The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-05
From the standpoint Of a Worcester

From the standpoint of Worcester
crowd yesterdays game was a good
one, because the home team won handi-
ly. For the first part of the game
there was considerable interest, no
matter from what aspect the game was
viewed for the Providence team hit
Horton hard and everybody recogniz-
ed that if the drives went safe Worces-
ter would have it's share of troubles.
But the visitors hit in hard luck and
the men behind the pitcher gave him
great SUPPORT, and the hot line drives
which the men from the sand dunes
made counted for outs only.
Evans started off like a racehorse.
scoring in slow field, but he went in
the air and stayed up. The Worcesters
got after him in the third inning and
before they finished with him his moth
er could not recognize him. He got his
bumps, according to one of the coach
ers. The grandstand evidently under
stood what he was getting and wheth-
er 1t did or not it was certain that he
was getting something which he didn't
thoroughly enjoy.
Worcester won the game by hard,
clean hitting and made enough runs in
the third to win three such games
from Providence. -Four players came
up one after another as fast as they
could rush for the plate and hit the
ball where no Providence fielder could
reach 1t. After an intermission of an
out another long drive came in but it
had no benefits attached for all the
scoring had been done
The other runs which Worcester
made We're pure gifts from Providence
They didn't make many errors consid-
ering the number of chances they had
but those they did make hadn't any
doubt attached. They were prize win
ners in the error class and gave the
Worcesters runs without half an eff
fort on the part of the latter.
Providence had a whole lot of trouble
doing anything with Horton in the way
of hitting him safely. At the start
they jumped on the ball hard but had
no luck. Later they slowed down and
Horton made monkeys of them. In the
last seven innings of the game they got
only three hits off him, making but one
in the last four innings
The Worcesters played a magnifi-
cent game In the field. The outfield
was particularly brilliant. Sharrott
made one star catch and three other
good ones. Frisbie also made a nret
ty running catch.
Gardner, the new man, PLAYED at
short, Joe Harrington being placed on
3 the bench. Gardner didn't have a
4 chance to show what he can do al
though he showed all the earmarks Of
a player. He failed to cover ground.
however, on Leahy's grounder in the
second.
Murphy again played at second base
and played we'll He had one or two
hard chances. He showed up well at
the bat being instructed to bunt twice
and he did so better than is usually
seen at the oval. 100
For the visitors the playing of Cassi-
dy was the feature He got two or
three flies in short outfield which look
ed like safe ones when they rose.
Providence scored first and stonpad
in the second inning Cooney got first
on force out at second, 1t being an
attempted sacrifice, but Horton headed
off the runner. Lamar's double to the
right field fence sent him to third and
he scored on a long fly to left field.
Worcester jumped on Evans with a
vengeance In the third, Horton, bat
ting left handed, opened with a single
after one was out. Kuhns and Shar-