r. had considerable trouble with his a
y. last season and has Just about deci;
Is life is easier on his Oklahoma ranch
$, Following Harvards dropping Corn
tn from its football schedule comes from Ca
bridge the news that the track advist
committee intends seveIing track relate
- with the lthacans as soon as the pres
~ contract expires Members of the Fl
ward committee say that the desire
OF meet Princeton in dual track meet is
principal reason for the Crimson's decis
to drop Cornell They point out {
Cornell always has been hard nut
Harvard to crack and say that the bienl
OF trip TO Ithaca is distasteful TO the c;
20 bridge athletes
ne When Dutch Leonard. star southI
IN of the Boston Red Sox, is through 8
his pitcher, il won BE- necessary to 7
Va any bcnefts for the native Californ
10 Leonard is getting a fancy salary
! his pitching efforts, and in addii