The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09
ONE TOUCHDOWN
Holy Cross Had No Easy
Thing With Gardner.

Though the weather wore a threaten
ing aspect all day, the sun brushed the
gathering clouds from before its face,
and smiled down upon the Holy Cross
eleven battling bravely against their
conquerors of last year. The Gardner
Athletics played a far superior game
to that of one year ago. but Holy Cross
came out the better, although by but
a single touchdown. The boys wearing
purple sweaters have worked hard since
their defeat last Saturday; they profit
ed by the mistakes they made then, but
were caught mapping two or three times
on ''criss-cross'' play This was how
Gardner made her most material gains.
Holy Cross was especially strong in Of
fensive work, but her line held well.
Coach Connors has been drilling the
team to a new code of signals, much
shorter than their former ones
The Holy Cross backs found that they
could hammer their way through the
opposing line almost at WILL tackle be-
ing the easiest The Gardner men seem
ed, when they got possession of the ball,
to be rather stronger at offensiveness,
but they held the spheroid so seldom
that that did them very little good.
The eleven was, with the exception Of
the fullback, the same as played last
season.
The game was rather abruptly ter
minated during the second half. The
teams had been playing for about ten
minutes, and neither side had scored
during the half In a scrimmage Gard
ner claimed that one OF the Holy Cross
players had kicked a Gardner player
when down. Caswell Of Gardner, who
u %,lrv i1NfD
the Holy Cross players, and it required
the combined efforts of the officials and
several of the players to restore peace.
The umpire declared that Caswell leave
game for roughness. The visitors took
the position that If their man was dis
qualified the Holy Cross offender should
be similarly penalized. But Umpire
Thompson did not think the same way,
and Gardner refused to finish out the
game under the referees ruling. Ac-
cordingly the decision was given in
favor of the college team.
In the first half Murdoch kicked to
Mercer, who fumbled, but recovered
and advanced the ball a little. Then
the backs hammered the line for sew
eral good gains. Monahan was sig
nailed, but was caught for loss. Sui
Ivan next signalled for an end play
but his man not showing up, in his ex-
citement he ran forward with the ball
and Gardner got it on a ''fiuke." Fail
| ing in their attempts to recover lost
ground, Derby was forced to punt to
Kenney-Bailey tackled nicely. Holy
Cross renewed her attacks against the
line and seldom failed to gain thereby
Capt. Thompson of the Gardeners was
| hurt in one of these scrimInageB and
retired from the game. Howe re-
placed him This change effected the
Mount st. James boys plugged away
with an end play and by bucking the
| line until Kenney raced around left
| end for a 16-yard gain and touchdown
after IA minutes Of play During the
rest of the half neither side scored
| though Bailey cleared the bunch and
gained IS yards around right end on a
| crisis cross pass. An attempt at the
other end found McHugh on to the
trick The pigskin was passed back
for a punt. Derby fumbled and Nc
Tigue broke through and captured the
| ball for Holy Cross The half ended
ner goal posts.
! After 10 minutes intermission, Bailey
again manipulated the criss-cross pass
| for gain of Is yards. Conner downed
| him. The ball was slowly propelled
toward Holy Cross goal until Murdoch
and Johnson had some little misunder-
standing as to signals, and the South
Then they played through the Gard
ners for several first downs" but al
length fell six inches short and had tc
surrender the much-sought-for pigskin
Bancroft was caught back three yards
by Monahan, and Common, rushing In
hurled him back three more.
HOLY CROSS. GARDNER A. c.
Monohan, e.........,..........r e, Murray
| McDonough Capt., | t........r t, Cleaves
| W. G. T. Sullivan, g.........r g, Caswel
| McTigue, c.............-.,........c, MurdocH
McQuaid,
! Corners, .....-......,....l I, Thibodeay
| McHugh, r OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES e, Bailey
| Mercer, h b....................,r h b, Mayo
| Kenney, r h b................1 b, Bancroft
| Sullivan, q b....................q b, johnson
| Powers, b..........,.............f b, Derby
Score, Holy Cross 8. Gardner 0; touch.
down, Kenney; goal from touchdown
Kenney. Umpire, M. L. Clark of Gard
ner; referee, M. ]. Thompson: linesmen
j. F. Donnelley of Holy Cross f. L,