The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-14
Snoring Notes.

It took stranger Lewis 30 min
utes to throw Mort Henderson, the
=. Masked Marvel at New Haven,
Conn, Saturday night.
All the candidates for the Brown
university baseball team viii begin
training next Monday Captain Johns
ton, former Brattleboro shortstop, in
tends to divide the squad SO that one
group OF men can work at 80 o clock
and the other at $50 Coach Pattee
will again have charge of the men.
The University of Minnesota candi-
dates for the football team have gone
on record as against any infraction of
the rules of amateurism and have
adopted the honor system. This is con-
sidered in the West as the first step in
countrywide movement to solve the
summer baseball problem.
! Fred II. Harris of Brattleboro, found
/ er of the Dartmouth winter carnival
and Outing club and its first president,
participated in a triple jump Friday
with J. P. Bowler and j. \. Carleton.
! The carnival concluded Saturday. c.
IG. Paulson of New Hampshire state
college thrilled the crowd with his
somersaults on skis.
Candidates for the Amherst baseball
nine will report this afternoon in the
.cage. The great lack this year appears
to be twirlers Two men who twirled
last year on class and fraternity teams
and Goodridge, the left handed first
baseman, we'll known in Twin State
circles, who pitched several creditable
games last season, are the most promis
ing candidates for box work.
The shifting of ffChief' Meyers
from the Giants to the Brooklyn team
brings together Marquard and Meyers
once formidable battery that wor
many games for the Giants. Robinson
believes that Meyers will show more
life and energy than he did last year
Robinson and Haughton, who refused
to waive on the "Chief, tossed ;
coin for him and Percy lost.
John Paul Jones, former Cornell uni
versity athlete and holder of tn
United States collegiate record and tn
] all-American college mark for the mil
9 run. has announced his retirement from
! the cinder path. He said he would EN-
: bark on a business career. Jones ha
a been resting at his home in Evanston
t H., for two weeks. Jones 5 mark o
-I4:14 %. made at Cambridge, Mass, o
. Nav 81, 1918, still stands rs world
5 record in competition.
Il Bill Killifer, the Phillies best catch
: er, is receiving treatment for HI
r throwing arm from a New York spt
+ cialist. He tore the muscles of his arr
: in BROOKLYN Labor Day. :" Ny arm feel
: pretty good, says Kil,ifcr, ''but
II can I tell for a certainty just how
works until | start throwing, | beiev
y | viii be all right again. IN certainl
! too young to nave my arm crack. | fe
! that ! will be pegging away in my o.
4 style when the season starts
u If the efforts of Louis Johnson M
1 terialize. Natertcwn viii have the di
4 tinctiOn next season, of having has
4 ball team of one-armed players. Johl
son, Il onc-2rmcd youth was former
J captain Of the WATERFOWL High Scho
4 baseball nine, and was considered
/ those who witnessed his performance
: 10 be possessed of considerable abiht
:, He has already three nominees for i
Il proposed team. and feels confident tn
- by the time the baseball season
a scheduled to open he will have col
b plete and representative nine.
u Says Manager Bill Donovan of t
81 Yankees: :. Pipp is the kind Of play
B whose offensive play-that is, his b;
q ting-is affected by the batting of
5; teammates. II they are hitting he W
B hit If they fail to hit he fails to h
D There are players of that type a
there is no accounting for why
should be true. This year, however,
think Pipp will be a consistent a
] timely batter If he should bat arou
Z $50 he will be one of the most va
able players on the team. Certain
4 is his work at first base will round {
a defensive infeld for me. y