The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-25
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Sporting Notes.

!. The game will tell whether Capt.
Black, Comerford, Moseley and Smith
We're seriously incapacitated by their
| sore throats
The weather Of the last few days has
bothered the coaches of football teams
in their efforts to put the finishing
touches upon their teams.
What ought to be one of the very
spectacular games of the year will be
tn Browne Colgate struggle at Provi-
delce, r. L., next Thursday
Syracuse gained 20 wards through
the Colgate line last Saturday. and 2S
yards around the ends Colgate gained
l3l yards through the line and I03
around the wings. How the mighty are
fallen
The selection of baseball coach for
the University Of Vermont is being
considered by the athletic council, but
as vet no one has been obtained for
/ this position. The most likely candidate
at present is Ray Collins.
They say that Mathewson NAV be-
come president Of the Cincinnati Reds
and that he surely will if Garry Herr
m'nn resigns to become the neutral
chairman OF the National commission.
If there is anyone who can be neutral
just now he should be selected for that
/ craftsmanship.
1t is announced that the Yankees
new home i'll New York will call for
an outlay Of over million dollars
aai that the new field and grandstand~
when completed will be large enough to
play the American game of baseball
and permit $4,000 people to witness the
spectacle. This will be 5000 more than
Braves field accommodates.
Basketball will be restored as 4 ma
Jor sport at the University Of Vermont
II the board of trustees OF the univpr-
Slty sees fit to endorse the action taken
by the athletic council at a recent meet
ing. There has been an increasing de-
mand from the student body for some
time that the university should again
be represented by a basketball team.
F. J. DusosSoit. is, Of Brookli
Mass, has been elected captain of the
Dartmouth football team for next sea,
son. DuSossOit has been q guest of
friends in town and has many friends
here who viii extend congratulations
to the man who has played star end
WHO has not missed game since be
coming eligible III his sophomore wear
\ statement issued by Fred Moore
graduate manager Of Harvard athletics
taxes of some of the stigma that has
been aimed at the Harvard coaches for
playing substitutes against Brown. He
SAYS that several years ago when that
policy was decided upon Brown was
gwen Hat guarantee instead of a per
centage Of the receipts and that the ar
rahgement was entirely satisfactory to
Brown and was this year.
\ tri-State track meet between the
University Of Vermont, Massachusetts
Agricultural college and New Hamp
shire state college was sanctioned as
an annual event by the University of
Nermont council. The first of these
meets will be held or May - at Cen
tcnnial field and will then rotate be
tween Burlington, Amherst. Mass. and
Durham, \. II. Vermont has had dual
meets with each of the two COLLEGE,
fer some years.
\ writer in the Burlington Free Press
has picked an All-Nermont eleven and
places Plumb of Brattleboro at right
end. Of the ends he writes: - Plumb Of
~ htbllL anu fbRtt tT MldUlEDUrE HD-
pear to be unquestionably the best ends
ln the state Both are good receivers
Of the forward pass. fast at covering
punts, and runners found it hard to
gain around the flank positions played
Icy these men. Hyland and Sullivan of
Norwich and Wilson of Vermont were
also very capable Players
1t is noticeable that neutral coaches
that is coaches of teams that have
played Harvard and Yale-favor Har-
ward for the battle tomorrow. Netzger
N the Washington Jefferson eleven
taNors Harvard and so does Evans of
the Virginia team. Robinson Of Brown
says that the game locks like $3.50
proposition to him with the breaks like
~ TO decide. To some others Robinson's
dope looks about right, although if
anyone insisted upon giving odds on
ale a lot Of takers could be found in
certain neighborhood.
The game which manager s'Buck''3
Baker announced would be PLAYED IN
Springfield last Saturday between Bel
lows Falls high and Windsor high for
the football championship Of southern
and Eastern Vermont was not PLAYED
SAYS the Bellows Falls Times. Manager
Baker has not yet publicly announced
the reason for the game S being can
celled, although the school football
team, which won the rather cmptv title
Of ''champions Of the Glover league. ],
ale generally being credited among fol
lowers OF the game as having cold
feet As the reason the game was can
ccllcd Is of no vital Importance the
sportwriter Of the Times has not both