The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-28
SPORTING NOTES.

Shooting is looking up in this city.
Pittsburg has not won a game in Balti-
more this season
Billy O'Connor is easily the star of New
England League iielders.
Long and Stahl have stolen more bases
than Hamilton this year.
Will somebody kindly organize team
that can defeat Webster?
Harley and Dowd of the Clevelands
ought to be on good team.
The diminutive Russell has more sand
in his makeup than any giant
The Brooklyns and the New Yorks have
each played in Ii games without an error,
The Brooklyns were whitewashed in four
of the five games they have lost to Bos-
ton.
McGraw was the first and Keller the
second player of the league to score 100
runs.
The series between Washington and
Chicago stands to 4 in favor of the Sem
atorS.
Jack LAWYERS debut as a cycle rider will
be interesting to watch He will wear no
| gloves.
The st. Paurs Lyceum boys are said to
| have fat rolls Of the long green to back
| Holland.
| Boston has shut out its opponents II
times this season, which is the best record
of this kind.
1t will require several special trains to
convey various New England fremen to
| Webster next Friday
Spectators of the boat race at the lake
yesterday said Thorne would have won
| but he wore toe-weights
The palms of Webstertball tossers are
! itching for go al Worcester, Providence
or Springfield league teams.
Every game this week will not be toe
many wins for the Farmers. Those Roch-
| eSters hustlers may fail down.
| Ceconi knows a thing or two about the
national game which he has given the
North Brookfelds the benefit Of
Dooleys Montreal team will have tc
| hustle to land in second place. Charlie
| makes poor guesses now and then.
The Taylor-Casey pursuit race looks
| queer On paper. Jimmy has fooled 'em al
| several times, though, and may again.
Holland is saying to his friends: I'll
! wiz. Jimmy isn't saying word, but
| that doesn't mean that he thinks he viii
| lose.
If anybody doubts that Major Taylor is
the fastest rider of them all, he only
needs to see how the others unite to pocket
| the fiier
North Brookfield may not be able to
play winning ball but just wait until the
steamer and hooks get chance at the $10t
in gold at Webster.
The management of the Worcester ball
team knows what a good sporting town
w OfceSter is ana is now trying TO eStaD-
l1sh polo team here.
If the Worcesters continue to play as
good ball as they have lately they may
not win, but Rochester will know they
have been in the race
At last Uxbridge has lost a game in the
Blackstone Valley League series. 1t was
up to N1illbury to stop the head-long ca
reer of the factory town.
There is no chance for misunderstand-
ing of the conditions that govern the va
rious contests at Webster, Friday; every
contestant has an equal chance
1t will be unfortunate if Worcester is
not represented at the Labor day regatta
in Boston. Winnings by Worcester soul
lers are a common thing in Boston.
Catcher "Bnl' Clarke, by. his willingness
and evident relish for work, has made
many friends in Boston and is proving to
be.
Carrick and Seymour of New York;
Lever Sparks and Chesbro of Pittsburg;
Katoll of st. Paul, and Kitson and Nops
of Baltimore. are all graduates of the At
lantic League.
Young Russell of Springfield is another
Jimmy Michel. He weighs only 100
pounds. He was unfortunate in not hav-
ing proper pace on this end of his trial
ride yesterday.
President Hart of the Chicago Club
fatty and positively states that he will not
resign the clubs presidency, and also as
sures Manager Tom Burns that he will
not be removed.
Manager Frank Rim of Lancaster mas
abandoned his proposed winter trip to
Cuba, as the players approached were not
willing to take chances on sharing ex-
penses and profits.
Umpire Swartwood says: Take them
all the way through--in batting, fielding
base running and team work-the Baitf-
mores are playing the best game of any
team In the league"
Russell, who tried the record from
Springfield to Boston and return yester-
world. He won that title in competition
at Corey Hill, Brookline.
Webster claims the state amateur base
ball championship. This claim may be
far-fetched, but it is a fact that all Corners
from all sections thus far have been
whipped out of their boots.
North Brookfeld has not fully donned
its base ball clothes as yet. Some of her
sons. however, have in the persons of
little brother William of Fort Wayne
Sixty-three National League games
have been played to Aug. % in which the
losing team failed to score. Cleveland
has been shut out 10 times Chicago s. New
York and St. Louis Z, Brooklyn 6, Boston
and Louisville 8, Washington 4. Baltimore,
Cincinnati and Pittsburg 8, Philadelphia 2.
Manager Bancroft says that with the
addition of Toronto and Detroit to the
league circuit in place of Cleveland and
one other city. the western division would
be strengthened. considerably York
Sun. If the "other city Bancroft hints at
Is Louisville, Bancroft is off his base
Neither Detroit nor Buffalo could hold a
candle to Louisville as a major league
town.
the Boston Club really has, through
President Soden, filed protest against
the Brooklyn-Louisville game that, was
played in Brooklyn Aug. H. and should
have been played in Louisville. The pro-
test is worthless, as on the open Louis
VILE date the ground was unfit to play
upon in the Judgment of the home club,
which has the sole right to rule upon the
point.
The best all,round work was done by
Kraenzlein, who proved that as an all
round athlete he is without peer. Pow
ers, the national all-round champion, did
work that In comparison with anybody
other than the phenomenal Quaker, would
have seemed incredible, but the merit of
his performance was lost by the splendid
showing Of Kraenzlein, who took three
firsts and two second prizes, scoring in all
q points for his club Boston Post.
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