The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-09

any license to get after the dizzy plover
this week, when the law goes off.
Track Team Powers is the way ].
Fred Powers of this city is referred to
now. He's a whole track team in him
self,
compete at Springfield week from We'd
nesday, in the big bicycle meet in that
city.
Forehand and Griffith are still wide
apart, and there is little chance that the
match race at 100 birds will be brought
about. r. r. - -
Charles Marston has sold out his stock
in the Worcester club.-Boston Globe. To
whom Springfield Union. To Frank j.
Leonard.
Jimmy Ryan, the Clinton boy isn't a
youngster, but he is playing brilliant ball
for Chicago. Jimmy has outlived whole
drove of colts.
Homing Pigeon Association was post
poned yesterday on account of the threat
ening weather.
Umpires ODay and McGarr are said to
indulge in almost daily scraps on the
field McGarr claims that O'Day is alto
gether too officious.
The talk of the suspension of Carni and
Hepworth of the Centurys is utterly with
out foundation, as both men are regis
tered Ia the l.. A. w.
e. c. Griffith, the Pascoag shot evil
IDENTIFY does not intend to follow his hand.
Charlie Forehand's deposit to bind a
match is still uncovered
During one Of the ST. Louis Baltimore
games last week Burkett was taken out of
the game by Manager Tebeau for palpa-
BILE MISUNDERSTANDING Life.
When Lampe pitches, Kuhns gets the
brunt of infed work. Lampe pitches what
Kuhns calls a "dink' ball, which bats
men bat on the ground to short or third
The Englishmen can stand Howell's
victory because he is an Anglonized
American, but when an American-Ameri-
can like Ten Eyck wins, the bars are
drawn
Burkett and Wallace have been singled
out as principal objects for the roasting
crowd in St. Louis. They We're prime ia
yorites when the team located in the
Mound City early in the season.
The Boston Globe of yesterday said:
"Frisbee handled himself like winner in
practice before the game" That is good
praise, coming from the Globe, which did
not take to Frisbee at the outset.
Major Taylor did enter and did not
connections for that place, He is not
likely to be suspended for an act over
which he had no power to avertA
Manager Selee thinks the present condi-
ton, of the Boston team is due. to the
pitchers. When they round up in form
the team will strike its proper gait and
the pennant will again fly in Beantown
This weeks Worcester Athlete is one of
the breeziest numbers since the bright
little sheet was started. 1t contains va
riety of sporting matter, neatly dressed,
and is up To date in the selection Of its
matter.
There is room for a sound. well-con-
Quoted athletic club in Worcester. A city
with so many champions should give
them encouragement and back them with
q strong treasury. 10 would advertise
the city.
The next event between Americans and
Englishmen is the dual athletic meet be-
tween university athletes, and although it
takes place on the grounds of the English
men, people of this country have no fears
of the outcome.
Whether F. H. Bigelow's attempt to get
Boston and Philadelphia at the oval can
succeed is doubtful. There is rule in
the league that forbids exhibition games
during the championship season. It has
been broken in the west, however
Joe Flaherty is back in town. looking
none the worse for his defeat by Patsy
Sweeney, and Joe Is even more confident
peat the trick. If he fought as he in
tended, he would have secured a draw
with Sweeney.
Boston has played "A games away from
home and only "a at home. In figuring
out the winner In the big league this fact
should not be lost sight of. The team
stands well for a team that has played
nearly two-thtrds of its games on oppo-
nents' diamonds.
Walters, Of Providence, has Harring-
ton of Springfield's trick of swinging
two bats before 1t Is his turn to bat, This
stunt is copyrighted, and Joe should app
ply for an injunction.-Toronto Mail. Get
up with the pace, there. Harrington
plays with Worcester.
Ned Ten Eyck shows what good stuff
there Is in him by continuing conscien-
tious training, although scullers of both
worlds fear to measure blades with him.
The Wachusett young man can regard 1t
as the greatest compliment ever given
an athlete, when even men in his class
acknowledge his superiority.
Paddy d. was responsible for the loss of
some good Worcester dollars in the race
at Hartford Friday, The horse should
not have been started after his hard race
and why he sold over the field at
case of the short end winning. This is i'm
deed great short end year.
1t doesn't do for ball player to suffer
an enlargement of the head . An Instance
Of that occurred In Springfield, when
Gleason thought he could injure the team
by jumping. He couldn't have helped
the team more, no matter what he did.
Walter Curley Is playing as Gleason
never can, and Gleason is under suspen-
sion.
; 4 New York dispatch. says that A. A.
and Z. G. Bald have been
matched in mile heats, best two in three,
for $1,000, race to be riden at Vailsburg
~ j., July %. Zimmerman is in good
form and believes he can defeat the
Bison. he. once promised Bald that, II
ne returned to the track, Bald should
have the first match with him.
Nearly every member of the Boston
team Ia complaining Of the long season
they say that six games each week