Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-12-30
SPORTING.

NJ. j. Moran and II. c. Rice will rep
resent Brattleboro in the baseball league
conference in Bellows Falls tomorrow.
Mayo, Partenheimer and Volk, who
played with the Bellows Falls baseball
team last season. have signed for 1911
with the Bar Harbor Maine, club. Pelkev,
the clever little southpaw with Bellows
Falls, is employed as special officer by the
street railroad company in Southbridge
Mass, during the winter.
Ed Long of Troy n. Y, formerly a
guard on the Brattleboro basketball team
and now captain of the North Adams
Athletics In the same line of sport, has
signed a contract to cover first base for
the Indianapolis baseball team of the
Western league next sea son. Long
started last year with Indianapolis but
was farmed out to Elgin and later in the
season recalled to the Western league.
The United States national lawn tennis
associations ranking of the l02 leading
tennis players of the country was an
nounced Saturday. Fred II. Harris Of
Brattleboro, New England intercollegiate
champion, is No 43 in the list, 10 marks
better than the rating given him for 1909.
William y. Larned, national cha mpien, is
No. l. Nathaniel w Niles of Boston,
well-knoWn in this town, who was No
4 in 1909, is now placed as No. 6. j. D.
f. Jones of Providence, former local
baseball player, is No. Il.
The Keene baseball association was
formed Friday night with the following
officers: Pres, DIR. James R. Duffy; sec,
George H. Sherwin, formerly of Brattle-
boro; treas, Eugene NJ. Keyes Commit
tees were chosen to raise funds and to
provide an entertainment for the purpose
of raising money. II. c. Rice, Dr. ]. B.
Duffy and E. NJ. Keyes were chosen as
delegates to attend the meeting in Bel
lows Falls next Saturday, when plans
will be considered for baseball league
comprising teams in Keene, Bellows Falls
and Brattleboro
DR.. Frank j. Sexton of Brookline
Mass, one of the picturesque players OH
the Brattleboro diamond 25 years ago.
has been chosen coach Of the Harvard
baseball team for a term of three years
Sexton was a pitcher with Woodcock at
Brown university and after his college
days played professionally with the Bos-
ton Nationals and in the New England
league. He was coach a number of
wears at Brown university previous to
last year, and he filled a similar position
with the University OF Michigan ball
team several seasons.
The New York Herald contained
full page illustrated story under the big
headlines THE Coming Back of Dennis
O'Neil." The hero is the old Brattleboro
bsiStudll captain, whose election as prose-
cutting attorney for Rush and Shelby
counties in Indiana on the Democratic
ticket in a district normally Republican
was recorded in The Phoenix several
weeks ago. O'Neil is a graduate of
Holy Cross college and of the Yale law de-
partment and in both institutions he was
one of the crack baseball and football
players. The Herald story tells some
thing about O'Neil's rowing after his col
lege days were over, and the story is
worked up TO a climax in Rushvile Ind
where O'Neil, who had been working on
farm, plays first base for the local team
in game against its chief rival. O'Neips
playing at first base is figured as SEN
sational and he wins the game with the
longest hit ever seen on the grounds
Mike Donlin, the great outfelder of the
New York Giants is also featured as one
of the stars of the game, he also playing
with Rushville. O'Nels eloquent speech
at banquet his start in law practice,
his marriage and his election to an i'm
portant office are among the other events
which are recorded, and the article
closes with the prediction that the former
baseball player will be elected to a state
office in Indiana.