Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-23
Sporting Notes.

sporting Notes'
I The active golfng season at the
/ Ekwanok club, Manchester, closed
I Saturday but the links VIII be open
until November l. Paul Waterman OF
! the Englewood club won the Equinox
4 cup, the chief trophy of the final tour
nament, Saturday defeating Il, Nj.
Daley of st. Andrews one up,
l.. C. Servoss, the well known golf
professional, broke the course record
at the Keene, n. H., Country club
Tuesday negotiating the is holes In
90 strokes. The former record was rs,
held by T.. NJ Blake the old-time BIZ
cycle rider. Mr. Servoss made 50
going out and a 81 coming in.
c. NJ. Miller tied the siX-hole record
at the Wantastiquet club course
Tuesday afternoon. He was 81 TO the
gully hole and drove a ball which
struck squarely in the cup but bound
ed out. He missed a comparatively
easy putt for n two ON this hole and
went down i'm three, tying the record
of "a held by f. II. Harris.
DIR. O. 5. Roberts Of Pittsfield. Mass,
a brother of r. l.. Roberts of this town,
is an enthusiastic automobilist. Al
the second annual field day of the
Berkshire automobile club Saturday
Loo pounds DR.. Roberts's Ford won
first i'm 4:87la. while his Grout ma
chine won the half mile dash for
steamers in 56la seconds.
The local Knights of COLUMBUS
again proved their superiority over
Bellows Falls in baseball Saturday,
winning on the local grounds by
score of II to I. Features of the game
were the battery work of Grady and
DR., O'Connor, ID. ". Shea's agile work
on the initial bag, Burke's running
catch in center. and the batting of
Nolan and O'Connor of Bellows Falls.
Arthur Monroe played third base for
the visitors.
The Springfield Mass, leaguers
were given decided surprise ut
Hinsdale last Thursday. When they
arrived the 'seediness' of the town
seemed to impress them, and they in
quired of several bucolic looking /
youths if there was any hay for sale |
I'm that neighborhood. After the game, |
which resulted in score of Ito for
the home team, the Springfield men |
We're less laxative and left town with |
out further inquiry about the price of |
dry grass. A few days afterward they !
received bale of hay, suitably in
scribed, from the men whom they had /
iollied.
After the game between Hinsdale
md the Nashua New England league
team tomorrow afternoon, its good
BYE to baseball for 1904 and goodbye
TO baseball under the management of
W. o. Amidon' say the posters an
bouncing the closing game of this
season at Hinsdale. Mr.. Amidon has
given his townspeople one of the best
baseball teams anywhere in this sec
ion but ii must have cost him a big
bundle of money, reports placing his
hortage at between $4,000 and 50, 500.
However Mr.. Amidon is a sportsman =
md will pay the price without muir
nurine.
Saturday was great day for for
ner Northern league pitchers, two of
hem trimming up the leaders in both
he American and national leagues.
oakley who graced the box for Rut- I
and the first part OF the Northern {
aague season, made his debut in the (
american league Saturday, pitching {
or Philadelphia against Boston, and t
ccomplished the downfall of the a
rorld's champions while Scanlon, ex- I
who is pitching for v
Jew York. Sheldon of Montpelier 4
;arre pitched for Hinsdale, n. H. f
gainst Greenfield and was invincible d
ntil the ninth when double by Cox, I
twirer for st. Adams, and
single by Connolly sent Greenfield's a
My run across the plate, Jack I
hesbro of New York pitched the last I
,ur innings for Greenfield {
John Tasker represented the Wan =
golf club in the handicap
vents of the Springfield, Mass, open +,
Friday and Saturday. In o.
lie SO hole handicap Friday he made +,
SO and an SO which with his handicap a
: 10 gave him a net score of 1872; in ~
le IS hole handicap Saturday he had n
net score of so. Tasker did not make +
very strong bid for the cups offered !,
these events but he showed himself r
ne of the longest drivers in the n
The capital prize of the +
the Springfield cup, was r.
on by Cornelius ]. Sullivan of the u
and Baltusrol clubs, while Y
le Presidents cup to the winner of a
lie consolation division went to ]. G. Il
the Amherst college cham y
on. sullivan will be remembered in p,
rattleboro as Neal" Sullivan, who h
aged third base on one of the old h
mi professional teams here. I,