The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-26
SPORTING NOTES.
Rochester at the oval today.
Rnh,t Strathnnnre Is a winner.

Baby Strathmore is a winner.
| The horses go at Concord this week.
The mile track scheme dropped dead at
its birth.
Boston wants the national track cham
! pionships.
Horton goes into the box against the
| Rochesters this afternoon.
Entries close today for the Charter Oak
summer meeting July to 8.
Pull together and win the second game
| in the series with Rochester.
Curley is playing a fast second base for
Springfield. lie has his eye on the ball,
too
Umpire Boyd seems to be having his
troubles. Let us hope ne Is not second
| edition of Burns.
In spite of the drought all spring, the
| Eastern League now has 70 postponed
games on its hands.
Leroy won the cup for the highest aver
age in the Bellows Falls shoot last week,
| getting 31S out of $40.
Burkett still leads the st. Louis team In
batting, though he is not up to his aver
age of last year. Burkett has been sick.
| An effort Is being made in Hartford to
| get together in a special running race
| Imp, who won the suburban, and Banas-
| ter the last horse in.
The Columbia went aground soon after
| leaving the shop. The superstitious IN
| cline to believe that means the Shamrock
| will win Americas cup.
The Bay State Gun Club likes its new
| location better than the old. The only OBJ
| lection to the Shrewsbury. site Is that 1t Is
| outside of the five cent fare limit.
American lads have been winning sport
| ing events in London recently, and there
| is no question Of their amateur standing.
| Something is wrong on the other side.
L. P. Sheldon, Yale, go won four Of the
eleven events at the athletic Champion
ships of finance, held a short while ago.
He established two records for France.
Lehr of the University of Michigan is
said to have speed to burn. The crowds
at the oval would like to furnish matches
and let him burn some here, Mr.. Marston.
Both the eastern and western sections
of our country look with admiration on
the Worcester boy, Pow1rs, who has q
wonderful faculty of winning so many
events.
Worcester athletes who competed at
Riverside thought what a grand place
might be constructed at the lake upon
the same lines as the recreation grounds
are at that place.
H. G. Wheeler Of Marlboro shot 5s2 tar
gets out of a possible 420 at Cleveland last
week, an average Of .9O9 per cent. he VIII
make himself known at some of the east
ern shoots this year.
Jimmy Collins Of the Bostons has played
every game for the last two seasons. Col
Inns says it's often against the grain to
play. Wonder what he would say If he
had to carry the nod?
Providence has played six errorless
games this season, Toronto three, SPRING
field Worcester and Montreal two each,
Rochester and Hartford one each, while
Syracuse has yet to play one.
1t did look as though Billy Moran
would be defeated Saturday at the New
England championships, but the gritty
high school runner turned certain defeat
into victory by his plucky running.
It's amusing 10 read the effusion of the
| Springfield scribes when their team wins
! from the tailenders. It's easy 10 guess,
from the bouquets that are tossed among
the Ponies, where the scribes get most Of
their cigars.
One of the Boston papers referred to ].
Fred Powers as Powers of Dorchester.
Those Boston sheets make a great blum
when writing athletics, but they hold all
kinds of records for getting sporting news
Of this city twisted.
Wray is out with a challenge to Jake
Gaudaur Wray will require a propeller
on his shell TO keep up with Gaudaur. He
can have all he wants in race with Ras
Rogers, and the backing Of the latter will
come from Worcester, too.
The stewards Of the Coney Island Jockey
| Club have decided to refuse the entry Of
| George Keene for all overweight events
| for the remainder of the Sheepshead Bay
meeting. on account Of the horses vicious
actions at the post In the suburban.
Worcester would like a first-rate mile
track. but the present generation will
never see one. Racing has had too uncer-
tain a record locally in the past to war
rant the belief that the grand circuit
races could be brought here for the ask
ing
II the American athletes play ball In
England some Of the chappies viii insist
] that cricket Is better game doncher