The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-10

from every direction and stood in front
Of The Spy office to hear the news.
The wire was red hot inside, ana
every second a new bulletin was given
to the crowd and it did not take long
to size up it's sentiments. The general
sentiment was for Fitzsimmons, but
the Jeffries people were laying low, just
as they did in the betting, and when
the finish came it was a hot one.
Everyone cheered and more than one
man who placed his loose money on the
fight, forgot himself so far as to throw
his hat in the air, and he lost, because
it stayed up or dropped on the ground
and was crushed to pulp under the
feet of some other eXcitable Individual
who was yelling himself hoarse.
Everybody wanted to get In front OF
The Spy office and see the bulletin, but
as The Spy had secured megaphore,
the largest in Worcester those who
could not get nearer She Spy than the
plaza in front of the city hall, were
as well off as their friends who man
aged by perseverance to get near the
bulletin.
The Spy was first in announcing the
result of the fight, being fully five min
utes ahead of an evening paper which
was giving stereopticon reports.
In the news rooms of The Spy, the
scene was equal to that outside. All
roads led to it last night, and every
sporting man in Worcester who had
money placed on the result was there
OF was represented by a friend. Geo
p. King was there and so was Treas
urer Mason of the Worcester base pail
team with several of his players. Busl-
ness men who laid few dollars on the
result, dropped in, and for a time the
VIII l,11et1A tn the greatest
paper in Worcester county had hare
time to do their work. Some of thu
people could not get into the news de
partment and stood in the entry Whh'
the telegraph operator took words from
his instrument with such rapidly ina
two boys were detailed to carry th'
bulletins from the machine to the an
nouncer who informed the people O
worcester how the fight was going.
| The population Of Worcester was cen
| tered in front of The Spy office, and Il
was the only place on the street where
| the news was given to the people as
quick as 1t happened. AS soon as
either of the principals struck a blow,
the operator struck his machine at the
ringside, and in another instant dis
patch was in the hands of the mega
phone artist, and the people on Main
street heard it, Down at white House
! care square lOLe HOl DC tiCu " q
post whinnied pitifully, and the illu-
minated sign that don't illuminate
| seemed to be in a country yet to be ex-
plored by civilized people.
From the corner of Main and Front
streets to the corner Of Park and Main
streets, bicycles two deep were lined up
against the curbing, while on the OPP
posite side more than fifty machines
rested against the curb.
There was very little betting on the
fight in Worcester. The prevailing odds
on Fitzsimmons would not be given by
Worcester sporting men, who thought
well of the Australian. The Jeffries
| admirers wouldn't bet unless they got
the odds. Orrin Kyle, who played al
/ Lothrop's Opera House a few weeks age
and who has been staying in Worcester
pending another engagement, is prob
| ably the best winner in the city. He
took any kind of odds and wins about
$3.50. George P. King got 800 at odds
of two to one. Considerable money
on Fitz could have been had at odds of
100 to 70, but there were no takers. A
few bets of 10 to and 10 to were
made.