The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-07-07
by the manager of the Connection
lpapttp taom of that civ

by the manager of the Connecticut
league team of that city.
Brattleboro will entertain the Bel
lows Falls warriors on the local ground.
Wednesday afternoon at $50. and oil
the following Friday will 20 up against
| Springfield CharlestOwn here. On Tues
dav of next week it will invade Bellows
Falls, playing in Springfield one weel
from tomorrow. The locals do not meet
Keene again until Wednesday, july 10
The University of Vermont baseball
team has elected John f. Mcdonald
centertield on the team, captain fol
next year. Mcdonald is junior. On
the same day, the college body elected
Z. G. Cummings, ~. manager of base
ball, S. A. Phelps. '12, manager of track,
and George NJ. Nelson, 10, assistant
manager of track. There was no choice
being four candidates
Just II fingers. AZ of them in the
American league and % in the National
league. were called upon to help win
or lose the 16 games of major league
baseball played on the glorious Fourth.
OF all these, two fellows in Ban John
son S league and seven in Thomas
Lynch S were able to 90 the full dis
tance. The 62 others either sought the
bench-awning' protection from the
holiday sun. or were called forth to the
mound as a relief Boston Globe.
The North Adams baseball team was
disbanded Wednesday on the eve of
the beginning of the "Four City
league comprising Northampton. Ben
nington and Pittsfeld in addition to
the tunnel metropolis. The withdrawal
of the North Adams team caused the
promoters of the Northampton team to
Quit also, and il wouldn I be surprising
to see the other two give up the ghost.
North Adams. Pittsfeld and Benning.
ton have been supporting teams since
May. 1t doesn I pay to start too early.
Keene stands at the head of the
Twin State league at present with a
clean score. In addition to the two
games won from Brattleboro the New
Hampshire nine defeated the Hyphens
at Springfield Saturday by score of
to 2. Warner pitched for Keene while
MeGowan, a Waterbury lad. did the
hurting for Springfield Charlestown.
The latter lost to Bellows Falls Z to
at Athletic park in Springfield Tuesday
and was beaten 9 to 2 in the
afternoon game at Bellows Falls. Miller
pitched for Bellows Falls in the morn
ing game while Archer and Stillson
worked for the Hyphens. In the after
noon Brignolia of Bellows Falls was on
the mound against Bassett.
1t is most sincerely to be hoped that
Brattleboro will not have a bunch of !,
ball tossers that will be as much supe-
rlor to the other teams in the league as
the Brattleboro grounds and buildings |
are ahead of the grounds and buildings |
in other towns in the league A visit |
to the pavilion and grand stand at the
river bank will make man gasp. and |
The team that cannot play gilt-edge ball
IN such surroundings must be fit only
for q graveyard. Fox and Moran have
surely done their share in providing a
proper setting for the very best kind
If baseball, and if Brattleboroiens do
lot appreciate their efforts. every man.
and child in that beautiful
)urg should be sentenced to 60 days
ojourn in some less favored locality
Cheshire Republican.
Here is the way the Bellows Falls
of the Keene Free Press
AS was expected, 'Toots' Mayo dis
appointed the management, and will
lot be seen this year in Bellows Falls
inform. The action will not SURPRISE
hose acquainted with the erratic
'enius, and it is a good guess that one
eason is about all this young man will
asst in any team he may strike. The
bnormal size of his head and the enor- !
nous conceit of a 5 h. p. ball tosser
NTH a 20 h: p. bump are not conducive
9, long life in any community. Holding
fl until day or two before the season
pened so as to embarrass the manage |
lent, is about the limit for any player, |
Ar. 'Toots may find this reputation 9
ill mt a Grimm in his aSniratiOnS whom S