The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-03
SPORTING NOTES.

Burketts batting average is 1892
The Rigby races opened with record
first day
The joke of the game is two hits for
Tom Brown
Nichols has pitched % games, winning
Just one-half.
Washington has taken eight out of nine
game from Chicago.
1t is predicted that next season will
see Bob" Cook at Yale.
Frisbee's appearance seemed to infuse
new life into the Farmers.
Miller fields his position better than any
of the Worcester twirlers
Murphy's first appearance at bat was
auspicious-a three-bagger.
Manchester is bidding for the New Eng
land League championship.
Boston and Brooklyn thus far break
even, with four games each.
It seemed good to the spectators to
hear Frisbee chirping in centre field
Sharrott is a wonder as waiter. They
must come over the plate or he won't
bite.
Joe Patchen, 2:O1lz, sold for $4,000, the
most money ever paid for PAGER at
private sale.
The accident to the Columbia yesterday
may result in the use of a pine stick in
the cup races.
The pacing stations Directly and
two In three heats.
McDermott gave Joe Harrington a swift
inshoot in the kidney that Jared the
Worcester short stop.
Frisbee and Rickert made running
catches of two hard flies, and were ac-
corded big hand by the kids.
( Arthur Duffy, the crack Worcester
Academy sprinter, is entered for the
Sacred Heart parish games at Boston.
Dulan dropped two easy flies in right
field, and was as unconcerned about the
errors as though the ball never touched
him.
Walter Curley was pleasantly received
by the fans. He covered territory around
second in the way that made him famous
at Holy Cross,
If Murphy's playing is true criterion
of his ability, it might be just as well if
Manager Leonard looked no further for a
second baseman.
Carr although right-hand batter, al
most invariably puts a ball in right gar
den. He laced a couple out there yester-
day for two bases.
1t is seldom that a score will show
player making twice as many runs as he
is credited times at bat. Sharrott has
that record for yesterday.
But for the fact that Shannon. blocked
Murphy'S path between second and third,
our new man might have made a home
run on that hit inside the grounds in the
first.
For the championship one-hour paced
race between Harry Elkes and Tom Lin
ton, the formers whirlwind motor quad
is barred. The agreement calls for tan
dem motor pace. +s
Charlie Kuhns did some of the neatest
sacrifice hitting ever seen on a diamond
In yesterdays game. Many of Sharrott's
scores were made possible by Kuhns'
work with the bat.
Martin Bergen, who throughout the
summer has been catching Nichols, has
put the money to good use. He has add
farm This does not necessarily mean
that he has been signed by the Farmers.
The names of the tennis experts have
materially changed in the last two years.
Whitman, Davis, Ward, Johnson, Pell,
Allen, McKittrick, Ware, Huntington
experts now assembled at Southampton,
are old timers
The gelding Glory, 2:161a, winner of the
5000 stake at Dover last week, is by Sir
Walter, 21Sh. Capt Charles T. .Prett's
handled by Walter Warren, at the West
'boro track, in preparation for the fall
colt races. She has recently shown
mile in 2:35 The great race mare Alci-
out of a Lambert mare, has entirely re-
covered from the accident which put her
back early in the season, and will be ex-
pected to figure prominently in the fast
classes later in the season.
Among the Boston Herald's base BAN
notes yesterday were these editorial COM
ments: In Chicago faxseed closed at:
Cash, 81 cents; September, 95% cents;
October, sb1z cents; December, IS cents"
"Blackberries sold at 7QS cents; blue
berries, Gas cents; native raspberries,
pints, egS cents; currants. SQ9 cents"
The Boston Auction Company sold
VI ;30d2. Is. prunes, $l.350$1. S." "'The st.
Adams VT, butter is steady General
price, IL cents; selections, II cents fair to
good, 1904 cents; creamery 10 cents"
Better play ball. Cherries are not rine.