The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-19
SPORTING NOTES,
Toronto today

Toronto today.
The horses will go to Nashua, N. H,
this week.
The "Pigmies" is what the quondam
Giants are called now.
Freeman leads the league in home runs
with nine to his credit.
Herky Jerky Horton twirls at the oval
today against the Canucks.
The average weight of the Harvard
crew is AZ pounds under that of the Yale
eight.
Saturdays game was the first victory
Providence has scored over Montreal this
season.
Motor pace will have 10 give way to the
old-fashioned but more to be depended
upon kind.
Dinsdale will have to move faster than
he ever did to get the best of Rosenberg
next month.
Such crowds as that of Saturday will
make Worcester the star city of the East
ern League.
Tom McQueeney is after the champion
ship in both hurdle events, and expects to
land them both.
A. B. F. Kinney is hobnobbing with
the best of good luck with trout at
Moosehead lake.
Royal A. Carni, the speedy Century
Cycle rider, has entered the Chicopee
races next Saturday.
Why not arrange a game with Worces-
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that new athletic field.
The way Billy Dyer of Holy Cross has
been playing lately stamps him as the
greatest man on the team.
Major Taylor is certainly riding in
chamnionshir form. and pleased the
crowd at Charles River Park Saturday.
Four figured prominently in Eastern
League scores Saturday. Two winning
teams and two losers scored four runs
each.
With Powers. Moynihan, Moran and
Duffey in the championships next Satur-
day. something good will come to Wor-
cester.
Tod" sloan's little pugilistic episode at
Ascot Heath shocked the Johnnies. Now
Tod" says he never struck waiter in
his life.
The weather yesterday could not be i'm
proved upon. and the local clubs took adj
vantage of it, and all went on runs into
the suburbs.
Baron Victor, by Baron Wilkes; is re-
ported to have stepped a quarter in d1a
| seconds. Pretty good for green one
early in the season.
John Kervick passed the day with his
family yesterday. He says things are
booming at Readville, but the season is
unusually backward.
The desire on the part of some news
papers to create i'll feeling among the To-
| cal clubs and riders should be discoun-
| tenanced by wheelmen.
The Shamrock will be launched Satur-
| day. The Columbia has several days ad-
| vantage of her rival in preparation for
| the great international race.
The eastern clubs of the big league are
noticeably stronger than the western.
| Before the season is over the same will
| be true in the Eastern League.
President Loubet is proving a drawing
| card on the French race course. Funny
some enterprising American race man.
ager don't import the attraction.
What has become of all the predictions
about Jimmy AIichael's career as a joe
| kew? The little Welshman appears to
| have dropped go of sight altogether.
That's good pitching Evans of Provi-
dence did Saturday. A record of II
strike-outs and only two hits allowed is
| easily the seasons record in the Eastern.
Worcester was well represented at
| Charles River Park Saturday. And.
though the major was the only one to
win anything, still they were there just
| the same.
All the local clubs connected with the
| Associated Cycle Clubs are working to-
getber in their endeavor to make the
race meet at WestborO the Fourth Of July
a success.
The Hartford Times says: 1.-THE wor-
cester Farmers are the greatest takers
in the Eastern League. And Umpire Cru
Der allowed the whole team to coach from
the bench
Base ball fans of Louisville are writing