Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-17
SPORTING
What the Twin state League Schedule
Shows.

The Twin State league baseball sched-
ule was arranged Sunday afternoon
when members of the several boards of
directors met in the Cheshire House in
Keene. Thomas e. O'Brien represented
Bellows Falls, Col. Williams Northamp-
ton, Maj. e. NJ. Keyes and DR.. ]. b.
Duffy Keene and Judge w. r. Daley
and H. E. Whitney Brattleboro. The
meeting took but a short time and aside
from arranging the schedule and draw
ing up articles of agreement no bust
ness was transacted The schedule as
arranged looks pleasing to Brattleboro
fans. There will be As games played this
year, while last year there were SO
games on the schedule. OF these II eX-
ira games the home team gets six on
the Island park grounds. Each team
will play "a games on its own grounds
and the Islanders will have 10 games
on Tuesday, six on Friday, five on Sat
urday, one Wednesday, one Thursday
which will be on the afternoon of July
4, and one Monday, which will be La
Dor day afternoon. The season will
open June %, when Keene will journey
to Northampton. The following day,
Wednesday, June &c, Bellows Falls will
play here and Northampton will cross
bats with Keene in Keene The first
Saturday of the season, June 30, North
ampton will play on the Island park
diamond The Islanders will entertain
the Bellows Falls team here for the last
game of the season Saturday, Sept. Z.
Charles Ivers has written from Brant-
ford, Ontario, where he is playing In
the Canadian league, that the Canadian
town does not compare very favorably
with Brattleboro. Before going to Cana
da Ivers expressed wish to return
har State
league season.
The University Of Vermont had no
| difficulty in downing Norwich UNIVERSE
| ty in the baseball game played in Bur-
| lington Tuesday, the score being to 3.
| Malcolm held the cadets to but four
| hits, while Keegan, who was in the box
| for Norwich, was touched for 10 safe
| ties, including three two-baggers.
Manager Higgins is securing a strong
| team for Bennington. Brill. Carolan
Finnegan and Connors will return to
| fill infield positions. McCrehan and Prin-
! die, outfielders, will rejoin the club
Burns and Wheeler, pitchers, will prob
ably play in the outfield when not need
ed in the box. Peloquin, with Pittsfielj
pitcher. The catcher will be Dan Shea
| of Florence, Mass, who caught fol
Galesburg. ILL.,, in the Central league
| last season.
Fritz Hanson and young Zbyzko'
wrestled in the preliminary event ir
| Mechanics building in Boston Monday
| evening when Cyclone" Burns lost two
| straight falls to Americas in one hour
| ~ minutes and 40 seconds, and in L
| minutes and 10 seconds of fast wrestling
| Hanson downed Young Zbyzko' in Il
| minutes and 81 seconds and in 10 minute!
and q seconds. young Zbyzko" wa.
Eddie Bolin, who has adopted tina
pseudonym and will use 1t in his pro
fessional career on the mat. Hanson
says that young Zbyzko" is as good a
almost any of the wrestlers at hi
weight on the defensive but needs
little toning up on the offensive tactics
John Bosk, who won the champion
ship of the Twin State league for Brat
tleboro by pitching effectively in tw
close games at the end of the pennan
race last season, Is mentally derange
and has been placed in an asylum. Bos
was the star pitcher of the Bennington
club previous to coming here. He lef
Brattleboro to join the Utica club O
the New York State league and a fey
weeks later while playing in his HON
town, Fftchburg, was struck in the hea.
by a pitched ball. His skull was frac
tured. and pieces of the broken bon
were removed in the Burbank hospits
in Fitchburg. where he was under treat
ment many weeks. He apparently mad
a good recovery and signed to play wit
the Utica club this season. He worke
at his trade in a machine shop in Fitch
burg during the winter but recent
showed signs of being mentally unbal
| anced