The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-29
ODDS AND ENDS OF SPORT,

1t is expected "Scrappy' Joyce will not
wear a New York uniform this season,
The official stamp upon the rumor of
many weeks was made Friday by the an
nouncement by Manager Day that Joyce
would not accompany the team to the
south. ANDY" and "Scrappy" have not
hitched well for some time; and the latter
felt the pinch
They say that the six-round "exhibi-
tloh at Philadelphia tomorrow evening
between Tom Sharkey and a pugilist
named Mccormick will develop into a
finish fight. At least the sailor pugilist
mas mas a sbrudge, either fanc!ed or real.
hesitate to say that there is no time like
the present to square accounts.
Jimmy Callahan isn't going to coach
ne afto,, AaHierst Gollege base ball candidates
aIter al. Callahan is now in Chicago,
and It has been practically arranged that
ne should put N couple of months with
the W care, of the purple. Now, how
ever, CdIanan Is of the opinion that it
VIII not pay to come east and return on
March Is. The time was when Jimmy
would nave nave Jumped at the chance to
make $Zoo or $50 good American dollars.
That all-collegiate base ball team
should be a drawing card provided the
tIsnI sort OF men are upon the nine and
c cIiIt the, tney are in good condition. The
iyn anu proposes to play exhibition
games right through the season Here,e
S,rc cm'l zee ior the manager of the Holy
cross team TO play a practice game With
a team that should draw we'll.
How different are the heads of DEPART
m I9 in various colleges. At Harvard
Or. Sargent invited Tom Sharkev 70 IN
spect the gymnasium and submit to a Sc
res or measures. AT Syracuse TTniver-
Sly Sly when some of the students broached
ne L,1os se9ofect 70 the chancellor, permission
was llatly refused the institution or anv
department of it to entertain SharSayS
WlleH ne appears there next Wednesday,
tbe eIlii ny ana now Tom remarks that
cuse way when they see it.
whatever may be the feeling in Ameri-
r rasd az Europeans eIp are evidently not Yet
been dubbed An important order has
peen placed with Chicago parties TO fur
n i lo'Vg0 coach and bus horses for use
to he he s jaIger European cities. They are
70 ne Shlpped at the rate of 200 a week
uhtll the order is filed And Chicaeo ie
the nome OF Joe Letter, one of fhe bie
men IN compressed air. VS.
The latest story in Eastern r,aaeua 1t.
eies IS mat Tom Brown will man9pe Iba
Springfield team this year. BrovS w.
mem nUnneC of th Win the managerial depart
Ier' ,y Ut me Mashngtons, and later last
y 80, J@b went N as league umpire, doubling
Win hing Calf" In addition to IooItine
after the business end a the SprinefieiS
outfield on Pr @G9lG pGr33ba1y play in the
says BroWn has not been hired. bur thai
proposition has been made him ,1bic5
i isa3 not as yet been either accepted or re-
Boston College may not have as strono
r. pa Pan team as their rivals in this city'
floiy +Ciross; but they surely have better
candidates. own ra mere re for training their
eeeeil erected, which is undoubtedly the
ssnesL IN al New England. The cage is 70
cost i was " Ieet wide, and the estimated
WllI Lne gage be used for base bail prac-
ice put 1t will serve also for secret prac-
e"s IN 1901 ball and by the weight throw
me spy called the turn on the amend
iielitS harvard would make at the next
tio eephs Sro OF The Intercollegiate Associa
stated in these columns that Harvard
would insist that an athlete who had
scored even a single point for any one coll
irS o5. snouiq be debarred from competing
LOT any other college at any subsequent
ttuheet. Inat, in word, is the purport Of
tHe principal amendment Harvard will ia
n WOE Likewise The Spy was the first pa
pun out OF the association this year.
Montreal, Jan. IS. - John S. johnson
broke the worlds skating record for
mile at Montreal Saturday on the Mon
treal Amateur Associations open-air rink,
which Is four laps to the mile. The time
was 2:S5 2-5.
Cornell has arranged for the annual
game of foot ball with Princeton to be
played at Ithaca. Cornell does not hope
for game with Harvard, as that team
refuses to go to Ithaca, and Cornell will
not so to Cambridge.
Before leaving Providence for Philadel-
phia last night, Tom O'Rourkc, in speak
ng of Sharkey and Fitzsimmons, said that
his man would meet Fitzsimmons as soon
as the latter was ready, and at any club
-hct Fitzsimmons would name. O'Rourke
said he would cover Fits money and
make the match as soon as possible.
Boston, Jan. 2S.--The Boston Athletic
Association cross-country run yesterday