Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-05-20
STRIKES AND STRIKE OUTS.

The North Street school team will 90 to Mt.
Hermon tomorrow
Burrell has not lost a game in the Western
league. The Milwaukees are still leading.
The Brattleboro Amateurs will play two games
with the Vermont Academy boys during next
month.
A picked nine will play against the High schools
on the Island grounds on Memorial day, begin
ming at O'Clock in the afternoon
Dowd has not been released by the Washing
tons He has been playing at short this week. II
Robinson proves a success as an iniieder DOwd
Will be retained as utility man.
Sexton had the Yales at his mercy at Provi-
Ience on Monday, allowing them only one single
hit, which was made by Murphy. The score was
: to in favor of the Browns
The money is being raised at Keene to support
a nine. battery will he engaged and the other
positions will be filled by Keene boys. one or
two games a week will be played.
No action has been taken at Burlington in re-
gard to supporting team this summer Abbey
is to accept an offer to play in the league, and
Is said that Stewart is TO have more remunera-
tive position
The Boston Post says: "Fitzmaurice is fielding
prettily. He is covering good deal of territory
and is one of the most valuable of the Manchester
players. 'Fltz is also batting strongly. All of
which is true
The New York Sunday World contained two
column article on the Yale team Portraits were
given of Capt. Murphy, Bowers and the other
players accompanied by sketches of their work
on the diamond
The Vermont Academy North Street School score
IS given in our Academy correspondence. This was
HenneSsy's first game of importance and he
showed that he had the making Of good pitcher
Boyntons work at short was also commendable.
Holy Cross had no difficulty in defeating North,
ampton to last saturday The Northampton
players were somewhat ratified. smith making
five errors at second, and Harlow at short being
away of. Yale won from Amherst to >.
Bowers and Colby We're the pitchers.
An interesting game was played on the square
grounds on Wednesday, when the first division Of
the High school defeated the second division, -
to 4 in ten,inning game Perry Barnes and
Dunlevy and BOyden for the second.
All attendants at the Brattleboro games will
learn with sorrow of the condition of James Cain
the popular left fielder last year. He is now at
his home in Pttsfeld, i'll with consumption, and
failing rapidly The disease is hereditary, his
brother having died from it last summer
O'Rourke has been engaged to umpire all the
games this season at Northampton if he gives
satisfaction. 1t is a big undertaking aud it is dol
lars to doughnuts that he doesn't umpire ten
games. The position of stoker ON an ocean steam
er is preferable to that of umpire at Northamp
ton
one of the happest youths the continent
last Saturday night was Manager James Hooker
of the Yale college freshmen team. The Yale
freshmen met the Harvard freshmen at Cam
bridge and walked over them to the tune of Is to
>. Several of the Yale men are members of the
varsity nine
J. J. O'Neill, John Davis, VI. b. Savary. Frank
Reed, p Eustis Nicholas Baker John Leahy,
Frank Lafrina and Others attended the game at
l
II. Atherton saw the Dartmouths down the Am
hersts, to =, at Amherst Wednesday. Stearns
as usual, played strong game.
Woodcock made his debut as a league pitcher
on Tuesday against the Chcagos. The Pittsburgs
lost the game, to 5, but Woodcock did well. Ten
hits were made off his delivery and three of the
runs were earned. The Pttsburgs fielded poorly
and hits We're lacking at critical points Wood
cock assisted in double play and secured base
hit and two sacrifices
The Burlington Free Press in commenting on
tha al,nl MIA
announced in The Phoenix, says "Brattleboro al
ways has firSt-class team or not any, and when
ever her nine plays with Burngtons team the
games are hotly fought for No team visiting the
Queen City Is welcomed with more enthusiasm,
elicits more interest or has more admirers than
the aggregation of hall tossers from the metropO-
lis of southern Vermont
Sullivan and Stearns of Amherst not only take
high rank as ball players but as students. Sulli-
van is one of the Hyde fifteen men chosen
from the senior class for excellence for compost
ton of Grafton and one of the six to be- selected
for excellence in delivery To speak for prizes at
commencement, which will be awarded for excel
lence in both composition and delivery. Steams
is one of the kellogg five from the sophomore
class who will compete for the Kellogg prize in
defamation at commencement,
The base ball campaign at Claremont was open
ed last Saturday when the home team had the
Springtieds as opponents. In the first inning the
score for the ClaIemOnts ran up into the teens -
and when the game was half over it was q to l.
Then Burns began to toss the bah and the visitors
secured several runs. The final score is not
known, but 1t was evidently of the old time or
der the Advocate cOntenting itself with saying
that the finish in the ratio Of to l. for the
ClaremOnts. The Claremonts have a strong team
this year, which will maintain the splendid record
of the past few years
The players who have definitely promised to
come to BrattleborO art Murphy. Bowers and
Carter of Yale, O'Nel of Holy Cross HOLSTER
(ptcheT) of Williams and Stuart, Sullivan of
Amherst will he here during July. Other players
with whom negotiations are in progress are Leahy
and Stafford of Holy Cross Tenney of Brown
mi ITuiNsat Of
sylvania wonder has written 10 Manager O'Nenl
that he does not wish to join the league team,
that he has always played in the city, and that he
has heard so much about BrattlebOro that he
would like to come here. Bayne is only 10 years
old and this is his first year at the University of
Pennsylvania. He formerly pitched for Girard
college, He has done the most brilliant work of
any of the college twirlerrs, not excepting High
lands, Young or O'Connor