The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-19
SPORTING GOSSIP.
PithY Paragraphs Quilted From Daily
Happenings Here and Abroad.


All up for a race track.
Well, boys, you're doing better.
Poor Harvard is meeting defeats from
all sides.
Hickman is proving to be a good man
for Boston.
Worcester Gun Club shoot at BARRIERS
Crossing, tomorrow.
Springfield has already five postponed
games on account of rain.
A game without an error by Harrington
would be something strange.
Coach Mccarthy has performed wond-
ers in the playing of the Holy Cross
team.
No National League umpire ever started
with as much good will from players as
Jim McGarr will Monday.
The game with the fast, Georgetown
team will show Holy Cross ability to
stay with the top notchers.
The white mans burden is too much for
| SockaleXis and may result in his perma-
nent retirement from the diamond.
Dyer, the clever short stop of the local
colegians is showing d wonderful inn
Iprovement in throwing to first base.
Holy Cross will certainly show up well
at the top Of the column Of college teams
! at the close Of the college base ball sea-
sos.
If the present fast gait is maintained,
| Holy Cross will be a favorite in the race
! for the collegiate base ball champion
ship.
bicycle race is a spill, and there's no bet
! ter track in the world for a spill than
the oval.
Betting on the Taylor-Butler race at
Westboro next Saturday continues to be
actively INDUCED in by the admirers OF
both men. oaee.aa 3"
Capt. Jack" Brennan is responsible in
a great measure for the excellent team
work showed by the local collegians in
their games.
at the next game May n, the third in
! the series will be played on the Yale
! field May 81.
Major Taylor is fit to go to the race
of his life, and Tom Butler must go close
! to the record if the Worcester man is
4 beaten tomorrow
Georgetown university base ball team
has at last met its first defeat at the
hands Of a college club, the University OF
Pennsylvania doing the trick.
The last of the trainers left the fair
grounds track yesterday. The Spy an
nounced where and when they were to
take their departure a month ago.
Major Taylor has way of sitting on
! his wheel not unlike the manner in which
Tod Sloan sits his horse Both styles
are as unique as they are successful.
Eddie Wilder was a favorite with the
| Worcester team and all the players tried
to assist him by suggestions when at bat
and in the field. They are sorry to see
him pass.
Let every horseman who wants Wor-
cester to have a race track attend the
meeting of the Worcester Agricultural So
ciety. The vote may be close, and every
ballot counts
If the doctors and lawyers will play
their annual game for some charitable
purpose, and put in all the side attrac.
tons, the oval would not accommodate al
who would want to be present.
The N E. A. r. A. voted to allow the
Boston school crews to enter the Spring
field regatta. Worcester high has been
rowing only one year more than the Bos-
ton schools, but is regarded as holding a
position in higher class.
The high school crew is not doing any
sky rocket work but steadily and con-
sistently shaping to perfection. Each
trial shows improvement over it's pre-
decessor and by a week from Saturday
the boys will be able to row close to the
lake record.
Youngsters in school are taught that
'.0' adds nothing to a number. Maybe
that is the reason the Boston Globe has
been putting a ''0 to the attendance tlg-
| ures at the Cambridge games and making
a crowd of 50 appear like 500. That extra
'O' means good deal.
Worcester should have a good-mile
track. If this cannot be obtained, half
mile ring is the next best thing The only
seat at the meeting of the worcester
| Agricultural Society today 1t may be
too late tomorrow or next day.
The Rev. J. P. Clyde, the mile runner
who took second prize at the Yale dual
track games with Harvard. in the mile
run last Saturday, was graduated We'd
| nesday, when the commencement eNef-
cises of the Yale Divinity School took
place. He will leave Yale tomorrow to
enter upon his duties as pastor OF a
small church in Iowa. He will not run
in the intercollegiate games, and his abb
sence will cost Yale point
About as useless an adjunct to team
as a scare crow in a hot house. is Chiles,
the official coacher of the Philadelphia.
| He runs up and down the coachers' box
! like a rooster on hot glass, incessantly
scratching gravel and Tapping his hands.
/ His antics have no effect on the opposing
! pitcher, and certainly do not cause the
Phillies to move any faster on the bases
| They unearth queer things in Quaker
| dom, but Chiles is the queerest thus far
produced.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The game is booming in Baltimore,
| owing to the unexpected success of Nc
| Graw and his colts. The Baltimore Her
aid believes that the team is a champion
! ship possibility, and has offered the play
| ers $1,000 if they finish first, $500 If they
| finish second and $3.50 for third. The
paper says that its sincerest wish is that
| 1.-The Baltimore Club may win the first
/ prize of $1,000, because it would do good
! to the members of the team, good to the
| city Of Baltimore and good to the Morn
ing Herald. The best of luck to the
/ Oriolesl"
There is a lot of talk among big league
! magnates of two big circuits next season,
| one of which is to be composed of WASH
/ ington, Baltimore, Buffalo, Toronto and
one other city.-Providence Journal. This
| is where Montreal belongs.-Montreal Ga
zette Oh myl How heads are swelling
! up there Montreal is so far out of the
way geographically that it would have
! been dropped from the Eastern last win
| ter, if there had been any honest way to
! do it-Springfield Union. It's lucky for
| Springfield it is near Worcester and Hart
| ford, or a point would be stretched and
| that town erased from the map.
Manager Spalding has made arrange
| ments to have the games scheduled for
| Charles River Park transferred TO the
| Locust street grounds, South Boston.
| Messrs Rice and Spalding found the
| grounds at Charles River Park wholly
! ilnsuited for base ball, and decided to
| take the team to other grounds as soon
| as arrangements could be made. South
| Boston was anxious to have a minor
| league club, and the first game will be
played there this afternoon with New
| port, with Mahoney and Tom Smith, two
| local favorites. as the star attractions
Boston Globe Is South Boston more anx-
| ious than Cambridge was few weeks
ago?
CIGAR MAKERS TO PLAY.
oil can,a Arranoad Retween Teams