The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-06
LEAGUE PERCENTAGES.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
GAMES TODAY.
R0chester at Worcester; Toronto at
PROVIDENCE; Montreal at Springfield;
syracuse at Hartford.

The Worcesters failed to take hold of
the game yesterday, and it went up.
They were against lot of Stars from
Syracuse.
The Stars are luminaries of the va
riety known as variable stars. They
have no stated periods of variableness,
and yesterday shone as Stars of the
first magnitude In the two previous
games which they played at the oval,
nothing less than the telescope at the
Lick observatory would make them
out. But in the contest yesterday,
they were on their jobs harder than
Sirius during the dog days of August,
when he reigneth- and does whole lot
Of other things.
Leon Viau was at Lake View trying
for two innings to get a view of the
rubber. He couldn't see any better
than a man with glass eyes. He i'm
agined the plate was as big as dining
table, and came as near putting the
ball over as a girl can throw stone
at the side of house. But he wasn't
satisfied with doing all that. He must
make a balk to help the fellows who
were helping themselves to everything
on the plate and reaching for more. He
was Wonderfully amusing in futile
endeavor to explain by motions that he
had not tented to throw to first. His
motion was so apparent that it could
be seen through a four-inch plank.
Viau was responsible for the defeat,
and he couldn't drag anybody else in
with a seine net. In two innings he
gave Syracuse more runs than could be
found in a days travelling on sheep
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over they walked when he put it over,
they ran, and he would have turned the
game into a six days -as-you-please
If he had stayed on the tablet.
The Worcesters have had great
lamps for finding the ball, but they had
only one Lampe yesterday. Like the
foolish virgins, they neglected to trim
the other lamps and the Stars trimmed
them. They hit fairly we'll but for the
most part shot all around the bullseyc.
Had they treated Mr.. Villman to as
powerful an exhibition of bat swinging
as the other pitchers they have thus
far encountered, II runs wouldn't hold
them for a while, even.
The Worcesters were a little late.
They presented their opponents with
the game and then reconsidered their
Intentions. They replaced Viau with
Lampe and started out to make runs
If they had drawn a dead line on the
home base trocha when Syracuse went
to bat and asked Rough Rider Legasey
to put Viau off the grounds in the first
inning, the man who could pick the
winner could make his living at that
business.
Lampe pitched a good game. Not
that he wasn't hit. The Syracuse men
swung their willie Mains" bats
! against the curves he sent to the plate,
and after the swing that curve couldn't
be found with a microscope For the
ball went the other way more straight
than the narrow way along which the
good shepherds are leading their
focks. But the young man who sent
! the ball from his south corner, realized
that there are eight other men ON the
team. and he put the ball over, so the
management could not say the men
didn't earn their salaries.
7 Villman, who pitched for the stars,
/ was a host in himself, He certainly
4 pitched good ball, more especially be
( cause he saw his running mates bat
! tered beyond recognition on the Two
4 preyious days. The Worcesters We're
4 anxious to hit, too anxious in fact, and
4 banged at balls which on other lays
4 they cut as calmly as a man does MS
H creditor. That anXiousness to win oCl
4 the game by hitting, was partly re-
sponsible for the fall which worcester
took yesterday.
Another thing which held them down
was the fielding of the Syracuse men.
They played ball like a crowd of cham
pions. Their fielding was sharp ana
quick, and until the last inning not
misplay occurred on the side of the
stars. Worcester also played good
ball. There were a few errors which
were of the costly kind. but that didn
make much difference. Syracuse MT
so hard and Viau was so wild that
< Syracuse could have won hands down
had the Worcesters played a perfect
game.
In the first inning three bases on
balls, a balk, passed ball and long flies
gave Syracuse two runs. In the sec
ond they simply slammed the ball all
over the field. Five hits including
double and an error by Kuhns, gave
them five runs. In the fifth bad
throw by Smith, three hits and sac
rifice gave them three more, and IN
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