The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-27
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Georgetown has scored 20 victories ana
defeat.
Worcester county south interscholastic
meet at Spencer today.
If ever there was a case of a pull, 1t
is needed at the lake today.
Nelson Jones will be at the Westboro
race track the first of the week.
Harry w. Smith will ride in the Brook
line Country Club races today and Tues
day.
The high straightforward race this. af-
ternoon is the real opening of the lake
The classes are filling in good shape
for Tuesdays races at Marlboro and
Hudson.
The ink manipulators from Becker's
didn't do a thing to the straw hat makers
yesterday.
First the ball game at Holy Cross, then
the race at the lake. It's big sporting
day in Worcester.
They're coming home now and ball
cranks say they are satisfied with the
results of the trip.
Phil King, the great Princeton half
back and ball player, is coach OF the
Georgetown ball team.
Track teams last night from South.
bridge and Warren gave the town OF
Spencer a metropolitan aspect. ,
Out-of-town schools will try to lower
the colors of Worcester educatlonal IN
situations on land and water today.
Now, Warren, show Spencer and South
bridge just why you remained dark
horse until The Spy gave you~aYaY, last
Monday.
tic arena, Spencer and Southbr1dge
ceased to compute points and got down
to real hard work.
Now that Sandy Griffin is fixed and
don't need job umpiring, w n me
matter with Connie Murphy? Echo an
sWerS Comics all right.
cambridge of Southbrdige and Bullard
of Spencer will have an opportunity 70
show their friends their relative merlts
as high hurders today.
Newport Bicycle Club riders evidently
forget that they should take pIreeautloSnI
against riding in competition with N. -
A. men in the road race.
The best track that can be built is none
too good for Worcester or the Agrlcul-
tural Society, and the sentiment IS set
thing in favor of the best or nothing.
''Play ballr will be shouted for the first
time today at Webster. When the game
is ended, either East Douglas or the mill
town boys will have to eat lots OF crow.
There were no protests at the executive
committee meeting of the l. Z. a. a.
in New York Thursday evening, the nrst
time in the memory of man that sueh
was the case.
The Springfield Union says it's funny
how all teams want to get at the SPRING
field Ponies. There's nothing funny ABOUT
it, The aim of all teams is to fatten its
percentage of wins.
M. T. Sayles is working Charles G., 2:1S.
over the PaWtucket track. He has re-
covered from the accident that hung him
on the hooks last summer, and Is SAID
to be as good as ever.
The Sherwoods fell down badly ON poll
ished alleys The newspaper men VINO
rolled on the same alleys made as good
scores as the Sherwoods, and the polish
didn't trouble them. Newspaper. men
are accustomed TO things that shine.
George Tincler defeated Fred Bacon in
a 1000 yards match race, at Glasgow,
few days ago. After he ran mile al
the oval in 4 minutes and IS seconds, two
years ago, nobody on this side of the
water thought he could be beaten by
Bacon.
r. M. Alexander, three times winner of
first time prize in the lryington-Milburn
25-inile road race, has again entered, as
has G: Stuart Boiling, one Of the famous nous
probably be Bolting's last race as he in
tends to enter the bicycle business as a
maker.
The staff of umpires this season is no
Improvement over that of last year.
There are several members of the pres
ent staff who are utterly incompetent,
and they should be removed for com
petent men, of whom there are a few
who were not appointed for personal
reasons.-New York Times.
Fournier's motor cycle Travelled a mile
under Taylor's mile record at Washing
ton on Wednesday. and great credit was
claimed for the riders. But there is a
great difference in being carried a mile
under / minute and 81 3-5 seconds on
motor cycle and travelling mile in that
time behind human pace and by ones
own exertion.
Umpire O'Loughlin is having his
troubles in other cities as well as in
Worcester Poor umpiring don't go in
any city except Springfield, where they
don't know the difference. The papers
of that city say the spectators never
kick II that is so, it must be because
the spectators don't know the difference,
for umpires make mistakes as well as
players, and it's human nature to kick.
Peep O. Day, ons of the Brooklyn han
dicap candidates, went lame at the
Brighton Beach track yesterday MORN
ing The horse worked a nice trial over
a mile and a quarter, but when he pulled
up he was very lame. 1t was found he
had thrown a bad splint on his off fore
leg. His owner, J. A. Mccormick, said
later in the day, at Westchester, that
probably Peep O. Day had run his last
race.