The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-06

Georgetown is the only college base
ball team that HAS not vet been beaten.
The Hartford track has been surface
ed and is said to be half second fas-
ter.
Turkey Hill Turtle club has begun
Improvements on the Paxton club
house.
If Worcester keeps on winning two
out of three, it will land the pennant
easily.
The interscholastic league of western
Massachusetts will meet June II, at
Amherst.
Denver will be the Mecca of the
sports till after the Fitzsimmons-Jef-
fries fight.
The New England intercollegiate
meet will be held at the Oval one week
from today
When Yeager hit the triple the
crowd jumped to its feet. For three
games in succession he has made
three-bagger
Many a man that has invested in a so
bicycle thinks the 10 lawn mower will
do while longer.
Umpire Mahoney gave an excellent
impression yesterday. He is all right
on balls and strikes
It is estimated that the $4,000 futuri-
ty Charter COAX Park win call out 700
entries. The lists closed Monday and
will be made public soon.
II guess We'll have a balloon ascen-
sion here today, all right" said SYRIA
cuse player on the bench. The remark
showed that The Spy is read.
The Princeton Gun Club defeated the
University of Pennsylvania team,
breaking 211 out of $50 targets.
Fred Pfeffer thinks that Boston will
again win the pennant. There's moth
ing loose in Fred's thinking tank.
That cannon ball liner which Pitcher
Villman pulled in off Bransfeld's bat
was as swift as a Mauser bullet.
Harry Elkes will have go at the
Ambrose Park record May 20, riding be-
hind Henri Fournier's petroleum motor
tandem.
They are stepping some out in Cali
fornia. Searchlight has put in a nilte
in 2.07 and Agitato has been sent the
route in PIP.
The sale of the Fair grounds, besides
dealing the horseman blow, dealt
bicycle racing in Worcester a solar
plexus Cuieter.
Jimmy Davenport is on the warpath
again, and is anxious to met any 1922
pound man in New England, Mike
Sears preferred.
Manager Leonard will have to cook
UP a deal with some flying machine in
ventor if he is to make that one day
jump successfully.
That left handed running catch Wilder
made of Mazen's fly drive was very
much grandstand, but the crowd
thought it all right.
The umpire couldn't see Linnehan de-
liberately stick out his knee yesterday
and let a slow pitched ball strike him,
thereby getting to first.
Poor playing usually has a reaction
airy effect. Let us hope that will be the
case today and in the future with the
boys at Mount st. James.
Rickert and Frisbee run bases like
startled deer. There's no excuse for
other players loafing when these men
set such good example.
McTigue must be pretty near the
head of the batting list at Holy Cross.
Those home runs of his yesterday were
as pretty as one could desire.
Second crew-Stroke, Endicott, 1856;
7, Lawrence, 175; 6, Blake, 100; 5, Wood,
175; 4, Peyton, 176; 3, Adams, 167; 2,
BlailIie, 166; bow, Martin, 1856.
Guess again, that Smith, mighty
man was he in Wednesdays game.
Wouldn't Hartford welcome the rest of
the team also? Wouldn't it?
All the big bicycle races across the
water are run on Sunday. Major Tay-
lor does not ride on that day and Eu
rope has no attractions for him.
Today there will be a second bulletin
board at the Oval large enough for
Of oil h1f
bulletin will be just as conspicuous as
ever.
Patsey Sweeney is confident he will
defeat Jack Downey of Brooklyn, with
whom he is matched to fight 20 rounds
at the Greenwood Athletic club next
Monday night.
Martin Flaherty fights Oscar Gardner
in New York May IL. Flaherty had the
best of a 20-round draw at Hartford re-
Gently. He has always made a better
showing on his second bout with
man.
The aldermen of Chicago having
failed to receive passes to the league
games, will try to introduce an ordin-
ance at the next meeting to prohibit
base ball on Sunday. Wonder if Wor-
cester aldermen would do anything like
that?
Jimmy Smith, the star little short
fielder who has been playing with
Worcester, did not play in Wednesdays
game. If the little fellow is not fast
enough for that club Hartford will
welcome him with open arms.-Hart-
ford Post.
Jake Shafer is matched to play
George Slosson for the worlds cham
pionship May Is and % at the Lenox
Lyceum, New York, the first night at
1S-inch balk line and the second at
cushion caroms, 900 and 400 points re-
spectively.
Here is the makeup of the Harvard
boats to date: Varsity crew-Stroke,
Harding 1853; Z. Higginson, 1877; 6, Per-
kins, IFS; 5, Tilton, $50; 4, Bancroft $50;
3, Herman, 168; 2. Sheafe, 165; bow,
Hawkins 156.
The special car that carries the visit
ing players from the ball games should
be sent up at the end of the long line
of cars. After every game ten or a
dozen loaded cars are held in line
awaiting the start of the special. The
players are among the last to leave the
grounds, and meanwhile the crowd
waits and says things.
Gil nuIIMr pNIuo