The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-30
SPORTING GOSSIP.

Ine new men are all right
Providence at the oval this morning.
It's good to win on the first game at
home.
Carr caught the crowd. He also caught
the ball.
When McQuaid comes the team will be
strengthened
Several of the hits made off Klobedanz
were scratChy.
Carr would be a good man to go pick
ing cherries with
Three hundred horses are il training
at the Readville track.
Providence didn't get anything like a
hit for the first three innings.
Henry Lynch didn't enjoy striking out
before his former acquaintances.
Tommy Leahy is the same lively player
he was when he caught for Holy Cross.
President Marston of the Worcesters
came here yesterday and saw his boys
win.
Jimmy Smith is now batting left-hand-
ed. He certainly hunted well in yester-
days game
Leahy halted the game to blow up his
chest protector when Evans went up in
the air in the fourth.
Evans pitched well, the best feature
being his change of pace, which deceived
some of the Worcesters.
Leahy made two bases on an infeld-
out in the fourth inning. Worcester play
ers forgot to cover third.
Carr Is certainly an Improvement over
Bowman and nobody who saw the game
yesterday regrets that Bowman jumped.
Lynch, left fielder of the Grays, is a
Worcester boy He plays good ball all
the time, but he couldn't hit KlObedanz
Kuhns was hit in the face by a ground
er for which he stopped. That diamond
should be skinned COoney couldn't be
gin to field on account Of the bumps.
l.r+ ,s,t
picayune that it will win both games with
Webster today. and offers odds that the
afternoon game will be won by the axe
forgers.
Somebody is going to get left in the big
dual meet at Spencer today. North Brook
field lays strong claims for everything in
sight, while Spencer says nothing and
looks wise.
The .Worcesters are certainly doing
well with a make-shift team There are
arm man playing on the team in every
game now.
Evans hit the ball but once in the en-
tire game. lie made foul only. Four
strike-Outs was his record. Providence
men on the bench applauded when he
fouled the ball.
Lynch hit right-handed in the last in
ming, trying to find the ball. Up to that
he had struck out twice and fouled out
once. He hit a fly to Rickert when bat
ting right-handed.
Dad Clark says he has got enough of
! jay country town base ball, and the re-
tort comes from Webster that "he
wasn't such much after all, In the game
he pitched Saturday.
Col Winslow must have had a peculiar
! feeling when he saw the deer cross Lei
! cester park His deershp winked the
| other eye when he learned that the col
onel had locked up his good dog Don.
Harry W Smiths King T., who ran
| second to Trillion in the Country Club
steeplechase at Brookline, Saturday. with
| $50 pounds up. has received an extra i'm
post of two pounds for the Dukes cup
/ today
| ILlobedanz slid into third head first on
! his three-bagger. The game was called,
! as Kloby lost his eye somewhere in the
/ dirt After Horton brought out the pail
/ of water and Kloby was washed down,
| his eye was found.
Leahy vaulted the backstop trying for a
/ foul fly I'm yesterdays game. No catcher
! ever did that feat before. Returning he
/ Jumped on the bacEstop without placing
! his hand on it. The funny thing about
| it is that Leahy isn't any taller than the
! fence.
Today will see plenty of matinee racing
! around Boston. At Readville the Jamaica
! Plain Driving Association is planning on
/ a BIG day Of sport. The Somerville Club
! will have an excellent program for a
meeting at Mystic, while at Saugus the
! East Boston. Everett and Maiden clubs
promise to beat all records.
/ COLUMBIAS CREW.