The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-22
The effected uncertainties of base

The effected uncertainties of base
ball were never better exemplifed than
at the oval yesterday afternoon.
By every law of logic the locals
Should have won, for their undefeated
pitcher was in the box and their late
Victims, the Torontos, had been making
monkeys OF tie Montreals right along.
Both Kloby and the team had scored
seven straight victories, and Fate
called a halt.
Fate in this instance wore a blue suit
and sickly smile, and the crowd
called him Gruber-part of the time. At
other intervals they accosted him diff
ferently 1t was he that steered two
runs safely into the fold for Montreal
In the first inning, robbed Worcester
of an almost certain score in the fifth,
and was charitably blind to Montreal
strikes all through the game. The UNI
pire made Kloby put five over the plate
before he would allow an out for Souder
once, and all through merited the title
Of the Canadian annex" that spec
tator aptly gave him.
Not a single close decision did Wor-
cester get, and after each, the Montre-
ais, those princes of kickers, would
quietly wink one eye al each other and
chuckle in their sleeves.
1t is odd that the only game kloby
lost should be the very best he has
pitched out of the whole lot Barring his
two gifts at the beginning, before he
had the plate located, his work was
magnificent, and would win SO times out
of 100 1t might have been Leachs alb
sence or it might not but the whole
team seemed under spell, and their
old animation and fight were missing.
There were men on bases in every in
ming but the last but the hit that would
score them never came.
Again, anything like the work of the
day previous would have BANKED the
MontreaIs in the first, Gruber notwith-
standing. Harrington and McQuaid fol
over themselves. and Yeager fell off y
per cent in his throwing. Harrington
played well, though. afterwards. He
missed an easy chance, but gathered
. in a number of hard ones handily, and
his hitting was sharp and timely.
Kuhns and Rickert kept up to the gilt
edged standard and Klobedanz did
what he could to save himself by bat
ting in both Of Worcester's runs.
Manager Leonard made a bad mis-
Judgment by sending in Lampe to bat
for Bransfield in the ninth. The pitcher
ANONYMOUSLY struck out. Instead of
sending a substitute to bat for Brans-
field occasionally, it might be better to
furnish one for McQuaid all the time,
When he gets~a hitait is either a bunt
or miracTa.
MontreaI's playing was not brilliant
but was steady and aggravatingly sure
The Worcester twirler outpitched SOU
der. both as to hits and bases on balls,
and, as said above, had it not been for
luck and the umpire in the first inning
it was our game.
Montreal won in this wise. hloby
found the plate elusive, and Bannon
and JackIitz walked. Both of them at
different times were caught between
bases and should have been easy outs,
but Yeager threw badly and McQuald
and Harrington didn't understand, so
those two chances were missed. Schie-
beck hit to McQuaid and was out by
two yards, but-Gruber liked to watch
KIoby pitch, and wouldn't allow ia
penchant that cost Worcester the game
as it happened. Dooley hit to Har-
rington, forcing Schiebeck, but Bannon