Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-27

johnnie" Bosk, the former Bennington
and Brattleboro pitcher, who was dam
gerously injured by being struck on the
head by a ball pitched by Joe Harrington
In a game at Fitchburg several weeks
ago, has been discharged from the Bur-
bank hospital, and he is now rapidly re-
covering.
The prize cup offered for the highest
batting average made by a member of
the Springfield harlestown baseball
team has just been awarded by the don
or, l.. w. Stiles of Springfield, to Capt.
l.. T. Grow, an instructor in the Univer
sity of Vermont. Capt. Crows percent
age was .306. 1t was exceeded by a trine
by that of First Baseman Carolan, but
the latter played only nine games with
the team and the prize was donated for
the best seasons average.
The former "big four of football-Yale,
Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania
made a sorry showing in the games
Saturday. Yale was beaten 60 by the
West Point cadets, Princeton played a
scoreless game against the middies from
Annapolis, Pennsylvania lost to Brown
60 and was lucky to escape by so small
a score, and Harvard secured only IL
points against Amherst, a poorer show
ing than Trinity made against the same
team. Dartmouth rolled up 23 points
to 5 for Williams, the lads from Will
Jamestown scoring on a fuke. Univer-
sity of Vermont journeyed to Orono,
Maine, and was beaten by the Univer-
sity of Maine 40.
Inland O. Stickney, 40, a Vermont boy
who was one of the famous athletes of
the country many years, died recently in
Portland, oregon. He was a native of
Tyson and a Harvard a He was
quarter back of the Crimson team two
years, coached and played with the
Boston Athletics, the Chicago Athletics,
the Occidentals OF San Francisco and
coached the Leland Stanford team. In
1897 he went to Portland, where he
coached and played on the Multnomah
team. He was a successful real estate
dealer and built and managed the Rail-
way exchange building in Portland. He
died after a years illness. He was a
brother of ex-Gov. w. w. Stickney of
Ludlow.
The athletic rules for Vermont acad-
emies and high schools were discussed at
the annual meeting OF the schoolmasters'
club in Montpelier. There seemed to be
some feeling that the academies and
seminaries were disseminated against by
the present rules n the matter was
discussed openly In the meeting. DR..
Bishop of Montpelier seminary moved to
amend the rule disqualifying graduates
of schools from participating In athletics
so as to make ineligible only students
who are graduates of schools approved
by the college entrance board. The mo-
ton was opposed by Principal Smith OF
Brattleboro and was lost. Then DR..
Bishop moved to repeal the 21-year rule
on the ground that the country boys VINO
were late in beginning their preparatory
school course were Disseminated against.
The sentiment of the meeting seemed to
be that it was not unfair to disbar these
students since nearly all the secondary
students are much younger and should
not be allowed to play against grown
men. An effort was made to amend the
rule so as to allow students over Fl to
play baseball, but the motion was lost
even in this form. Thus the rules re-
main unchanged.