The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-19
SPORTING NOTES.
There IS Voc IN southbridge.

Come home, Holy Cross come noInSi
Various county teams are hustllng TO fill
| dates cancelled by the DISARMAMENT OF
Southbridge.
Automobiles are destined to become a
| fad in this city as well as in other cities
| of the commonwealth.
| Bare knuckles and fight to the finish
should be enough to suit the most fastid-
| ious in North Brookf1eld.
Spike Sullivan will meet Kid MOZART
| land at one of the New York clubs in
August They will spar rs rounds.
Jimmy Kearns and Jack Dwyer are re-
ported matched for 20 rounds at the
Greenwood club, South Brooklyn, next
Saturday.
Major Taylor will get after some of
| those newly established records with his
motor pacing machine and make them
look sick
There is lots Of enthusiasm left in the
ex-Southbridge team, and they, will make
| a few dollars at the game in Webster. as
individuals, Saturday.
| Southbridge base ball magnates will be
| busy for the next few days looking around
! for the $500 which Is necessary to make up
the deficiency in the club treasury.
Training for the Labor day games of the
| Springfield diocese has been started by
| the Worcester teams who are to compete,
and the usual lively interest is shown.
| 1t is said that the winner of the fight at
| North Brookfeld drank Quaboag spring
water, which was Endorsed by Trainer
| Mike Murphy of the University of Penn
sylvania.
The L. A. w. consulate prospects for
life are rather slim If the members of the
L. A. W. in this city do not get a hustle
on to themselves and make people believe
they really live.
A $50 cock fight at North BrookfieId
sinks into insignifcance in comparison to
q real, prearranged fight to the finish in
the usually quiet and law abiding town Of
North Brookfield.
One hundred dollars in the hole each
game is enough to prove that at the out
set Southbridge was the real thing, but
the citizens were not in possession of
enough sporting blood to back up a first
class team.
Pedlar Palmer has broken faith with
him by making match with McGovern
The Chicago boy states that Palmer
agreed to give him a return match be-
fore he met anyone else.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat says Of
the new Umpire: 'Manassau is said tS
have been a failure in the Western
league but # he can keep up his present
good work, he will hold berth in the
national for many years to come.
Well, we broke even with the Sauce
makers, after all.-Rochester Times. It's
pretty tough when a team thinks 1t is
doing well by breaking even. To win the
series is the hope and object of a team
member, too, the games were played at
Rochester.
The local baseball company is trying to
get Horton of the Worcester team, but al
here, as Manager Leonard will not make
any deal for him. Horton is anxious to
come.-Rochester TIMES. Let's see Was
not Worcester particularly weak IN
the weakest?
The Massachusetts division, L. A. W..
led as usual last week with new MEM
bers. OF the total of SAG, this state sent
1S making it's total membership 1901.
the national membership is 56,503, and
the new members last week and the
total membership in the leading divisions
are as follows: Pennsylvania, As, 1887;
Rhode Island, 6. 1465.
Judging by the reports emanating from
Rochester scribes themselves regarding
saturdays game with, Worcester Buck
enpSrger's rowdyism is not appreciated
warning, and Rochester should read fhe
handwriting on the wall before it is too
late. Honest, respectable patrons will
not stand for the. kind of game Buck
teaches his men.-SpriAgfield Union,
Tom Mcguire, who is looking after Bob
Aliens interests, says the colored man
Is anxious 70 get on a match with Mike
Sears or Fred Dinsdale. Of Worcester
Con Desmond, the manager Of the Nutone
Dinsdale a purse to meet Allen, but as
yet they have not come to the 'front.'
Boston Post. Dinsdale follows the ex-
ample Of the great John L. and draws
the color line.
In the last issue of the Scientific Amer
lean Charley Murphys mile record be-
hind locomotive is held to furnish valu-
able suggestions in railroadlng Among
the figures is one based on theory that a
racing man travelling at the speed of a
mile a minute without pace would have
to overcome the resistance of more than
seven horsepower. Tests Of powerful
riders show that they can develop about
two-thirds of a horsepower, but only for
a fraction of a minute.
There are lots of people who admire
Mike Griffins stand In refusing to be a
chattel and standing out against that
Brooklyn-St. Louis deal. II for nothing
else than common courtesy, bali NAV.
er ought to be consulted before a deal h
made. Griffin was sold in a regular
cold-boodcd fashion. The fact that the
sale threw him out of Considerable
money cut nc. figure. He was simply
tied up and thrown over the counter.
The sales system is one of the blots on
the game and is most Objectionable.