The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-18
WERE SHUT OUT.
Holy Cross Blanks
Collegians From
Williams.
BRILLIANT PLAYS.
Visitors Literally Threw
Game Away by Ragged
Work at Times.

If the cheerful giver is assured Of a
good place in the line, the ball players
of Williams College will be next to the
drum major when the parade goes
past. On the diamond at Holy Cross
yesterday they gave up better than a
candidate for deaconship, who seeks to
make good impression with the par
ish corporation.
Presents came faster to Holy Cross
than youngster gets in his stocking
when Santa Claus has been working
full time and pay day comes around
regularly.
On the day previous Williams did
things to Harvard College ball team,
and many lovers of the game in this
city wondered if the Holy Cross play
ers were in the position of dead beat
at the bar, up against it. One of the
cranks in the stand predicted that
Williams, coming to Worcester fresh
from it's defeat of Harvard, would en-
terrain the lads of Mt. st. James in
somewhat the same fashion as the
Spanish inquisition entertained it's
guests. But the trouble was Williams
did not come fresh from it's defeat of
Harvard. The men came tired. The
strain of the game at Cambridge was
too great. The Williams men bent I'M
der it for a time, and they went the
way of a fellow who starts out with a
lively crowd that has twice as much
money as he.
The Williams men literally threw the
game away. They never had as much
as q second mortgage on the contest,
but they seemed to fear that somehow
or other they might give Holy Cross a
tussle. They started in right away to
guard against anything of that sort,
and it didn't take them long to put the
game SO high they couldn't reach it
with balloon.
1t wasn't particularly to Holy Cross
credit to win over such ball playing as
Williams put up yesterday. A team that
could be beaten in that kind of a game
wouldn't recognize a real base ball
game. But Holy Cross did deserve
great credit for shutting out its oppO-
nents Twice during the game Will
liams had a great chance to score, but
exceptionally good work held them
back.
Holy Cross played an unusually good
game of ball Clancy was more effect
i've against the Williams men than 100
lines of Greek are against going out
of bounds When ne went out on the
diamond nobody knew just what he
would be able to do, but few of his
intimate acquaintance thought he
might do. He did. When he got a full
swing on his right wing the Williams
men who stood near the rubber, saw
a streak of smoke go past They swished
at it and tore big holes in the breeze
which swept across the field. Occasion
ally he threw UP what is sometimes re-
ferred to as a bender"
Before the game was half gone they
saw what a frightful thing a bender
is, and they silently vowed they would
never go on one of those things.
Williams played a fine game of ball.
1t is said that all players have a day
off occasionally. If that is true, there
must have been a preconcerted ar
rangement on the part of Williams
men to take their day off together ard
to work in an entire vacation at the
same time.
It was a pitchers hattie with honors
easy. Both men did good work. Rent
wasn't any prize puzzle to Holy Cross
batsmen, but he pitched with such good
judgment that he had them hitting easy
flies and grounders. With anything
like decent backing up, he would have
pitched the Holy Cross men out.
On the other hand, Clancy received
better support than policeman does
from those who live along his heat.
Nothing went past the Holy Cross man.
Once or twice Clancy had more trouble
than a man trying to drive herd of
swine. He did as well as he could but
he was few points below the boar J..
His mates came to the rescue.
The weather was perfect for ball
game. When the contest opened there
was every indication of sharp work
Clancy owned the first inning with two
strike outs. Dyer took the spectators
to their feet with a one-handed catch
of hot liner. But when Williams came
in it was different. O'Reilly got a base
on balls, stole second and kept going
to third on a bad throw. A long fly al
lowed him to score.
Linnehan's base on balls, Kenney's
three-bagger and a wild throw by Bent
gave two runs in the fourth. O'Reilly
scored in the fifth. He got a base on
balls, went to second on another bad
throw by Bent, took third when Fox
was out at first, and scored on Ed
wards wild throw. The fifth run came
in the seventh. Fox hunted and beat
the ball. He stole second and scored on
Linnehan's drive straight out
Twice during the game Williams had
the bases full and was retired without
a run. In the fifth Clancy gave three
bases on balls. The bases were filed
and two out. O'Reilly made a pretty
catch and saved the day. Again in the
eighth Clancy gave two bases on balls
with a single sandwiched in and only
one out. Holy Cross had good luck
The next man up, hit to Gaffney right
on the bag. He put out the runner and
returned it to the plate fast enough to
head off the man trying to score from
third.
In the second inning Risley and Ly-
decker made a pretty double play. Bent
split his right hand in the eighth, stop
ping a hard hit ball from Kenney's bat
The score:
HOLY CROSS.