The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-13
GAME S TODAY.
worcester at Toronto; Hartford al
MOntrealj Providence at Rochester
Springfield at Syracuse.

Manager Leonard didn't give the box
sufficient rafting when he made the
shake up of the Worcesters for the
game yesterday. The newly placed
woroesters presented the Torontos
with the game. Harrington, who was
put on third to see if he couldn't do
better work than he has been doing on
second, gave a sorry exhibition of base
ball and was the main cause for the de-
feat. Kuhns and Wilder assisted in the
presentation. Yeager put up a good
game at second base his work being
superior to anything that has been seen
at that bag this season, but he made
one error which hurt 1t came IN the
general mix-up at that.
Toward the close of the game, Wor-
cester made big try to pull it from the
fire, but a clinker had formed under
meath and the game wouldn't come.
Had the Farmers played anything like
base ball during the early part of the
game, and made such a finish, the
crowd would place them on the top ped
estal As 1t was no crowd that ever
gathered at a game in this city pulled
as strongly for the team as the crowd
at the oval did yesterday for the Wor-
cesters Nearly every person in the
stand and bleachers howled at the top
of his voice to encourage the home
players in their heroic attempt to win
in the face of such odds.
Mr.. O'Loughlin, who handled the in
dictator, certainly made poor show
ing. He was particularly unfortunate
in giving all his decisions against the
Worcesters. 1t is a rare occurrence fol
an umpire to be Kissed in Worcester
by any considerable number of specta-
tors. But yesterdays crowd, which
could applaud little Rothfuss when he
laced the ball over the right field fence
with two men on bases Kissed and
hooted at the decisions of O'Loughlin
They were simply raw.
Horton was on the tablet for Wor-
cester. and pitched good game lie
was touched up 10 times, but the eff
fective hits came after the side should
have been retiTed. With all their hit
ting, Toronto did not earn single run
which shows that Horton is not in the
least to blame for the defeat. The
support he received was enough tC
drive man to drink. Again and again
easy grounders were fumbled anc
throws made which sent excruciatinG
pains through the hearts of the spec
tators.
The Torontos deserved the victory
When the bad work of the Worcester
gave lH6IH a CudllCGt lHcy gu dllCA 1
faster than q hobo chases a free lunch
Their playing on the bases was fas
and accurate in great contrast to thu
dumb work of the Worcesters. In th'
field. they put up a magnificent game
To be sure, they made errors, and som'
of them were extremely costly, bu
there was no dumb ball playing, anC
they gave no signs of going to pieces
When man made an error, it seemed
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which was what they did.
Their pitcher, Alloway, had the Wor
cesters down pat. He kept the bal
over the plate we'll except in one in
ming, when he lost the map of the rub
Der. He relied on his fielders for sup
port, and got it.
Toronto won the game in two in
nings. the fourth and sixth. In tn
former. Harrington fumbled thre
Krounders in quick succession. Hor
ton got in a wild pitch. A single b.
Wagner and a home run by Rothfus
netted FIVE runs. They went one bet
ter in the sixth. Three singles,
wild throw by Kuhns, an error by Yea
ger and an easy muff by Wilder, CAV
six runs. Two singles, as many steals
another wild pitch and a muff b.
Kuhns, gave two more in the eighth.
A single steal, force-out and Brans
fields double, gave Worcester two run
in the first inning. Riekert drove
ball to the fence in deep left for
homer in the third, and Worcester hat
what appeared like a winning run, a
the play had been sharp up to tina
point. After the fourth. Worcester di'
not get a hit until the eighth. 1t looke'
as If they might win out. Two base
on balls. with a single sandwiched in
filled the bags. Frisbee put wings Of
the sphere, and it sailed over the RICH
field fence. four runs resulting. A bas
on balls. tumble and single, brought il
another run. That ended the scorin
for Worcester.
During the game, Umpire O'Loughlil
fined Bowman of Worcester and Davi
of Toronto s. zach for back talk. Tn
score: