The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-31

tall out OF brooklyn Saturday which
helps a little.
Speaker sprained his left ankle Sun
day and will be out of the Cleveland
lineup some time.
Without of the Braves made three
doubles in four times at bat in the
second game Saturday.
The two victories by St Louis over
the Yankees Saturday made the record.
for the hot city team eight straight
victories.
After Lanning, the former Wesleyan
twirler, had been presented a watch at
| chicago yesterday the White Sox pound
ed him for 10 hits.
The Braves, in spite of the wildness
AMI ineffectivencss Of Rudolph in the
| first game. managed to win two Satur-
day from the st. Louis aggregation.
Elmer Miller. recalled to the Yankees
| from Baltimore, whanged out i home
| run for one Of the two runs made by
| his team in the second game Saturday.
| Gamer. first baseman of the Red Sox.
| did his share towards cutting down the
lead of Detroit in the first game Satur-
| day with two home runs and a double
in five chances.
The drafting days are drawing nigh.
| Optional agreements must be exercised
before Aug. Is and no minor league club
may sell player to major organiza-
| ton after Aug. %.
Ebbetts would like to get Hornsby,
the clever st. Louis shortstop, and is
said to have offered $4,000 and one or
two players for him. Miller Higgins
says Hornsby is not for sale.
At the rate the Yankees have been
travelling it was no small feather in the
cap of Davenport Of st. Louis to twirl
both games against them Saturday and
allow them only nine hits in the after
noon.
Not only did the Giants win double
header on their home grounds Satur-
day, but the first game was an extra
inling affair and was the third of that
kind the team had won on successive
days.
"Jaek" 0 Tiara, playing for the
Dexters of Springfield, Mass. in the
, city league Saturday, got three hits il
four chances, stole a base, made a sac
rifce fly and only one error in three
chances.
"Jack' o Iiara of Springfield, for
mer manager of Brattleboro and Glare
mont Twin State teams, bought ycster
: day the Lawrence franchise in the East
ern league. lie begins his management
of that club today.
The double-header won yesterday b,
st. Louis from the Yankees was mad
0 the 10th straight victory for the st
I III
t from first place to third, so close is tn
going i'll the American league.
The Red Sox managed to lose bot
games to Detroit Saturday while tn
Yankees were losing a double heade
in St Louis. The White SoX, as wa
O expected, won both games from Phlla
1 delphia, which punches the leaders
: little more closely.
Frank Schultz, the last of the oil
Chicago Cab stars, has been sold t
! Pittsbnrg He viii play right field an
a lIinehman will be shifted to first bas
in place of Johnston, whose work ha
been unsatisfactory.
Roy HartzeI, veteran outfeldcr 0
q the Yankees. has been released to tn
y Baltimore team Hartzell S departur
lIbltI the NV L I'll ~ team Ii'tN % Itf'
Fisher and Ray Caldwell as the tw
veterans. They were members of tn
q team when Hartzell went to the 1a1l
0 ees in 1911. He PLAYED third base hi
d first year and later the outield Of lat
having been used as general utilit
man.
a G. NJ. Church of Tenafy, \. j., al
y William +. Davis Of San Francisc
won the Eastern doubles lawn tenn
u championship at the Longwood crickt
club at Boston Saturday by defeatin
r. R. Pell Of New York and r. Norr
0 Williams, 2nd, of Philadelphia in til
/ final match The score was &c, c..
n 6-S, 6-3, 6-4. In the singles pla
for the Longwood cup, Watson
Washburn Of New York will meet I'll
national champion, w. NJ. Johnson
San Francisco, in the upper half of tt
i'll finals tomorrow. while in the lowe
if half J. j. Armstrong of Philadelphi
90 who has been one of the sensations
the tournament, will meet the Japal
ne csc champion, |. Kumagae, Of Toxic.