The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-27
General Sporting Notes.

! What was termed worlds bowling
record was made Tuesday evening al
| Chicago by the Vermont Drives five-mer
team OF the Windy City league of Chi
| cago with team game of 300 and ar
average of LISP %. The three games
were l,l07, LOCI and 1920.
HOBBY Baker is the 1y Cobb of the
! hockey game and with his presence al
Philadelphia during the next few weeks
hockey ought to gain a lot of ground in
! Philadelphia.
There is a strong possibility that the
United States will be represented by a
soccer team in Sweden. A series of
games between the st. Louis team and a
team representing Sweden is being ar
ranged,
Hugh Duffy was dark horse for the
position of baseball coach at Harvard
university. 1t was known that his part
ner, Louis Pieper, was a candidate for
the berth, but until few days ago Duff
fys name was not mentioned. The story
is told that when it was known that
Pieper was out of the running, Duffy en-
tered the field and was named. Duffy,
when through the Crimson's season, will
do some scouting. Duffy has got out OF
the Eastern league entirely now, as he
sold his Portland franchise to Hiram
Abrams last week. He will probably
reach Harvard and commence work with
the Harvard candidates within few
days.
Baseball stars have peculiar freaks of
fate which seem to follow their trails,
and one of these freaks followed three of
the greatest stars in the game last year,
although it might have been only a CO.
incidence. These three men are Frank
Baker, Eddie Collins and Stufy McInnis,
all three men stars on Connie Mack's in
field but few years ago, who during the
campaign of last year suffered undue
slumps in their batting averages, Baker
dropping below $50, Stufy McInnis slip
ping way under the 300 mark and Eddie
Collins hitting the chute to an average
far below his normal stride. #.
Middleweights of to-day are getting
managers to book them up for bouts
with purses amounting to as much as
worlds champions received only few
years ago, sums which boxing fans
thought would soon ruin the game. The
man in the limelight to-day who is
matched against an opponent for such an
immense sum is Les Darcy, middleweght
champion of Australia, with figures
amounting to $4,000 for only lO-round
bout. The man picked for his opponent
is none other than Al Mccoy, the bout
being announced to take place at Madi-
son Square Garden ON March 5. The
purse which Mccoy is to receive has not |
been definitely stated, but it is under |
stood that he is to share a fat little wad |
The announcement was made following |
The receipt of a telegram from Darcy's |
saying that the bout had been |
'losed with Grant Hugh Browne, and the /
light would be held either on Feb. IL or
March 5. Darcy selected the latter date. |
Charley Herzog of the New York l
fiants and star second baseman, was in
>ew York the other day looking in the
,est of health and ready to start the /
when the whistle blows next
April. Herzog was in New York from
lis Maryland home on private business.
When asked what he thought of the pro-
'Osed strike, he stated he was not at
IL interested, as he was not a member of
he players fraternity, and, besides, his
ontract was good until 1919
Baseball writers ran across Big Chief
lender the other day in the sunny south
md, where he is enjoying a part of his
inter vacation from the big league ball
ED, playing golf, billiards and trap
hoOting. When asked by the scribes
hat he thought of his prospects for the
oming year. he replied that he has been
itching in the big snow for fourteen
years, and was ready TO quit |
he could not stick another year with I
ut any kick. In these II years he has
cen on five pennant winning teams and |
as worked in five championship series. {
ender has pitched in ten worlds series :
ames and won six aud lost four. The I
z chief may pass from baseball, but
E is only 80 years old and will be a big {
ictor in sport for many wears to come. I