Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-10
SPORTING.
The Big Springfield Races Come Next
Week---Big Match Race Wednesday.


Week---BIg Match Race Wednesday.
The Springfield, Mass, bicy Gle track on Hamp-
den park is the of great activity these days.
Fully 50 riders are training there and every day
brings several new arrivals. Among the fastest
riders Jimmy" Michael, and Lucien Lesna,
two of the fastest middle distance riders in the
world. Fred Hoyt of Springfield, L. d. Cabanne
Of st. Louis, DR.. A. l. Brown Of Cleveland, C. r.
Newton of Springfield, Fred Longhead, the Cana
dian rider, and many others. If the crowd which
assembled on Hampden park last Sunday is any
criterion. the tournament which comes next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be
of the greatest in the history of the club. Fully
6O0O people were in attendance, and when little
Jimmy" Michael completed Is miles in b.ck of
his big pacing machines, the excitement in
tense and several hundred people crowded on TO
the track and gave him a warm reception as he
entered the training quarters. In his big match
with Lesna he is sure TO be the favorte wi tn
the audience, principally because of his dimin u
tive size. He is five feet, onehalf inch in
height and weighs only lO2 pounds. In spite of
this he rides wheel geared TO lO6. He has de-
tea' ed Lesna several times abroad IN long distance
events. Lesna has won many championships
abroad and will have a slight advantage over
Michael in having the newest pacing machines.
Sextets, quints, quads and tripets will be used in
the big match race between these men and it will
be sight well worth seeing, as they make the
circuit of the track at considerably less than
mile in two minutes. What an interest the rae
ing men have in the Springfield track IS shown by
an offer which David G. Shafer, manager of
Michael has made to the directors of the club.
He is in favor of a board surface for the track
and with that purpose in view will give the ser
vices of Michael and his pace makers toward
raising the money. Whether this offer will be ac-
cepted has not been decided, as the present track
is conceded to be the fastest dirt track in the
country, and the club does not care so much
about holding records as it did several years ago
Tobey Bean led the St. Jerome team in hitting
at Hinsdale Saturday, making three clean drives
with total OF four.
Only four of the oldtimers of the National Rifle
club attended the fall shoot at Vernon Tuesday
and Wednesday-Messrs. Brockway Of Bellows
Falls, Fletcher of Caremont, Parks of Green
field, and Cressy OF Brattleboro.
The Washington league team is using Tommy
Leahy as a utility man and he has play ed in the
outfeld and at second base in games this week
His stick work has been surprisingly good. He
cracked out six hits with total of eight in two
games Wednesday and very materially assisted
the Senators in securing their two victories.
The Brattleboro High school boys are talking of
sending an athletic team to Hanover next spring
to compete in the Dartmouth Interscholastic as
sociations meet. 1t is thought that the team
would have point winners 10 Stolte in the jumps
Heaphy in the sprints, and Flagg in the bicycle
race, while there several other boys who could
be developed as contestants in other events.
Labor Day, Monday, was devoted largely to
sporting ev nts throughout the country, and sew
eral new records were made, The John II. Ashe
hose company of Chicopee Falls, Mass, 800
yards, broke coupling and attached nozzle in
contest at Holyoke against Northampton COM
pdu1, tue lllle OtluB % 1 etCouus Ut ouc lputln
second under the record. Piper" Donovan, the
noted Natick, Mass, sprinter, broke the lOOyard
record at Milford, Mass doing the distance in
nine and onehalt seconds,
BIattleboro is likely to have a foot bali team IN
the field this season. All of the men who play-
ed last year are available-Stickney, Allen, Hen
kel Heaphy; Cooley, Parkess " lizard, IL dreth,
Mckee, Crowell, Perry, Harmon, and Mellen
Some OF the young players are anxious to get into
the game, and the Brattleboro academy boys will
probably turn out two or three men fast enough
L NJ ba aalyb boIf
back at Wesleyan, may be here to play two or
three games, and d. Stolte, jr the physical d.
rector and captain Of the augusta y. NJ g. A
team will be at home for visit in the fall. BENZ
Williamson, the speedy young half back, will alsy
be here during hls vacation. Benjamin, formerly
guard on one of the crack city athletic teams is
now in town, and may remain during the foot ball
season.
Many Brattleboro people have attended the ex.
cellent base ball games which Manager W, D,
Amidon has provided at Hinsdale He has main
tained strong semiprofessional team, which lost
only two out OF lS games. He has not only been
good manager but has shown reat public spirit.
He had the great satisfaction Of downing Keene
in the only game in which the two teams met
Hinsdale was willing to go to Keene Labor day
for two games, but did not the turn which affairS
took being described as follows by the Hinsdale
Early in the week Keene posters announced two
ball games between the Rutlands and the Keenes
on Labor day. The Keenes had previously made
overtures TO the Hinsdales and arranged with
them TO play two games and then backed down.
Thursday, the Hnsdales by offer of bigger
money, 4 made deal with the Rutands TO cancel
their keene engagement and play two games at
Riverside park on Labor day. Learning of this
the heenes made still higher bid, with the re-
suit that the Rutlands, who were looking for
wealth, finally decided to play at Keene and were
at least 500 richer by reason of the unpleasant
ness between Hinsdae and Keene"