Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-12
BRATTLEBORO'S FAMOUS BALL PLAYERS
Coegans Who Helped Win Championships in 1882 Now Stand
ing High in Legal and Medical PrOessiOnsSOme of the Old
Timers Still in the Game

Hickey was rated as the best all-around
player in the New England league at one
time, and filled short engagements with
the Boston Nationals and in the Eastern
league. He has been in poor health the
past three or four years and has been one
of the umpires in the Connecticut league.
Henry Burrell, first baseman in Brattle-
boro went from here to the Iowa Illinois
as a pitcher He made good from the
start and was with the St Louis Browns
when COmiskey made that club the pen
ant winner of the old American league.
Burrell was afterward with Milwaukee,
Omaha and other teams. Two years ago
he was reported to have been killed in
railroad accident in Montana, but this
was a case of mistaken identity; when
last heard from Burrell was teacher of
penmanship in a business college in
western city. His home is in Bethel this
state, where he has relatives.
Patrick O'Rourke, who was catcher here
in 1899 and 1890, is a resident of Holyoke,
where he has served in the common
council and on the board of aldermen.
Shine another catcher from Holyoke is
policeman in that city, Denny O'Neil, the
Holy Cross captain, who was a crack first
baseman and a slugger, was tried out by
St Louis, bur failed to hold a place
in the fastest company. After graduation
from Yale law school, he practiced law
in Holyoke and went from there to In
diana.
yale Murphy" William h, short
stop here in 1929, was one of the most
popular men ever on the local diamond
He was captain Of the Yale team which
won the national championship at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, and was reg
ular player on the New York National
league team three years. He studied in
the Yale medical department after his
graduation from the academic depart
mt
of the baseball teams of Yale Pennsyl-
vania and Leland Stanford, jr., university
i'm California. DR. Murphy died from con-
sumption a year ago at his nome In
Southville Mass. He was a younger
brother of Michael Murphy the trainer
of Yale and University of Pennsylvania
track teams Norton, II Dartmouth grad
uate. whose home was in Waukegan.
H., while in the Yale law school, came
here with Murphy, Bowers and other
Yale men. Norton was murdered while
living alone on a houseboat in Florida.
Bowers, one of the most heady pitchers
| ever turned out by Yale, was here two
seasons, and in an exhibition game shut
| out the Cuban Giants without a hit
Bowers is a municipal judge In South
Manchester Conn.
"Ar' SteaTns, the Amherst captain, who
| was a BrattleboTO second baseman after
Dowd, never had an equal as hitter In
| the college ranks. The year after he
played in Brattleboro he made a trip with
| the Boston Athletic association team
throughout the United States and Can
ada, playing against the athletic clubs OF
| the large cities. on this trip he made
more hits than any two men on the team
! and had the most astounding batting av'
erage ever recorded Stearns Is widely
known i'm the educational world today as
president of Andover academy in An
dover, Mass He refused to go into pro
fessionaI baseball, although offered a sal
airy by the New York National league fai
I'm excess of what he receives at An
| dover.
Heating pitcher, another Amherst man
here one season, is a lawyer in North
| amnton. Neil Sullivan, who had beer
CAPTAIN at Amherst, after leaving Brat
| tIabnro ulaNed two years on The .1arYari