Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-30
LOCAL SPORTING NEWS

During his recent stay in Plymouth.
Mass, Onslow Thompson won two ba1d.
some cups in the golf tournaments and
broke the record of the course.
Tommy Guiheen has been traded bv
the Fail River MANAGEMENT TO the TvT3
cluo Guiheen will probably appear reg
ulaiy In Lynn uniform during tae re-
malnder OF the season. Tommy" ba
gan his career in the New England league
with the Bangor club and he has PLAYED
with Fall River, New Bedford and Brock
ton at different times
AT the close of the Deal Golf and
country clubs tournament in New Jersey
iast week an lS-hole handicap was PLAYED
oy % golfers and the first prize was won
py ii. V. Seggerman of St PauTs Who
was member OF the Pine Grove Springs
team last season. Seggerman's gross
score was 81 and he had a handicap Of
~, Inc lowest gross score was made
by travis, the former national champion.
ana only three men had gross marks be-
low Seggerman. When Seggerman play
ed on the Brattleboro links last wear his
cara showed so for a full round
McCabe and Hays of the New London
ciub were fined IS each for assau.ting
patrolman and an additional }l5 for
assauItlng Chinaman in Holyoke a
lew days ago. They were also charged
win drunkenness but these charges
were MED upon pleas of guilty being
entered Hays is the basketball coach
"ho' under the name of Stewart was
one or the chief actors in trouble be-
tween the Brattleboro and St Johns
Dury teams few winters ago. At that
time he was playing with st. Johnsbury.
Hays is a medical student I'm the --niyer-
sity OF Vermont and coach of the var
slty baseball team. He played with the
burlington club this season before he
went to New London.
James Barrett. the Boston American
outhelder, gained 10 points in his batting
percentage last week He batted safely
IN hNe out of six games and in one
game made five hits in six times at bat
several times this season he has battel
in the winning run for his team. Barrett
formerly ranked as one OF the 10 leading
patsmen OF the National league and vas
one or the fastest base runners I'm the
game An injury to his knee put him
CUT OF major league ball two seasons and
curing that time the spit ball" was de-
NeIoped, so that when Barrett came back A.,
mo the game regularly this season his
httlng was not up to standard In the
last SIX weeks he has batted we'll above
the 800 mark, and at the present time
only Parent and CongaIton Of the B1s-
ton Americans lead him in percentage
Up to Saturday Barrett had made 76
mus nine being two baggers. three three
pagers and one home run. In fielding
ne has the fine average of .9Sl. in IS
games he accepted 1876 chances I'm the
outheld and made only three errors.
The national lawn tennis championship
Is now neld for a third time by william
A. Larned of Summit, N J. lie won
me all-comers' tournament in Newport
H. l., Wednesday, defeating Leroy, the
intercollegiate champion, in the final
round in three straight sets. Clothier OF
philadelphia, the champion last year.
did not defend the title owing to poor
physical condition. n. w. Niles, the
Harvard champion, in whom Brattlebor0
people are interested, went through the
fourth round, but was finally defeated
by Palmer, the Ridgewood crack, who
had previously put out Behr, the Amerl-
can representative in the championships
In England this year. Niles and Palmer
had five-set struggle and the former
was not at top form as he was suffering
from rheumatism. Russ, the Vermont
champion, and Mollenhaur former YER
mont champion, made good showinss,
and when they finally met in the MIN
round the latter was the winner Mo-
lenhaur lost the next day to Leroy aiIrI
he apparently had the contest well ]"
hand.