The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-04
SPORTING GOSSIP.
All up for the Vernons.

Sprlng0elQ again JOIHOIION.
Big Dan was sick yesterday and could
not play
Griffin hasn't lost a game for Holy
Cross this year.
When Holy Cross plays the Farmers,
then comes the tug-of-war.
The crews are taking final spins before
getting together at New London.
Worcester may not be at the top, but
she leads the list of New England clubs
| anyway.
! Holy Cross again. No use in talking,
the boys from Mount St. James are play
| ing ball.
Tod Sloan is planning to return to this
country for a rest in his Waldorf-Astoria
| apartments.
Richard Jewett Schweppe of St. Louis
| has been elected manager OF next year $
| Yale creT.
| Worcester has the misfortune of playing
poor ball when there is a good crowd in
attendance.
The Americans are getting their usual
share of victories in the English chess
tournament.
! Of course the diamond is bad, but
| other men get along on it all right, and
why not the Worcesters?
If the sun bothers Welsh so much that
he can't field Manager Leonard ought to
remove the sun or Welsh.
One reason that Sloan is landing less
firsts than usual this year is that he is
riding very few favorites.
The clubs that refused to ride against
hired amateurs" are laughing at the
empty honor of winning the tin stein.
The tin cup Is now a thing of the dim
and distant past, despite the efforts of
newspaper to keep it a perpetual prize.
Why not borrow East Douglas, Webster
or Milford for game or two, and give
local fans an exhibition of good base ball?
The players who jumped the Lawrence
team are sorry, for Connie Murphy had
the money to pay them had they re-
manned.
It's no encouragement to amateur sport
to make rules which will permit hiring
athletes to win for a local amateur bicy-
Gle club.
If Wesleyan had any dream it would
win again from Holy Cross, it's too bad
the alarm clock was set for yesterday af-
ternoon.
Revenge is sweet, and the Holy Cross
boys drained the cup to its dregs yester-
gay when they administered the defeat to
Wesleyan.
Brans1eld may not know all the game,
but there are others, and they should not
escape without call down as well as
Bransfeld.
Do Springfield writer's know anything
about players salaries or do they guess IS
they guess at foul balls when they can't
see the line?
1t is sometimes suggested to start a fire
under balky horse to get him moving
a confagration would be required in
Welshs case.
That enthusiastic decoration of Prince
ton students at the departure of their
team for New Haven will not be repeat-
ed on its return.
The game yesterday at Milford with
East Douglas had that degree of snap
which IS so sadly lacking with Manager
Leonard's Farmers.
Clinton is developing into an up-to-date
base ball town, and Manager McManus
means to give his patrons the real thing
in the base ball line.
The Vernons deserve their share of
credit for winning the race. Anything
was allowable in the matter of getting
men, and they got good ones.
The Vernons were unanimous in declar-
ing that the tin cup should be placed in
the Society of Antiquity rooms now and
be CLASSIFIED among the freaks of nature.
It's no disgrace to the Newports to lose.
Inc other team was. of course, a good
one but if enough money was spent i'm
getting together team it could be beaten
The crowd kept yelling for KIobedanz.
put Manager Leonard did right not to nut
MN in. Why should he go in after Lampe
lost the game? Let every pitcher stand
on his merits.
After the sore-headed account of the
game in Worcester. Friday, as il an
peared in Springfield paper Worcester
people won't place any reliance on criti-
clsms on either home, visiting team or
umpire.
1t would not be a bad idea to give the
armers half holiday some Saturday,
and let them see how the game Should
really be played. Webster. East Douglas
and Milford would be good vantage
grounds.
Jmpire Burns is certainly shy on UNI
pre- knowledge. but the people of Spring
held must be easy if they believe stories
OF being robbed by the umpire Burns is
incapable. and both teams suffer from his
lack of ability.
The New London Board of Trade will
soon be providing shells. oars, uniforms.
noard, lodging, coachers' expenses and
IMMINENT to the Yale and Harvard crews
70 insure the continuance of the annual
race in their fair city.
DR.. Faunce. the newly elected president