The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-04
DATE IS DECIDED.
Doctors and Lawyers
to Play for Sweet
Charity.
WILL Be EVENT OF THE YEAR.
John R. Thayer and Fl. S.
Haskell Down For Spec
ial Performances.
WILL Be EVENT OF THE YEAR.

The much-mooted base ball game be-
tween the doctors and lawyers will be
played at the oval, July IA, for fun,
honor and incidentally to swell the
treasury of three worthy causes.
The proceeds will be equally divided
between the Associated Charities, the
fund for the new operating room Of st.
Vincent's Hospital and the monument
for the heroes of the Spanish
war.
This and other details of the big af-
| fair were arranged at a meeting of
representatives of the two professions,
in the office of H. Spencer Haskell. yes
terday afternoon. There were present
a score of prominent legal and medical
| lights, and business was done as handi-
Ily as each side expects to do the other
| when the bats are crossed in the ma
tional game. II. Spencer Haskell was
elected captain Of the lawyers team
| and DR.. H. S. knight will diagnose the
needs of the doctors for the day.
Charles I. Tatman was elected to pre-
| side over the treasury, which, 1t is eX-
pected, will be bursting with all kinds
| of legal tender when the struggle is
over and the dust of the fray clears.
John r. Thayer, Horace b. Very,
! Frank B. Hall, DR.. p. p. Comey, DR..
| w. Delehanty and DR.. r. W. Swan
were elected committee of arrange
ments to invent devices calculated to
coax nickels and dimes and other small
change from devotees of the national
game.
A feature of the day will be match
race at so yards, catch as-catch-can,
catch weights, for fun and fame, be-
tween John r. Thayer ard II. Spencer
Haskell. The sprint will be run of
Immediately before the game, and the
cinder track will be put in prime con-
Idition for the race, while a full am
lbulance corps will await the finish. Mr.
Haskell claims that weight will be nc
handicap, and when once the pistol
cracks, the honorable member from
Massachusetts will never once see
(which way he went
Mr. Thayer will begin training today,
and from now until the day Of the race
will sedulously avoid the State Mutual
Elevators, doing his training up and
down stairs to and from his office. He
has not forgotten the red letter day
Iwhen he erased two ninnble foxes on
the wooded slopes of 'Bumskit. This
trace will be the feature of the side
show performances. All the popular
attractions that proved more than
/ v
special request, and besides the novelty
Of seeing professional men in the role
of hurdy -gurdy players and peanut
men, there will be a host Of surprises.
The fact that the money will go to
three distinct causes will aid to swell
the crowd. There is scarcely a person
in Worcester but is more or less inter-
ested in one or another and it Is pre-
dicted that last years crowd will be
| totally eclipSed.
! Somewhere, today, far from the mad
ding throng, Webster Thayer and a
quota of legal friends are hard at work
with n1its and gloves and bats and
balls, getting in shape to make the
doctors feel sick enough to be under
| their own care The lawyers yesterday
afternoon raked out the dusty para
lphernalia Of the craft that has lain
nearly a year, and when the exodus
| from the State Mutual building came
Hast night there was blood in every eye.
These committees will attend to vari-
Gus details Of the day and game:
| On tickets-Rockwoo Hoar, DR.. e.
H. Trowbridge, Webster Thayer, DR..
F. H. Baker, Robert M. Washburn and
Charles M. Thayer.
TO collect and sell peanuts-Col
Horace B. Very and Judge George M.
Woodward.
On lemonade-Dr. L. F.. woodward,
DIR. w. j. Delehanty and David f.
| O'ConnelI.
on press-PhiIip ]. O'Connell, Henry
F. Harris and Dr. l.. D. Wheeler.
on music-Frank L. Dean and Dr.
| ]. H. Kelley.
To collect and sell eoooanut cakes
Frank B. Hall.
On ransportation-Fran H. Dewey
and DR.. Homer Gage.