The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-11
LEAGUE PERCENTAGES.
EASTERN LEAGUE.
GAMES TO-DAY.
Toronto at Worcester; Rochester at
Providence; Montreal at Hartford;
Syracuse at Springfield.

Joe Harrington was the luckiest man
at the oval yesterday in the game be-
tween Worcester and Toronto. Of the
500 spectators at the contest, 1893 had to
surrender % cents to the man on the
gate before they got through. Har-
rington wore a Worcester uniform and
went through as easily as a motion to
send legislators on a junket.
The man on the gate evidently
thought Harrington intended to play
ball. If he did there's another think
coming to him. Harrington forgot he
was stuck on second base to help put
out Toronto players, and took things
as cool as an iceman.
1t was a great day for ball game.
The sun shone bright and warm, and
the air was full Of ozone, making a
fellow feel SO happy that he might be
excused for forgetting if he invited his
mother-in-law to live with him, There
were some things about the game that
were good, and there were others that
would never be considered candidates
for free admission into celestial re-
gions.
While the Worcesters We're playing
ball they did well, but some of them
must have made a mistake about the
time of day. A few alarm clocks judi
ciously distributed would have been an
appropriate present for the Farmers
yesterday. They were in about the
same class as the boy that always
stood second with only two in his
class. No youngster that ever stood on
a stool with high hat for an orna-
ment deserved his undesirable distinc-
ton half as much as some of the Farm
ers.
The game was between Worcester
and Toronto, but only the latter got in
the game. Worcester wasn't in it for
a minute. When the Canadians got in
they barred the door and the Farmers
couldn't break in with a battering ram.
new umpire made his appearance
in Worcester yesterday. He is Mr.
O'Loughlin from-well it does't make
much difference where he is from, and
If he is to be entirely judged from what
he did yesterday, it's no particular
credit to any place to claim him. He
made as good an impression as a chunk
of mud against a board fence.
Mr.. O'Loughlin labors under the i'm
preston that it is necessary to be
stacy He struts about like a barn
storming Hamlet approaching a back
door for what is known among knights
of the road as a handout. Little points
like watching a base to see whether
the baseman has his foot on It when
man is being forced, are what. make an
umpire noticeable above his fellows
and not a Il won't do thing to you
fellows" air Had Mr.. O'Loughlin given
the right decision twice early in the
game when he called Rickert out at
third, and when he called out Yeager
because Wagner danced around second,
the result might have been different,
for the game was young and the twig
hadn't yet been bent certain way.
In a general way the game was good,
but there were times when it had more
color than is seen between the lines on
some journals. Even a dyspeptic
couldn't find anything in the playing
Of the Canadians to grumble over. For
the greater part of the time 1t was the
same in the case Of the Worcesters. but
occasionally they acted like policemen
on the last watch, and fell into sound
sleep.
The mantle of charity is broad enough
TO cover misplays when a man pro-
duces evidence that he is on his Job,
but a circus tent isn't big enough to
hide some things. An excuse for allow
ing a man to score from third on u hit
to the pitcher, OugnI TO De placeu III
the same class as a stationary engine,
1T don't go.
In the same category is standing out
toward right field when ball is hit to
short and a base runner at first thinks
more of second base than fellow does
of shirt waist maiden. It
was that kind of playing or
fnfs-playing that made the specta-
tors feel that the chap who wrote
about the fury Of a woman scorned
missed much that he lived before the
times of base ball
harrington was the offender in two
instances, when he should have COW
ered the base he stood stock still watch
ing Smith field. Lampe made many
spectators bite their tongues lest they
say something which they don't say
when the rector calls at their house.
Sudhoff was of greater assistance to
his team than 8 physician is to the I'M
dertaker. The Worcesters could not
have hit him If he was running a
gauntlet. Occasionally somebody made
a mistake and put the sphere where no
Toronto man could reach it, but those