The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-23
SPORTING NOTES.

The Prince of Wales is a hoodoo.
If we only had Leach back again.
Talk about your merry go-rounds.
A prettier pennant race was never seen.
If Kraenzlein and Powers had only been
there.
A shakeup in the inheld will be in order
shortly.
Horton was farmed out yesterday to
Southbridge.
Griffin is fast enough for any Eastern
League team.
websterites couldn't fathom Horizons
funny twlsters
The Hartfords play ball every single
blessed minute.
The "brother-in-law" made bunch of
errors yesterday
Kloby evidently is a scrapper. Wait till
Rochester gets here.
Sharrott got lost in the sun in the first
fly that came his way.
The nerve OLoughlin displayed was
worthy of admiration
Who will be king week from today
Mcguire or Ten Eyck?
Horton was the real thing in the
Southbridge-W Webster game.
The fans thoroughly enjoyed the con-
test altho' things went against them.
The Britishers are getting the consola-
ton for their destined yachting defeat.
The crowd blamed the umpire, but the
game would have been lost just the same.
McQuaid is usually reliable man, but
he couldn't play his regular game yes
terday.
Burke was beaten. The English sport
ing papers will now pronounce MIN bona
fide amateur
1t looks rosy for a victory for Lewis at
Boston this week Kerns' chances to win,
too, look strong.
The wardens who have been looking for
understood Holsters should have been at
the oval yesterday.
C. S. Titus of New Orleans is added to
the list of entries in the Quinsigamond in
ternational regatta.
Miller is not such a bad proposition,
after all. Others have been hit the same
as he was yesterday.
1t required only starter for the crowd
to make a demonstration against
O'Loughlin yesterday.
The change in dates for the Quinsiga-
mond regatta was wise move, as the In
crease in entries proves
Ten Eyck Mcguire Whitehead, Lewis,
Juvenal, Kubic, Titus and Kerns make a
strong octet for one event.
University of Pennsylvania athletes are
sorry, but they are chuckling just the
same and thinking If -"
The chief Holy Cross pitcher is wise
when he decides not to play professional
| ball for the present at least.
SILK O'Loughlin did well in his first
two games of the series just closed, but
his work yesterday was fierce.
o'Loughlin will have his troubles if he
! umpires in this city again and does as
poor a job as he did yesterday.
| It gratifes the patriotic American to
hear that Paget-Tomllnson that hyphen-
ated aristocrat, got badly beaten.
! The Hurley Stars challenge the Temple
| Stars for a game of base ball Monday
morning at O'clock, at Crompton Park.
Burns pork-packing Orphans have
struck protracted losing. streak at last,
and President Hart is anxiously inquiring
the cause.
No more games in Worcester for a
week. Here's hoping there Will be no
more like yesterdays for the remainder
of the season.
Tom Sullivan made queer sight on
Main street yesterday afternoon in base
ball toys Tom didn't play on the win
ming team either,
Men who are used to running on cinder
tracks from right to left find it difficult
running over the stubole OF hayneld IN
the opposite direction.
Klobedanz told O'Loughlin the crowd
was liable to get after him. The umpire
replied that he expected that and was
ready to jump the fence,
The national regatta will close Satur-
many dollars richer or poorer as result
of the championship single sculls
There is only one entry in the double
and four-oared events of the. Quinsiga-
mond regatta. Unless there is at least
one more in each, the events will be
scratched.
That mile made by c. Wallace Liberty
of the Newport Bicycle Club of this city
in the Gardner races was gilt-edged. lie
cut off three seconds from the novice
track record.
Miller showed up well for the first home
game, even If he was hit exceptionally
hard. He put the ball over the plate, and
that Is what pitcher is hired for. He
won't be hit that way much, even If he
puts the ball plumb over all the time
Worcester won everything in sight in
the half-mile handicap races at Gardner
yesterday-hrst, second, third and fourth
was the standing of the Worcester men
in the first heat Of this event. In the
finals Worcester men won the three
prizes.
Nobody believes that pipe dream about
Worcester going into bigger league. The
EasNmrn League is good enough. Where
Springfield or such an entertaining aggre-i
CATION of pugilistic comedians as Roch-
ester puts In the field
Klobedanz got it in the neck for $40
yesterday and was put out Of the game
at that. The strike on which he kicked
would vex a saint, as II was six inches
wide. O'Loughlin missed a good ball
just before, calling the strike. and tried
to square himself. That is not umpiring
There should hereafter be an all Ameri-
can team comprising the cream of all the
American institutions to represent this
country in the competitions with Eng
land. Both Cambridge and oxford uni
versities are made up of over 20 colleges
each, That gives the English a wider range
Of choice.