The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-09

| George Russell and Frederick Bucklin
| took another crack at the upland ployer
yesterday.
1t would mean many dollars to Worces-
ter merchants If a firSt-class board track
was built in this city to accommodate the
| fast riders.
| The speedy trio that will be picked to
represent the Vernon Bicycle Club at the
| Chelsea bicycle races is a team that will.
prove winners.
Dolan, Lajoie's substitute is way down
next to last place in the batting list. A
| man is hardly a substitute for Lajoie
that is down that far.
Tim Lucier ought to have known better
Ghippy is a great horse in the hands Of
Walter Warren, and has turned the old
fair grounds close TO 220
Six additions at once is a big addition
to any team, and betokens slaughter and
falling heads The Star team must re-
semble a shambles these days.
The major is a red-hot favorite up
north. He Is making friends every day.
and the newspapers do not seem to grow
tired commenting on his wonderful per-
formances.
The Readvle grand circuit meeting,
which begins Aug. Il, will bring the east
and west together in good shape. The
meeting opens with the 200 New Eng
land futurity stake.
President Powers action in declaring
void the second Observation-Disclosures game
scheduled brings the leaders a little clos
err to reaching distance.
Build board track In this city similar
to that III Woodside, Philadelphia. and the
local hotels would not be big enough to
accommodate the bicycle riders that
would compete on the track.
The gap between Boston and Brooklyn
is so narrow that it can and will be
eaters are playing a. steadier game than
the erstwhAe trolley dodgers.
GARDENERS work In his finishing game
with the team was brilliant. Two two
baggers single and a clean record in
the field is good for released man He
is far from being a has-been.
Look out for Syracuse next year. The
handicap is too big for this season, but
they may run amuck among the other
clubs ON the circuit and make trouble be-
fore the season end for all that.
Jim Stafford did well in Longs shoes
yesterday. Two runs, two hits one a
home run, and five chances accepted with
out an error doesn't look as though Selee
win let go the string on the Webster man.
The horse race at Quinsigamond park
yesterday afternoon proved that followers
OF the sport are hungry to see the horses
go for the money There was a cracking
changed hands.
The back stretch of the old Full Moon
track, where the road sinks beneath the
shelter of the shrubbery out of sight of
eANo JAHdoS 9toANf - . 5Oo0 pave " Iutl
and catch up. and 1t is rumored that at
least one of the drivers yesterday after
noon was acquainted with the game.
Here is what Montreal newspaper has
to say of the Worcester lad and the work
he has been astonishing them with: Ma
jor" Taylors wonderful mile made in
Chicago last week, Is likely to be dupli-
Gated at the worlds cycling champion
ship meet In Montreal, which began yes
terday. A dispatch from the colored rid
or says that under the same conditions
and with the same sort of pacing he can
repeat the trick He will have The same
pacing in Montreal and he will have the
additional advantage of daylight and a
fast track. He is looked for now to do
the distance in 1.20, and this Is not at ali
out of the way considering the wonderful
speed of the man and the improvement III
conditions which he will meet in Mont
real. When the Butler boys smashed
records there they did it by electric light
and were surprised when the time was
called out. 1t was the fastest track they
had ever ridden on, but they were unani-
mously of the opinion that daylight would
have been worth two seconds in the mile
Taylor is of the same opinion, and says he
Is anxious to get q try at the Queens
park track, for he feels he can reduce his
Chicago mark by a notch or two When
II is taken into consideration that TAYLOR
made his 122 as without wind shields or
other protection, his performance is mar
vellous; and then, when 1t Is taken into
consideration that the fencing at the
Queens park is high enough to serve as a
protection from the wind, 1t is possible
that he will beat his own record.