The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-12
SPORTING NOTES.

Worcester sportsman's. Club tourna-
ment today at Sportsman's Club park
Jake Wells is likely to succeed Arthur
Irwin as manager of the Washingtons
next season.
There is talk of any number of match
of the month.
Fultz of the Baltimores is to play foot
ball with the Duquesne A. c. of Pitts
burg next season.
One hundred dollars is hung up in
prizes at the all-day tournament at the
North pond traps today.
Local horsemen are anxious to see Ru-
benstein's performance in the 2.04 pace.
The bay stallion is likely animal.
Worcester will be as famous in football
as in baseball, although it will have no
team among the cracks like the ball team
was.
Joe Kelley missed his first game of the
season last week. Hugh Jennings acts
as captain while Kelley is out of the
game.
Clinton fair will be the famous family of
blue bloods shown by Gen. Charles w.
Wood.
The professional sculling race is a GER
tainty now. Durham having signed the
articles, and they will row at the lake If
the ice does not form before the time.
Manager Leonard's last official act in
Worcester was a corker. Fifteen minutes
before train time he obtained the sigma
ture of Klobedanz to a Worcester con-
tract.
Jess Burkett leads the league hitters
with an average of 400 in 104 games. Del
ehanty is next with 400 and Keller
stands third among the actual leaders
with 1892.
S. A. Topper of Meriden, CT, will be a
new face at the Sportsman's Club tour
nament today. He is one of the good
| ones. but has not appeared at the Wor-
| cester traps for some years.
If the Associated Cycle clubs wait for
the completion of the fair grounds track
TO hold the next racing meet, it looks
from the outside as if the races must be
with toboggan accompaniment.
The IA games between Boston and
Brooklyn this season have attracted close
TO 10000 people which is conclusive proof
that considerable love for the old game
is still felt in Boston and Brooklyn.
Many local trapshooters will go down
bird race between Wheeler and Griffith,
and incidentally take crack at the big
money which is offered in the sweeps
The Philadelphia players have all re-
gained their nerve and now feel confident
OF holding second place, says Sporting
Life. They have lot of hard work be-
fore them yet before second place is a
''cnch."
The only thing against Terry McGovern
in his fight with Pedler Palmer today is
that Palmer is the short end man. The
short end streak of winning has not vet
been broken. And end must come some
time. and McGoVern ought to end it to-
day.
The meeting of the new league at Gin
clnDau next Thursday is not bothering
the magnates just now. Yet they might
as We'll keep an eye on the new move, as
those things often develop after a weak
start. Confined to the west the new
member more than likely would pull
through.
Moth Miller and Castleton should put
up one of the best horse races ever seen
in Worcester county. The track is said
to be in grand good shape, and it is pre-
dicted that the old fair grounds track
race record will go under and new
mark be established for Worcester coun-
~ race tracks.
The most scientific batsman in the
world, Is the Way Tim Murnane refers
to Burkett If Jesse had not been troub-
led with malaria early in the season he
would be so far ahead of all other bats
man that they would give up hope of
catching him. AS it is, they will worry a
great deal before they reach the Worces-
ter man.
The Philadelphias are terrors to Twill
ers OF all varieties, but it is absurd to
preserve in camphor that ancient i'm
preston that left-handers cannot beat
them. Cincinnati's experience Is that
they are good against right-handers. and.
II theory is to rule. 1t might be good
ldea to send outfielders to the slab when
tIiS S%udheIs come dlong.-Mul1Ord IN the
Cincinnati Post.
The renewals of expired memberships
and new applications being received BY
the League of American Wheeme n are
now averaging about 1000 a week, though
this is the season of the year when the
membership Is at its lowest Pennsylva
MIA still holds the lead In the rolls with
New York second, Massachusetts, third
and New Jersey fourth. Among the
smaller divisions Michigan, Ohio and
Connecticut have been particularly ac-
tive this year.
Uncle Nick Young now counts tho
backstop, and when the fielding aver
ages for the season of 1899 are published
1t will be found that Old Reliable Charlie
Farrell has been charged up with more
passed balls than at any time in his long
and honorable career. Old Reliable. how
ever, has laced out many timely hit for
the Superbas in close score games +hJa
season, and is one of the timeiiest bsIss
men on the team.-Joe Campbell in the
Washington Post
The threatened disagreement be4waa,
the League of American Wheelmen and
the Canadian Wheelmen's Association
early in the season has been SO amica
bly, settled that the two Organizations ara
not only in accord now. but are workinS
each for the interests of the other
Among the plans for the benefit 81 tba
mutual touring and other privileges ana
I better arrangement for CARRYING on the
work in which the two Organizations ara
almost identical. The Canadian Wheei
mems Association has also been made a
party 10 the arrangement between the L,
A w. and the G. T. G. of England. thus
making the two American associa tions
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