Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-08-26

Hinsdale and Ashuelot will play one
% their series of games on the island
grounds Tuesday afternoon at 5;3o'
The local knights of Columbus are
thinking of organizing a basepali
team TO play the Bellows Falls n OF
c. team at an early date.
Tom Dowd, who is planning TO en-
ter basketball at FAN River TINS WIN
ter with Mike Hickey, was captain OF
the Rrattleboro VT, team. with Wnlch
Hickey started out in lS90.-Sprlns-
field Union.
The Rrattleboro baseball team VIII
nlav it's last game of the season TO-
morrow afternoon on the island
grounds with Bellows Falls, me
Rrattleboro team will be composed
entirely Of local players with the eN-
ception of Aver.
Nat Butler, the veteran bicycle ria-
or who has many friends in Brattle-
boro won a hard fought and clever
contest from Mclean, Stinson ana
Caldwell at the Revere cycle track
Monday evening. For the full 70
miles it was hammer and tongs pc
tween Butler and Mclean.
n w. Niles. who won the title OF
national interscholastic tennis cham-
pion at Newport last week, played
through to the fifth round of the ma
tional open championship, being de-
feated Monday by Leonard 80, 81,
al Niles has entered the tennis
Tournament which began at the wan
tastiauet golf grounds to-day
The Springfield, Mass, Athletics
will make a trip into New Hamp-
shire early in September playing III
Ashuelot Saturday Sept. 8, spending
sunday. the 4th, in Hinsdale ana
then going to winchester for two
games on Labor day. Winchester
and the Athletics have split even so
far this season and the Labor day
games will be hotly contested
Greenfield defeated Amidon's Hins-
dale hlue birds last Friday in a
loosely layed game by a score OF II
to :. clancy pitched five innings
for Hinsdale and then retired IN IA
vor of Marty Donovan who lasted lo o
two. CAPT. woodward then came III
from third and pitched for the re-
mainder of the game. Hinsdale mace
10 hits but also committed seven el
rors, four being made by Lahdy a'
short.
Before over 1000 wildly excited
people, the Burlington team trimmed
Montpelier Barre yesterday altSi
noon. Z to 8, and by so doing tile ls
nhens go into second place in lhe
Northern league standing proVlulils
of course Burlingtons well-taken
nrotest on the Rutland game IS sus-
famed. Three hundred and fifty sup
norters came by special tram 70
cheer on their team but nothing could
hold the local batters, not even me
intercity's imported pitcher Who
called himself Briggs. He was Sc
cured from the Haverhill team IN the
New England league, where ne plays
under the name of Page, and mas Won
nine out of his last ten games. his
real name. according to reliable re-
port. is Carrick and he has played
with Philadelphia, New YORK ana
Boston in the National league. Bur
lington knocked Briggs-Page- Carries
out of the box in five innings Shel-
don, 1.-The boy wonder, pltcneu the
last four but could not hold Burning
ron down. two runs off him being
added to the five off the Lacquer
darlington Free Press of Saturday
Rantist was pitted against Baptist
at a game of baseball on WEDNESDAY
afternoon at Caledonia park when
Granite city with couple OF base
! ball gloves. bat and an aggregation
of parishioners that had the baseball
microbe to take the scalps of Lam
SONS cohorts. But they went BACK
and put their baseball paraphernalia
! in the corner, for the home team wal
| Toned them II to 4. Rev. Guy Z
I,amson was in the box the Whoie
game for the Capital city team and
did some star work. He kept the
| hits we'll scattered and the men hune
mn at their bases. Rev. Mr.. klnzle
nitched for the visitors and for the
| four innings he was in the box kept
the hits well scattered. In fact they
were scattered in the trees and over
the banks and everywhere so that
when the four innings were up ne
read a chapter of Job TO see If ne
cou]d find any comfort for a pitcher
who is batted out of the box. NJ: l.
Beardslev Of New York made his first
appearance as umpire and he did moi
leave a very favorable impression
He was better than Mccormick and
got off the field without being
acknowledgements Journal Aug. IL