The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-28
SPORTING GOSSIP.


The Worcesters are falling.
Worcester at home tomorrow.
Billy Dyer did himself proud yesterday.
Brennan threw as fast as a Mauser bull
let.
John r. Gentry has been sent a mile in
2:l5.
1t was a hard race, and the best crew
won.
1t seemed good to see Mcrigue back in
the game
It's now defeats and 20 victories for
, Georgetown.
Hafford seems to be the star man IN the
| Georgetown team.
The blue and gray went down before
the royal purple.
The largest crowd Of the season at Mt.
! St. James yesterday
] O'Reilly made the first clean stolen base
in the seventh inning
Burkett has failed to bat safely in but
two games this season.
1t viii be warm race between Holy
Cross and GEORGETOWN.
Both left felders distinguished them
| selves by great eaten.
Worcester will furnish hot boxing at
Hartford Tuesday night.
The first ball pitched yesterday at Holy
! Cross game was a homer.
Holy Cross made seven runs in the
second, with two men out.
! Georgetown went to pieces and played
| like crowd of school boys.
Time isn't anything in a boat race as
the conditions are never the same.
Now for Brown, Capt. Brennan, and
the cup of JOY will be filled to the brin.
| Georgetown has several pretty songs,
but didn't have chance to let them out
yesterday.
Isn't there luck in base ball? Well, ism
therei To think Springfield can lead the
Worcesters
The Baltimore newspapers are pulling
strong for their team, for which they de-
serve credit.
The high school lads should not feel
badly over their defeat. They can't win
all the time.
Cheap sports are trying to back-cap
Dinsdale because he had sense enough
| to shake them.
Well, boys, better luck next time, when
no wind and calm water give the lighter
crew a chance.
Griffin certainly pitched wonderful ball;
He did not allow man to walk until
the ninth inning.
A tremendous crowd watched The spy's
bulletin board last night TO get the first
returns Of the sports.
There's something wrong when that
Rhode Island team can beat as fast a
club as the Worcesters.
All kinds of athletes showed remarkable
shapes at the high school inter-class
games. Friday afternoon.
Joe Flaherty has given up his bout at
Spy pond, Tuesday, to second Dinsdale
and Gardiner at Hartford
Interest is very much on the wane as
regards the final outcome of the ten-mlle
road race, next Saturday.
Springfield didn't do a thing to Hart
ford yesterday Barnie will take to the
woods If that is repeated.
Tim Hurst was a little behind time, not
only in reaching the grounds, but In mis-
decisions on balls and strikes
Walter Burnham's Brockton team was
the first in the New England League to
defeat Portland, after Il victories.
The Newport Bicycle Club holds a
special meeting at the club rooms today,
to decide upon their lake quarters.
All the local riders are applying for
registration to the l.. A. W Outlawry Is
exceedingly unpopular in this city.
BY some lack Of taste, invited guests
Of the officials transformed the referees
boat into partisan Harvard craft.
Third basenan Fox got himself missed
for deliberately holding Burns at third.
1t was not gentlemanly ball playing,
Pillsbury astonished the natives in a
blindfold match at checkers and chess
in England in which he won all games.
ST. Louis is missing Jesse Burkett.
Stencil is playing a good fielding game,
but can not I'LL Jesse's shoes with the
stick.
Worcester isn't entirely settled down to
it's gait yet. With a new player or two
things will burn when Worcester gets
going.
White must have thought that he had
them in the second inning seven runs,
two home runs, two doubles and three
singles.
Dan Mccarthy felt sore because Hurst
told him to seek a warm place. when
he kicked over Hafford being called out
at third.
Freeman of Washington, who played in
Worcester on Arthur Twins Haverhill
team, is cracking the ball all over the
lot this season.
Springfield is getting away from Wor-
cester, but it's q long time 10 the close
of the season. The Ponies will be lucky
TO get with the nag.
Local sportsmen need not longer 60
to the Rangeleys for fishing. Charles u.
Burnham's catch of a salmon at the lake
was an eye opener.
The famous Meddler-Nancy. Hanks flly
that has been variously dubbed by an en-
terprising press the country over, has
not yet been named.
The Boston Globe man knows his book.
He writes: Worcester has about the
best material in the Eastern League. No
kidding. That's right
With the sanction granted and the
grounds engaged for the fourth Of July
races, all is plain sailing for the Asso-
ciated Cycle Clubs Of Worcester.
Ordinarily it's whitewash when one side
shuts out the other. But in the Spring
field-Hartford game II was a case of be-
ing covered with Connecticut mud.
The Philadelphia open air horse show
"opens Tuesday. The array of harness and
saddle horses will be a winner The New
York show, with favorable weather, lost
$1Q,o
A few years ago local bicycle riders
cut a good deal of ice in the races
throughout the state, but nowadays
there is not so much said of Worcester
riders.
It's odd that when MaXy Long enters
IA quarter-mile race, such men as Burke
and Boardman have special duties
mapped out for them that prevent their
meeting the Princeton man.
It seems strange TO see Fritz Zaeder
credited with three errors in one game
at first base. Nine put-outs, one assist
and three errors. with no hits, was mis-
record Friday against Manchester.
Time was~ wlren Hoiy-' Cross students
applauded a former Holy Cross player on
his appearance at bat They didn't APP
plaud Mccarthy yesterday, and they for
got ReardoL when Williams played at
the college.
When the Apollo came down the course
with a Harvard man on the roof fran
tically waving a flag and a dozen Har-
ward men cheering the victory of the
crimson. few Of the 10000 spectators sus-