The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-31
AGAIN VICTORS,
Cross Trium-
plants Over Brown
Collegians.
A MAGNIFICENT Confess.
Ten Thousand People Cheer
For the Purple-Dyer the
Star Man Of the Game.
Holy Cross again a victor.

"a Holy Cross again victor,
Fourteen victories and two losses is
the record that now stands to the
credit of the boys on College hill after
her clash at arms with the men from.
Brown University yesterday at Mount
< st. James.
1t was a glorious old victory, and tn
colts deserved all the honor that t,
"a audience of nearly 10000 people heapef
upon them at the close of the game.
Both teams played hard. but the
q Browns were not clearly in the game
so far as victory was concerned, and
B were outplayed by the home team. The
purple stockened lads played like
4 fiends, and could easily have whipped a
far stronger team than the Brown men
sent down if the opportunity presented
4 itself.
Only in the eighth inning did the
a Brown men feel encouraged, and that
they had any hopes of winning. In
q that box they scored two runs, having
a been shut out in the preceding seven
+ innings and ditto in the ninth.
1t was the hardest kind of luck that
s even permitted of the two runs being
scored, for up to that point of the game
Holy Cross had not made an error.
Perfect playing to this point in the
game almost assured the men on the
hill of the victory which was within
Y their reach. Linnehan was the first
man to fall from grace, and he let lie
Stages hot grounder pass between his
legs like bow-legged man with a pig
in an alleyway. Griffin followed it up
with poor throw to Linnehan at sec
4 ond in trying to catch lie Stage, who
was forced to second on Bacons hit to
the pitcher. A failure at a double play
advanced both men, and a wild throw
by Dyer to first which was lost in the
: crowd. gave Bacon his chance to come
home, which he accepted. That was
the first run, and the second was
scored by Clark, who came home on the
two hits made by Holman and Richard
son. That ended it for Brown and the
4 game was won, though she shut out
Holy Cross in the eighth.
The great feature of the game was
the work of Dyer at short. He simply
played the greatest game that Worces-
ter has ever seen. He didn't do a
thing9with everything that came his
way till the eighth inning and then a
DETECTED ball from Foxs hand gave
him chance to make a wild throw to
first, and he tailed the only error he
made in the game. He had u chances
to make all kinds of errors, but nary a
miss, assisting a decade of times, and
two outs was what he did toward win
ming the game. He snatched the
grounders up as though they belonged
\ TO him, and then threw to first like a
shot, mailing his man every time. Had
Ldnnehan worked a little faster in one
instance Dyer would have figured in a
double play, but he didn't. He received
all kinds of plaudits from the vast rhul-
titude present, who cheered itself
hoarse over his excellent work
Dyer divided honors with the man in
the box, not the man in blue on the
horse. Griffin pitched a winning game
and held his opponents down to eight
hits, which were scattered so that runs
didn't result He found no difficulty
in keeping all the batters within reach
of the fielders, save little LIE Stage,
who would insist in placing them where
he wanted to. He got two tWo-baggers
down close to the third base line, and
a single pass to first base. His game
was by far in all round work the best
he has done this year and he may well
be conceded the first place in excel
lence on the staff
McTigue is back in the game all
right after his knock out at Amherst
and showed it by his playing. -Four
times at the bat he got two hits and
had IA put-outs affixed to his record.
OF the others it need only be said they
played as well as the best men in the
business could have played it.
discussion of the playing Of the
visitors would not reflect any more dis
credit on them. for when only three
errors are recorded against them, to
say they played good ball would be SUI
perfluous. But they did play 1t ana
gave the moneys worth to everybody
present. Not once during the game dld
they go to pieces but steadied down TO
the severest kind of play all through
the game Sedgwick pitched the game
that makes him the favorte he is, and
though only six hits were made on
him. they came more closely together
than the Browns hits and brought IN
the runs which won the game.
Like Griffin he had three Strike-outs'
but gave free tickets to first hVe an
ferent times, Brennan taking three OIL
these. He fielded his position perfect
ly and had three assists. VI ehe util t
men in the diamond. the assists Wei Z
about evenly divided, House at thlrd'
ana Holman at second having four
each and Bacon, the midget, at shcrt'
three. e,+.,cro
Brown went to bat first and lie stage
connected with the second ball pitched'
wanglng it out just by third base Tor
a double. 1t was a suspicious ~
ment for Holy Cross, but the -, ~
three men up went out in order. y re- I5!.
", who heads Holy Cross battlhs Hs',
by reason of being a good waiter ~"
an excellent runner, changed MS tdG
tics Yesterday. The first ball was can
ed on him and the second one ne Ioung :
no difficulty in placing at the risnt ~ ~
of his stick and sending it in ABOUT lne
same direction ar d place that lie o! .e5
had. He took third on Fox sacItI
to the pitcher and came home on NJ
Tigue's hit between short and secollu
The latter died at second ana Ndll-e'
popped up an easy one for Bacon,
Two hits and no runs was the qTa ,
Brown got in the second, Whlle nolS
Cross went out in order Neat pal
plavjng for the next two innings anC
no runs. and then Holy Cross scored
again in the fifth, Griffin doing th'
turn. drawing a base on balls, taklns
second on Brennan's free pass TO the
same place, and going to thlrd OF
Brennan's out at second, and home OF
a poor throw, by lie Stage to cater
O'Reilly at second.
In the sixth inning Griffin issued
free pass to Clark, the only one he gave
during the game, but it didn't count, as
three men were out before he got tC
second.
Holy Cross tagged on three more