Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-20
SPORTING NOTES.

AT Middlebury college athletic meet
last week, King, captain OF the freshman
team, broke the college records for the
shot put and the broad Jump, setting
them at II feet, 10 inches. and IS feet,
8 inches, respectively.
Dartmouth made clean sweep in the
round robin tennis tournament with the
University of Vermont last week. win
ming all the seventeen games played at
Hanover. The tournament included sew
enteen matches in singles and three in
doubles.
Vermont defeated Dartmouth at Bur-
lington Saturday, to 2, before the larg-
est crowd of the season. Collins pitched
for Vermont and Ekstrom and Ganley for
Dartmouth. Counting last season and
this, Dartmouth has scored only twice OF
Collins in SO innings.
Fritz Hanson, who claims the welter-
weight wrestling championship OF the
world. is soon 10 take up his residence in
Burlington. Mr.. Atwood, his manager,
stands ready to match Mr.. Hanson
against any man in the world OF his
weight, las pounds. In wrestling par
lance, il must be pin fall, best two out OF
three
/ All that delays the formation OF a
Northern Baseball league with Montpel-
ier-Barre, Burlington, Rutland and
Plattsburg on the four-team circuit is the
uncertain attitude OF Plattsburg. A
meeting Of magnates was held at the lat
ter place Friday without definite result
Piattsburg will try 20 raise the $500
necessary to start the team. and IL it sue
ceeds the league will probably follow.
Jack Tanning Of New York won the
high general average. defeating DR.. c. Fl.
Burr for the two days shoot OF the Mont
pelier Gun club, which closed Thursday
While DIR. G. n. Burr OF Montpelier was
second, be led Wednesday but Tell behind
Thursday. In the seventh and niut b
events, Tanning shot every bird " bile W.
B. barton OF Portland shot every bird iu
the trst event. Or. Burr won the first
prize for the two days shooting, profess
SIGNALS not being allowed TO compete for
the prizes. Burr defeated Tanning by 4
close score in Boston ten days before.
Larry Gardner. who last year captained
the varsity baseball team OF the Uniyersi-
ty OF Vermont, and who covered short
field in whirlwind fashion, will leave for
Boston after commencement week to Join
the Red Sox team OF the American league.
Larry has been working out with the
Vermont squad all the spring and is in
fine condition. He went to Boston Re-
Gently and fixed up the differences that
arose out OF his not joining the team on
the spring trip. Many of Gardeners ad-
mirers think that he would be star al
an outtielder and are anxious to see him
get chance in the Red Soxi weak spot.
School and other baseball games in
Vermont last week resulted as follows:-
At Montpelier, Friday, Montpelier high,
s, Norwich I'd, 2; at Barre, Friday, Yer.
mont I'd, 10, Italian Athletic club, o; al
Montpelier, Friday, Montpelier seminary,
5, Burlington high, 2; at bakersfield, Fri
day, Brigham academy, 8, Peoples scad-
envy, o; at Barre, Saturday, Goddard sem
! mary, IA, Burlington high, 4 at Fairfax
Saturday, Bellows Free academy, 5, Enos
burg Falls high, 3; at Woodstock, Satur
day, Woodstock high, s, Windsor high
2; at Barton. Saturday, Barton academy
u, st. JohDsbury academy, ?; ct Ludlow
Saturday, Black River academy, 8, Bel
lows Falls high, 2; at MiddIebury, Satur
day, Proctor high, is, Middlebury high, 1
Fully 500 people were at Blanchard
opera house, Montpelier, Friday evening
to witness the second wrestling match be
tween Bob Somerville of Barre and Sailo
Mack of the battleship Louisiana. Som
erville proved his superiority over tn,
sailor for the second time and won tn,
match in straight falls. The Barre maj
took the first fall at the end of an hour
hard work with a body scissors hold
combined with hammerlock He woI
the second at the end of is minutes
when he caught the navy man in a ful
Ieg-nelson. Mack was in the pink of con
dition and during the first half hour O
the match kept Somerville more than bus,
defending himself. Several times Macl
had Somerville's shoulders almost to th
mataDd Referee Eli Bourbon bent over tn
contestants with his hand raised to awar,
the fall to the sailor, but SomervilIe man
aged to wriggle. away each time. Ate
he had allowed Mack to tire himself wit
his rushing tactics, the Scotchman begal
to work with his usual ability and Mac
was Obliged to succumb. Charles Bixb
OF Barre was the winner in preliminar
event over Young French of Montpelier
He took the first fall in four minutes an
the second in Is minutes. The chaIlenp
OF Eugene Trembley OF Montreal, i
which he agrees to throw SomervilI
twice in an hour and a half, was read
and will probably be accepted by Somel
Vile. II this event comes of, it will be q
the Barre opera house on the evening G
May rs. Somerville began trainin
Monday for the European tournament
and will reduce his weight several pound
before he leaves for Europe in June.