Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
SPORTING NEWS.

Christie Crowel will be the pitcher for
Mt. Hermon this season.
The Yale crew of this year contains two
intimate friends of James Hooker-Long-
acre, Hookers cassmate, and a frequent
visitor here: and Beard. The latter is a
younger brother of the foot ball player.
Lefty" Burrel has signed with the
Quincy, ILL.,, club That is supposed to
refer to the old Brattleboro first baseman,
who was a star left-handed twirler for Jo-
liet, st. Louis and Milwaukee, but who
lost his arm last season after signing with
Springfield.
The Claremont Advocate quotes The
Phpnix's last weeks statement in regard
to a local ball team here, and adds: "We'l
be with you on a local team, but don't
come up with any of your big professional
teams. You made us a trifle weary two
years ago.
5. j. Farrell of Rockville, Conn, the
champion sprint runner of that state, won
! the Sheffield England handicap, Saturday.
Farrell won the same event in 1889. The
race is worth $1,000 to $4,000 to the win
ner and Farrell is the only American that
| has won it twice
! Manager Manning of the Kansas City
team has attempted to buy Collopy's re-
lease from Nashville, claiming that the
latter city has a club that outclasses the
others of the league. The Nashville man
ager says that it takes such men as Collopy
to make a winner, and refuses to let him
| 60.
James Williams, the old-time pitcher and
manager, has been appointed clerk to the
| house taxation committee of the Ohio leg
| islature. One of Williams's first engage
ments on the ball field was with the Brat
| tleboros about - years ago. He went
from here to Westfeld, Mass, and later to
| Lancaster, Pa, in company with James
| O'Donnell, being connected with the same
! teams.
Tommy Dowd says he has not signed
with St. Louis because he was cut in his
! salary after the good work he had done for
! Won der Abe last year, says the Sporting
! Life. First he was sliced to the extent of
| $500. He returned the contract and was
offered another with 500 taken off. He
did not see why he should play for less
money for the coming season when he
really deserved an increase.
Harmon Graves, who trained the foot
] ball team at Lehigh university last season,
has been selected to coach the West Point
candidates this year. Graves is well re-
membered in Brattleboro, having played
base ball two or three seasons with the L.
V. MS. He is now a law student at
Yale, but is debarred from the Y ale teams,
having accepted money as a coach. Graves
is nephew of Mrs. w. H. Collins.
The New York Herald of Sunday devot-
ed a page to the Giants, giving the individ-
ual records of the different players OF
the eXBrattleborO short stop it says
"Murphy's friends claim that, in spite of
his comparatively weak physique, he will
reach first base more often during a season
than will Roger Conner. If that is so he
would be a more valuable man on a team
than the big first baseman, because Muir
phys most valuable quality as ball player
is his base running. In that respect he
probably has no superior in the league
not even Latham
The college games played thus far have
been productive of surprises. Yale, re-
garded as almost invincible, has gone down
before Georgetown university, the Annapo-
lis cadets and the Washington Y. NJ. C. \.
boys. Princeton won two successive games
from Georgetown. Georgetown defeated
Williams in a smuggling contest 20 to 16.
Williams walked over Fordham 16 to /.
J. Lynch HOlyoke boy who played one
game at third base for the Brattleboros,
pitched five innings for Williams and struck
out 10 of the Fordhams. f. Mahoney.
who was the Brattleboro second baseman
one season, is doing heavy hitting for
| George town.