The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-06
THE SPORTING WORLD.

,,,.n, nicyc,es, Base Ball. Horses M"
Tennis-Butier May be H,."y
IN IFS Achievements This Week-M""s
Records Lowered.
World records took a big drop Monday labor
doy) Mt the Bergen Point, >, meet u. - n
atLletes NJ j Sweeney, Xayier \ O. lans !,
bioh hmm of 6 # Is inches, lacking an eisn,n
Of an inch ON TO his own world record OF IL III.
r i Connect another crack Aavier a = ndnn,
lowered Sid Thomas RECORD ,'a' run nv exact.
~ seven seconds, himself making inc uiS."n. ~
in 6 m, 4625s Connect also succeeded ~
ducing the mile and quarter run 10 ol; DC aiab,
"Bir Jim" Mitchell tossed the B'pouhu Weisn,
81 II, 10 IL inches, which is Just an incm pe't'i
than the best performance In competition
"stickn AIdricb, "Old Man" Mullen and Grove
who were with George Whitney,s ooutn E noa ah5
ton team in ~, are members OF ms ne" r-H " n,
\ II, team. George also has Dinsmore, /. ono,
crack pitcher and McGrath, an ola timer. l.ay 'l
day at Grange his "colts" lost two games 10 wv
Central Parks the scores being 10 anu a ~ :,
6. Jerry Foley an OLD tine .S and o,Iowet
The "cots" only eight hits and struck out eigh
men Whitney covered first base hllilseii, n i
q chances in both games. ana accep'e" an "u
three.
lain McAuley, who Il doing all of Provi
dence's catching. will he remembered as one oi
Denny O'Neirs finds of the season OF III, "llci
Denny had the Holyoke management
The suspension by President Gideon, ol ihe =
A W. of Titus, Cabanne ana Murph! AM anu ~ y
urobabe suspension OF Bliss and Nat butter y
causing considerable comment among Inc "leei
men, largely unfavorabe to Mr. GIDEON, AZ ~
of the men are popular riders. HOW iohE ny
| snspension will he maintained no one Dut uiueoi
Knows Int il is feared that it will last TIL after
the Springfield tournament In that case tiieIt
will be quite hole in the class b talent anu II
is probable that the pro ranks VIII nav 70 .
valuable ACQUISITION for it is likely that the mel
would shift over rather than miss the spring
field tournament. The men are acchseh oi
'.jockeyng'' at - Louis and II Is possible tha
| even as PRO" Gideon may keep them on ti'
| track - Springfield Republican.
A general denial OF the above charges i lha,l'
by the above riders, and an investigation Is 10 ~
made by the racing board next week; ~ - H. tl,'
claims are false the riders can he publicly eN
| oneratei and eligible TO compete III clasa
| at the Springfield meet.
| JE Walsh, the Barre flyer, won the onelnilt
open and two.mile handicap races at the STATE
/ W meet at Sanford, Me, labor gay. ~, vail ~
has pu; in an application for membership VIII
the Vermont Wheel club, and as he Is Il promis
! ing flyer he would he good man TO wear I'M
| purple and white.
Atthe American sprinting races run at Brock
] ton Labor day, the scene at the finish OF the iU
ward sweepstake was indescribable when 1t wa
announced that Splinter Donovan Of Natick nat
made the distance one fifth of a second faste
than Harry Bethune's worlds record Dono
vans wonderful race was made in 80 seconds
| Ed Wilson'S "Ches,nut Gelding" got mark o
! - IL in the White River Junction races
Wednesday, taking second money.
Roeder rode in the bicycle races in Green
| field, labor day.
A local ball team went 10 Jacksonville las
Friday and was defeated by the score of 10
some of the local players were guilty OF SOM
very "yeiler' ball. Cressey and Ware Were
battery, while McRae. Al Webster, johnson
Bean, Cox and Waite were among the loca
players.
The Miller brothers aggregation play thei
| 0flh game with the Bankers at Riverside Parl
today friday. The last game was won by tn
| Bankers by the close score of IL 10 TO-
| Jim" Hickey Is back again AZ second 70
| Brockton, after being laid off with sore hand
"Iiick' has got into the game in fine shape an
| Is still carving n batting average which i
over the "threc minute mark.
| Eddie Cannon" Bald came in first in the mill
open and half mile class b races at Waltham
Monday. Jenny got second place and sim
third in both races, Sims also taking first in thu
mile handicap, from the scratch. Reynolds woi
one first and two second class prizes, Will
Jim Clark got two first and one second. Al
of the above riders were here at the W {
meet.
Molly Cromwell started in the 2:35 class a
White River Junction yesterday, but got onl
! 4th and 9Th places.
| "Jim" Bannon made home runs in four sue
cessivc games, May 30 to June t. and did no
make another until Aug 80 This Jim is play
q
| favorites with the Boston "bleechers" OF an
player who has worn Boston uniform.
Frank Ketchum and c II Thompson had al
interesting bout AT tennis ON the local cour
| Tuesday with Babbitt Bros of the West Village
defeating them in two out of three. The frs
| was l0-S in favor of the West Village team an,
| the other two 60 and Sc in favor OF ketchun
and Thompson.
Adams of Arlington won the Vermont stat
tennis championship Saturday, beating Judsol
of Arlington, Go, G--3, ST. 6--l. Adams is al
so the winner of the club cup given by Col + {
Smith of st Adams,
Tom Dowd was hurt in Fridays game. but /
now playing again
Oh Ellis has this week purchased 4 fast pace
| from Albany, y, "kinghird,' by "Jaybird.
The animal, a red roam, is a gamey looking one
and is said 10 be able to do better than %
and TO have no record.
May he its only coincidence, but since Tot
Murphy has been put back on the nine for regu
lar work the New York team has been playin.
winning ball right along.
\ kingsley's Miss X" took third money a
the Bay state fair Tuesday, while 'IIolster'
got second money Wednesday after winning tn
! first heat i'll PA IL.
Fish of keene took two first class prizes A
the Greenfield Athletic clubs races Monday
Tom Butler got first in the only two class
races, as only one rider beside himself Shove,
up Tor that class. class he had snap" the secon
left-end of tine Greenfield Y MICA foot bal
team, who was never even in Toms shadow.
The B II ; foot bali eleven will play the lie
land and Gray seminary eleven at Townshent
tomorrow, the makeup of b III $ will prol
ably be as follows: Williamson, full back
Morey and Holmes half-backs: Wilcox, ouarte
back: stewart and Heaphy, ends Brasor an
Stoddard, tackles; Thomas and Cooley, guards
| Waterman. centre.
Twenty players are playing for positions o.
the Turner's Falls Athletic clubs eleven an,
games are to be played with Fitchburg, Orange
Greenfield and Brattleboro.
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