The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-02

yeg This is the time TO support the
Yeager tried it on second yesterday
and made three-errors; not hits.
Throw off little of that dead ballast
and let the base ball balloon go UP.
Amos Kubic of Springfield was
fayorite with the crowd because he full
filled his promise.
The fable of the hare and the tortoise
was demonstrated yesterday, when
Kubic beat Lewis.
Rumor has it that Leonard's men keep
late hours. Their latchkeys should be
taken away from them.
Possibly the discharge of one or two of
the star men, the Indispensable
members, might help some
It's good thing that Leonard's hired
men have come home to Massachusetts,
where the day ends at IL .. m.
John j. Quinn steered an admirable
race yesterday, and did the proper thing
by refusing 10 leave his own waters.
The last of the fishermen have returned
from the Maine lakes, and j. Russell Mar
BILE still holds the record of the season.
Well, there was some good racing and
the regatta did WELL in spite of the fail
ure of out of town oarsmen to attend.
Zimmerman is dissatisH with the re-
suit of his race with EL-e Bald, and it
| is very likely they will get on another
match
Joe DoWney Is looking Tor matches
with EllSes, Pierce or any other first
rater, at any track Offering a purse for
a race.
Now let the fans get together and sup
| port the Worcesters. The time team
needs Encouragement is when it is on
| the toboggan.
for the gander The Saucemakers will
demonstrate this maxim today by even
| ing up some old scores.
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good place in which to play ball, as one
can save money, there being no place to
spend it.-Boston Globe.
If the fans want to see the Worcesters
win, they ought to get TO the games and
root stronger than they did when the
team had a winning streak.
Take the teams that are losing in any
of the leagues, and on inquiring the req
son, it will generally be found that there
is laXity of discipline somewhere.
streak, but there's an end to such. a
MES that the Worcesters are that.
The announcement in detail of the New
England breeders meeting in Boston,
which is perhaps the greatest horse event
of the east, will be made this week.
Baby Strathmore starts at Holyol1e this
week. If she turns the trick as neatly
as she did at Mer1den, the talent will
begin to pursue the trail of the little
PAGER.
Shade On, 2:1O, winner at Cleveland the
other day broke his leg when weanling
and 1t was not believed he could ever be
campaigned, even with the, best of care
He goes as sound as a dollar.
There is scarcely a horse race summary
printed these days where local followers
of the sport can not find one or more
familiar names Of Worcester horse
The grand circuit races are the only ex-
ceptions.
Tba Came ProtectiH,e +ion Is
putting out $50 Monaghan pheasants m
Worcester county covers and proposes
to make it exceedingly warm for any
shooter who kills one of the birds con-
trary to law.
Barclay, the Rochester player who frac-
tured Cassidy's rib, is the one who frac-
tured Cars nose in collision at Wor-
cester. Both were wholly UNNECESSARY
Providence Journal.
George Orion, the New York A. C.
crack is doing well in England. He ran
in the Essex County Cricket and Ath-
ished second from scratch in the one
half mile steeplechase.
The three-in-five system of harness
racing has its supporters, in spite of the
fact that the Empire City track will open
short races will clinch the argument for
or against the two-in-three plan.
Chehalis, by tripping on the track at
Cleveland, presented another to add to
the long list of arguments against the
hopples. And yet many of the track
ignore the edict of the trotting associa-
ton and allow the unsightly straps.
1t is neither fulsome praise nor for
getfulness of the past that causes the
assertion that ball player never did
better at Union Park than Fultz in the
last two days. He played left field in
the first contest yesterday and first base
in the second game.-Baltimore Sun, Sat
urday.
Says Champion Jim Jeffries: II want
to correct some stories that have been
floating around about my father. 1t has
been said that he would like to see me
licked That Is a mistake. l met him In
Frisco when / went home and we rode
that he was glad that I was the cham
pion JIM he says, 1T gives me pleas
ure to know that you are the best in your
business he says.
For the first time Scotland has won
the annual games with Ireland. ireland
lost through an accident to Newburn, the
broad jumper. He won the 100-yard dash,
but In running for the take-off in the
broad jump his leg gave out and the
best he could. do was q feet. The event
inches Newhurn holds tho Europeans
record of "a feet X Inch, and has bettered
this in practice. He was one of the men
slated for the Irish team that was to
have visited America this year.
Since the departure of Frisbee, worces-
ter has lost some ground In the Eastern
League. This shows that borrowed
player Is the worst possible article to
have in z team under any circumstances
"a losing venture from any standpoint,
unless his services can be commanded
for an entire season. There is no telling
when borrowed player May be taken
away. This may occur when he Is most
needed. as In the case Of Frisbee. Boston