The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-05


casional briliiance Of the erratic south
paw.
Herman is liable to be signed by Cincin-
natl or st. Louis. His release from the
of the league championship team of 1888
and 1889.
Harrington spat on his bat for luck
the other day, and was Immediately after
let the skeptics deride the efficacy of ex-
pectoration.
Billy Dyer. the Holy Cross shortstop,
is to play shortstop for the North At
tleboro, base ball team, and left for there
yesterday morning. He will play his
first game there today.
Most cyclists think they have done
good thing when they clip fraction of
a second off record, cut. ,Worcester's
crack colored rider has habit of knock
ing the seconds off in hunks of five or
The efforts of the Springfield base ball
chronoclist to lay the blame of all the
defeats Of his darlings to Umpire Gruber
are ludicrous. There have been two
worse umpires in the league this year
than Gruber.
With Springfield the games now stand
six each, with four to play. If the team
is kept as it is now, it's a good wager
that Springfield won't win half the num-
Der, and it wouldn't require odds that
the Ponies don't get single game.
Worcester has been greatly strength
ened by the return Of Frisbee from Bos-
ton and by the new second baseman. The
sale Of Klobedanz will be regretted by
the Providence team for he was an
easy thing for them.-Providence Jour
nal.
| The indianapolis and Minneapolis clubs
were discharged by jury as not guilty
1 of playing a Sunday. game, the other day:
The police broke in before the first round
was ended, and the jury who knew base
ball, realized that no game had been
played.
Hartford comedies the pennant to
| Rochester. Times Is that So
! Well what license has Hartford to con-
! cede the pennant to anybody? That team
hasn't chance for the flag. Worcester
will be in the race somewhere, and it
don't eoncede the bunting to the rowdies
yet.
1t is said that the National League
pennant depends on the condition of
the Eastern League pennant depends
upon that self-same knee If he stays
well, Frisbee stays with us, and II F'ris.
bee stays-well, we'll finish ahead of
Springfield, anyhow.
Doescher apparently regrets having
quit because he could not have his way
when he demanded the Suspension of
Smink, O'Hagan and Burke Of the Ro-
cause he was out of pocket on long
| jumps. Incidentally, he says the Roches-
ter team is playing ''rough-house'' ball.
Considerable praise appears to be due
Manager. Arthur Irwin for the clever way
he has built up the Washington team.
| Although Wagner sold Setback, Casey,
| Farrell MCGUIRE and other star players,
| Irwin secured other men of comparative
them into pretty fast team.-New York
| Sun.
A Quaker City writer springs the fol-
| lowing cold-blooded knock: Long has
son that the Boston club is said to be
| looking around for another shortstop."
! Not on your life The Flying Dutch
man" looks the. best ball pl r at short
| field yet of any man In IT, business
Boston Post.
| Matty Mathews and Spike Sullivan met
yesterday to make a match, but after
lengthy argument, nothing. was ar
| held the pair back from doing business.
AS the Coney Island Athletic Club will
make a good offer for the match, IT
agreed upon the next time Sullivan and
Mathews meet.
The Indians will meet the Ponies during
1.-The latter part of the week, and Tom
zrGSn w e. n oTm a
go wrong and it's lot better to crow
afterward than before There's nothing
looks so sheepish as a bantam rooster
| lantern for daylight and begins growing
before he discovers his error.-Springfield
Union.
Walter Burgo's essay In Portland as
boxing promoter, the other night, was not
the tlattering success IT might have BEEN
According to some Of the Forest City
boxing experts the show, from scierf-
tific and financial standpoint, was a
| bloomer.' in the words of "One-Eyed''
Connolly, and in plain English, a dismal
failure. Some of the alleged boxers got
car fare, but it is limited they were lucky
to get that
Il never drink beer, whisky or chew
tobacco" said Nichols, the other day. at
Cincinnati. II scarcely know what in
toxicating liquor tastes like. have
years. can pitch a game every third
day and in a pinch can pitch every other
day Yes, attribute RI its my powers Of en-.
think IT hurts. pitcher to take glass
Of beer once in a while"
| The Brooklyns have taken a slump in
batting, despite Manager Hanlons effort
to strengthen. this department. DahIen,
Jones and Anderson are away below their
| form of last year. Kelley, too has not
been hitting up to expectations. The
weak hitting has been particularly notice.
| able at Washington Park. and some of
the players give as q reason that the
| pitchers box Is elevated too much. there
by giving the twirlers an undue advant-
age.
! 1t is plain the Canadians do not share
t, the spirit of craftsmanship Of their Eng
| lish fathers. The granting Of the Sea-
wanhaka cup to the Glencairn, after the
unsportsmanlike conduct of punraven.
| When the Yale crew at Henley finished
the course alone after the Leander crew
/ had met with misfortune, they were
thoroughly roasted by the British press.
But the Canadians had no computations
in doing the same, thing however APP
| parent IL was that the course was unfair
| ly and improperly marked Off
The grave OF william A. Hubert in.
Graceland cemetery, says the Chicago
Journal, is perhaps the only one In the
world which is marked with tombstone
| in the shape of base ball. Mr.. Hubert
was the president of the old National
League and when he died, IN 1882, some
| of old associates set about to show their
love and respect for him. and. the result
base ball is made of red granite, about
| 20 inches in diameter, showing the seams
as they appear upon one OF the balls
used in regulation games. Across the top
bert president National League, p b. B.
c., 1876, 1882" On one side appear the
names of four clubs in the old league
Boston, Providence, Worcester, Troy
and on the other those Of the other four
-Chicago Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit.
Also there is headstone Of white mar
BILE. upon which appears the name, to-
| gether with the date of birth-Oct 49,
1SS2-and the date Of death-April 10, 1882.
Saint Peter-which wife do you want to
ilive with?
shade-Are they all here?
| Saint Peter-Yes
shade thoagAt yog said this was