Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-14
Nntes.

Hickey's many friends are glad to see
him with the team once more.
The L. V. Ms were beaten at Claremont
last Saturday. , to /.
The tuners and action makers from the
Estey shops had an interesting struggle on
the island Tuesday. the tuners winning Is
to t. Brasor and Perry and Rabbit and
Long were the batteries.
The Burlington Free Press saws that
Pitcher Abbey has been engaged as princi-
pal of the Hinesburgh High school for the
coming year, and will doubtless prove as
efficient behind the pedagogue's desk as in
the pitchers box.
The Lowell team of Boston has been re-
organized. and is said to be the strongest
which ever represented that company The
team includes Gid Gardner "Cyclone''
Ryan. Nick Wise and Toby Lyons. who is
the captain.
Merritt. the Holy Cross catcher whom
BrattlebOro tried to secure. was given a
trial by Arson last week and made so good
an impression that he has signed to play
with Chicago.
The change of tone and stvle i'm the
Northampton papers since the Brattleboros
took the lead on the series has been very
I.
and it takes but little space to give account
of the games.
The Bethlehem. y. H., correspondent of
the Boston Herald writes that Sexton. Sui
Ivan and Hart are to play on the team
representing the Maplewood House in the
White Mountains.
just previous to last Saturdays game
Cain received a telegram stating that his
brother was at the point of death at Pitts
| field, Mass. Death has since occurred. and
Cain has been there this week.
The South Royalstons beat all this year 5
records for smuggling last Saturday, when
they had the Milford. y. H., nine for op-
ponents. The score was 81 to :, and the
South Royalstons had total of more than
10 bases. Hart made four hits with a total
of ten.
Northampton Gazette: Manager Pear
son says the popular notion that the asso-
| citation has made money is wrong. No one
realizes, he says, the great expense of sup
porting ball team, and, large as has been
the patronage, the association has not a
dollar ahead"
The Brattleboros and Northamptons play
an exhibition game at Hamden park.
| Springfield, Mass. today. Tomorrow they
will play another of the games in the series
at Northampton. The next game at home
will be a week from tomorrow. with North
ampton. The two teams will probably
| play an exhibition game during next week
at Holyoke.
The Sporting Life is authority for the
statement that Burrell and Moran. the
crack battery of the Joliets, will be seen in
| Chicago uniforms next season. In letter
written two weeks ago Burrell stated that
he had won Is out of the last u games in
which he had pitched, and that he and
Moran had been recommended to Arson
and LOTUS.
| A truthful remark from the NORTHAMPTON
correspondent of the Springfield Republic
can: "A few weeks ago the ball patrons
We're crying aloud for some clubs to show
up that our boys could not down without
much eXertion; now the real issue is to
brace up the nine so that it will not be
wiped out by the Brattleboros. 1t has look
ed of late as if the team was on the tobog-
gan slide, for sure"
Sexton showed what manner of man.
he was after Saturdays game. when he at
tempted to maui young man in the crowd.
who, as he asserted, had insulted him.
Wednesday he became involved in another
row with spectator, and later made still
more disgusting exhibition of himself bv
his abusive and threatening language to-
ward member of the Brattleboro team.
who is gentleman on and off the ball field.
Steans is one of the surest and hardest
hitters who ever played in town. In field
ing and base running he also takes high
rank. His excellent playing and quiet.
gentlemanly manners have made him zen
eral tavorite In four successive games, in
which he faced O'Connor, Woodcock and
Sexton, three of the strongest pitchers in
New England, he was at bat Iii times and
made IL hits with a total of p.
Mahaney, Magill and Jones have been
released from the Northampton club. The
two latter players will go the White Noun
tains. Brattleboro people regarded Ma
haney as one of the main reliances of the
team. They are not kicking because he
has gone, but think it showed peculiar
judgment on the part of the Northampton
management.