The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-26
SPORTING NOTES.

The Canucks never liked Horton S
pitching, anyway.
Major Taylor and Jimmy Casey ride at
New Bedford today.
Lampe may get a whaek at the Cana
dams this afternoon.
Sore heads are bigger drawbacks to a
team than sore hands.
Kuhns did not have to remember how
many hits he made yesterday.
Get ready 10 chalk up new record for
the discus throw. j. Fred is out for it,
Klopfs bad hand doesn't appear in the
summary of the game. Cap. is all
right
Charlie DooIey of the MontreaIs says
his team is booked for first or second
place.
A three-cornered race at 100 yards be-
tween Rickert, Frisbee and ONeill would
be warm thing.
O'Neill was acquitted on judgment day.
solid with the fans.
]. Fred Powers new style will be dis
played before New England admirers Ior
the first time today.
Kid Mccoy and Tommy Ryan have been
matched again, That does not mean that
the men will come together.
The Farmers have got to play phenome-
nal ball to get at the top of the heap.
Yesterday was good starter.
In tight places some of the Boston root
ers yell for Frisbee Here's hoping Man
ager Selee does not heed the cries.
Two hits isn't bad for a player with
no claims of being a hitter. Boyle must
have good opinion of the new man.
Manager Selee has lines out for Catcher
BueloW of Detroit. He must be keeping
an eye to the needs of the Farmers.
The freshest bit of genuine base ball
news is that Cleveland won yesterday
May be they didn't mean IT, though.
III. aot
Webster druggists sold more bromo-
settler than Jamaica ginger yesterday.
The centre fielder in eleven Of the Ma
tional League clubs heads the batting list
McGraw Of Baltimore is the only exeep-
| ton.
temanly ball player than ever before
since he laced O'Hagan. Doc" is nc
mutton.
| Dinsdale may be heavyweight in a
few months. Juggling with the high ones
puts habby flesh on. John had better
hustle for that zone more and last
| fight"
Moynihan will be up against fast game
! in the quarter mile at the championships
| today. The little fellow has been putting
in some hard licks and should land
plaH.
Kerns and collamore will draw bic
crowd TO the lake this afternoon. Cola
more has been rowing hard and fast, but
Kerns' racing experience ought to lane
1 him winner.
! Kloby was suffering from cramps was
| partially correct. He was feeling good
/ not suffering but he must have had 6
cramped arm all day
Mike Sullivan is watching the work o.
Ibis protege, O'Neill, at Toronto. The ex
league pitcher left Boston yesterday t
see the Farmers new second basemaT
make his Eastern League bow.
Among the large bets on the Nationa
League pennant, Honest" John Kelly
out Brooklyn. Jim Corbett- has $1,000 VI
on the Superbas' winning the flag.
Ten Eyck and Lewis will be giving thu
Boston promoters of the Labor day re
gatta pay in their own coin If they refns'
to enter. Regattas without Worcester en-
tries are like hunters with no guns.
Arthur Duffey has the chance of his lif
today He will nave to finish on the goo(
side of even time to win if reports o
trials of other contestants are correct
The field in the 10O-yard is the cream o
the sprinting stars.
Tim Hurst is not grieving over his fail
ure to lard place on the league staff o
unpires. Tim is playing the races in ant
around New York. and is said TO be sew
eral thousand dollars to the good. Tin
| always had both eyes wide open for gooC
| things <
A Cincinnati special says of Third Base
man Williams work in that city: Jim
my Williams gave an exhibition that hai
never been excelled on the local grounds
| He may not be Jimmy Collins superior
but he certainly is his equal The faith
| ful fans who witnessed the uninterestinf
struggle were carried away with VIII
liams' work.
| President Powers must be pretty harC
up for umpires to appoint Joe Lyndon
| whom he has tried once and found want
| ing. Then TO send him to Rochester-tht
1 IT.
caps the climax Springfield Union. I'm.
| pires have one satisfactorily is a con.
| tinual sQuabble as to who is the worst
Q Loughlir would be backed by the ioca
| fans in voting contest.
A Pittsburg special says Of Ton
fuckers coaching in that city recently
| Tucker deserves much credit for put.
! ting ginger into the Misfits They played
like gang of wooden ninepins all through
the first game. In the second battle ht
got on the coaching lines and livened
things by telling the Misfts to smoke
up: gtngerize, etc. Umpire Swartwoo6
| called him down, but after Tucker hao
made a pitiful plea that the Cleveland
| players needed something of that kinC
| to keep them awake, Swarty let him
alone
The Hartford Times suggests that bat
| ting aerages do not always determine 8
players run-getting qualities, In the Ma.
tional League. batting averages and the
ability of a player to score run brins
out interesting facts. In batting Hick-
man of Boston leads his average (to last
| Saturday was AZ. Delehanty of Phila.
deIphia second, with .404; McGraw of Bal
timore third, .3S9. Hickman made % hits
and 10 runs, an average of 565 in runs
Delehanty made 1853 hits and 81 runs. ar
average of $50. McGiraw made 1880 hits
and III runs. an average of 1913. McofraW
leads Hickman by .S48 and Delehanty by
1863 in run getting. Up to Saturday night
McGraw led the league in runs, his near
est competitor being Keller of Brooklyn
with 400 runs to HIS credit to McGraw' /