The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-03
SPORTING NEWS.
Various Items Of Interest Gathered From
Many Sources,

SyTtCuo6 llCAN'
Holy Cross and Bates today.
Montreal goes to Providence.
Horton is a red hot favorite from the
start
Fair ground trainers are beginning to
pack their trunks.
Four Harvard crews are rowing each
different stroke.
Lampe made the only balk of the game
in the second inning.
The L. A. w. has chief centurion in
the Philippine Islands.
The fans have taken a great liking to
the coaching of Horton.
1t is about time for Capt. Bowman to
get his eye on the ball.
Jack Bowen is working the royalty
bred gray PAGER Sclavonic.
Brown is not keeping up its customary
pace in base ball this year.
Worcester has sol umpires-S0O on the
bleachers and / on the field.
Ten men are in training for the Wor-
cester Cycle Club racing team.
1t is stated on good authority that Jen-
nings arm has gone back on him.
Horizons cyclone motion when he de-
livers the ball seems to mistify the bats
man.
Dad Clarke is a nervous man. He was
seen to sit down but once yesterday at
ternpon.
All up for the Fourth of July matinee
races. The old Full Moon track is still
in the game.
Beals Wright, national tennis cham
pion, is twice a winner of the the Har-
yard interscholastics.
Keller of the Brooklyn leads the league
in batting, with Heidrick OF st. Louis
second and Burkett third.
Even the basemen will begin to look out
for a false motion in throwing The balk
rule has everybody scared.
The crew of the Shamrock gets BIS a
week Later on they will get 81 extra
for each victory of the boat.
The Mary Ann" the Lakesides' new
Sharpie. is a stunner-about the warmest
thing that ever sailed the lake.
Walter Warren believes the old Full
Moon track about as good for training
as any track in Worcester county.
There ought to have been a double
play in the eighth, but the ball was too
elusive for the hands of Harrington.
Andover beats Dartmouth and Bates
administers a defeat to the academy
bows. What do scores indicate, anyway
Home runner Jacklitz left his good
stick at his hotel yesterday; he only
managed to get in one small, unimport-
ant single
Chairman Gerlach of the J.. A. w.
racing board has sent out of Chicago the
teur racing men.
Harold Money, who figured prominently
in the grand American handicap, was a
winner of the 50-bird race at Philadel-
phia, Monday He killed 40.
Anderson, Worcester boy, is keeping
knocked out a single and double in the
Brooklyn Washington contest.
Helen Kelar, the wonderful deaf,
dumb and blind girl, is learning TO ride
a wheel. She has mastered the art and
takes short spins under the guidance OF
a companion.
In registering the amateurs, Chairman
Gerlach of the l.. A. W. racing board
will number the men according TO states
Major Taylor may be expected to apply
for Massachusetts 13.
During the first part,iof the contest
the Montreals kept UP IA brisk talk N
the field. You could hardly hear yourself
think. They forgot all about this often
sive feature in the latter innings.
During the past seven days some 32i
wheelmen have been elected to member
ship in the L. A. w, of which number
total membership in this state 1882.
The death of Frank Martin, better
known as Young James" who was
knocked out by a terrific blow over the
heart, by Frank McHenry, at Albany
adds another to the long list of fatali-
ties of the ring.
George Towns of Australia beat Will
liam Barry of PutneY by four lengths in
the race yesterday for the professional
sculling championship of England and a
purse of 94O0, over the course from Put
ney to Mortlake.
The Worcester Sportsman's Club is out
for one of the most successful seasons
ever known in Worcester at the traps
The old club, which has national repu-
tation as a champion producer, is re-
newing its youth like the eagle.
The Dorchester wheelmen will hold q
l0-mile handicap road race on Blue Hill
avenue boulevard, May So in the fore
noon. The course is one of the best in
New England, and the prize list will
contain no less than 80 position and three
time prizes.
Benton NJ, by Gov. Benton, dam Sadie
M, by Dauntless, has gone into training
for the big stallion race at the Empire
City Trotting Club meet in July. The
5000 free-for-all will call out the great
est GALAXY of trotting stations ever as
sembled in a race, all the glib ones being
entered with the exception of Tommy
Britton.
Our own John l.. Sullivan has come
out with the statement that he is not
an eXpansionist. 1t is true that he has
contracted considerably since his hal
cyon days of fistic triumph, but it is
well to learn that his intellectual pneu-
matte tire is still unpunctured.-Bost
Herald. Wouldn't John like to meet the
writer of that paragraph?