The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-05
SPORTING NOTES


Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore
international league team, has collected
$4,000, according TO reports, for q
players he has sent to the big leagues il
recent years.
Berry, Thorpe and other athletic starr
had best look out for their laurels. Their,
is new competitor for honors, in this
case ii being none other than a girl from
the Pacific coast, where she has per.
formed wonderful feats at the University
of Washington. Her name is Mayme Me.
Donald and she can throw n baseball 100
feet, sprints 100 yards in IL seconds and
can put an eight-pound shot 81 feet Be.
sides these she is good swimmer, plays
baseball and hits for around 300 and is
a star at football and basketball. Hook
ey is her best achievement and in this
game she is considered better than many
of the men who play at the University
of Washington.
Lewis and Hooper were the batting he.
roes in Saturdays engagement between
Boston and Philadelphia, when they both
had perfect averages for the day Hoop
er had triple and two singles TO his
credit in as many trips to bat.
Babe Ruth the Red Sox pitcher turned
in his Goth win of the season in the first
game of Fridays double bill with Phil,
sdelphia, when he defeated the Athletics
by the tally of to 3.
Al Demaree, the right handed pitcher,
is called the luekiest man in baseball and
the title seems appropriate at present
Demaree was with the Phillies when they
won the pennant in 1915 and in recent
trade between Chicago and New York he
was traded to the Giants, which places
him in a position to share the world Sc
ries profits.
A patriotic wave is certainly passing
over the camp of the st. Louis Amer
cans, as several of the team are said
to be on the verge of enlisting in some
service. Johnny Lavan, who is a physi |
ian, expects to apply for enlistment in
he hospital corps. Catcher SEVERED and |
2umler are others who are contemplating I
dining the army.
Thrssher, an outfelder turned back to
Atlanta by the Athletics, set baseball |
ecord recently when he secured eight
its in that many trips to the plate
There have been players who have made
more than eight consecutive hits picking
p from the day before, but Thrasher's
is record for consecutive
its in one day.
Nerve-racking finishes are becoming
he custom in the American league Not
ince 1914 has the pennant been won at
his time of the race. During the past
wo years the Red Sox have had to bat
lie until the last week of the season, Oct
being the date on which the pennant b
as decided last year. This season it
ill be the same, Judging by the APP
earances at present, the rival Sox will I
ave to struggle until the last. Fans are
ordering if the White Sox pitchers can
and the pace under the strain of being /
'lled into games day after day.
Sundays engagement between Newark |
nd Providence was certainly an exciting g
ame, the game going Is innings Gregg, g
lie former Red Sox pitcher, pitched for
rovidence and although he struck out 20 9
atsmen, he lost the game by the tally
| to 0. the score being made on a wild (
row. During the first 10 innings, Enz
ann, the Newark pitcher, held his oppo.
,nts to two hits, pitching II straight
,-hit, no-run innings BY the defeat
-ovidence lost first position in the In !.
irrational league race.
the Philadelphia National :,
ague pitcher, accomplished the iron man !,
at in the Labor day double bill with !
'ooklyn, when he pitched both games, II
inning them both in fine style. He was il
eatly aided by Whitfield, who made five D
is, including triple and double, out b
eight times at bat. The first game t.
ls played in record time, it taking N
ly II minutes to be played. b,
Eddie Murphy's pinch hitting enabled W
icago to annex both games of Mon pl
VS. double bill with Detroit. Although Il
thit II to . in the first encounter, Chi ia
90 finally emerged the winner by the W
ly of to 5, while the second game IS
IS won easily by the score of IA to s.
annexing both games the Chicago Vi
I'm have placed themselves in com ia
table lead in the American league Q,