The Worcester spy., 1899-06-23

on balls, allowing George to walk to
second. Brother Tom hit a fly to
Sharrott, on which George took third.
The ball was thrown there, getting past
Kuhns. Horton was on hand and got
it. Duggleby started for second,
which Horton quickly perceived. He
drew back to throw to second and let
go with all his might. Just as he did
so, George Bannon gave him the shoul-
der, and the ball went wide of Yeager
rolling out toward the right field fence.
Bannon had no trouble scoring.
Duggleby kept going and tried to make
the plate, as his run would tie the score.
Lampe got the ball back to Carr and
the latter threw to Bransfield who
caught Duggleby yards away. Several
Montreal players hustled in about
Bransfield to block the throw or make
him muff but he held on and shook his
hand triumphantly at Duggleby after
tagging him out. Umpire Gruber didn't
see the interference of George BannOn
and the trick would have worked nicely
but for the quick return of the ball from
right.
The Worcester team, weakened by
the drafting of Frisbie and Leach, was
still further weakened by McQuaid's in
ability to play. He was hit in the hand
by pitched ball the day previous and
could not field yesterday. Yeager was
put at second Bransfield got behind
the bat. Yeager had little to do and
had the good luck to get nice bounding
grounders.
Harrington played a magnificent
game at short. He got several hard
balls to field. and handled them finely.
He missed one, tough proposition
that bounded through him. His batting
was one of the features of the game
also.
Bransfeld caught an excellent game,
but his stick work was the best feature
of the entire contest. 1t was he who
started the ball rolling in the sixth
inning, when the Worcesters won the
game, and it was his home run in the
following inning that put the clincher
on.
Kuhns came near losing the game.
He lost the gauge of first base and
made two bad throws early in the
game, to which Montreaps runs were
directly due. He settled down, how
ever, and played an excellent game af-
terward.
Montreal put up a great fielding con-
test, making two errors only but the
one Johnson made cost dearly. 1t could
not have happened at better time for
Worcester.
Horton pitched a good game, but was
a trifle wild at times. His Wildness
made things easy for Montreal. They
couldn't hit him to any extent, and
wouldn't have scored at all when they
did with anything like ball playing. In
the three innings in which they scored
four runs they got only one single each
inning Worcester couldn't do much
! with Duggleby either. They kept lift
ing the ball into the air during the ear
ly stages of the contest. In the sixth
they punched four hits in quick sue
cession, including a double by Yeager.
Duggleby had good speed, and was un-
usually steady, giving Worcester no
chances but what they took by force.
Harrington caught the crowd at the
start.by fielding out the first three men
Montreal sent to the bat. The visit
ors drew first blood, scoring in the Sec
Ond. Dooley hit to Kuhns and got sec
ond on a throw over Carr's head. Shar-
on's single, which got past Lampe,
scored him. In the following inning,
with two out, Kuhns made another wild
! throw, and Scheibeck got as far as sec
ond. A wild pitch gave him third.
Dooley was given his base on balls and
started for second. Bransfield threw
down, and Scheibeck came home, Yea
ger making the mistake of throwing
home when he should have got Doc
| ley at, second and ended the inning.
| Dooley scored.
With a lead of three to nothing facing
| them Worcesters won out in the sixth,
| After Kuhns was put out Bransfield
| hit a grounder that Schiebeck couldn't
| field. Carr lifted a fly to right field
| just out of Shearon's hands. Yeager
| slammed the ball to the right field fence
and Bransfeld scored, Carr taking third
and Yeager second. Rickert hit a
grounder to Johnson who was kind
enough to tumble and Carr scored
| Yeager moving up. Rickert stole sec
| ond. Lampe went out at first, Henry
assisting and Carr scored on the play,
| Rickert making third. Harrington
| drove one past johnson and Rickert
| scored the fourth run for Worcester.
With two men out in the following inn
| ing .Bransfeld lifted the ball over the
| right field fence.
There was one out in the ninth when
| George Bannon hit liner to centre.
| Duggleby got a base on balls. T.
| Bannon flied to Sharrott, G. Bannon
making third on the out Horton threw
the ball wildly to second, thinking to
head off Duggleby when he tried for
that base, and George Bannon scored.
Duggleby tried to make the plate, but
I,ampe returned the ball to Carr, and
| the latter turned it over to Bransfield
! in good season to shut off Duggleby
from scoring the run that would tie.