The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-12
TRAINING HARD.
Doctors and Lawyers
Getting Into Fine
Condition.
JOHN R. THAYER ON WAR PATH.
Players Who Are to Line
Up in the Great Con-
test For Charity.
JOHN R. THAYER ON WAR PATH.

Details for the doctors lawyers ball
game are fast nearing completion ard
the onlooker who imagines that the
professional men are laying back in the
traces waiting for all kinds of success
to perch on the treasury Friday, is ire
mendously deceived.
All kinds of practice is being done by
way of conditioning for the struggle
and candidates for the two teams are
doing training the like of which seldom
falls to the lot of amateurs.
Congressman John R. Thayer is en-
the warpath in the heat of campaign
and his methods of doing business IS
beginning to solve the mystery Of how
he did things last fall. He is cut for
charity and is cutting a wide swath.
By personal solicitation and by dint
of hard work he has sold over 100 tick
cts for the game and lucky the nan
that escapes his eagle~,eye. He button
holes everyone and with all the elc-
Guence at his command receives con-
tributions in return for the little strips
Of pasteboards, at a record rate.
Tickets for reserved seats went on
sale yesterday and had scarcely been
displayed before 200 of them passed in
to the hands of purchasers. The city
has volunteered the use of it's chairs
and these will be placed arour1 the
track to accommodate the crowd which
is expected. Friends of st. Vincent s
hospital are selling tickets fast and the
soldiers have been enlisted in the Gauss
to the tune of at least 1000 tickets,
while the police force will sell at least
a like number.
There was meeting of the manage
ment in the office of H. Spencer Haskell
yesterday noon, and reports showed
everything on the move. The Consoli-
dated railway has volunteered the SER
vices of Battery B band. A check was
received from Barnard, Sumner & Put
nam Co., paying for $50 tickets. Contri-
buttons of peanuts, cocoanut cakes, red
lemonade, fans, cigars and soft drinks,
together with all manner of small but
essential incidentals are coming in fast
and are keeping the committees onSthe
move to escape the avalanche.
James F. McGovern, who superintends
the cigars has apparently received the
total supply of weeds that was left over
after the depression of Sunday and has
received donations from Rawson &
Simpson, A. T. Shaw, w. S. Flint, o. P
Shattuck, NJ. P. Waite, c. D. Costello
and Henry L. Green. Other dealers will
be visited
IHt MAKE up OIL the lWO l6etIlS was
announced last night. Webster Thayel
in his short sleeved jersey will be or
hand and afoot as captain to keep the
umpire in an argument, and DR.. E. H
Trowbridge will captain the doctors
The batting order OF. the teams follows
Doctors: F. H. Baker, I'd b.; H. w
Cronin, LIST b.; J. w. McKeon, l. f..
J. Rafferty,, c.; A. C. N. Peterson, T. f.
E. H. Trewbridge, S. s.; w. c. Mackie
Sd b.; R. w. Swan, c. IF. A. Under
wood, p, w. ]. Ryan, p. Substitutes
| G. B. Stevens, r. P. Watkins and ]. j
| Brennan.
Lawyers: Sullivan, p; Stewart, C.
Thayer, I'd b.; Jandron, r. f.; SAKE, Sc
/ b.; Tatman. S. s.; Parker, eff; Sibley
1st b.; Washburn, |. f. Substitutes, Has
kell, Dennison and Potter.
The doctors We're invited over u
Marlboro to see the game today between
the doctors and merchants of that place
| but they are unable to go, as the!
practice this afternoon ON the Holy
Cross grounds. A game between the
Marlboro and Worcester doctors ha'
been suggested, whatever the result o.
the game in this city.