The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-09
The most contented people in the city

The most contented people in the city
yesterday were the fans and others
who went to the ball game at the oval.
They wouldn't have exchanged places
with the iceman. While the rest of the
city was sweltering the men who at
! tended the game Invested themselves
of their coats and sat in the cool
grandstand watching the contest be-
tween Worcester and Hartford.
1t was an ideal game from a Worces-
ter standpoint. For several innings the
game was sharply contested, Then just
as the crowd began to work itself up
to the worrying point the Worcesters
began to pull away from BARNES
bIackbirds like a ringer distancing the
field in a slow class.
The game was full of good things,
but there was one play which would
make a man forget he had home. 1t
happened in the seventh inning, when
three blackbirds got on the bags, where
they stood as contented as tin'ee old
crows in a tree. There was not a man
out. Then came two-base hit.
The birds lit out like jailbirds es-
Gaping from the prison, but only one
ever saw the light of day. The ball
got in before the second man could and
before the blackbrds knew where they
were at they were jumbled up in a
heap on the base lines. The ball was
tossed around a few times, and in a
trice there was a trio of dead birds. The
retriever got them all and the side was
retired.
The play pulled Worcester out of a
hole deep than the bottomless pit. The
Hartfords were full of ginger and
thought they had bully chance. The
crowd went wild over the play.
1t was a magnificent day for a game
and a magnificent crowd attended. The
weather was so warm that the players
could let out to their fullest extent,
while the shade of the stand made it
as comfortable place as could be
found yesterday.
The game was one of the best of the
season. For several innings the con-
test was hot enough to burn. The
Hartfords played great ball and held
the Worcesters back easily. The WOr-
cesters also played good ball, and Hart
ford didn't get enough runs to do any
Dragging Then Worcester began to
hit hard, yet Hartford played well, and
Worcester had to earn pretty near ev-
cry run Klobedanz was a trifie wild,
which added to the uncertainty and
made Hartford's possibilities appear
good.
There was plenty of free hitting
which everybody likes and the errors
were scattered over such a space that
they were hardly noticeable until the
last inning, when Hartford made two
easy ones. But they passed without
notice, for the game was ali but won
then.
The hard, clean hitting of the Wor-
cesters was the feature Of the game,
which sent the spectators into costa
sizes Hartford took the lead and Wor-
cester couldn't score. The blackbirds
were singing a lively tune, and every
body saw that Worcester would have
to bat it out. Frisbee started the hit
ting, and his good example was fol-
lowed by nearly every man on the
team.
1t was the finest exhibition of batting
the Worcesters have given. For, al
though some of the men did not hit
safe. they went at Knell as a flock Of
creditors on an attached bankrupt.
Carr, Bransfield. Yeager and Kobe
DAM did the hitting. Klobedanz start
ed the good work by home run with