The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-26
Sporting Notes.

Now old Hub" Purdue has been
released Internationally b. the St.
Louis Cardinals
They say James c. Dunn, one of the
new owners of the Cleveland club,
would like to get Joe Wood.
Strange!
Wonder when that meeting at
which baseball enthusiasts from North
Adams, Pittsfeld, Northampton, Green
field, Brattleboro and Bellows Falls is
to be held in Springfield.
Please excuse. Calvin Demarest is
not dead. The report, which emanated
from an insane asylum, was born of
some demented brain. Demarest is i'm
proving mentally. and physically.
When asked whether Mrs. Willard
would go to New York to see her
husband battle Frank Moran, Jess is
quoted as replying: . No. She never
watches me fight Besides, this is not
going to be fight, but a boxing
match. -
Captaining the baseball team is not
the only honor of leadership which has
been won by "HeineD Stafford. the
pilot of the Tufts nine for the com
ing season and a well known Twin
State player. For the past three wears.
and this last election unanimously,
Stafford has been chosen president of
his class. He also has been elected to
the presidency of the Tower Cross, the
senior honorary society.
jack Zeller, who with Jack,
'Hara, plans to organize a six-team
league to include BrattIeboro. saws
that he had an investment of SSH in
Plttsteld. If he would invest half as
much in the league he and O'Hara
want to organize, there would be some
show of the proposition eliminating in
something. But the league Zeller and
. Hara desire to start is not one in
which anyone but faithful citizens Of
/ the respective cities and towns are ex
pected to invest
Leland N[cE,lwee, captain of the
Bowdom college baseball team and a
member of the Keene team of the Twin
State league two years, has refused an
offer from Connie Mack TO 90 south
with the Athletics. The college athletic
council refused to permit him to play
on the team if he went south with the
Athletics and McElwee wishes to com
plete his college course as an amateur.
Mack and the White Sox management
each made him similar offer two
years ago.
An amateur reads a tennis rule,
lis one who is not connected with the
sale of tennis goods nor with a firm
manufacturing or selling tennis goods,
except when such connection shall be
of general nature in firm manu-
featuring and selling general athletic
goods, and the person so connected has
! to do with tennis goods to no greater
extent than with any other line of
goods. This measure seems to make
the question of amateurism largely
one of expert bookkeeping.
In the 10 seasons that Wagner has
played in the major leagues he has
taken part in 1858 championship
games, been to bat 9,765 times, scored
1850 runs, made 3,245 hits. hammered
out $50 two-baggers, 248 triples, los
home runs, and has stolen 706 bases.
His grand batting average for that
period is 1872, and his average per sea-
son of stolen bases is 81. He has never
stolen fewer than 20 bases in a sea
son, and only twice has batted under
the 800 marll-the last two years
but his mark last scar was better than
the previous year by % points
The unusual enthusiasm in North
| Adams. Mass, towards membership in
the 0 'Hara-Zeller league is to be found
in the following paragraph from the
Transcript: AS far as known there
Is nothing new in the baseball situa-
ton locally. There is no doubt but
there are many fans~who want league
ball, but no scheme for raising the
necessary funds has yet been arrived
| at. Until someone comes along with
enough financial backing to start the
club or with sufficient persuasive argu-
ments to raise the money it looks as
II things would remain at stand
still