The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-30
SPORTING NOTES,
Who is O'Neil?

Hollands reputed sore foot isn't cut
| ting down the odds.
With Connie Murphy out of the city,
what will Worcester be?
| Rigby will call the horses to Portland
the last week in September.
| There is a postponed game due between
the Farmers and Montreal.
Frisbee had his first tilt with an East
ern League umpire yesterday.
The Empire City track at New York is
ready for its inaugural meeting.
No more double-headers. Manager
after
Charlie Dooleys grin couldn't be seen
in this city, but it must have been far
reaching.
Nobody seems to have noticed it: but
the hoppled horses were barred at Read
| vile last week.
The horses will go over the old saugus
| track next week, and all the half-mile
track stars will be there.
A frst-year pennant winner wouldn't
be the best thing that could happen for
Eastern League base ball.
| With polo in Worcester, interest in
base ball will not freeze up this winter
The two are closely linked.
| Boston's only chance for the pennant
IS the biggest kind of a brace, coupled
with slide by the Superbas
Experienced betters are shy on the Nc
Laughlin- Holland match race. Five to-
three odds on Holland looks queer.
! Terril S, 2:0S4, owned in Whitinsville,
! lowered the Maine half-mile track race
/ record to 2:15A at Pittsfield, Saturday.
Mike sullivan's big league find, Will
liams of Pittsburg, played a wonderfully
last game in all departments Monday.
| Frederick Bucklin of the Bay State Gun
| Club has had no response from Griffith on
! Wheeler's challenge to shoot a 100-bird
| race Sept. 8.
/ A +rolIo,, 1aa1,,. ~
the Attleboros and possibly Woonsocket
or Taunton, is one of next seasons base
bali schemes.
Worcester and Montreal are hot after
second place. nooley may make good
| his promise to land the Canncks at the
| leaders heels
Montreal against Hartford today. The
! Wooden Indians will get big cheer if
they trim the Canucks. Montreal is but
one game behind the Farmers.
When the Farmers get back on the
home grounds for the Labor day game
with the Ponies, there Will be the big
gest crowd of the year at the oval.
Jerry Denney, the veteran third base
the Connecticut league he is being footed
blood.
| O'Loughlin has no peer as a chesty UNI
pire. He .puffs out and struts around like
a peacock. while the bleacherites howl
To him jeers are cheers, and cheers
Kisses.
Taking the hand discarded by a poker
| player and beating him with it after the
| draw is about the size of the Robinson
| McGraw feat this season." says an Elk
| change.
The classes for the races at the Worces-
| ter east fair at Clinton, Sept. IA and To-
are; Free-for-all, 2:20 2:24, 2:27 2:30, 24O
Every race is for trotters and PAGERS, and
entries close Friday.
Col. John E. Thayer, president of the
Worcester east fair at Clinton. has mag
unanimously barred Morh Miller. 2:O7%,
from the free-for-all in connection with
the cattle show Sept. Is.
Even the official scorer has taken a
tumble and has read in The Spy and all
papers having license to claim ac-
curacy, that Frisbee winds up his name
with two els, and not lie.
Johnny Poe, of gridiron fame, has en-
listed for service in the Philippines. Poe
has coached every Princeton team since
1891, and is member of the famous Poe
family of foot ball heroes
The Toronto team has taken a bad
slump and is getting knocked hard at
home. The local papers blame the man
ager, the manager the players. and the
players the public for the teams poor
showing.
Burke, the Rowdies' star third baseman,
has let the cat out. He belongs to Mil
waukee and is farmed man. It's safe
betting he will be in the west next year.
summer of bliss
Westervelt the ex-Giant, was sprung
by North Attleboro on Attleboro in the
game Saturday, under the name of
Lippe. Some one in the crowd caught on
and stacked money on the north-town
team Westervelt won his game.
New England League base ball is dead
and the resurrection seems years ahead.
taken at the gate. The Manchesters re-
| ceived $25, and the remainder was to be
distributed among home manager and
players.
And now Winsted wants to get into the
| state league. 1t is said that Fred Klobe-
| danz, late of the Bostons, will ask for a
| franchise next year.-Hartford Courant
| That's nothing; when Kloby had 'cramps"
| he promised to ask for his release and
join Webster. Whose pipe is going now?
Chief thinner at Louisville got off the
! only joke he was ever known to perpe-
| trate on the ball field. Some of the spec
atoS Is w es be bic L eSef SMILEY Pe
| Guess there must have been whole lot
| of hammers found around here when the
| grandstand burned down, said he.
The boys at the Denver Wheel Club
started a subscription yesterday to send
| the d. w. C. base ball team to Boston to
| play the winners in the National League.
| The paper was put in the hands of George
one stole the paper and all the money SUBJ
| scribed, amounting to "a cents.-Denver
| Republican
Entries close today with John w. Bow
| Ter, Charlesbank gymnasium, for the am
ateur handicap athletic games at Centen-
| NAL Grove. Essex, on Labor day, under
| the joint auspices of the st. Joseph's C. T.
| A. of Lynn and FIR. Mathew T. A. S. of
Peabody The events are: 100-yard. 440-
1 yard, 8S0-yard and one mile runs and the
running broad jump: First, second and
| third prizes will be given.
! The Georgetown University team of the
| past season, unquestionaby the strongest
aggregation of collegians in the base ball
world has gone to pieces Only Cranston,
| catcher: Walsh, left field and Downes
| centre field, will return to college. Bach,
| its best pitcher, was expected to return
4 for a postgraduate course, but has
| changed his mind. White. the fast left
| hand twirler pitched for the professional
| Orange Athletics, and the faculty barred
| him out, as well as Moran, the short stop,
| who likewise erred with the Atlantic City
| team. Kenna, the other twirler, was also
| barred. Capt. Mccarthy is practicing
medicine, and Fleming and Hafford will
| not go back to college.-Exchange
| AS the situation stands today, Brooklyn
| has far and away the better position in
| the league race Boston, that was looked
1 upon as likely to make a strong finish, is
| exhibiting astonishing weakness. 1t is the
| first time that the Bostons have shown
any disposition to sulk when actually
| called upon to make driving finish
against a team ahead Western news
papers assert that Bergen gives the i'm
spression of one who is little concerned in
| whether school keeps or not. Rest as
sured that If this is the case the example
| Will spread to other players for the Bos-
| tons have so long depended upon their
perfect system of team work that they
| are more than likely to become very in
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