The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02
SPORTING NOTES.

The willy fox will need all his cunning
today.
Cincinnati has 2S men on the pay roll al
present.
Now is the time to make bets on this
yacht races.
Nine of the Washingtons have signed
for next season.
Officials of the new league are talking
with great confidence.
Pitcher Schmidt has won two of nine
teen games he pitched for Cleveland.
The big foot ball teams are showing III
stronger than early reports would lead {
person to look for.
Jake Morse says about Frisbee that b,
never reckons on a sure out, and once the
ball is hit is off like flash.
Delehanty still leads the league bats
men. It's a hot race for championship
honors. with Burkett we'll up.
Scheibeck, who was loaned to Wash
ington by Montreal, has. made good ant
has been signed by the Senators.
Louisville had soft thing with tbs
Senators this season. Out of IA game:
played the Colonies won dozen.
Billy Fox, formerly shortstop Of Hol!
Cross, will manage the Albany team O.
the New York State League next season
This is the time to look out for drafts
The drafting season of the Nationa
League began yesterday and will extend
to Jan. 1.
When a. foot ball player insists on run
ming high or on tackling high, a position
on the second eleven for week or TIVE
usually brings him to his senses.
Cleveland made all kinds of worlds rec
ords in games lost this season. The. tota
number already exceeds the record an'
the "a straight losses of the club wins.
Worcester Academy eleven will un
doubtedly surprise it's critics when /
plays, its next game. The men have beer
training hard, and are doing far bette
work than when they played Tech.
The ST. Louis team is a peculiar one il
the numbeuof battery men it has outsid
those who splay the positions. Burkett
Wallace and Donlin have been pitchers
and Cross, O'Connor and Schreckengos
| catcherS.
| Coach Putnam has done big things 70
| Tech. The team is fast one, and ha
twice won against heaviertean. Weigh
is a good thing in foot ball, but 1t ism
| everything. Science and team wor
| count for more.
| Holy Cross foot ball players have man
| things to learn before they will make
crack eleven. They don't seem to be abb
| to learn the rudiments. The meres
| yQungster knows that high tackiing ca
| accomplish nothing.
| Manager Selee of the Bostons made
bet early in the season that McGinnity 0
| Baltimore would lose more than half tn
| games he pitched A few days ago whel
| the pitcher won his 25th game out of
| played, Selee settled the bet.
| A few months ago Honus Wagner o
| the Louisville Club was touted as one o
| the greatest third baseIhen in the coun
| try. Since little Leach has succeeded hin
| at that place Wagner is only remln
| iscence. He is not In Leach's class at an.
stage of the game.-Washington Times.
Fred Clarke, manager of the Louisvilles
| saws youngster can be taught every
thing in base ball but batting: Clark
might add that man must teach himsel
ponents of that statement. He has &C
knowledged that he raised himself to
high place among league hitters by taking
. pattern from Jesse Burkett,
In Chicago the. opinion prevails tina
Martin Bergen will be traded for Catches
Tim Donahue. 1t is a certainty tina
Bergen will not play with Boston mex
season. Whether he will consent to
trade is doubtful. He has said repeat
eddy this year he will never play on any
other club and If an attempt is made tx
force him will retire to farm life.
What Burkett will do next season hal
been talked of in newspapers for months
He is generally credited with saying ~
will retire from the diamond and open
saloon in Worcester next season. Tht
one who started that story evidently
doesn't know howprecious those diplomas
of the license commission are. IheS
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"Never fear, there will be a new league
in the field next spring" said Tommy
Dowd of the CleVelands 1.-THE promoter:
are working quietly. They are making q
kind of dark-lantern, gum-shoe hustle a
the time but they WI bS Sho sr tne
team" said Sullivan, the third baseman
Maybe you think there Is 20 money be
hind that Washington Club" said Dowd
'Some of the best people In washington
are interested"
One SEASON in Texas brought Gus Wey
hing's pitching arm to life. His SALARY
wing" was as dead as prohibition in Ken
lucky until he Joined the Lone Sta
League. His arm came around albright
league. asking for trial All of them re
fused him. The Wagners would liksI,
have followed suit but for the fact tina
they had several Texas players unde
contract. They spoke well of Weyhingi
pitching. and Earle Wagner, who is al
ways willing to take chance, sent TO
the veteran. He has been we'll rewarded
weighing is one of the best pitchers in tn,
league this season.
The New York Journal has this to sa!
of the work of jennings: "Hughey Jen
nings' first base play improves steadily
AS rival of Fred Tenney he no Longer
attracts attention. The greatest critici
are now claiming q superiority fo
Hughey on all around points. Manage
Tom Burns says he is beyond doubt thu
gets high and wide throws every bit a.
well as Tenney and Is particularly
strong where the Bostonian is weak
that is on low thrown balls that come
on the bound. In stopping one of these
the other day, the bali struck him in the
face and nearly broke his chin, but he
went after the next one as though moth.
ing had happened.