Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-06-12
BASE BALL BILLETS.

Dowd is playing again with the Wash.
ingtons.
Holy Cross has gained two notable vic
tories within a week-frOm Brown, TOTO ?;
and from Harvard, 3 to ?.
The Boston association has made a big
bid for Ranney and O'COnnor of the L. V.
MS and it is possible that these players
will not remain in Burlington this season.
The High school boys did not 60 to Mt.
Hermon last Saturday, as planned being
unable to reach there in time for a game
by the afternoon train, as they had been
directed by the Mt. HermOn manager.
The Claremonts have yet to meet with
defeat this year. Last Saturday they de-
feated the Burkes of Lowell, Mass, 9 to ).
Possibly BrattlebOro will prove Claremonts
Jonah this year, as it has the last two sea-
sons.
Chas. G. Smith, the new Northampton
pitcher. came from Westfield, the home of
ii. Smith, who played in Brattleboro, and
of the redoutable Ellsworth. The game in
which Smith held the Holy Cross team
down to four hits was the first he ever
pitched.
The Mt. Hermons were too strong for
the North Street school nine on Monday
on the home grounds, winning by score
of ii to 7. Stone, who started in to pitch
for the North Streets, gave way to Fred
Cressy. Cressy paralyZed everybody with
establishment when he knocked the ball
over the fence for a home run.
Connie Murphy continues to astonish
the westerners with his playing. He is
doing almost all the catching for Quincy
! fInn mr.
ielders chasing leather. In one week re-
Gently he was at bat 26 times and made l6
hits. several of them two and three basers.
The Portlands and Manchesters had a
GRAND pOw-wow Wednesday as to whether
a newly appointed umpire or Portland
player should umpire the game. The
press dispatches say: 'Shine OF the Port
! lands seized a ball, and the Manchester
PLAYERS and the crowd, thinking that he
intended to steal it, rushed upon him, and
only the interference of dozen officers
prevented serious trouble"
ill., O'Neil, who has taken hold of the
base ball project with a will, is making ar
rangements to bring a team to Brattleboro
which will be fully as strong as the cham
pions of 80 and 80 Up to last night he
| expected to have as the regular battery
/ Stafford and Merritt of the Holy Cross
| team, but a despatch came last evening
| that they had signed with WOonsocket in
the New England league for s225 per
month each. He has, however, two pitch
ers who are strong enough to down any or
binary team land that means Northamp-
toni in Bowers, who has twirled so erect
! iyely for Yale this season, and in OCon-
nors. the sturdy left handler of u. V. NJ
Both the semen have agreed to come here
| O'Connor had good offers from the Boston
association club and from Portland, but he
did not care to enter the professional ranks
this season. The U. V. MS are to re-
main in Burlington during the summer,
but they have not secured OConnor and
Ranney' and it is rumored that the latter
will 90 to the Boston association team
Mr.. O'Neil hopes to secure Poole OF ale
and Graves of Trinity as catchers. Omen
and Mahoney of Holy Cross, who are Wen
known here through their connection with
the Holyoke and Kearsarge teams, VIII
cover first and second base. 1t is eX-
pected that Hickey will return and nego-
! tiations are in progress with three are
men. The amount guaranteed through
season tickets is about $500, and it VIII be
necessary TO increase this sum by 500 be
fore PLAYING Is begun.