The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-14
TOOK TEN INNINGS.
A Red-hot Contest
Full Of Ginger at
the Oval.
CLINTON AND SOUTHBRIDGE.
Holy Cross Men Meet in
Friendly Contest and
Griffin Wins Out.
CLINTON And SOUTHBRIDGE.

Base ball fans from the county came
to- Worcester yesterday to witness al
red hot ball game between teams rep
resenting Southbridge and Clinton, and
they were well rewarded, for the South
bridge team made a Garrison fiaish in
the latter part of the game that was
worthy OF the champion Worcesters,
and pulled out a victory from what
seemed to be ceYtain defeat.
Both teams had Holy Cross players
galore, and the Southbridge team was
| almost entirely made up of men from
| Mount st. James. Griffin was in the
points for the winners, but he did not
prove to be much of a puzzle for his
| CORNER fellow players on the opposing
| team. and they hit the ball out for IA
hits with a total of II. Clancy, who
| pitched for the Clintons, had tHlsters
| that greatly mystiffed his opponents,
and but five hits were made off his de-
| livery.
He was very lavish with free passes
to first base, and allowed IA of the
Southbridge players to walk. But they
either struck out or walked, as Clancy
had the credit of nine strikeouts He
was substituted by McKenna, the old
Holv Cross man, in the 10th inning. He
availed the clinton team little, as ne
one man. Kenney hit the ball out into
the field at critical moment, ard, by
superb base running, brought the Win
ring score in from second base.
One of the most ludicrous scenes that
have ever been enacted on a base ball
diamond was one of the features of
Yesterdays game, and came near losing
the contest for Southbridse. Toward
the end of the ninth inning, LAWN,
/ Nrb
field. thinking that the game was won
or lost without his further services,
and he went to the club house to Dress
He had succeeded in getting into his
street garb, when he was notified that
it was his turn at bat. He came out on
t"o diamond but the Clinton manager,
McManus, refused to allow him to bat
unless ne was in uniform.
The rules say that q man must be
in uniform, and must bat within at
least one minute after being called to
the plate by the umpire. Both sides
/ recognized this. LAWN was hustled ever
to t. club house and hustled out upon
the diamond, doing the quickest dress
ing act that ne ever accomplished in
his life. He came out on the diamond
drawing on his base ball trousers over
his street garb. McTigue was hooking
his belt around LAWNS waist and an
other player was vainly trying to draw
his sweater over LAWNS head. He ar
rived at the plate with his uniform
half on and rather dilapidated looking
ball player. When he stepped to the
bat Umpire M. ]. O'Rourke called him
out for not at bat within the prescribed
time after being called,
This meant another inning, aud the
hopes of the Clintonites rose accord
lngly. but the tide was setting against
them. and they were shut out in one,
two, three order while SouthbriuSe
made the necessary run after two men
had been retired.
The game was an uphill one for the
Southbridge nine from the start, the
Clinton aggregation starting in to Kill
the ball. They scored in the first half,
adding four in the third, three in the
sixth and three in the eighth. The
Southbridge team could not score be-
cause of their inability to meet the ball
till the seventh inning when Dyer set
the ball a rolling with pretty three
base hit to left field, sending Carney
home. The next three men up went out.
In the next inning they continued the
good work, making six runs with only
one measly hit during the inning. Con-
naughton was responsible for a good
deal of the scoring of that inning, max
ing two costly errors. The first man up
in this inning was LAWN and he reach
ed first on Connaughton's tumble of his
grounder. Linnehan was given free
pass to first Carney hit out nice sin
gle and scored LAWN. Connaughton let
an easy one from Dyer's bat get past
him and Linnehan romped home. Ken
ney went to first on four balls. With
three men on bases, Cassidy made an
unexcusable error on a slow one off Nc
Tigues bat, letting in three runs. Nc
Tigue also scored that inning but all
further scoring was cut off by double
play, Connaughton fielding not one
off Griffin's bat, catching Kelley of Sc
cond and Griffin off first. Two men out
and O'Reilly was given his base on
balls. LAWN came to bat but died.
OBrien to Quinlan.
The ninth inning opened auspiciously.
Linnehan walked to first. He went 10
third on Connaughtons error of Car
neys grounder and scored on Dyer S
hit. Kenney flied out to Connaughton,
who also caught Carney off second,
making a double play. McTigue went
to first on balls and Kelley made
hit. scoring Dyer. Griffin reached first
on Clancey's error and O'Reilly got his
base on balls Then with three men on
bases and two out LAWN failed to get
into his uniform in time and was called
out, retiring the side
, With the5score even, the Clintons
| went to bat in the 10th and went out in
one. two three order. For Southbridge.
Linnehan got a sleigh-ride to first, to
be caught off second by O'Brien field
ing Carneys drive. Dyer with two hits
to his credit came to bat and struck
ont. Things began to look gloomy for
Southbridge and another inning was
talked of, but Kenney settled the game
for keeps by hitting out clean single,
sending Carney in from second base
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