Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-01
LOCAL SPORTING NOTES.
Gotch Defeats Hanson at Wrestling
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Devotees OF catch-as-catch-can wrestl-
ing got their fill Saturday night when
Fritz Hanson of Burlington, the light
haired Swede who holds the worlds wet
terweight championship, undertook to
throw Young Gotch twice. in an hour.
Hanson outweighed Gotch by fully ten
pounds. He is very strong, active and
skilful. He took the lead most of the
time, Gotch staving of q fall against
time. After AZ minutes, Hanson got
Gotch on full body hold, but though
they wrestled for five minutes beyond the
bour he could not finish the stunt and
Gotch won on the handicap. Il was a
very hard struggle. Hanson tried unsuc-
cessfuily the Frank Gotch toe held which
consists in twisting the other fellows leg
of unless be gives up. Young Goteh got
out Of it safely. A large crowd witnessed
the match.
Win Banister of Braintree got two falls
out OF three in his collar-and-elbow match
with William Brown of Brookfield.
Arthur ]. Gardner of Wells River ar
rived in town yesterday and is staying at
Will Banister's. Mr.. Gardner is willing
to meet any lightweight or welterweight
wrestler in the world and will wmstle
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will suitthe opponent. Mr.. Gardner re-
fers to Young Gotch.
The game for the state high school
baseball championship between Yer
gennes high and Randolph high takes
place at vergennes next Saturday after
noon and will be worth the long trip
that quite bunch of local fans propose
to make to see it. Our boys are taking
needed practice to timber up after rusting
q fortnight.
Vergennes is planning to make the
baseball games big feature of the grand
day. The Vergennes Enterprise OF last
week said: -
"Instead OF one baseball game, there
will be two and those between the best
professional teams, and for the cham
pionship of Vermont between the two
best high school teams, Vergennes and
Randolph.
"These two baseball teams have defeat
ed everything on each side of the Green
mountains and will try it out here at 2
O'Clock Saturday afternoon and see which
is the best.
''It will be great game and one worth
going miles to see.
Both teams, and every man on both
teams, will do their best to win.
principal e. G. Ham is the manager
of the Randolph team and his host Of
! friends here viii give him a warm well
come back to the good old city and our
boys will do their level best to defeat his
team.
''The other game will be between the
EIizabethtown baseball nine, one Of the
strongest and best clubs across the lake
and picked nine Of the best players OF
Addison county.
''This, too, will be great game and
worth coming several leagues to witness.
"Who's Who in BssebaIlq'' This is
the question that the Randolph Herald
discussed to the extent OF nearly q
column last week and says that the peo-
pie Of Randolph who have seen the Ran
dolph high school boys play are sure that
Randolph is 1T Vergennes has met the
crack teams and defeated every one on the
west side of the mountain and will try
and prove Vergennes is it, T"
Randolph high met picked nine from
Bethel Saturday on McCall's Held, win
ming by a score of TO 1. Bethel was
much weakened by the absence of four OF
her best PLAYERS, who were playing in
Barre on another team from Bethel.
However, Manager Lawless put into the
field team that made the Randolph boys
work to win. For Bethel, Wilson
pitched seven innings and was then re-
lieved by Webb, Randolph securing only
three bits in the first six innings. In the
seventh three hits were made in success
sion, two of them being two-baggers.
Webb then in the eighth retired Ran
dolph in one, two, three order. Vail
pitched good game, allowing only four
hits and securing is strikeouts. but was
lacking in his usual control The Ran
dolph boys need much hard practice
The feature OF the game was the batting
of Webb. He secured three of Bethel's
four hits, one Of these being q two-bag-
ger. The score by innings
Randolph high, 01010O KS
Bethel, 5000 O1O-1
Batteries, Vail and Spooner; Wilson,
Webb 18th inning) and Dombriskie; hits,
Randolph 6, Bethel 4; two-base hits, G.
Sault, Spooner, Webb, Tenney; strike
outs, Vail Is, Wilson 3, Webb 1 /; umpire,
Niebaum.