The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-04
They WERE EASY.
Holy Cross Defeats
Bates in Good
Style.
CLANCEY THE STAR.
For the First Game the
Youngster Pitched
Great Ball.

BILE with the down casters, the Bates
Collegians, yesterday afternoon, at
Mount st. James, and when the last
man was out the visitors had a quar-
tet of scores while the wearers of the
purple had nine to their credit
1t was not the most interesting kind
Of a game from the spectators stand
point. There were several plays Of the
real kind, but on the whole, as one
rooter expressed it, ''it was slow
The visitors haven't quite got limbered
up yet-snow stays on longer down in
Maine than it does here-and there
were in consequence many things done
that should not have been done, and
many things left undone than the Bates
aggregation failed to do.
The bright particular star of the CON
test yesterday was Mr.. Clancy. He
occupied the rubber for the first time
as a wearer of the purple and to say
that he was not up to snuff would not
half express it. The youngster has
enough speen to make the batter SILVER
and when he gets the in shoot of his
his under perfect control, the other
twirlers at Holy Cross had better look
out for their laurels. But this speedy
ball of Clanceys is not the only argu
ment he has to offer up to his OppO-
nent. He has a drop that's a puzzler.
The sphere sails along nicely until
within very short distance from the
plate and then takes fall toward
mother earth which completely misti-
fies the man with the stick This
should be his best ball and no doubt
"a mil r. 10,
ty of practice in developing this curve.
But the Bates collegians have a pitch
erin the person of Pulsifer who can ira
vel in the topnOtchers' list. He. too.
has an ugly drop and with spened con
troll works the corners with great eff
fectiveness. All Pulsifer wanted yester-
day was hupport and the score would
have been vastly different.
Holy Cross has improved a great deal
in the past week. There is that stead
mess which comes with hard work and
experience. The boys have learned the
lesson well of not taking things easy
when the game looks like a sure thing
and yesterday there was no evidence
of overconfidence.
Dyer made the only errors on the
Holy Cross side; one of the two was
more or less eXcusable, but no runs
were made by them. lyer made sew.
eral stops that were rather on the SEN
sational side. and fully redeemed him
self for the misplays. But thcn there
is that tendency of his to fall down
at critical moments, and sometime il
Will mean a great deal. The rest took
everything that came in their direc-
ton, and there were some very pretty
plays made. 1t really did the local fans
good to see how surely and easily the
balls from the visitors bats We're gain
cred in. There was no hesitancy, no ie-
lay, no desire to shirk a chance.
AS for the visitors, they played bali
all the time, but were rather slow on
their pins which perhaps can be cured
in few weeks. They might know more
about the art of ball playing on gem
eral principles, for the knowing what
to do at the right momen AMI in the
right way doesn't seem to be q part
of their mental equipment.
Bates did their scoring in the seventh
and ninth innings. In the former, three
men crossed the plate, each tr9iilng the
others dust. 1t happened something
like this Smith was the first man
up, but he could do no better than
strike three times at the elusiv sphere
Deane, the leader on the batting list
walked to first and PurintOn was gwen
a like present. The doughty catcher
however, died at second on a helder's
choice from the bat of Quinn. Pulsifer
drew four balls and walked, and the
next man up was Daicey, VINO had
made scratch hit in the previous inn
ing and had famed twice. No one ex-
pected anything of him. He couldn't
have weighed more than 10 as he
stepped to the plate. Clancy threw up
one of his twisters, and the young
man sent it over into left field, it strik-
ing exactly on the line. Carney trotted
after the ball like as if he had a week
to do it in, and three men crossed The
plate. At least one of these runs should
have been cut off at home.
Bates Waterloo was in the third.
when five runs were made. PuIslfer W as
easy that inning. and four hits with a
total of six did the trick. Fox drew his
base, McTigue smashed to left Carney
sent the ball in the same direction Tor
two bases Linnehan did precisely the
same thing.
Dyer went to first on an error,
O'Reilley struck out. Brennan was
lucky on fielders choice. and Clancy
made his second hit of the game Ken
ney went out to first, thereby saving
Pulsifer from further slaughter
Bates went to bat first and came
within an ace of scoring. II was up to
Clancy to show his metal, and he did
it. He struck out two men and Bren-
nan caught the other at second. Deane
was the first man up, and he was given
his base on balls Puritan got an ugly
one in the ribs, forcing Deane to sec
ond. The latter got sleepy and was
nabbed in trying to get back to the
bag. Quinn couldn't follow the ball as
they came over the base, and went
back to the bench a sadder if not a
msiEar ms n pulCifar o1Gn ll-ad hut
Daicey fell down on three strikes
Holy Cross was blanked in its half
Of the first The visitors did not get a
man beyond second until the seventh
and in that inning succeeded in cir