The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-06
SPORTING NOTES.
No more rainbow suittngs.

NO more rainbow SuitingS.
Frisbee did the grandstand yesterday.
Yeager took care of the bats yesterday
What are the colors of those new suits?
Gardner is not as fast man as Muir
ply.
Hernon hit the first ball pitched for a
safe one.
They pounded the dust off the; Miller
yesterday.
OH we'll CLANS are tough to digest
In the fourth Dunkle struck out on
three pitched balls. +
The Rhode Islanders mistook the ball
for clans and lined them out.
Some day the Worcester players will be
trying to sacrifice with two men out
The Providence players think Worces-
ter's diamond the f1ercest in the circuit.
Major Taylor wore an expansive smile
as he stepped off at the Union station,
yesterday.
One-third the population of Chicago is
composed of Germans. Klobedanz will be
at home.
The visit to pipe dream palace didn't do
the players any good. They haven't come
out of it vet.
It's about time some of the men got on
to themselves and played to win instead
of playing for record
If we keep on Strengthening that in
field we shall be able to arrange a game
with Brockton some day.
Perhaps it will be easier to guess the
hue of the new suits than it would be
TO describe the prismatic shades of the
old
Kuhns should use little Judgment and
throw to second when he has chance to
get the man at that bag. It's all ball
playing.
There was. rattling good crowd at the
oval yesterday; Best OF all, there was
a liberal sprinkling of ladies In the
grandstand.
rooter who bet on Providence prom
ised the team case of beer If they won.
The idea. How far would a case of beer
go in that crowd.
Worcester seems fated to lose before
large crowds. The team has not won but
once before a large crowd on the home
grounds this season.
Dunkle had Carr reaching for high balls
yesterday Carr should not do that. Man
ager Leonard cautioned the players about
high balls few days ago.
The Spy is confident that Leonard in
tends to follow its suggestion, and garb
his Farmers in blue jeans and provide
them with hoes and rakes.
Harrington was greeted with applause
when he came UP to bat. He is popular
with the spectators, for he plays ball for
all there IS in him and is not record
player.
A Boston travelling salesman picks out
Third Baseman Burke of the Rochester,
N. Y, Club as conner. He says Burke is
a young and scrappy. and natural ball
tosser and excellent fielder.
Bninstield's triple in the sixth was
probably the longest hit Of the year. 1t
beat out the over the fence hit of jack
litzs, and would have gone mile oyer
left field fence If headed that way.
Hanlon offered Casey and $500 for Leach
of Louisville The offer was refused.
And Hanlon paid $500 for Casey. The
young man who was farm hand In this
city for few games is rising among the
singers.
Star Pointer 1:5914, will start for the
first time this season at Charter Oak
Driving Park, Hartford, Aug. 81. He will
E 90 bsa bv hS $3.50 e. FOR
start and an additional $1,000 If he lowers
his mark.
'The attacks of an evening paper on
Leonard SAVIOR of spite. Spy.
do they? Sad, isn't 1t. The Post has
no axe to grind and Is not asking favors
we meant you, and not the Marlboro
When Walters caught q fly from Rick
ert's bat In the third he threw the ball
over the fence. Gruber fined him IS. He
should have put Walters out of the game.
ball into play and 1t didn't go on until
the Providence management agreed to
pay for the ball.
Miller has pitched seven games for Wor-
cester. Once he kept Rochester down TO
three hits. In the Others, Syracuse got IA
hits Springfield IL, Providence IA and To-
ronto Il hits and free passes. Hartford
got II hits In one game, and In another
batted him out Of the box making 10 runs
In one inning by good, clean hitting.
BY the records of last year, Gardner
won 10 out of the p games he pitched for
keeping his opponents down TO
$50 in batting and an average of four
runs tc a game while only 50 walked 10
first on balls Miller won out OF 10 for
Brooklyn. with opponents average Of 27T
and nearly Z runs to a game, while 81
drew called blanks. On the other hand.
Miller's batting and fielding were .l07 and
,S65. against Gardeners 1865 and S39 These
figures would seem to Indicate that Man
ager Leonard would do better to persuade
Gardner TO resume the box and let Miller
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