The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-19
SPORTING NOTES.

SPOR ING NO KS.
Havard's foot ball season began yes
terday.
Kuhns leads the Bostons in batting. He
has an average of 300
The ball game between The Spy and
Telegram typos will be the greatest sport
ing event of the century.
Frank Bonner has secured employment
in a Wilkesbarre restaurant for the win
4 ter. Bonner is now playing with BuHalo.
Worcester Academy is having hard luck
with its foot ball candidates. The best
men received injuries before practice was
fairly begun.
Many a dollar, and thousands of dol
lars. has been lost by not letting stall
lion go as fast as he could when the time
was ripe.-Turf, Field and Farm.
Rickert is throwing high ones for "Musty
Mug" Sullivan, on Mechanic street Rick
ert could throw high ones or any other
kind during the base ball season.
Don, 2:O7s4, pacing, by Egg Nog, was
once severely scorched in a fire, but came
out like Phoenix, and has beaten almost
anything he has run up against this
! year.
Jesse Burkett has soured on St. Louis.
| Boston is nearer his home, and perhaps
| the champions could make a trade for
| the modest Worcester man-Boston
| Globe.
| Tommy Britton, Bingen and Cresceus
meet at Louisville there should be some
record breaking" The only trouble is
| they do not meet.
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss
| ConSuelo Vanderbilt, has beenv a partner
in Lord William Beresford's racing stable
since the retirement of P. Lorillard.
The Boston Herald of yesterday, in re-
viewing the work of the champions for
/ young Hickey
good work at second" After his game,
the Boston Globe said he played poorly.
| Take your choice
Terry McGovern will appear in con-
| junction with a theatrical show for the
next two weeks, at a reputed salary Of
| $1,000 per week. at Miners BoWery thea
| tire, New York, the company being one
| of Sam Scribner's.
| The Western Horseman sententiously
and truthfully remarks: THE public
| has little confidence in a judge that plays
the pool box" Money makes the mare
| go, and money takes the judgment along
with it, generally.
| Jockey Maher has been engaged for next
year by ?. Lorillard, and he will ride Mr..
| Lorillard's horses in England Mr..
| Lorillard has recently sent lover a lot of
yearlings, and he expects to send to Eng
land the horses now racing here in his
| colors
Miss Jane C. Yatman of New York is
now trying to ride seven consecutive cen
turtles inside 81 hours having started Sat
| urday night. She has ridden a quintuple
| century, or 800 miles, which record was
broken by Mrs. Mary Lindsey, who rode
600 miles with little rest. Miss Yatman Is
good looking, of slight build, weighing
about 10 pounds; and has a long string
of century bars,
Manager Hanlon does not propose to
permit any club to get ahead of him in
the preparations for next season. He has
had agents at work in the minor leagues,
f1HN 40 tori 10 he fret
showing up yesterday in the person of
Pitcher Reidy of the Milwaukee Western
league club. Reidy did good work for the
brewers during the season which has just
closed, and in his practice yesterday he
gave considerable promise, Beck the in
fielder drafted from Toledo, is expected
in few days.-Brooklyn Eagle.
A rather peculiar thing happened at the
Maine state fair, at Lewiston, Sept s.
Rover r., roam gelding, by Johnny
| Wilkes son of Wilkes, took a trottine
record of 2:24A, and is the first of the get
of his sire in the list. The same day
Johnny Wilkes the sire who had trot-
ting record of PISA gained pacing rec
ord of 2:20A. Queerer yet, there is an
other Johnny Wilkes in New England by
Erie Wilkes, with pacing record of 221A
This pair of Johnnies have been mixed
up before, and are likely to be worse
mixed in the near future.
Star Pointer arrived at the Cleveland
track from New York on Tuesday, saws
the American Sportsman He is row al
most free from lameness, but his ankles
are pulled and feverish, yet he may be
seen in public again this fall. Every eff
fort will be made to bring him back to
form. The New York papers, which an
Inounced his permanent retirement from
the turf, did so without authority. Mr..
the great horse when there is the slight
est chance for Star Pointer recoyerine
from his accident.
The Omaha Kid, Oscar Gardner, may
be Terry McGovern's next real opponent.
| There are many who think that Gardner
would be the strongest kind Of PROPOSE
ton for the new little champion to defeat,
If he were given good rest and plenty
of wholesome work when he did start to
train. Gardner is willing to tackle Nc
Govern, as was evidenced last Saturday
when Paddy Sullivan who manages Card
ner, posted $1,000 to bind a match next
January at ia to 100 pounds. Sam Harris
| in reply says he will meet Sullivan some
day this week to arrange match. If ar
ranged it promises to be one of the
greatest battles between little boxers
ever known.
ANY young ball player who has no.
ton of remaining in the business, and
who wants to become a member of the
big league, should not fail to learn, how
Oliver Tebeau, the ST Louis manager.
| 1t has come TO be part of the game -
says he, that is every bit as essential as
good fielding and good base running.
| What practice will do is shown in the
case of Burkett. When he first came to
Cleveland he knew little about bunting
| | encouraged him to keep at it, and now
he is the best bunter in the league, and
has twice been the champion batter much
of which is due to the fact that he saw
the Importance of a new feature of the
game and perfected himself in 1t at once
New York Telegram.
The veteran Chadwick writes: 'Look-
ing over some ancient stories in nv
serapbook the other day, I found the re-
| for Kicking, and 1t amounted to six
York shilings. 1t occurred in a scrub
game between sides captained by Messrs
Curry and Johnson of the Knickerbockers
in October. 1916, over a half a century
ago on which occasion I. w. O'Brien
was fined six shilings for swearing, and
Mr.. Cartwright the same for disputing on
the umpire.s decision, | do not remem-
Der that any Injunction was obtained
against paying the fines. What primitive
days those were. Two years later 7
played in scrub game myself near the
same field. That was in 1917
"Scrappy'' Joyce rises to remark: II
have said that the heartiest indorsers Of
McGraw are notorious opponents of his
method of play. Their Endorsement Of
McGraw is the most thorough indorse-
ment of rowdy ball that could be written.
In approving OF McGraw, they write
themselves suckers for the great little
Oriole has spat upon them and their the
cries and contemptuously kicked them IN
the mire, Now some of them want him
suppressed, they want the life and the
. speed and the fight taken out of him bv !
rotten set Of rules. They want to brins
4 this great little player. who forced ther1
q to acknowledge him the greatest OF Inc
great, back to a lot of dead ones an6
stiffs
TRY ALIENS FooT-EAsE.
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