The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-15
SPORTING GOSSIP.
Various Bits of News Gathered From All
Quarters of the Country.


Quarters of the Country.
SyracuBe has signed third baseman Bill
Taylor, late of Hartford.
Harry Lyons the old Worcester fielder,
is to play with Hartford.
'Mugsy" McGraw Of the Baltimores has
made Klobedanz an offer.
| Benton NJ, Jr., by Benton NJ, Is said
! to be the exact likeness of his sire.
Worcester Sportsman's Club shoot to-
| morrow at SportsmanS Club park.
| Burkett continues to do nearly all the
hitting for st. Louis.-[Sporting Life.
President Freeman has not yet wit
messed a game on his own grounds.
Sport is at its prime on the Maine lakes
and most prosperous season is predict
ed.
Worcester certainly missed a good thing
when it didn't sign Zaeder to cover first
base
The Orioles were the toughest birds
that have been served in Boston for many
day.
Wanted-A first baseman who can bat
and run bases. Apply Worcester base ball
team.
Keller, Delehanty, Burkett, Lajoie and
Thomas are having hot race for batting
honors.
Bingen was shown in nine classes at
two horse shows and carried off nine blue
ribbons.
While the Boston teams are away
Charlie Rice ought to draw with his Cam
bridge nine.
Billy Nash has been released by Buffalo.
The light of the old Boston star is GER
tainly going out.
Becker of Rochester holds the strike
out record of the season. He famed II
Springfield batsmen.
The high school crew is going faster
than anybody knows and Will make Har-
ward freshmen row to win.
Pearl Edison of the Worcester high is
in the Dartmouth entries for the hurdles
in the intercollegiate NEST.
The quicker Worcester stops trying to
work patched-up team the sooner will
1t begin to play winning ball.
With men playing out of their positions,
Worcester cannot expect to hold any kind
of position in the pennant race.
Some teams have pitchers who are re-
garded as winners. Nobody gives Wor-
cester credit for having any such.
President Young has read the riot act
to Umpire Gaffney for permitting too
much chin music Of the players.-[Sport-
ing Life.
Springfield papers evidently reflect the
feeling of the crowds in that CITY, and if
that is so there's an awful drop coming
for somebody.
The trotting records of the two great
families Wilkes and Electioneer. are
the same mark-2:06A.
Down Boston way they say the cham
pions have not struck their gait. The
champs have not given evidence that
they are striking much of anything.
It's a big feather in the cap of James
I. Roche, Jr., of this city, who is captain
OF the Harvard athletic team, to score
such pronounced victory over Yale.
The New York papers persist in enter
ing Ned Ten Eyck in the Harlem regatta
but the champion will not be the adver-
Using medium for the regatta this year
A glance at the work of Worcester
Academy athletes in the class games in
dicates that the interscholastic champion
ship is once more very apt to come to
Worcester.
The team has gone on its trip without
a first baseman, with an unsettled infield
and one man to do all the catching. How
many games will such a combination win
before hostile crowds?
There appears to be abundant room for
a change OF the system of handicapping
of the Worcester Gun Club when a half
dozen men shoot away all the ammunition
In sight trying to unite tie.
Athletes from Worcester were in evil
dence at New Haven, Saturday. Roche
captained the Harvard team, which em-
braced Butler and Fish, and Bigelow and
Denholm were the teams advisers.
Around the town there seems to be a
general belief that something will drop
In the course Of few days, and one or
two players on the Worcesters will be on
the heavy end when 1t goes down.
Athletic authorities might inquire into
the reasons why some of the athletes
will not train. There is a rumor of feel
Ing which should be suppressed no mat
ter what means are necessary to do it.
Burkett saws that this will be his last
season in base ball. and Billy Hamilton
says that another season will be his last
Boston Globe. We'll! Well! Nobody ever
thought of accusing Jesse Burkett of
starting a farewell scheme.
Frank Bonner is playing at Washington
and there is no possibility Of his going to
Toronto. The effort some papers make
to manufacture local news is ludicrous
especially when there is plenty at home
which they can't find.
Two men were arrested during one of
the Observation-Disclosures games for betting.
The man who bet on the Beaneaters
ought to be released without being COM
PEELED to stand arraignment for display
Ing so much courage.
Willie Dyer of Holy Cross can content
himself that he made a two-base hit in
Saturdays game as The Spy credited him
with. If the ball he hit to Pomeroy was
hit Of any kind it was double as Dyer
reached second on 1t.
Among the renewals for the New Eng
land futurity to be trotted in August at
Readville are Marian, chestnut colt by
Allandorf and Benton M, Jr., by Benton
when the race is called.
The Worcesters will play on skinned
diamonds on its trip. and it will be inter
esting to see If the error totals diminish.
The local fans are aware that the dia-
mOnd at the oval is in wretched shape,
and have made allowances for errors, but
if the players continue to tumble there
will be a howl.
Some recognition of the first law Of
nature may save the Worcester team de-
feats. If President Marston or Manager
Leonard believe the pitching department
needs strengthening, It would be well to
secure Klobedanz or STREET., recently re-
team In the league gets them to win vic
tories from the Farmers.
The contest for the ladies' open golf
championship at Newcastle county
Down, Ireland, Friday, revealed a golf
wonder in the person Of Miss M. Hezlett
girl of II and a native of Antrim. There
was great surprise when she defeated the
crack player, Miss Lottie Ord, in the
semi-fnals and won the championship.
ship.
The only piece of news" which APP
peared in the base ball columns of a
morning paper-not The SDy-last week
was that Burns umpired in Worcester
and Providence the same day. The spy
was full of the real thing among which
might be mentioned the shake-up of the
team and Bowman's refusal to accom-
pany the club. Incidentally it might be
mentioned that The Spy gave the proper
umpire and also gave the proper score
of the games.
"Tcny' Mullane. once the prince among
pitchers, made a mistake of keeping In
too fine a condition, said Tom Burns re-
Gently. Mullane used to take regular eX-
ercise to strengthen his throwing arm
with the result that he got his muscles