The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-21

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than at home.
Tebeau has good judgment of young
! ball players. No younsster once turned
down by Tebeau ever made a success else
where in the league
There are few good left-handed players
who can throw well and accurately from
the outfield Thomas. Stahl, Ryan and
donovan comprise probably all the eXcep-
! tions.
The Pittsburgs lead the league clubs in
extra hits. the Phillies second Fniladel-
phla mas made the most doubles Pitts
burgs most triples and Washington most
home runs thanks 10 Bucky Freeman
Tim Hurst is playing the races in and
! around New York, and is said to be sew
| eral thousand dollars TO the good. Tim is
not growing gray over disappointment al
staff.
| 1t is a remarkable fact that since the
organization of the present twelve-cluh
adelphia, Baltimore Chicago, St LOUIS
Cincinnati and Louisville have been burned
down.
The Louisville Club has done its share
| toward bringing good players into the
Leach, Magee, Fraser, Kelley, McCreery
| and Jennings are some who played their
/ hrst games as Colonies.
Roger Connor witnessed the Brooklyn
Cleveland game on the 18th inst This is
! L
Roger, since l quit playing in the big
| league. I can't see that the game has i'm
proved any in that time"
| Tebeau now says THAI any one of the
tlrst seven teams in the league has a
chance to win the pennant, but he now
! figures st. Louis as about third with
second place bare possibility. He CON
slderS Boston superior to BROOKLYN and
almost certain to again win the pennant
If the Boston team had been playing up
! ard Of To-. -,
| now be in the lead by seven or eight
games. The Boston players attribute the
slump to the battery men And yet the
Boston trio-Nichols Willis and Lewis
has done better than the trio of any other
club in the league.
President Hart wired Manager Tom
Burns at Philadelphia: PAY no attention
to sensational rumors; they are without
ttpunaatlon. Do the hest you can under
the present discouraging conditions and
you and l will In the future do as we have
! IN the past-pull together and try to make
the team winner. Don't be discouraged.
Cincinnati now has the 1899 league record
for consecutive victories-14 The best
previous was Brooklyn's IL straight. Only
once since 1869 has a Cincinnati team ex-
celled that record In 1882 the Reds won
u Straight and won the American Asso-
citation championship. In 1890 the Cincin-
natis won ID games, and Boston then, as
now, broke the string.
Manager Selee claims that Louisville
nad no right to play a doube-header at
Brooklyn, April II, as the second game
was the one scheduled at Louisville while
brooklyn was acre on the last trip and
had an open date. Mr. Selee will send his
protest to President Young, and feels con-
hdent the second game at Brooklyn will
be thrown out.
President Barney Dreyfuss has had
moLS than fair share of misfortune this
season The latest piece of bad luck was
the obstruction of the Louisville grand
stand by hre on the 18th inst, while the
team and president were east. The fire
originated from an electric light wire dur
ing a severe electrical storm The loss is
$4,000 and the insurance only $4,000. A
temporary grandstand is already in course
of erection.
Harry Brace the New Haven ball
player who was struck with base bali
ana rendered speeches. while playing
with Wallingford several weeks ago, is
recovering his voice, and his physician
expects a complete recovery. Brace talks
] of his own will, and answers all questions
put to him. His articulation is not alto
getner plain, but is Understood by the
| family and is improving every day. Brace
is still confined to his bed, and will be for
some time.
| Heinie Peitz the Reds big catcher, will
| PROBABLY be in S. by the decision of the
arbitration committee regarding the Dec
be remembered that PeitE was fined IS fol
| talking back to Umpire Gaffney over the
decision the latter rendered. As soon as
Peitz heard of the committees decision
ne entered protest asking for the return
of his william, which, in all probability
| he will receive, as his kicking has beer
proved justifiable.-C incinpati Enquirer.
Bowerman says of the Baltimores: 'T
Is a stronger team and playing better bal
than last years Orioles This team /;
playing different ball from any other team
! in the country. One day it plays one
style and another day 1t switches to some
thing entirely different. The hit-and-rur
game can be blocked if a team keeps it up
and the other side knows what to expect
I but you can never tell what these Orioles
! VIII be doing next. l think they are play.
ing Just a little the fastest ball in the
league at present"
| Perhaps the owners of the club do but il
that is so, the proper spirit was not showr
py sending such a fine ball player as Fris.
pee TO Worcester when the team needs
MIN. Take the game in which Meekir
{ pltcheo on Wednesday last Boston had
two men on bases in the ninth inning and
could nave used Frisbee to advantage. He
was not on hand and that game really
went by default. Boston has been weak.
ened to strengthen Worcester 1t will moi
DO to assert that Frisbee was a superf1lI.
Gus article with Stafford on hand Thai
does not suffice. Frisbee is a far better
hitter than Stafford. In Worcester he has
been doing the best hitting of the club. II
the Boston Club does not summon all its
strengtn IN these final games, it is be.
cause the pennant is not worth a few
aid
CLARK Griffith is the nearest approach
70 Radbourn Of any pitcher in the league, .
bal Is A aort ir irwin His control Of the
reminds me of Radbourn and he has as
large stock of reserve force Grif never
takes his eye from the ball. He watches
his batsmen closely, and after pitching in
two games against a strange batsman he
has his man sized up. When Grit goes M
against batter of the heroic type. sucf
as Relehanty, Lajoie or Freeman, he de-
ately waste the first ball by tossing it out
side the plate The next one he NAV also
waste, and the third one will be slow. but
over the base, and the next a fast, sharp
breaking curve But as rule he losses
up a slow. curve, one of those of the Tim
heefe vintage, when the heavy slusgers
are at the bat and no one on the bases
Delenanty and Lajoie go after these slow
ones with a vicious lunge and generally
succeed in lifting a bum fly into the in
field" "
Advocates and decriers of the bunt hit
VIII md little material for argument in
the records of this season. The Lolisyille
Club, with its bunch of 300 hitters. leads
the league in sacrifice hitting vet with its
double record for good stick work. fails
70 make much of a showing in the race,
belng somewhere in the vicinity of the
tail end of the procession. The Washing
ton team, on the other hand, has made
less sacrifice hits than any team In the
league, is not quite so strong in batting as
the Colonies, and is next but one below
them in the race for the pennant. This
would indicate that sacrifice hitting NAV
nave been the cause of the Colonies hay-
ing bunch over the Senators, or might
be construed into evidence that the lack
Of practice Of the sacrifice on the part of
the Senators did not prove a handicap to
them. The fact Of the matter is that too
In lie DC 6af..t
q team as not enough of 1t. The sacrifice
hit should be used tudiciously and at I'M
expected times. McGraw of the Balti-
mores frequently uses 1t, but fails TO let
the opposing players know that he in
tends to dump the bah That is the rea-
son he has no actual sacrifice hits to his