The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-04
Sporting Notes.


basketball game of the season?
A broken ankle and broken leg
featured the Holy Cross Boston college
game Saturday.
There is considerable talk of bas-
llethall team outsid, of Company I be-
ing organized in town.
The Keene basketball team lost to
the Dartmouth Reserves at Keene, n.
H., Saturday, 10 to 10.
The Springfield high school basket
ball team scored los points in defeat
ing the Easthampton high school team
Saturday night.
Brickley, former Harvard star who
has coached the Boston college foot
ball team, must be all pulled up over
Tho victory Saturday over Rolv Cross
His team won, l. to II, over team
that has been poor joke all the sea
son.
The Bellows Falls Times dares Brat
tleboro or Keene sporting writers to
pick an All-CIover league football
team. If Brattleboro writer accepted
the challenge he could base his judg-
ment on having seen all of the teams
play more than one game while the
Bellows Falls writer would be terribly
handicapped, having seen only one
game and not much of that.
Kitty Bransfeld, for years a star
first sacker in the National lague, is
/ being strongly touted as ready for a
chance to deliver in the capacity of a
major league umpire. Bransfield had a
most successful season in the Interna-
tional league in 1916, and President
| Barrow of that organization is conf.
| dent that Bransfield is ready to hold
! his own in either of the majors. Ae-
cording to the International league
leader, no umpire in years was a sub
/ ject for less complaint than Bransfeld.
National league players are a unit
| in the belief that certain way to be
/ elected from the ball park next year
win be to inquire of Bill KLEIN what
umpires worked in the world series
most as sure of appointment as the tax
ing place of the series. National
leaguers for that reason believe Bill
will take none too kindly to any men
tion of that rather delicate question
It might be stated that the umpires get
$1,000 each for their work in the series
This paper rather agrees with So
Metzger, football coach, regarding the
selection of an eAll-American football
team. He picked one once on tbs
/ strength of a photograph and WAS sat
isfed. In another game the Pennsyl
4 vania team of which he was a member
held for six downs on the one yard lin,
against Cornell, all plays being hurled
at one guard, but the opposing guart
who could not open the hole for hi
backs was the selection for that posi-
tion
Rather than pick the leading foot
ball teams The Reformer will let Dan
icl of the New York Sun do the iol
and dismiss the subject with the state
ment that there are some of his plac
ings that are subject to considerabl,
| criticism He picks the 20 leadin,
teams in this order: Pittsburg, Colgate
. Army. Brown, Yale. Georgetown, Har
ward, Princeton, Dartmouth, Pennsvl
vania, Washington and Jefferson, Rut
, gers, Navy, Syracuse, Penn State
Tufts, Lehigh, Fordham and Spring
field.
The official American league battin
averages for 1916 show Girls Speak
or, the great slugger of the Clevelan
Indians, to be leading the column wit
a swat figure of .386, which is just l
points ahead of ''Ty' Cobb Of the T
gers, his famous rival. The lattel
i however, leads him in hits made an
runs scored. The race, it will be re
membered. was a hot one, and ''Ty
r retired shortly after mid-season t
/ help his team in the pennant race. Th
/ Red Sox, league and world s champions
o finished fourth in team batting. La
ry' Gardner, who was the home-ru
hero of the big series, was sixth i
the list of the regulars and leads tn
Boston team with a mark of .308.