Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-07-14
BrattIeborO VIII Have No TeHm---Turn
the Picture TO the Wall.

No ball team in Brattleboro this year.
Such is the decision of Fred c. Gale, who
has been negotiating with players for
several weeks, and who had arranged games
with the Northamptons, Claremonts, Bos-
ton Athletics and other clubs. Mr.. Gale
was led to abandon the project by the
action of the University of Vermont play
ers who were coming here--Hill, Lyman
Allen, Richmond and Naylor. They were
expected the Goth, but they wrote a few
days ago that they could not come until
August /. This would open the season so
late that Mr. Gale did not think it advis-
able to go ahead with his plans. He was
to have Bowers and Ranpey for the regu-
lar battery, Allen, Richmond, Naylor and
Hill in the infield. Allen of Amherst
would be outfielder and change catcher.
Young Summersgill of Vermont Academy,
off whom no team has made over six hits
this year, would have been the change
pitcher. This team would have made the
Northampton cranks turn pale. But we
must turn the picture toward the wall.
Hickey has left the Brocktons, as the
manager was not paying the players.
The Milfords, with Woodcock pitching,
downed the NOrthamptons 9to Saturday.
Ralph Stewart, the famous catcher of
the L. V. MS, will enter Yale law school
this fall.
Bowers will not return to the Yale law
school. He has bought an interest in the
Meriden journal.
Financial embarrassment threatens the
Northampton team. Capt. Slater has left
to join the Portlands.
Pond will not join the Northamptons,
having injured his arm so seriously that he
will be unable to pitch again this season.
Collopy is batting in his old time form.
In the last five games he has made ~ hits.
His team. the Oaklands, led the California
league.
Cyclone Ryan of the Brocktons, formerly
with the NorthamptOns, leads the New
England league in batting, his average be-
ing .43S.
Mr.. Jack Highlands has just received
the highest honor in the collegiate course
of today, viz, an offer from the New York
as well as the Boston base ball nine.
Burrell, the new pitcher for the Port
lands, is supposed to be Henry Burrell. the
old Brattleboro first baseman, who was re-
leased by Springfield, and who pitched so
strongly for Northampton against the U.
V. MS.
Last Saturday Merritt of the Bostons led
the league in batting with an average OF
.427, Brouthers of the Brooklyns was sec
ond with .408 and BannOn of St. Louis
third with 405. Dowd's rank was 45th
with an average of .304.
John Griffin, formerly catcher of the
| Swanton team, was defeated in the pugilis.
| tic contest for the featherweight champion.
ship of America at Roby, Ind, Monday
by Solly Smith of San Francisco. Griffin
was regarded as the better man, but was
knocked out by chance blow.
Yale Law school and Yale universit,
entered teams in the championship serie.
at Chicago. The two teams, however
/ joined hands against other clubs. The
| hits of Parsons and Graves of the law
school defeated the U. V. NJ. s, and Bowers
pitched for the varsity against Universit!
of Virginia.
Edward Mahoney, the Holy Cross grad
nate, who formerly played in Brattleboro
won distinguished hOnors at the recent
commencement of Georgetown university
He took the faculty prize of $50 for tn,
highest standing in philosophy, the Eng
fish literature prize of S25 and the 81
prize for the highest average in all th'
classes of the course.
The L. V. Ms defeated the Yale Law
School in the first game at the World
Fair, the score being II to II. Bowers
and Pond vera hit freely and the latte
gave way to Cooke. The Yale varsity
won from the L. V. MS, TO /, on Mon
day, the winning scores being made in the
ninth inning. Carter and Cooke were tn,
pitchers, and five hits were made off tn,
former and two off the latter. The Yer
monters, however, made four errors to two
] for Xala