The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-10
closing the game with the score tie.

closing the game with the score a tie,
10 to TO-
The series now stands tie, each
town having won two games, with one
tie game. At Beacon park Saturday,
the rubber game will be played, and
Webster confidently expects to defeat
anything Southbridge can bring forth
The game will be for blood, and will
be worth going miles to see. Beacon
park probably will have the largest
crowd ever seen inside the inclosure;
1000 or more people will surely attend.
After Saturdays game, a second Sc
ries of three games will be played.
Webster has played IA games this
season, winning 10 and losing 8,
with one tie game, percentage of VIC
tories of 1893
Webster has won from East Doug
las, 1910, 1910, 5-3; Southbridge 14-6
GA; Clinton 1872, 1876; Marlboro SO;
Willimantic 14-7; Carriers of Franklin
1874. The first game of the season was
lest to East Douglas, SO, before the
team was fully made up; Southbridge
won two games, Az, with Griffin i'll the
box; 3-2, with Horton pitching.
Opposing pitchers enjoy a good rep
utation for skill until they go up
against the Websters. The team has
put several good ones out of the bust
ness. Viau and Summersgill of East
Douglas were touched up for II hits
with a total Of 81 bases in the IA TO 10
game; 21 with a total of SO in the 16
TO game; Callahan of the Pawtucket
New England league team in the
Southbridge Fourth of July morning
game for II with a total of 81 bases;
Griffin of Southbridge in the afternoon
game, for 10, with a total of 49,; Morse
and Deininger of the Carriers of Frank
lin, for 20 hits, with total Of Is bases;
Hickman was knocked out of the box
in Southbridge Saturday and Mahoney
substituted, and Webster made him
look like a cheap selling platter before
the game was called.
Webster has had the services Of Hor-
ton of the Worcester Eastern League
team in two games, he winning both,
one against East Douglas, 16 to 0, and
the other from Southbridge, 6 to A.
The sports raised a purse of some
thing like $50 for him. "Herky- Jerky''
says base ball in the county towns is
great stuff; all you have to do is to
pitch and win few games, and you
! need not worry about the winter You
will then have money enough to see
you through
Sanders has pitched nine games.
winning six, with one tie. Both games
We're lost to Southbridge, the scores be-
ing to 2 and 3 to 2, the to 2 game
| requiring 10 innings to decide it.
He played this year with Cornell
University up to the close of the col
lege season. and was a winner, too,
| joining the Webster team soon after
the college season closed He is cool
headed chap, with fine curves and
change of pace, and never gets rat
! tied
Billy Merritt, the catcher one of the
very best in the business today, has
had.a somewhat varied career He has
played with Holy Cross College, Lowell,
Boston, Chicago and Pittsburg Ma
| tional League teams, and was pur-
! chased from Pittsburg by Manager
Manning of Kansas City for $780, Mer-
rift notified Manning that he would not
| go there, but the manager said he
would buy him anyway and offered
him big money to captain the team. For
some reason or other ball players take
great dislike to Kansas City. So Billy
is kept out from playing professional
bali He has caught the fans in town
in great shape, and is in the game
from start to finish. His throwing to
bases is perfection, having caught IL
pilferers. To his individual work much
of the success of the team is due
First baseman Brennan and short