The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-22

Finnegan. the Bennington player whC
. was with Keene the latter part of the
| Twin State league season, has signed witt
the Springfield club of the Connecticut
league.
"Sam" Minis, pitcher for Keene, il
the Twin State league, has gone to South
bridge Mass, where he will commence
work, Monday, as consulting chemist Will
the American Optical company .
Walter volk, the Cambridge, Mass, boy
who played with the Bellows Falls Twin
State league team this summer, Joined the
Holy Cross football squad this week and Is
trying for a position in the backiield,
Bosk pitched the final game for tht
| Utica team of the New York state league
against Elmira Sunday Elmira won by
score OF 3 to . Bosk held Elmira to two
hits until the seventh inning when he
weakened and the score was tied at , to ,
The game went eleven innings.
Herman Hoar, who has been pitching
for Pittsiield this season. is authority foi
the statement that he Is to manage the
Bellows Falls Twin State league team
next season. Hoar says he expects to
have most of the Pittsfield players with
him and is planning to cop the Twin
State league pennant,
It is very likely that Jimmie" Hen
derson. the local catcher, will return to
Springfield, Vt, next summer as the mana
ger of the club which represents that
town in the Twin State league. The deal
has not been closed but a proposition was
put up to the local boy before he returned
home and a representative of the club
will come to this city during the winter to
arrange the details and definitely decide
the matter Henderson made big hit
with the Springfield management and fans
as a result of the great headwork which
he used behind the bat In addition to
catching a strong game, Jimmie" held up
his pitchers in fine style and the club
owners believe that he would be just the
man to run the team another season. If
Henderson returns to Springfield it is a
safe bet that several members OF this
years North Adams team will accompany
him. North Adams Transcript.
That there will be plenty Of baseball in
terest aroused before the season OF 1912
whirls around is shown in the fact that
though the season for the Twin State
league has only inst closed, there is al
ready talk about what teams will COM
pose the league next year. 1t is universal
~ hoped that Charlestown will announce
that the decision to have no team next
year has been reversed. Every fan
in the twin states would like to see the
Hyphens at it again when the season
opens next July. There is a new appli-
cant for admission to the league next year,
This is the lively little town of Newport
The fans OF that place have been attacked
with the Twin State league germ, and
they want a team, and want it bad. They
see nothing but a pennant-winning team
for Newport, and want TO get in the ranks
and make a try for the rag That the
town would have a great team nobody
doubts. as there is great enthusiasm in
Newport at present, and this is the one
thing needful to gain results. The addi-
ton of Newport to the league would be
welcomed gladly by all.-Cheshire Re
publican.
Andy Adams (Anderson), the veteran
short-stop, has secured a position as night
clerk at the Rockingham Hotel in Bellows
Falls where he can be found at any time
ready to fan or plan for next years fight
burlington has opened an office in Ben
nington, where he will follow his profes
sion Of civil engineering Bur has about
decided to quit the game, but said that if
he did play another season, it would be
in Bellows Falls. Brignolia and Volk both |
promise to return, as have Brill and Con-
nors. Volll expects to enter Brown uni
rersitv this fall and if he does, the spring
practice and training he will get there
ought to increase his efficiency consider |
IDLY. The railway people propose to fix
,ver the diamond this fall so as~to have
{ in good shape next year. It is a ques-
ion whether it would be wise to remove
he sod from the infield bncause Of the
impossible to get decent surface if this
s done. The Bellows Falls management
rave about completed the task of getting
ogether the bills owed and it is found
hat the club is behind about 5000 This
$ a better showing than last year when
hare ras deficit of nrnr 5000