Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-09-09
SPORTING.

Burlington has won the pennant in the
Northern league.
Woodward. Hinsdale's third baseman.
will captain the University Of Vermont
team next season.
John L. Tasker broke the course record
on the golf links at Hillsboro, y. H.. last
week by nine strokes.
Tom" Dowd has made but four errors
in "A games. He went % games without
misplay after joining the club, and is
now % games on another hawless run.
Ecstatic, owned i'm Vermont, with Frank
Lang driving, established a new race rec
ord for Minnesota by pacing the second
heat for the st. Paul purse Of $4,000 at
Hamline. MINI, one day last week. in
2.5h. F. T. Holden, owner of Estate, has
some Of his horses in training at Barton
Fred Herreshon, who recently won the
Vermont golf championship. was tied for
second place in the qualification round Of
the national championship at Baltusrol
Tuesday, taking an 81. the score OF Cham
pion Travis and A. NJ. Reid of St. An
drcws while II. c. EaGan, the western
champion, led with an So
The dsbanding OF the Northern league
left number Of good men on the market.
Sheldon. the boy wonder who was the
star for the Barre Montpelier club, has
Joined Amidon's Bluebirds at Hinsdale,
with his catcher. Collopy, former Brat
tleboro faVOrite, who was at Burlington,
has gone to Norwich, Conn. The Green
field club has secured Cox, pitcher at st.
Adams. Lawrence of Burlington, and Nc
Mahon and Carroll of Rutland.
Amidons Bluebirds added to their long
list of victories Thursday by defeating
the Torrington, Conn, team at Hinsdale
so. The visitors could do nothing with
Mccormick, getting but a single hit.
Eiinsdale played an errorless game and
Woodward. Brooks, Kelley, Wilder and
Morrison fielded their positions in league
style. Kelley led with the stick with four
hits and Woodward and Brooks also bat
ted effectively, Woodward's home run
drive over the centrefield fence being the
longest hit ever made on the grounds.
Northampton won the independent
championship of Western Massachu-
sets by defeating Greenfield to Sat
urday, this being the final game of the
| series Coombs of Northampton struck
out l6 men. on Labor day morning
Greenfield won from Northampton to
.. Hoar and Maroney were the pitchers
In the afternoon the clubs struggled
through l. innings neither side scoring
the darkness finally putting an end to
the playing. Amidon's Bluebirds dis
posed of Easthampton IL to 0, Saturday
and - to and to 2 on Monday
Donovan Clancy and Mccormick being
the pitchers respectively. Winchester
defeated the Springfield Athletics to ;
on Labor day.
Two games of ball which were close
interesting and well played, resulted in
two victories for West Brattleboro over
Raleighs Hinsdale aggregation on the
island grounds the afternoon of Labor
day, the score being So and SO. d. Stat
ford and Brooks were in the points for
West Brattleboro throughout the first
game and in two innings of the second
game, which was started after an inter
mission of only few minutes. They
then exchanged places with l.. Ellis
and Waite, who had been playing
short and second respectively. The
work of West Brattleboros batteries
was praseworthy. Two young out
tieders, Johnson and Bgelow, took all
the flies that came their way in the
outfield and pounded the ball for SHARP
drives, several of which We're safe
Stolte also batted hard and Riley in
centre field made pretty catches. b.
Brooks hit for three singles in the first
game and Riley for two singles and q
triple in the second game Duce
and Raleigh We're battery for Hins-
dale in the first game. In the second
game Harry Smith went behind the bat
and Raleigh to second base. After tive
pitchers had given a poor exhibition
Duce was called back into the box
where he again did creditable work.