Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-05-10
SPORTING.

Vermont academy at Saxtons River has
a large squad in training for the track
team. An attempt will be made to ar
range a dual meeting with Brattleboro
high school or Stevens high school OF
Claremont.
Hunt, the University Of Vermont fresh
man who dawned on the collegiate world
as a pitching wonder by shutting out
Colby, is a former Vermont academy boy
Struble, also at Vermont academy last
year, is doing good work in the box for
Exeter.
Harry Greene of Brattleboro is playing
on the University of Vermont tennis team
which is competing against Dartmouth
this week. In the round Of singles Dart
mouth won 7 points to 1. Greene lost
| his matches in singles to McLane 6-l,
Ga, and to Rotch Go, Ga.
Capt Whitney OF Wantastiquet clubs
golf team has arranged the first match
of the season at home against Northamp-
ton June 6. A return game will be play
ed June is. Later in the season the Brat
tleboro players will have a series Of
games with Greenfield, Keene and the
teams of other places.
University of Vermont defeated Holy
Cross 10 in a seven inning game called
on account of darkness in Burlington
| Tuesday. Not one of the visitors saw
! third base. Pitcher Collins won his own
game with a three dagger after Grow had
reached first In the game which Middle
bury won from Norwich 80 at Mortified
! Tuesday, Fisher, the Middlebury pitcher,
| had 10 strke-outs.
THE ever-ready Schidmiler" is the
way the Burlington Free Press referred
| to the former Brattleboro boy who covers
! first base and leads off the batting for
! Dartmouth. In the game which Dart
mouth won from University of Vermont
to at Burlington, May 2, Schildmiller
! played errorless ball as usual, and whip
/ ped the spheroid to the plate in a quick
! play that cut off a run. His three
! hits-the team made but seven-were all
! timely. The second sent in the run
which tied the score and the third
brought In the winning run. Schild-
! miller's work throughout the season to
date has been first class. and with the bat
he is Dartmouth's most reliable man.
The Bradford. Pa. Record Of a recent
! date contained a half-tone portrait of
James Davey, with complimentary sketch
! in which IL was intimated that Davey is
| destined for berth In the jor leagues
before his baseball career closes At one
| point the Record said Jimmy has spent
another winter up among the sap boilers
! OF Vermont, where he was located at
Brattleboro In Brattleboro they call him
! Socks. They also allow him TO be cap
| tain OF the champion basketball team Of
the Green Mountain state. and think that
! nobody knows quite as much about the
popular winter sport as Jimmy" Yes, the
! sap boilers are more than satisfied with
Socks and they will have a place walt
! ing for him on the floor when the dia-
mond is in the scar and yellow leaf
David a. Niles Of the Brookline high
school, who played last summer on the
tennis team representing the Wantas-
! uquet GOLF club, made a fine showing
this week in the Harvard interscholastic
| championship series in Cambridge
| Mass. He won five consecutive matches
| without being beaten a single set. but lost
| in the final round to A. Sweetser Of the
Boston Latin school 6-2, Ga. 7-5 Sweet
| ser was the runner-up in the Vermont
state championship at ST. Johnsbury last
| year, and his opponent there in the
| fourth round was Fred II. Harris OF Brat
tleboro y. w Niles. formerly the ma
| tional interscholastic champion and later
| the Harvard champion won the cham
| pionship OF the sophomore class at Har-
ward this week. Both Of the Niles boys
are expected to play in Brattleboro later
in the season
Stake races, which were introduced for
the first time at the Valley Fair last year.
| have been made up for the coming fair
September %, % and &c by the interna-
/ uonal circuit Of Vermont and eastern
Canada. There will be one race each day
and while arrangements have not been
| fully completed IL Is probable that the
2.2l trot will take place the first day the
go pace the second day and the 21e pace
the third day. A purse OF $500 Is offered
! for each race. Entries close with O. F.
| Benson, secretary. June /. The races will
be governed by the National Trotting as
! ISOLATION rules. The Valley Fair asso-
| citation has engaged c. F. Pike OF Wind
sor as starter for both the stake and class
| races. a. ]. Pomeroy Of East Fairfield
and G. Milton Hatch, associate editor OF
| the American Horse Breeder OF Boston,
have been engaged as judges. The class
races and purses have not been made up.