The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-11
SPORTING NOTES.
Keen It UP, BOYS.

Well! Well Welt Perhaps those Farm
ers don't make a great road club.
Cassidy Of Providence made 20 hits In
his last 10 games with Washington.
Nick. Young has abandoned, his intended
fishing trip TO Maine. He ought 10 throw
line out for umptres.
1t is now reported that the plan. to
bring a team of Irish athletes to this
country has fallen through.
McGraw reached first base 154 times in
"a games. In only one game has he failed
to reach first. He got Go bases on balls
and was hit five times.
Frank Bonner, who was. sold by Hart
| ford to Washington, didn't make rul
| in nine games from June % to July 2. In
20 games he scored two runs.
| A r. Downer, the Scotch professional
| runner, who has defeated the best run
pers in Great Britain, arrived at New
York yesterday. He intends to make Bos
ton his home.
Manager Arthur Irwin of washington
says that the Atlantic league is on its las
| legs. He has been through its circuit anC
says $50 a day is big receipts for some
| towns in the league.
On Thursday last at Brooklyn, Lajoit
| figured in hard play. He ran into center
| field to catch pop fly, and recovered
| himself in time to stop run at the plate
| completing a double play.
Nearly every ball team has a turn OF
| hard luck during the season. Worcester
has had enough tough luck to last a
couple of seasons, and that little piece OF
bunting begins to come into sight
Buffalo is anxious to get out of the
Western league. 1t was foolish move
to ever have gone west.--Boston Globe
You're right there, Tim, the best ball
towns of the country are in the east.
HI Laid has been signed by Allentown
but Paterson had a prior claim and he
had to go there. Charlie Marston wanted
him badly. He played for several years
with the Fall Rivers.
The famous Sheffield foot handicaps
in England are no longer in popular
favor. One reason for the change is that
the contests are known to be run dis
honestly; another is the decline of pro-
fessional footracing throughout England
Wheeler and Bultz, released by Phila-
delphia, have declined offers to play with
Allentown of the Atlantic league. No
wonder. The league is on its last legs.
There's a chance for Worcester to secure
two good men. unless Miller gets a gait
on.
1t has been definitely learned that the
expected team of English lawn tennis
experts will not come over this season to
play in American tournaments. Up to
within few days the tennis authorities
on this side of the water who have had
the matter in charge believed the-foreign-
ers would sail this week. but the last
steamer brought word that the trip has
Deen dDdnQOHeu.
1t was the injuries of Hamilton, Tenney,
Nichols and Willis that kept the cham
piens from going to the front with a
rush by July /. although the Boston
players are not anxious for the lead I'M
til September.-Bosto Globe. The Bean
eaters have had their share of hard luck,
and If they get no more it's dollars to
had doughnuts they can beat out any
team in the league.
The Worcester scribes are swelling up
.as11rN
streak of that gang that represents the
Massachusetts city in the Eastern league.
The Spy styles them King of them ALL "
Hartford Post. That's really amusing.
city were winning a few games they We're
fit for the National league, If the Hart
ford papers could be believed.
The managers of New York clubs are
not worrying oyer the offers made by
San Francisco clubs for the Jeffries-
lighters being interested in the New
York and Coney Island clubs. they will
not let the bout go west Neither the
Lenox nor Coney Island club has YET
made an offer. 1t is safe betting the
mill will be held at one of the New York
clubs.
H. E. Graham, who will represent OK
ford and Cambridge in the half-mile
against Harvard and Yale, competed In
the mile handicap of London A. G: games
he had 25 yards start. w. Winterbotham
of Cambridge, who will be the English
third string in the three miles on July ",
started in the Notwithstanding hands
cap at the same games. With 50 yards
start he was beaten.
"Baltimore is the hardest city in the
league for the umpires," said. Jim Nc
Carr while he was In Cleveland last
week ut isn't because of the crowds
or of the players, but on account of the
grounds 1t is down hill from the. plate
to first base, and the ball and the batter
generally get there at almost exactly the
same time This makes every decision
at first a close one, and keeps the man
engaged In giving base decisions con-
stantiy in hot water"
President Hart thus explains the. rela-
tiops of Thornton. the foEmer Chicago
pitcher, to his club: 81 have been. willing
to trade Thornton at any time. Thornton
did ask for his release. saying he was
out OF the game for good, and we replied
that there would be no particular object
In releasing him If he did not intend to
play any longer. The>fa of the matter
is that we have money invested In Thorn
ton, sand we are willing to trade him, but
no one has seemed ITO want him. As far
as selling him is concerned the Chicago
club does not sell players"