St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-02-25

ST. Johnsbury at once, but if a man
wishes to meet the local mat artist,
and gives him a guarantee, Sherb
will wrestle him gladly.
1t is expected that Jack Collins
will return to town for finish
match with Sherb, March 18th.
Sherb is training hard, and will meet
at least two men before that date,
while Collins is always in perfect
trim, so that the best bout yet seen
here will be this meeting and Kill
houry will in all probability come up
to referee it. This fact is sufficient
guarantee of the best wrestling and
best refereeing st. Johnsbury has
had, to all sport followers
Seneca Club.
Tomorrow night the club barge
ride to the Center will leave the club
rooms, Moore's block, at 100 sharp.
The attraction of a barge ride, a
Green Mountain Grange supper, and
a dance on the new floor at the hall,
combined in one evenings time has
proved too great to resist and
large party has signified intentions
of being present. The club also
plans other outings for this spring
and summer of which due notice will
be given.
Harry Writer'S, as chairman of the
athletic committee, announces that
a strong base ball team will be put
in the field this summer to compete
with the best amateur mines in the
district, and promises the aggrega-
ton will be the best ST. Johnsbury
has seen for some years.
Sporting Notes
Friday night the Academy team
plays the return game with Newport.
The boys have been practising since
the last game under the watchful
eye of Coach Brown and intend to
repeat the victory they scored here
over the up-staters and this in spite
of the fact that they will have to be
without the services of Hill the vet
eran center, who has been i'll at his
home since the last game. In fact,
the authenticated pivot man played
on his nerve alone in the Newport
game, and should not have been al
lowed to compete that night His
loss will be severely felt Friday but
the team is confident of the result,
and the original lineup will be seen
next week against Spaulding and
Montpelier High.
One record that can never be beat
en- was recently hung up by a Deer
ing (Me.) school boy in a rifle COM
petition. Wendell t. Smith. scored
a perfect record of 200 out of a pos
sible 200, beating the former record
of 1919 held by a Stoneham, Mass,
boy since 1912.
John Kilonis, the Manchester, N.
H., heavyweight wrestler, defeated
Fritz Hanson, the worlds champion
welterweight last week, two falls out
of three. Hanson won the first, and
the second was awarded to Kilonis
when Hanson refused to give up
what the referee called a strangle
hold. Kilonis won the third fall,
and the bout.
SnOw-ShOe Club.
The nipping air of last Wednesday
night added to the enjoyment of the
fifty local snow-shoers who went on
the weekly hike. The tramps this
year are a little shorter than some
years in the past and the change IS
pleasing to the ladies--and some of
the men-because now it is possible
for those who only are able to be
present at intervals, to go without
oilers joined the party at the hall,
and the fun reigned until late
hour.
Tonight Louis Beck will lead,
starting from the Athenaeum at 500
sharp, as usual, and the committee
in charge of the indoor festivities
consists of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard ".
circuit, Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard John
son, Fred Johnson, and Miss Leola
Forsythe.
Sunset League.
The Sunset League officials are al
ready laying plans for the third an
nual sunset series, and prospects
are brighter than ever for a success
full season. Last year the games be-
gan a little too early, and so the
first contests of 1917 will commence
the last week of May. June 1st will
bring Charlie Hoernle, in his day the
best schoolboy player of Greater
Boston, and now coach of Goddard
Seminary athletics, to ST. Johns
bury, to coach the league teams and