Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-22
DIAMOND DASHBS.

Capt Arson Of the Chcagos has released COMFY
Murphy and two other players.
IL. O'Neill has been offered the management
of one of the New England league teams
Bayne, the University of Pennsylvania pitcher
struck out 30 of the Yale players in two games.
The High school boys will cross bats with the
Vermont academy team at SaXtons river tOmor-
row.
The Georgetown university boys have presented
Tommy Dowd with a silk umbrella and beauti-
full walking stick
Among the players who have signed with the
New England league are Charles Fack, formerly
with the Mllers Falls and Brattleboro clubs;
Deadly who was with the Northamptons last
year and Ledeau, formerly of South Royalston
and Athol.
From the Sporting Life: When the Omaha
team drew Colopy as a third baseman President
Stout thought he had a weak man. He has
changed his mind after seeing Collopy play a
little, and longer entertains any fears to how
third base will be taken care of.
The assignment Of New England league players
has been announced. Hickey is to go to Lewis
ton, Carr to Brockton, Fack to WOonsocket; Gro
nun, formerly of Bellows Falls and Keene, to Paw
tucket; Deadly of the NOIhamptons to Salem:
Barry of the Claremonts to Manchester
From the Boston Globe: Northampton paper
says Michael F. Hickey of Springfield has signed
with the Rock Island ILL.,, team. If this is so,
and the New England league joins the national
agreement this young man will cause trouble, as
he has also signed New England league con
tract
The Rutland Herald says that Ranney has re-
ceved offers to play with the Boston and Phia-
delphia league teams after the college season at
Dartmouth Closes and that he will accept one of
them. His salary will be $500. The Philade
phia papers speak in the highest terms of his
playing in that city last week
For a new player Pitcher Bowers of Yale col
lege is a wonder, says the New York Telegram
He has faced the Boston league club and kept the
hits of that strong aggregation down to single
figures and prevented them from being punched
He has terrific speed and can vary his delivery at
will; In the box he is as cool as ice, and is not
ratified by the forging ahead of his opponents.
The last number of Sport Music and Drama, a
high grade New York publication, contains an
article on athletic work at Brown university. A
portrait of Capt Sexton of the ball team is given
and reference is made to the 'glories of the past
| two seasons in which that "nvincible quartet"
/ Sexton, DOwd, Woodcock and Hovey-took so
prominent part.
The college games have been productive of sur
prises. Dartmouth, after being defeated by the
| University of Virginia and other comparatively
weak teams, shut out the University of Pennsyl-
| vania to o. O'Connor struck out II men and
| Ranney accepted 20 chances without an error.
| The University of Pennsylvania had previously
| defeated Harvard and Yale, batting Highlands
and Bowers quite freely.
Joliet, ILL.,, correspondent of the Sporting
! Life writes in warm terms of the work of Burrell,
and says that his showing in the American associ-
! alton, when he pitched II games and won eight,
was unusually good In the three games in which
he pitched against the Milwaukees late last fall,
all were victories one being "A shut out, when only
| two hits made off him. The correspondent
| concludes "Burrell. if he has good catchers will
again make a winner this year, he is sober am
bilious, and uses lots of head work in his twirl
! ing" Burrell is now suffering from sprained
| ankle.
A student of Vermont university writes an ex
tended letter to Caspar Whitney, which is pub
lished in the Harper's Weekly. The student
deals frankly with the professional element in
college sports. and says that IL is harder to con
troll at the Burlington institution than in many
places, owing to the medical school in which there
is loose supervision over the students He say,
that Ranney and one other man were profession
ais and that they there for the sole purpos,
of playing ball, but the regular athletic committe,
were not sure of this until the season was over
What the writer objects to is that the University
of Vermont and Dartmouth singled out
while, as he shows other institutions are equally
at fault and says the constitution of the Brattle
boro nine, for example, and its relation to Brow
university are quite as serious as anything Yer
mont university can show.