The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-27
General Sporting Notes.


lnounced Saturday, there being several
games with New England teams on the
list. There are ten games on the sehed-
ule and all but the Princeton contest
will be played in New England, six oil
them at Hanover. There are four teams
which were on the list last fall that
have been dropped, and four equally
strong teams added TO the schedule.
Tufts will meet the Hanoverians at Man
chester at the new Amoskeag Corpora
ton field, and Brown will stage game
with Dartmouth, it being the first game
PLAYED between these two colleges since
| 1906. Last fall, there were but four New
England teams on the schedule, but TINS
year, nearly all are from New England,
| some of them for the first time in many
| years.
Joe Tinker, former shortstop and man.
ager OF the Chicago Nationals, has made
plans to buy the Columbus franchise OF
the American association. Thomas VIII
son of Chicago is going to go into part
| nership with Tinker on the deal, and they
are to pay $4,000 for the club. Tinker
| has already made a deposit and negota-
| tions will be completed within rev
days
! Elmer Smith, who was traded to
Washington by the Cleveland Ameri-
can league team last season, said at
tanning bee at Cleveland a few days ago
he felt positive that his batting would
improve a good deal next year. He says
that Griffith has done wonders for him.
One of the things, which he says that
l. ttnah as ANYTHING
is that Griffith keeps him in against both
right and left hand pitchers. Smith
states that this has given him conf
denee in batting against a southpaw.
The Readville race track, which was
the great center of attraction to horse
men in former years, will probably not
be used for several years in staging any
very prominent races. Not for six years
has there been race of very great note
held there, and as long as the present
owner has controls Of the property, there
will not be another A syndicate OF
wealthy horsemen thought OF buying 1t,
but during the past few years the sheds
have all gone to the bad and the grand
stand. which was built q years ago,
burned a short time ago. With building
material so expensive at the present
time, the company thought that it would
cost too much for repairs and so laid
the proposition aside. The company
wants to secure the entire control OF the
plant, if they buy, and the present own.
er wants to continue to hold an interest
there.
Times have changed. In the early
days Walter Camp, football adviser at
Yale, never chose a man for his All
American team from any eleven other
than Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and
as late as 1902 he chose Bunker OF West
Point for the first man outside of the
three big colleges. His popularity at
colgate ought to be of the top notch or
der, as he has chosen three Colgate men
for his team. His choice is as follows:
Ends, Baston of Minnesota and Mosely
of Yale; tackles, West and Horning of
colgate; guards. Black of Yale and Dad
nun of Harvard; center, Peele of Pitts
burg; quarter, Anderson of Colgate;
backs. Oliphant of West Point, Pollard
of Brown and Harley OF Ohio State.
Wise baseball men claim that Walter
Barbara will make third base regularly
next season for the Cleveland Indians.
1T was sickness that put Barbara out
of the running during the past campaign
and also the. year before, but it APP
pears that he has fully recovered from
his Illness and will be ready for the
harness by next spring Barbara is OF
freakish build. especially for third
Ibaseman. He is tall, gaunt and has ex-
tremely long arms. Unlike most iniield-
ers. he does not place his hands on his
legs, as he waits for the pitcher TO deliv-
er the ball. but stands with his hands
swinging at his sides in rather a crouch
ing position Barbara is without doubt.
one of the most natural batsmen IN the
American league.
Ivan Olson, shortstop OF the Brook
lyn National league team during the
past year, is a philosophical individual
lOlson contends it j. better to have erred
, la a big series and lost than never get
ting a chance to boot them. Olson also
claims that his making Of errors in a
lbiu series was nothing new. a. box scores
for several wears viii show these hap
lpenings. Olson was at one time one OF
1.-The greatest third basemen and short
! stops that the great national Psstinis
has produced. but baseball men claim
that he i commencing to slow doan, as
old age comes creeping over him