Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-24
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Dartmouth won the intercollegiate
meet of the New England colleges in
Springfield, Mass, Saturday.; scoring &c
points, Brown university being second
with 49, Vermont scored eight points
through A. l.. Gutterson, who won the
broad jump with a leap of % feet So
inches, and was second in the low hur-
die race. Several records were broken,
the most notable being the pole vault,
Wright Of Dartmouth clearing the bar
at u feet 6h inches.
Two windha1n county boys playeo
with the Norwich university polo team
which defeated West Point 8 to at
West Point May 15-Slattery of Bellows
Falls and Putnam of Brattleboro. The
Mortified News in its account of the
game said: Putnam was always there in
a crisis and seemed very sure in his
strokes which were generally good for
long drives Slattery played his position
well and did some very efficient work
in riding-off, and made the first score
of the game
out in Gloversville, N. Y, the wrest-
ling bug has developed so that matches
for $1,000 side bets are as common as
grasshoppers. Fritz Hanson refereed a
match Tuesday evening between John
Illinois and Charlie Kaiser, up to that
time the unbeaten wonder of the world
John downed Charlie in As minutes and
Is seconds for the first fall and before
the second was declared put his OPP
ponent through the ropes and when
Kaiser could not come back at the end
of 10 minutes the referee gave the Man
chester boy, who was billed as hailing
from Jamestown. the match Previous to
the match Hanson challenged the win
ner for match, winner take all. Kill
onis will wrestle for a $1,000 side bet
Memorial day and rumor has it that
Hanson will be his opponent.
Cyclone" Burns of Boston and Jack
MacPhee, a Scottish champion, will
wrestle in the Auditorium this evening.
They met in Boston vast winter and
gave a fine performance, Burns getting
two falls. MacPhee weighs 200 pounds
and has met nearly all the crack men
in this country. The curtain raiser
will be between Fritz Hanson and Jack
Collins, 1.-The human eel" of Worcester,
Mass. These two met once before in
the Auditorium and many OF the spec
tators were not satisfied with the de-
cision given in the last bout, when
Referee E. H. Hunter awarded the fall
to Hanson. Collins asked for a return
| match and Hanson promised 1t II the
thin one would throw George w. Bal
ley which proviso the Worecter lad ear
ried out A match was arranged for
last Friday night in Hinsdale, but was
Phee and Burns could appear here to-
night. Hanson has been in New York
state this week in answer to a hurry
call from Kilonis, who wanted him to
go to Johnstown to act as referee
The University of Vermont interschol-
astic athletic meet was won in Burling-
ton Saturday by Goddard seminary of
Barre, Vermont conference academy of
Poultney being second and Vermont
| academy of Saxtons River third. God
| dard scored 81 points, Vermont academy
| %. Last year Brattleboro high school
| was a close second ito Goddard, but
| this year Brattleboro was not represent
| ed in the meet Sherburne of Goddard
| won four first, two seconds and two
| third securing a total of rs points. Mich
| OILS of Vermont academy was second to
| Sherburne in individual points, getting
| 16. The latter won the 100 yard dash
| in 10 3-5 seconds, the 220 yard hurdles
| in 2S seconds, and finished second in the
| 200 yard dash and the 120 yard hurdles
| Two records were broken. Sherburne in
creased the distance in the hammer
throw by Is feet, making it 1853 feet 81.
| inches. LeBarron of Goddard clipped
three fifths of a second from the recort
made in the mile run last year by Miner
| of Brattleboro, the time being ASS 2-5ths
Dunlap of Vermont academy was SECOND
in the shot put and third each in tn,
broad jump and discuss throw.