The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-13
General Sporting Notes

Several years ago, when Chief Meyers
was a Giant, he asked Christy Mathew.
son how he could invest some money
with nice little profit to pay himself
for the investment. Mathewson imme-
diately, told him to invest in Rock Is
land, which the Indian did. Rock Is
land fell to the bottom and Meyers was
out his $500. On account OF his love
for his money, the Indian could hard
ly forgive Matty for the poor judy
ment which he showed and never could
look Mathewson in the face without the
thought of the squandered coin. Last
spring when Meyers had been sold to
the Brooklyns and had TO face Matty,
who was pitching for New York, Me
Graw, who was eager to dsconccrt the
Brooklyn player, yelled to Matty TO
pitch the Rock Island fade away. The
chief famed the breeze.
Walter pipp. the big first baseman OF
the Yankees. had the honor of driving
in the most home runs OF any American
league player during the past campaign.
Pipp, who was the most dangerous long
distance hitter on the Yankees team in
a pinch. was the cause OF driving in ~
runs during the stretch of the race. The
Yankee slugger drove l8 more runs
across the pan than Iris Speaker OF
the Clcvclands and leading batsman OF
the league, and 81 more than Ty Cobb,
king of all ball players. Peckinpsugh,
also OF the Yankees. was hard hitter,
he ranking 10th in the list with an aver
age of .255 in batting
For family reasons. it is understood,
Douglas J.. Clark. 10, eaptain-elc OF
Exeter's 1917 foot ball team, has left
school and gone to his home in Tampa,
Fla On leaving, he stated that he might
return next fall.
Thomas Needham. ex-National league
catcher, has been signed to succeed Fred
Tennev as manager of the Newark club
of the International league next season,
it was announced yesterday by j. Pierce,
a part owner of the Newark's.
The original "Long Tom" Hughes has
retired from baseball and is now po-
liceman in Salt Lake City. Hughes used
to pitch some pretty tight games while
a member of the Yankee pitching staff
The game which was genuine New
England classic before the two colleges
severed athletic relations few years
back may be brought back in the annals
of college football sports next fall, when
the Dartmouth and Brown schedules are
shown. At present there is strong pos
sibility of the renewal of the athletic re-
lations of these two colleges. Browns
schedule will be changed quite bit for
next season, especially the first part oil
il. There are two dates yet to be hlled
Ii is hard for Brown in way to nave
gained the reputation which they have,
as all the small colleges refrain from
PLAYING at Brown and all the large ones
are trying to get games with the Brown
eleven The Brown management has
been flooded with letters, asking for
games another year. Harvard and Yale
will remain as fixtures on the schedule.
1t is not decided as vet whether Colgate
will be dropped from the schedule or
not. but if it is, it will merely he TO give
Dartmouth chance for date. Several
far western colleges have signined de-
sire to play next fall and Brown may
decide to play one intersectlonsl contest
1t is admitted by all club owners that
the game OF ba seball in the major leagues
wanes in six out OF the eight cities after
the first of August. The interest of the
fan is based upon the penant race more
than in the game itself. This Is proved
bv the average admission after the club
is hopelessly out OF the race, the gate
receipts usually amount TO that OF l,"oo
paid admissions, while the leaders are
drawing 10000 daily. There Is strong
talk in baseball circles that the season
should be divided into two sections OF
three months each OF shorten the season
and play a longer interleague Series
after the season j. closed.
one Of the games which j. making
rapid strides in this country, IL that OF
trap shooting. In 1919 there were S''5
saac.io2es shoots. zDc this rear thsrA