The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-11
General Sporting Notes

Haven, Conn, after the American league
season was closed, ten of the Boston
Red Sox will have to pay fines OF SlOo'
The players TO pay the fines are Hen
drick son McNally, Scott, Barry, Cady,
Ruth, Lewis, Hobltzell Janvrin and
shorten There were 81 players in the
two major leagues who were fined Tor
playing after the season closed, but the
fines were suspended on all but IL, the
Red Sox being among those having TO
pay The other three men to pay are
Young of the Tigers and Davis of the
Athletics, each 500, and 1y Cobb, $50,
Ira Thomas and Edward Watcher are
two new coaches in athletics which Will
liams college has been lucky enough 20
get. Thomas has been one of Connie
! Macks mainstays for several years, and
this alone is high enough recommends
ton for coaching ability. Besides, Thom-
fas has always impressed the sporting
public as having the right ability for
college coach Watcher has been for sew
eral years one of the leading stars as a
basketball player and is considered the
best center in the country With these
two coaches, Williams ought to be among
the topnotchers in basketball and base.
ball.
The game between De Paul and Som
erville high school at Fenway Saturday
afternoon was the last big intersectlonal
| football contest to be staged between
school teams this fall. While De Paul
showed better form in open field work
and knowledge of the game, IT was the
superior weight of the Somerville eleven
which finally worked one touchdown over
! De Paul's goal line and won the game by,
score Of I to o. With a dry gridiron to
play on instead of the muddy condition
1 of the field. the Chicago team would have
\ had much greater advantage, as they
could have gotten a foothold and, there
/ fore could have made better speed. As
il was, Somervile's weight ploughed
through the line and speed did not make
any material difference.
BY an unanimous vote of the Harvard
! II foot ball warriors, Walter Heber
| Wheeler of the 1916 team was elected
captain for the 1917 team. Wheeler is
member of the class of 1918 and came
to Harvard from Worcester academy,
where he was one of the strongest line
men ever playing on a Worcester acad-
envy team. ne IL u giant III SiItf eIahu
ING IT. in. in height and weighing
about 100 pounds. He started his football
career at Harvard in his freshman year,
but on account of an accident he did not
win his numerals, and his injury did not
mend so that he was in condition to play
in his sophomore year. This year he
was placed on the second team but was
Immediately shifted to the varsity squad.
He was chosen as an All-American play
er for his position. He served with the
allies for six months and received the
French Croix de Guerre in honor of his
bravery. Wheeler returned from France
50 he could play Harvard football.
A note from the Pacific Coast, relating
of the late William Greer Harrison,
speaks Of him as the dean of Western
athletics. From 1886 to 1907, he was
president of the Olympic club of San
Francisco, the Oldest and most prom
nent athletic club in the far west. Har-
rison must have been in fine form, as
he always took the best of care OF his
physical condition and never in his life
hurt his strength by liquor. He died
Years day he took part in the Olympic
cIuD annual tfOss country luHs
with a plunge in the sea.
There were but four in the American
league to tally more than 100 runs dur
ing the past campaign, these being Ty
Cobb. Jack Graney, George Burns and
Tristram Speaker. Cobb crossed the
pan on Il3 occasions, while Graney
scored l07 times Cobb batted for 81,
and Graney could swat for only 24l.
Graney had one advantage, as he had
Speaker to drive him home in pinch
and the rate that Speaker was going
last year he could drive him across on
nearly every occasion Otherwise, Gran
ey probably would not have been as high
in the race as he ended.
The new Yale baseball schedule was
announced yesterday. and it included 30
games The schedule is one of the hard
est a Yale team team has had to con
tend with for several years On the
southern trip. the team will journey as
far south as Raleigh, ~ G. On the re-
turn trip they play the New York Gil
with Harvard, a third game will be
played to decide the tie.
While Shoeless Joe Jackson may not
be the greatest ball player in the game
to-day, he has accomplished that which |
few ball players can do and that is |
to swat the pill for over $40 in five of
six years in the big show and to garner |
over 200 hits in three of the six cam
paigns When all of these are taken |
into consideration, Jackson is some boy |
with the swat.
A dispatch from New Concord, O.,
states that it was a Vermont boy, who !
won out in the vote for the 1917 foot
ball captain at Muskingum college, the
athlete being Robert Gibson. former st. |
Johnsbury academy star football play |
er. The new captain has played end |
during the past three campaigns and
is considered to be one of the best ends
in college circles in that part of the coun-
try. Besides being a sensation on the |
gridiron, he is captain of the basket
ball team this winter. He showed some |
good basketball ability in Vermont a
few wears back Aside from his ath- |
letic proves. he is a member of the
college debating team. Gibson is a |
borther of "Bill" Gibson, former Dart
mouth athlete.
AGAINST NEW HAVEN.