The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
SPORTING NOTES.

kuhns played major league pail yeSter-
day
Toronto plays tomorrow. Horton will
pitch for Worcester,
Bayers who took Leach's place in Lou
isville, hasn't reached the mark.
Harvard had its turn on the toboggan,
but of late it seems to be in a balloon.
Holy Cross has now played five extra
inning games, of which it has lost three.
Manager Leonard went to Lynn last
evening to spend Sunday at his home.
Harrington made great throw home in
the third, when he got the fleet Damon.
Little Rothfuss was applauded for the
way he stopped one or two Wild pitches.
KIobedanz did not get a strike on the
first two men. He pitched good ball later
though.
Gleason refuses to play with Springfield
on account of difference in the salary
question.
Klobedanz is the best man in the league
keeping runners at first. He got two on
yesterday.
No crowd ever pulled for the Worces-
tiers to win as the crowd did yesterday
at the oval.
Touch himr yelled Klobedanz to Carr,
as he threw over to catch Roat. He had
Roat mile.
Kuhns made one-handed running stop
in the first inning which made the crowd
rise to It's feet.
Klobedanz couldn't locate the plate at
first The first eight balls pitched sent
two men to first.
The racing at Charles River Park yes
terday was exceptionally good, with some
startling finishes.
Worcester is getting to be a warm base
ball town, judging by the way the fans
rooted yesterday.
Harrington played right field as it has
not been played in Worcester this season.
Joe is all right there.
Alloway had only six balls to pitch in
the first inning. Leach and kuhns had
one each and Frisbee had four
Holy Cross and Worcester ought to get
together for a game. 1t would be big
money winner for both teams.
There's not another team in the league
that has 300 hitter which it must keep
on the bench as Bransfield is kept.
Jimmy Bannon kicked yesterday several
times, he was so mad at being caught off
and later struck out by Klobedanz.
Stop deluging the streets will be the
battle cry Of the local consulate of the
L. A. w. soon to be formed In this city.
The very first play started the crowd.
Klobedanz caught Bannon trying for sec
ond Bannon thinking he was about to
pitch
That's the way the fans ought to turn
out and support the team. Worcester
now has good ball and it should be sup
ported
Such ball laying as the Worcesters did
yesterday deserves better attendance
than yesterdays, even if 1t was a record
breaker.
Bransfield is a good man to have for
an emergency. 1t isn't often a catcher
can go in a game and hit the ball as he
did yesterday.
Frisbee is not himself and hasn't been
all season. The water in a well near the
oval has raised ructions with several OF
the Worcesters.
Most people were praying for rain be-
fore the recent shower, but the local cy-
clists are praying to be delivered from the
sprinkling cart.
The l.. A. w. are after the street
sprinklers red-hot these days, and will
endeavor to keep them from flooding the
streets in the future.
of leaving a strip of dry ground near the
tracks, so as to allow the bicyclSts a safe
passage on the streets.
The crowd near the news box in the
game yesterday was greatly interested in
the score at Cambridge, which came over
the wire to the grounds.
Leach smashed the first ball pitched on
a straight line, and it went like a cannon
ball. Hannivan stuck out his gloved hand
and held it, He never knew he had it.
An exhibition of the ssextet at the
Fourth of July meet of the Associated
Cycle Clubs at Westboro will surely at
tract considerable attention at the races.
Yeager did a wise move when he kept
Rickert on third while coaching in the
seventh. Although runs were greatly
needed, Rickert would be a sure out il
he tried to score.
| The lantern parade which the Asso-
ciated Cycle Clubs are to conduct the
30th of this month"; will undoubtedly be
the greatest turnout in the bicycle line
ever seen in this city.
HaOOiyaO did trick uybiNb pai,ad hin,
Kisses in the sixth. He hit a foul fly
which was 10 yards from the line. He
ran out and was almost beside Carr when
the latter caught the ball.