The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-18
SPORTING GOSSIP.
Gems Here and There Condensed for the
Spy Readers.

Gems Here and There Cpndenseo Tor the
Spy Readers.
It's up to the management of the ten
mile road race to hedge or drop.
Williams Juniors defeated the sopho-
mores IA to Yesterday afternoon.
The high school track team will gain
some good athletes after the boat race.
Until we learn who discovered Lajoie,
nobody cares who struck Billy Patterson.
Clancy would be blue ribbon man If
he could locate the plate better than he
does.
Fritz Zaeder is playing first base and
batting in the way his friends predicted
he would.
Worcester's crop of prospective athletic
champions bids fair to equal that of pre-
YiouS years.
The Eyre will be the popular resort this
summer for the local sporting men VINO
follow the pugilists.
1t was a come down for Williams to
sustain defeat from Holy Cross after the
glorious victory over Harvard.
Dyer's one-handed catch of a liner in
the first inning was the warmest thing
that has been seen at Holy cross grounds
for long time.
A handicap scull race with Ned Ten
Eyck, Lewis, Kerns, Meagher, Collamore
and others as entries should furnish some
sport Memorial day.
Admirers of George Bolles, the clever
Worcester boy who will meet Billy Gardi-
ner Memorial day, look for their man to
put up fast battle.
Imported" riders bought to represent
a local club are decidedly unpopular in
this city with clubs who are satisfied with
their own bona fide members.
Holy Cross students Tefrained from yell
ing yesterday and other patrons of the
game were pleased. A little Of that cheer
ing goes a considerable distance.
At some future time a furnished tin cup
win occupy shelf room in the Natural
History rooms, an example of the intrf-
cate workings of the Bugs" mind.
Sockalexis the Indian ball player, vas
arrested IN the Lyceum theatre last night
at Cleveland. He had been indulging in
fire water and was creating disturbance.
On June 8, over the ten-mile course, two
local clubs represented by six riders
apiece, the majority being from outside
Worcester county, will contest for year
~ holding of the tin cup.
A Springfield base ball writer calls at
tention to the fact that men of other
cities occasionally purloin his comments.
Incidentally it might be mentioned that
The Spy suffers the same way.
Capt. Moran of the high school team is
doing some hard training for the inter
scholastic games with an eye to the half
mile record. He has equalled Tom Burke's
great run in the 600 and bids fair to
Hanlon denies the report about the sale
of the Baltimores, and says there is no
likelihood Of such an event He expects
the team to clear over $50, 900 this season.
He says he has been asked to confer with
regard to the sale Of the club, but as yet
has not communicated with any one.
We forgot that Worcester was only in
the amateur class in base ball up to three
weeks ago and therefore heard nothing
Of what was going on in the big profess
sional field outside.-LSpringtield Union
Are you not forgetting again? Worcester
was in the National League before they
learned in Springfield that ''patchin's 5"
was no longer ont.
The New York Division of the L. A. W.
has taken up the agitation for cycle
path across the Brooklyn bridge. Thou
sands of wheelmen cross the great bridge
every day, and they have to take danger
Gus chances with all other kinds of vehi-
cles. The roadway has been narrowed
the trolleys, and now it is a very hard
undertaking to get across the bridge. 1t
is proposed to build a path above the
wagon-way, and for this the Division win
give its support.
The London Cyclist says of Linton
Tom Linton Is riding better than ever
and is APPARENTLY well suited wpith the
new mode of pacing 1t is the opinion of
many that he will be one. if not the one,
of the cracks who will be able to wrest
can, Elkes With a clear track, electric
pacing and favorable weather, Linton
should put up score for the hour that
would take some beating" 1t has APP
parently not yet penetrated to England
that the Americans have motor pace and
that such ridet-s as Elkes and McDuffee
are still riding
Capt. Tebea.u took a trip to Utica a
few days ago to see Mike Griffin: HE
has no use for the Brooklyn people" says
Tebeau. ''HB wants to get even with
them. 1t is not the money question that
Is bothering h i'm. He was promised the
captaincy. Once there was talk of his not
being with the Brooklyn team. Then the
Brooklyn people renewed their promise
to him. Everything was, as he supposed,
fixed for him to captain the team. He
never knew that they were negotiating
for his sale Until he received notice Sat
urday night that he had been sold to us
and for him to report to me on Monday
for practice. He thought this was a case
of snap judgment He was very sore when
he found that Robson had paid the
money over to the Brooklynsclub for his
release. Griffin is in a cheerful frame Of
mind He hats been doing some work, and
can on a few days notice be in good con-
dition to pls.y ball Some time ago I Of
fered him 4 bout $500 more than we are
having any. of our players if he would
sign. Yesterday he told me that he
wasn't carin q anything about the money.
TO show you that money is not what is
keeping me out said Griffin, III agree
with you that if l sign at all I'll sign for
the same money you are paying Jesse
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