The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22
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SPORTING WORLD.
MI. HERMON'S FIELD DAY.
Five New Records Estab,jshed.

rive New Records Established.
,o Inc Mt Hermon school held tn,
i"th semi annual field day Monday a
the athletic grounds at Mt. Hermop
n o.h a large attendance many o
wnom were Brattleboro and Hinsdal,
SPORT lovers. Five new school records
were established and the running high
ump was equaled. The events wer,
not as holly contested as at previou.
meets &c, except the bicycle races.
Inc winners of the events were az
~ prpelimlnary 100 wards dash smith Isl
(io2.3 sec.), Gleason ri.
Smith 2d. ''' Wv ee'''
Iole van!t-Arthur It. j in
q IN "''ihs 10 lbs shot-Iiydc s3 it. Heming y #
Snnning broad iump-Pryce 10 # in.
s.o.yard hurdle race--Smth LIST Time 20 sec.
SHs.:n,nulng broad lump-Pryce, . IT, q IL in.
ray I'd. ''N' - ''''
onehalf mile bicycle race-younp ls,. Raid.
win ID Time, lis l,5.
a 10 sec.
Throwing hammer-IIyde 81 it, : in.
-, l.oyard hurdle race-Reymmer lst Time
,o one.half mile rnn-Carcy LIST, Parson ,, An.
uerS0n I'D. Time 2:l9
yE nnnng ca high j%mp-pryce, IT. /: in.
TO- rs. ''' 49, '''
;, One mile bicycle rare--Young LIST, Baldwin
44O yard dash Monroe LIST. Time 20 see.
New records Official timer, Jordan of Van.
Doom Jordan, Brattleboro.
The baseball game between Vermont
academy and Mt. Hermon was the
principal feature of the day. " A who
has always won the base ball onors
from her Massachusetts, rival had only
three weeks ago defeated her at River
side park by the score of s to ) The
rank INCOMPETENCE of Umpire Moore
spoiled what might have been a close
and most interesting game His exhi-
bition was SO bad that many out and
out Mt. Hermon partisans turned their
wishes and cheers from team which
would stoop to such low way of win
ming game.
or course there is an excuse for an
umpire when it comes to judgment on
strikes and balls, but when an official
does not even know the simplest ruling
Of this great national game the selec
ton of such a party, by the Mt. Her
mon management to officiate in this
gane-a game which, between these
two schools is always hotly contested,
looks most questionable. In the sec
md inning after Fox had struck out
for Pegg and Fowler, he pitched three
as nice strikers as could be called
which went as balls and as result
three runs were scored. All through
the game Moore gave Fox, "a bad
roast on strikes and balls, but after
-he second inning stopped protesting
AIS decisions, with a hope that prac-
ice would result in improvement.
But it remained for the fourth in
hing for him to make his greatest
oall Pitcher Johnston called Doug
as. substitute player, from the
bench. to run bases for him. After the
inning was over the Reformer CORE
pondent called Capt. FoX's attention
o rule p which is clearly worded as to
ime and place when player can be
;u bstituted and further says that no
player retired shall thereafter partic-
pate in the game, and as Capt.
Johnston has brought a substitute
Douglass into the game one player
hould be retired and that player
Japt. Johnston himself as ne was the
,layer. who required the substitute.
Umpire Moore would not under
tand' the rule, but he would under
tand that the loss of Johnston would
mean a complete victory for v A
ands down. After protesting and or
torical flights, which didn't seem to
nlighten the befuddIed Moore, Capt.
Fox came to the conclusion that he
,as there to take only what he could
ct, and only little of that. The
rincipal features were the general all
round work of Fox. Gilbert, White
more and Coffin for V. A., and John
ton, Conklin and Stables playing for
1t. Hermun. 1t is is hoped that ar
can be made t. play the
b ird and deciding game here, at Xiv
rside park. The score:
VERMONT ACADEMY.
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