The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-24
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Let's have mile race track and moth
ing else.
Major Taylor has gone into training be-
hind the internal machine.
Trotting ostriches are to be an attrac-
ton this year at the agricultural fairs
Holy Cross base ball team is tinged
hue that is entirely purple and is playing
royal ball.
Plunkett williams star pitcher will
occupy the box for his team at the col
lege grounds today.
The Weld crew will not enter the Har-
lem regatta and has abandoned rowing
for the present.
All up for the races of the Associated
Cycle Clubs of Worcester next fourth OK
July at Westboro.
With Capt. Houghton out of the game,
Harvard Is severely Handicapped for the
Princeton game, Saturday.
The Worcesters have certainly been in
hard luck on this trip. SO many post
poned games are felt by the treasury.
Hartford with Billy Nash. Matt Kilroy,
Billy Shindle and Sockalexis will be sure
of a big reception when they play here.
The associated bicycle clubs of Worces-
ter mean business, and an up-to-date bl-
cycle track is not a remote possibility.
Almonite. by Baron Wilkes. is the first
new winning trotter of the year. She took
a record Of 2:2534 recently at Norfolk. va.
1t is generally conceded that the inter-
scholastic contest viii be race between
Worcester Academy and the high school.
Village Farm this season will be out for
the trotting record. the pacing record the
stallion record and the double team hon
ors.
The organization of the Associated
Cycle Clubs of Worcester will do much
to promote friendly rivalry between the
local riders.
When that new board cycling track is
finished and the merry whirr of wheels
are heard, then will be the palmy days OF
the cyclist.
With a team crippled by the absence Of
the star first basemali-McIigue Holy
Cross ventured into the wilds of Ver-
mont and came home victorious.
All ball players are more or less In
dams, but the Hartford team with Socka-
lexis in left field will have a monopoly on
the appellation in the Eastern league.
With but two defeats in its long string
of victories and the class of ball played
the game at the college grounds deserved
better patronage than has been accorded
this season.
All the local clubs with the exception
of the Vernons and Krafve clubs were
present at the organization of the Assoc
ciated Cycle Clubs and they are expected
to come into the fold later as their SYM
pathies are with the movement.
Two representatives of two bicycle
clubs will hold large and enthusiastic
meeting tonight to decide the course for
the 10-mile road race. When the discus
sion ends the management viii follow ne
old plan of doing as 1t pleases.
The Syracuse Journal has unsheathed
the hammer and says that up to the time
of going to press its has been unable to
verify the rumor that Boston has loaned
Nichols to Worcester. Somebody wants
TO put his hand out and see If he is still
in bed
The Hartford Couranr IN summing up
the results of Mondays games throws II
into its own team in this wise: Toronto
dropped from second to fourth place,
Syracuse passed Providence Montreal in-
creased its lead. and Hartford took
fresh grip on last place
The Springfield Union rises to remark:
Perhaps Worcester won't wish she mad
borrowed Pfttenger before the season Is
over" The occasion for the remark Is
found IN SprinPheld's victory over Tor
onto Monday But it's pretty near time
Springfield tumbled TO the fact thai Wor-
cester has a capital corps Of pitchers. any
one of whom can discount Mr.. Pittenger;
And the Worcester pitchers are backed
by a team of hitters that will make Mr..
Pittenger look like 67 cents when they get
through with his pitching
There can be no stopping IN the midst
OF a game to change rules The Gram.
The Spy is glad to. see that its claim is
admitted. The Spy claims that after fol-
lowing the intercollegiate athletic rule.
in requiring the points 10 be divided
among the tied contestants IN the high
jump. Referee Adams stopped in the
midst OF a game TO change rules" when
he required the points in the pole vault