The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-08
Sporting Notes.


Hal Chase leads all in the National
league batting list with an average of
| .45S.
Maranvine is unloading a bunch of
extra base wallops thus early in the
season.
The Wesleyan and Colgate track
meet resulted in a tie, each team MAX
ing 63 points.
The Boston scrbes are beginning to
admit that there is something besides
talk to the Yankees
In athletics the University of Yer
mont seems to lack some class just
what class is not easily determined.
Russell, pitcher of the Cornell team,
defeated Princeton Saturday, / to 0.
allowing two hits. A week earlier he
did the same thing.
Mahan, pitching good ball. defeated
Pennsylvania Saturday at Philadelphia
Harvard winning by a score of + to 0.
Mahan allowed only three hits
The University of Vermont team
finished a disastrous trip Saturday bv
being defeated at Hanover by the
Dartmouth team, 6 to /.
In winning the annual dual meet
with Amherst. Hayes of the Williams
track team ran the sprint in 10 seconds
fiat.
The meeting Of Zcllcr 5 league which
was planned Tor this evening in Green
field, has been postponed to Friday
evening.
Mack declared when the season or
ened that Witt would be~a hitter. The
boy is giving promise OF meeting ex4
pectations.
Noticing that ope college player ,ac-
cepted 10 chancqsa without n eipD re-
minds us that there is still work for
the W. c. T. L. Z
1t viii not be long before the Mack
outfit IS out of last place, for that team
Is improving instead of standing still
or going backward as some others are
doing.
Duke Kahanamolu, the Hawaiian
swimmer, did not do especially well in
his first few contests in this country.
but people often are upset for a while
| by change of water.
Miss Edith Conant of Boston lower
ed Saturday the Nassar college record
! for the lOOyards dash, running the
/ distance in l2.4. The old record of -
seconds had stood since 1904
y picked team from BrattIeboro
played the East Dover team at East
Dover Saturday and won. % to II.
! Taylor, Kennedy, Kaine and Morgan
were the battery for Brattleboro.
| Joe Estev wired from New York
/ that he would not be home to play,
with the high school baseball team.
which necessitated shifting Harry
Plumb to first base, where he put up
a good game.
/ StaIlings played one Of his lunches
Saturday when he kept Rudolph on
the mound after five runs had been
made off him in the first inniag. That
the bunch was one of his good ones is
shown by the victory chalked up for
/ the Braves.
Joe Rogers, the ''American Apollo. -
who IS six feet aHd eight inches tall
and weighs POO pounds, is the heaviest
of the wrestlers Tuohey has gotten
together for wrestling carnival Mon
day night in Boston. Cyclone Burns
is the Eghtest.
| If President Sherman and Secretary
/ Walker of the Brattleboro Athletic as
| ISOLATION would designate a time at
| which they would Iaunder tine uni
/ forms Of the local league they could
get away with an admission charge
and help swell the season s receipts.
| The sensational playing of Cleveland
which won every game it played in the
American league was the feature of the
+ baseball battle in the week just closed
! Starting in fifth position, Cleveland
was in first place at the end of the
week. The rise of Washington also was
rapid.
George Carpenter, the French heavy
weight boxing champion, is DESTROYS
of having the war stop so he can
give up his daily task of fighting some
German in the air and get back to
earth and America to engage Jess vii
i lard in a fstic combat Out of the fry
ing pan into the fire, say we.
Ed. Geers, the harness horse driver,
i Is 65 years old, but with interest in
life uadiminished. This year he hopes
! to ride his first minute mile in Il
snlky behind the PAGER Napoleon Di-
4 rect, who has pulled him q mile in
zoos. Is there anybody else actively
engaged IN sport competition who is
as old as Geerss
New York writer's incline to the be-
lief that Jim Coffey, who probably
will he the next heavyweight to en-
counter Fulton, will not be 50 soft for
him Is Reich was. They figure that
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