The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-11
SPORTING NOTES.

| Foot ball first and then basket ball.
Worcester is well represented among the
| best hitters of the league.
| The Durham people fear the hackers of
| Rogers won't stick in the proposed race.
1t will seem lonesome TO many fans now
! not to watch for lake car about 3
o'clock.
The Harrington & Richardson and Fore
hand Arms companies Will contest IN oase
| ball at the oval Saturday.
"Yeager made an effort to play the out
! field" Is the way Tim Murnane describes
his playing in the game at Brooklyn sat
urday.
Springfield maintains its record for get
| ting at least one player a season into the
big league. Curley is the man who goes
this year.
cester and bicycle track there, too, Wor-
cester would be in the swim next season
in every branch of athletics.
Worcester men are willing to give odds
on Terry McGovern against Pedler Pal
mer in their fight tomorrow, but cant
find anybody with Palmer money.
The offer of the owners of the Shrews-
bury street land could not be better I'M
less they presented the base ball manage
ment with a guaranty deed for the land.
Boston will have a surfeit of ball play
ers today when the farmed hands from
this city report But they won't be able
to help the Beaneaters win the pennant-
not this year.
Massachusetts trap shooters are in
clover these days, with two big tourna-
ments coming. The first will be in this
city tomorrow, and the second in ProVl-
dence the next day.
Holy Cross will enteria relay team at
the Knights of Columbus games IN NJ! Med
ford, Saturday, to run against Boston
College. The old rivals, Jere Moynlhan
and Billy Holland will be against each
other in the last relay
Marjorie won't start in the grand circuit
races at Providence this week, which
cester horsemen. They wanted 10 see e45
Marjorie and Uncle Tom together Both
were entered for the 2:14 pace.
Bergen never caught better ball or put
more life in his work than he is, doing
nowadays 1t is the bright spot in the on
and position has evidently soured some
of the star players on each other, until
now there is not that announcement vol
unteered as each man goes to the pat
Boston Globe.
Charles w Miller the champion six
day rider of the world, with record Of
over 1000 miles in six days, is ABOUT 70
make trial for the one mile record OF
the world. now held by Major razor az al
1:22 3-5 Miller will also make trlal LOT
the one lOur E6COTu. liC WI
his own motor machine, made In France,
and of a different pattern from the AMER
lean machines,
Umpire ohm j. Kelly, the Hioefnlah
comedian, was one of the FUNNIEST cnar-
acters ever employed on the umpire stall,
not even excepting Tim Hurst. helly mas
the lions nerve, and was one of the most
accurate and reliable indicator handlers
on Uncle Nick Young's staff though the
boxing bump in his chronological makeup
was developed beyond the normal proper
lions, so Uncle Nick decided. helly
writes Uncle Nick from Syracuse as FOL
lows: Il am with Pat Powers mere IN lhe
Eastern League, and / hear that a rev
guys in this league want to be tough.
When / run across them ! will make en-
look like a dead Spaniard. | umpired Tor
three months in the New England League
and quit 1t because Powers gives me g
better graft. ! cured all the Hickeys ana
CHIMNEY Mugs in that league. BEFORE
started in to work | wrote the players III
the league letter offering to hght EN-
before ] started in to umpire any OF the
games in which they took part one
mug on John Twins Manchester team
wrote back that he would hook up with
me for few rounds. When l reached
Manchester to umpire a series of games
between them and Portland looked over
my would-be sparring partner. lie was
about the size of boarding house SIR
loin, and / told him ] would be arrested
for cruelty to animals if | got rude with
him. That's the only way to treat these
minor leaguers. Why, the players IN the
big league are Ward McAllisters and Ber-
nv Walls compared with some OF these
ne-night-standers.