The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-27
Sporting Note.


If accounts are as true as the rec4
ords Crowell looks to have made good
as a pitcher this season.
Mack's Athletics have got the habit o.
winning a game occasionally, regardless O. |
the calibre of their opponents.
Dartmouth had a rather easy time de
feating the Massachusetts "Aggies yes
terday, to l, in a seveninning game.
Garfield of Yale got erratic in the. sew
enth inning of the game with Georgetown
yesterday with the result that Yale lost, ?
to l.
In releasing Bruno Haas, who earned
lasting fame by issuing 10 free passes
in one game, Mack is Quoted as say
ing that he needed pitchers, not Yep
pelins.
That team of Yankees looks better and
better with each succeeding game. \ re
cruit pitcher, Marlle, shut out the Red
Sox yesterday and his mates hit hard
behind him.
In the old days college crews trained
for one big event that lasted at the
longest about "a or % minutes. Now
each crew engages in several races be
fore the final big test.
Pick, Mack s recruit third baseman,
hit for .455 in the Red Sox series,
which ought to give him some consd-
GRAFTON as candidate for the team
in good and regular standing.
! Yale has lost two track stars. Lessen
ring, hurdler, has pulled tendon and
will be out of competition this season.
/ Orr, next to Overton the best distance
runner in YALE has left college to enter
business.
! Comiskey says of his new shortstop,
! Terry, that he can duplicate ANYTHING
! any other shortstop can do. Two to
| one he can't equal Herzog cnewng
gum or Maranville taking a fly bail
on his stomach.
| Every now and then an astonishing
| statement creeps or springs or leaps
or falls into print. Note this: Grow
| ell pitched good ball. but the Red Sox
were able to make their runs count -
AS the score was / to 0 it is apparent
that the Athletics failed to make their
runs count.
| California viii meet the Universitr
of Washington on the gridiron on Nov
emter Is next and again at Seattle on
November % That 5 a radical m We
in football and will be rough on crit
| les. PostmOrtems viii so overlap on
forecasts that readers won t know
whether they re reading an alibi or {
| prophecy.
A closer inspection of Zeller s layout
for a league reveals the fact thai
Greenfield is a little shy on entering
a league where the salary limit is s
200 without the manager. Greenfiel,
rightly figures that it is by far tn,
smallest town in the proposed league
and naturally viii feel the burden o
the big outlay the most. Greenfield
would much prefer unorganized base
ball in Twin State territory
Walter Snei.. ex-Brown universit,
: star. who played with Brattleboro a
catcher and first baseman one seaso
in the Twin State league and who wa
, with the Boston Americans and Ney
. England league clubs later, will no
- report to the Lowell team. to whic
= he was assigned this season. He
taking special courses Of study a
Brown and acting as battery coac
there. When the college season is enc
ed he will play with the Colonials
strong indepedcnt team which IS bein
q organized in Providence.
o Among the former University O
|; Vermont baseball stars who are no.
devoting themselves to the nation;
game as a profession are Jack Ha
stein, who starred few years ago ;
the initial sack, and HarolG Mayfort
O who crowned his four years work b.
: hind the bat by captaining last year
nine. Both boys are now in the Eas
> ern league. Halstciu with Worceste
where he will undoubtedly play fir
base during the coming season, viii
Mayforth is trying for a backstoppir
position on the team representa-
Springfield, his home city. Mayfort
is well remembered as a Twin Sta
Lacquer, with the Brattleboro al
Greenfield teams.