The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-23
SPORTING NOTES.
Rochester today.

The league uses about 5000 balls each
season.
Boston dropped from second to third
place yesterday.
The clerk of the weather was on the
right sidpyesterday.
Steelman got hit yesterday, and off the
mighty Evans at that.
The figure five" occurred frequently in
National League scores yesterday.
The lightning played around O'Hagan
and Burke so wildly yesterday, that they
had to be good
There isn't a catcher in the league that
can chase foul flies with Bransfield, and
hes sure catch.
That pennant doesn't look very far off
now. Keep a hustling and maybe you'll
land it, Worcester.
The P. H. Hurleys would like to play
any team under II years of age at Wes-
toms field this afternoon.
George P. King was out few hundred
yesterday. He gave odds of $10O to $50 on
Boston several times ever,
A report went the rounds yesterday that
Klobedanz had wagered $50 he would
strike out six men. He didn't make the
wager.
Manager selee denies that there is any
thought of selling out the Worcester
franchise to Newark or any other club.
Boston Herald.
What's the matter with considering the
chances of Baltimore. That team has
made its way up better than any of the
leaders. Its playing great ball now.
The Orioles mix up their style of hit
ting and play ball of the old st. Louis
Brown sty1e-a game hard to beat with
McGraw and Robinson planning the
moves.
The crowd went prepared to root yes
terday; But things didn't come the right
way at first The rain later robbed the
game of much interest. 1t will be differ
ent today.
Manager Leonard and treasurer Mason
| OF the WQrcesters made wager with a
| New Yorker at the Waldo last evening
that Boston viii beat out Brooklyn. The
amount was $50.
Manager Leonard received letter from
George FL. Spalding of Marlboro relative
! to using Harry Bemis. Bemis telegraphed
planning that he could not come.
| McGraw says he will not stand to have
his release sold. His business in Bslti-
more is more to him than any salary he
might get in the league. After all, Rob
inson is quite factor in the Orioles sue
cess this season.
The PhiIlies are not as dangerous a
proposition as Baltimore is for the lead
ers. With the last seven games. sched-
uled for Brooklyn and Baltimore, Nc
Graw will have to keep a sharp lookout
for Ed. Hanlon, president of his club
Boston Globe.
The membership of the League of
American Wheelmen today is 50, 55S. The
ga, of which Massachusetts furnished 1913
New York 81 Pennsylvania 27, Rhode ISL
and and Connecticut 4. The membership
In this state is 1924.
Billy Lush is one of the most gentle
manly players in the game today, but his
reputation suffers from the company he
keeps, and the crowd got after him yes
terday when he fell from the force Of his
swing at a ball. Lush is playing with
recently sprained ankle.
Burkett talks of retiring at the end of
the present season to engage in the sa-
loon business in Worcester. AS few
saloon keepers make $240O in six months
during the summer time, probably Bur-
kett will change his mind between now
and next spring. -Philadelphia Ledger.
Umpire Belts said: "Goeckel, who was
signed by the Philadelphia club, will make
some, of these basemen in the 12-club cir
cult hustle for honors Goeckel is in the
Tenney class as a fielder, and will rank
among the 300 batsmen. / could never
understand why he has been overlooked
by the big league managers SO long"
O'Hagan informed the crowd back of the
Rochester bench yesterday that the Row
dies We're not afraid to start a fuss. If
they start one today the Worcesters and
the crowd ought to take good care the
the Rowdies want fight the crowd should
see to it that they get all that's on the bill
of fare.
mike" Murphy is on record as saying
last spring before the intercollegiates
that Kraenzlein, could run. the century
as fast as Tewksbury. and, when it Is
considered that this athletic ''phenom"
did 10 10 time and again in the west
without any good trainer to teach him
some consideration should be given
Kraenzlein.
President P. T. Powers rules that Sun
day game at Newark. between Toronto
and Hartford, does not count as a cham
pionship game, as such games can not
be played on neutral grounds without
first securing consent of the board of
directors. Toronto claims 1t was cham
plonship game, under an agreement that
the postponed game at Hartford should
be played off Sunday at Newark
A peculiar wager was decided by The
Spy yesterday. A fan wagered that more
runs are made in the first inning than in
any other. The men agreed TO take %
games at haphazard and allow the wager
to be decided on the runs made The man
who .wagered on the first inning won. The
number of runs made in the various in
nings We're: First %; second. 70: third,
Il; fourth, 49, fifth, s.; sixth, IA; seventh,
IS; eighth, 20; ninth, g.
Manager Donovan of Pttsburg says:
THE umpire issue will be one of the
biggest factors in deciding this race, more
SO than the average player imagines
The umpire question struck me very
forcibly during our last series in Balti-
more When Assistant Umpire Manas-
sau walked on the diamond to earn his
daily bread, McGraw charged on him as
though he were going to scale the frame
of the official. See here, you, ne said
some one took a punch out of you, and
/ guess 1t was coming. Well, you'll get
yours again If this Baltimore club don't
get what's coming to EN-.