The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-27
SPORTING NOTES.

Now for Montreal.
Springfield and Hartford got it hard
yesterday.
The worcesters were always a good
road club.
Four hits only could the canueks get
off Miller.
Miller is pitching better bali of late
than he did when he first Joined the Wor-
cesters.
If Worcester will only do to Rochester
what it has done to Toronto, all VIII be
forgiven.
o'Nenl seems to have no trouble do
ing all sorts of good things around sec
ond base.
Springfield has been trying to sign
Frank Killen, but <illen wants no minor
league III his.
Baltimore now leads the league in bat
ting, Philadelphia second, Boston third
and Brooklyn fourth.
Forty-two National League players
have a batting average OF more than .5uo
OF these Boston has 1--WE.
Charlie Kuhns record of six hits in
six times at bat is one that doesn't come
very often in any league.
Young Duffey of Worcester Academy
beat EN- all out. It's a big thing for a
prep school boy to be national CHAM
pion.
McGraw now leads the league in batting
with a percentage of 1893, to 1892 each Tor
Delehanty and Burkett. Tenney leads
Boston with 80.
Leon Viau. who was released in the
early part of the season with Worcester,
and who signed with Utica has been re-
leased by the latter club.
Umpire Belts of the Eastern League has
accepted his old position in the navy YARD
in Washington, and this deprives the East
ern League of an excellent umpire.
The Brooklyns have drawn better on
LIT - haAT az
team. But the ATTENDANCE at Washington
Park, while a source of profit, has not
come up to expectations.
Short stop Murphy Of Manchester, who
failed to show sufficient speed for Brook
Ign, is at his home in South Natick., His
friends claim that he is fast enough for
the league, but Is not in form.
AS the Baltimore club can not reach
Boston on Sept. 4. Labor day. to play
two games, the morning game has been
transferred to Wednesday, Sept. 6, which
is an open date for both clubs
There's no discounting the honesty of
the players The Cincinnatis to a man
are pulling for Boston to win the PEN
nant, yet beat them three out of four
games last week without conjunction.
Washington has got considerably the
worse of its purchases this season, Good
money was paid for both Anterior and
Coughlin of Wilkesbarre, and Frank Bon
ner of Hartford, but they did not fiji the
bill.
1t begins to look as if Mike Sullivan
takes first prize for picking crack ball
players He chose Williams of Pittsburg,
who is a crack, and O'Neill of the Wor-
cesters, who shows earmarks of being an
other
scrappy Bill Joyce, Dad Clark, Dan
Brothers, Fred Clarke and Con Lucid are
some of the players said to have been
signed by the new base ball league.-Ex-
change. What! Dad Clark! The pace of
that league Won't burn.
Latham is one of the umpires who know
how to make the punishment hurt. The
the game. he said: Il hate to put you
out, Pat because it will strengthen your
team, but you must 60"
1t is practically settled that Jake Wells
of Richmond will manage the Syracuse
Stars next season. He would not accept
the position this year when the Richmond
team was transferred to Syracuse, as
Sandy Griffin would be thus thrown out
of a job.
Charley Snyder is to return to the
league umpire staff replacing McGarr,
, tbs. said. Meantime Tony Mullane, who
did such fine umpiring in the Atlantic
League, is vaiuly waiting for a trial by
Uncle Nick who claims that he does
not play favorites.
Boston has been shut out five times this
season, twice in two days. Three of Bos-
tons shut-outs have been scored on their
own grounds. The pitchers who have APP
piled the whitewash brush to the cham
pions are Nops twice, Orth, Taylor of
Cincinnati and Phillippi.
The Fits would like TO play the Will
liams', at East Park, for purse of IS
a side. The Fits are as follows Henry
F'itz 2b: James F'itz S. s. Thomas Fitz
G.; Michael Fitz, BIB; Jacob White, 3b;
Paul Fay, r. f.. Joseph Fitz (captain), p.
Brodie and Lachance have been left be-
hind by the Orioles on the western trip
because of sickness. Christian will play
first. Twice CHRISTIANS release was asked
for, but Manager MeGraw said nay, and
the way Christian has been hitting
proves his wisdom in retaining the Ames-
bury boy.
Murphy, the Manchester shortstop Sc
cured by Brooklyn, was rejected by Han
lon after he had seen him work. Brook
Ign paid Walter Burnbam 5000 for the rec
Jack Chapman also got
few hundred simoleons from Philadelphia
deficient at the bat.
Snapper" Garrison, who retired from
riding through overweight, win return to
the saddle and become a steeplechase
Jockey. The once famous Snapper" in
tends to ride this fall at Gravesend Nor
ris Park and Sheepshead Bay. and feels
confident OF regaining the prestige as a
steeplechaser that he enjoyed while rid
ing on the fiat.
The championship contest Of the n. CT
A., now being decided on the grand cir
cult according to the point system, is
as follows up TO and including Aug. %
Tom Cooper 80; Il. Fl Kiser, %; o. S. |
Kimble, %; o. L. Stevens, 20; +. A. Nc
Farland 9; ii. b. Freeman, 6; j. A. New |
house 8; r, Walthour, ); John Fisher, 2; |
Iver Lawson, 2; G. b. Jack /.
The Hanlon luck which is merely a |
synonym for Hanlon ability, has as said |
the Press before, all the other pennant |
aspirants guessing, and with signs that |
the Brooklyn pitching department is get
ting better than II was a while back. no
body can gainsay that Brooklyn's chances |
of winning the pennant are better than
any other team s.-New York Press.
When Sandy Griffin was manager of the
Stars he was carrying lot of misfits on |
the Syracuse pay roll, and nobody knew |
1t better than Griffin himself; but so long |
as Kuntzsch stood at the helm of the |
Syracuse ship, Griffin was poweflesS |
Kuntzsch and his influence have parted |
with the team and the change |
Is certainly most noticeable Griffin has
good men where once he was playing with |
dead ones. He now has a lively, snappy |
infleld and an outfield that can cover lots
of ground.
The schedule of games for 1893 for the /
Carlisle Indians foot ball team has been |
arranged, as follows: Sept %. Gettys-
burg, at Carlisle, Par Sept. 30 Susque-
hanna. at Carlisle. Pa. Oct. u Blooms