Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-24
SPORTING.

j. E. Walsh, the Vermont champion,
will ride the Eclipse wheel.
Tom Dowd is hitting the ball hard and
stealing bases with regularity.
The Estey Brothers are out on the first
tandem seen this season in Brattleboro.
Woodcock's work against Harvard last
week shows that he is still capable of
pitching good ball.
Al Stearns, who covered second base so
effectively for the Brattleboro team, has
been coaching the Amherst players.
Henry Burrell pitched his first champion
ship game for Des Moines against Mime
apolis, and held his opponents down to
five hits.
Mt. Hermon won from Powers institute
on Monday by the score of % to : at Mt.
Hermon. The feature of the game was
the battery work of Johnston and Robert
son of the Mt. Hermon team.
The project of building a bicycle path
eight feet wide entirely around the COM
mon is being considered by wheelmen.
There will be no difficulty in raising the
money to build the path in case the consent
of the authorities is secured.
Bangor is said to have the best backing
of any club in the New England league.
Manager Long received carte blanche Or
ders to secure the best team in the organ
ization, and the club signed by him should
make great showing. His greatest coup
was made when he secured w. II. YALE
Murphy to captain the team.
Trainer Parker will bring his string of
race horses here about May l. He will
have about IA horses in charge, among
them being Siglight, HOLSTER, Almaboul,
for whom Mr.. Kingsley was offered $1,000
few weeks ago, Albert T., Ellen r., and
one or two of DR.. Woods horses. p. p.
| Woodbury. of Hinsdale is also expected to
bring string here.
The Y. NJ. c. A. basket ball team won
practice game from the Estey Guard
Wednesday evening by score of 9 to 4.
| The association team included Dunlevy,
Daniels, Howe, Cundiff and Flag: and
the Estey Guard was represented by
Cressy, Whitney, Curtin, Henkel, Swift
and Dunklee. The latter was very accu-
rate in shooting for goals, and Howe S
| long throw for goal was an interesting fea.
| ture.
The opening game of the season at Yer
mont Academy was played Saturday
against the Dartmouth Freshmen and re-
suited in a victory for the home team
The Academy boys played strongly except
in two innings. Fox pitched steadily anC
brilliant catch by Coffin was one of the
features. Summary;
Two base hits, Carpenter, >, Kick, ?, Ladd
Musgrave. Three base hit, Kirk Wild pitches
| Fox, l, Ladd, /. Bases on balls by Fox, l. by
Ladd' 2. Hit by pitched ball. Coffin. PasseC
F. L. Smith and w. E. Hubbard wer,
the guests of VIM. Gleason, the New
York captain, at the opening of the Ma
tional league season between New Yorl
and Washington in the latter city. Glea
son and Smith were two of the pitchers o
the Camden, n. j., club several years age
when it was one of the strongest semi-pro
fessional aggregations in the country, anC
went through an entire season with rec
ord of only six defeats out of 10 games
Smith did the twirling in 20 games, all o.
which were won by Camden.
Baltimore lost the first two games of tn
league season, against Brooklyn. In tn
second game Hotter was being hit quit
freely, which caused the Baltimore spec
tators to shout "Give us DIR. Pond, - "Wl
want Pond,' etc. Pond was given hi
turn in the box the following day an,
Brooklyn secured only five hits and wa
beaten 6 to 2. Robinson, the Batimor
captain, says that Pond will be the sta
pitcher for the champions this season
Pond was the best college pitcher in tn
country several years ago and his feat o
shutting Yale out without a hit and tn
following day giving Brown Universit
only two hits will long be remembered
Pond sustained an injury to his pitchin
arm while in the University of Vernon
and for two seasons was out of form, blu
last year he recovered all of his old tim
effectiveness. Ldter-Pond's second gam
was against Boston. Two clean hits an
three scratch hits were all that were Sc
cured off him, and Baltimore won easil!
Pond struck out 10 men in the two game
against Brooklyn and Boston, and CAV
only two bases ON balls.