The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-16
SPORTING NOTES.

NoW llley I6 gaining our team an I'M
| ported one.
Worcester has taken all the chirp out Of
| the Blackbirds.
-Four out. of five away from home is
pretty good Ha?
The high school crew found it more
play than work rowing in yesterdays
shower.
Gold Standard won the 2:2O trot at
| Ithaca, Wednesday. Gold Standard al
ways wins.
Jeffries and Sharkey will meet Septem-
| Der %; After that evening Sharkey will
go back to sailoring again.
Mcfarland has ridden himself into a
nest egg of 1896 this season. He tops the
outlaws by several hundred.
The Shamrock will race the Britannia
in her trials before coming here to try
conclusions with the Columbia.
Springfield fans ought never to say any
thing against the Worcesters for trounc-
ing Hartford as they have done.
Worcester's representation at the, New
England championships won't be large,
but some of them will be heard from.
Syracuse and Cleveland are again tied,
with nine wins each. 1t took more than
a week for Syracuse to break the last
If the Worcesters continue their work
of the present trip, Montreal and Toronto
are due for a drop in percentage next
week.
Jimmy Casey can be depended upon to
cut into the New York Boston record If
he gets up behind the pace of a motor
cycle.
Mcbride has issued a call to Yale foot
ball men for summer practice, Evidently
Yale intends Harvard shall not do it
again.
1t looks as though Burns was a sure
enough handicap. Since he was left at
Springfield the Farmers have not lost
game.
It's an open question if bicycle rider
who rides over 1000 miles without rest or
sleep, isn't fit subject for the funny
house.
Speaking of umpires, not even the great
Tim Hurst umpired a better game than
M. A. O'Rourke did at Holy Cross We'd
nesday.
The New England League papers COM
pliment umpires for their excellent work.
is so different in the Eastern League in
some instances.
Jim Smith, formerly of the Worcesters,
is doing great hitting for the Portland
New England League team, He got
three Wednesday.
Sunday racing will injure the n. c. A.
more than anything else. The league has
already begun to feel the benefits of de-
claring against it.
1t would be well to strengthen the team
while it's winning. Another pitcher is
needed to insure against wearing out the
men now tWirling.
Manager Selee's visit to Hartford We'd
nesday caused CONSERVATION among the
guessers, and prophets yesterday were as
thick as whiskers on populists chin.
There's something wrong at Cambridge
when such good coach as O'Dea has to
retire. The Wisconsin man says there is
an immense amount of material at Har-
ward.
The way Major Taylor is moving along
at Charles River Park is a guarantee
that the final outcome of the McDuftie
match will be favorable to the Worcester
rider.
Walters Of Providence and Frisbee of
Worcester are the first Eastern League
players to pass the half-century mark
in hitting. Each got his so hits last
week.
The leaders in the Eastern League can
attribute their standing to the fact that
they met Hartford and Syracuse when
these teams were in their weakest con-
dition.
Tod Sloan isn't riding so many winners
now. Its great compliment to his rid
ing to be copied by all the English
jockeys, and that is the reason of their
success against him.
Ten Eyck is training; Lewis and Kerns
are going fast; the high school and
Wachusett crews are going fast. Pros
hole in a ladder take notice.
The Associated Cycle Clubs, the Yer
mons or the Casey brothers will not be
gamers by entering into controversy
in regard to the respective abilities of
either one or the other in any particular
line. -.. .-- N~ g ~
Fitz might as well take on Mccoy. He
thinks Jeffries may give nm announcer
chance. After what he told Corbett at
Carson City the probability Is Brady
won't let Jenries take on the Kangaroo
again.
There will be a great competition
for the all-round championship when
Kraenzlein and ]. Fred Powers meet IN
New York. What KraenZlein wins in the
running events, Powers ought to make up
in the field events.
Tom Smith of South Boston is pitching
for Newport Great is the fall of Tom,
who gave such promise at Holy Cross
several years ago, but who, listened to
fairly made a name for himself.
Mike Morrissey, the Irish pugilist, wants
to get at Jeffries. How much business
Morrissey has with him will be more APP
parent after Tuesday evening, when he
meets Peter Maher. If he can't whip Ma
her in a minute he'd better wear armor
plate when he meets Jeffries
Most of the league catchers work the
signals from within the shadow of the
knee and the big mitt, so that they are
exposed for the gaze of the pitcher alone
and cannot be seen from the coaching
boxes 1t is claimed that many, how
eyer. work the eyes for the in and out
changes on either side of the central wire
of the mask The straight ball is head on
or no signal at all except nod possibly. 81
II will never do for Mr.. Powers, presi-
dent of the Eastern League, to send
Burns to this city again. He'll get
what's coming to him If he umpires at
the oval Worcester Spy. Never mind,
Hartford wants him, and President Pat
will always have a place to send him
when the kicks get too strong elsewhere.
Springfield Union. But, how about
Burns? There may be worse places 10
go to than Hartford, but nobody has yet
discovered them.
Not one of the champions ever takes
doze during the game Hustling Mr.. ZEN
new will allow no such nonsense, says a
writer in the New York Evening journal.
In the lead of trailing, Tepney IS contln-
uallY at his fellows with encouraging
shouts and applications of verbal ginger.
That is why the BostOns pull so many
games out of the fire. Luck it is called
by some but it is yale luck winch IS
only another name for pluck gameness
and energy in the face of defeat, as every
athlete. amateur or professional knows.
Manager SeIee left the team in charge
of Can't Duffy today and went up TO
Hartford to see the Worcester-Harttord
game. Mr. Selee will keep sharp eye on
the work of Frisbee and kuhns OF the
Worcester team, as they are under con-
tract 10 Boston, and simply farmed out
to Worcester. Now that there Is con-
siderable doubt about Hamilton s return
ING 10 the team Manager Selea has about
made up his mind to get new man for
the outfield and ii may be trlsbie. as ne
Is reported as doing fine all-round work
BOSTON Globe. Maybe that S so and may
be it isn't. Put the accent on the ism t.