The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-15
SPORTING NOTES.

Harry Fixes is proving the king of them
all at middle-distance riding.
The Rochester team was Toasted day
or two ago. There was no Dives present,
as Lazarus was at the table.
Martin Flaherty and Spike" Sullivan
are matched. Flaherty can't fight at 1876
any more and is going after the light
weights
The feathery tribe will have to look
after itself today. The protection of the
law Will be Withdrawn and shooters will
be out in force.
A motorcycle race between Boston aid
New York is all but assured. Herbert
SKINNER has accepted the challenge of
Henri Fourier.
Jennings is credited with being the
fastest first baseman in the league Jen-
nlngs uses his head in ball playing and
II counts for great deal.
A; ] Kobel, who has been connected
with ST. Matthews parish alleys in South
worcester. has entered the employ of J.
r White at the Pearl street alleys.
Worcester horsemen. are. agog over the
race between Marjorie and Uncle Tom, in
the 2:14 pace at Narragansett Park, to-
Gay; Uncle Tom is thought well of as
3ases faster than any of his mates. He
ulo IAN seconds. 0'Hagan and Smink
Ihaae the circuit In 10 seconds and Bean
went In half-second worse.
SSiillnk has National League timber in
nm nm II was fortunate for the Rowdies
mat Smink did not let it out while he
prayed with them this season.
Rettz probably has played his last game
with the Pittsburgs His lame ankle is
showing but little evidence of improve
ment. He played in 80 games for which
game.
The Princeton Athletic Association. be-
ie irwin ba
OF playing two foot ball games i'm New
ork this fall in hope of drawing big
crowds and replenishing the depleted
Delehanty thinks Frisk of the Cincin-
natis ought to break into the outfeld and
1 depend on his batting eye to earn the
bread rather than his left wing in the
n9N, He thinks Frisk would make an
other Lajoie.
Philadelphia is hot after Williams the
| islanders star twirler. If they get him
| they will make no mistake. pitcher
VINO can win 20 out of 80 games with the
yelloW support back of him that Williams
had is daisy and too good for this
eague.-Toronto Mail.
Pedlar Palmer has returned to Eng
Iand. He wants another chance at Terry
n acS5oS sIl II they meet, may be the
next fight won't be as short as the one
| tuesday, but 1t will be Just as decisive
and Pedlar will have the wrong end again
ne couldn't whip McGovern with a base
The gentlemen who conceived and car
RED out the asinine twelve-club COM
olnation are welcome to all the glory they
can extract from it, says Frank Hough
m N the Philadelphia INQUIRER. Not since
the days of Hall, Devlin, Craver and
| Nichols has the national pastime sunk to
such low estate
The failure of the Providence Club may
| pc attributed mainly to the fact that
| While it had players who individually ex-
| ecuted their plays with artistic finish
there was lack in some of them of the
! spirit OF gameness and aggressiyeness
needed TO make the combination as a
nal. N-
Capt: 7. TruXton Hare of the Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania foot ball team, in
cured Dir ms fts leg few days ago, while run
1t was thought the injury was of little
consequence, but it has developed into a.
| pad sprain, which will necessitate his
abandoning practice for probably two
Hughes leads the pitchers, with a rec
ord OF q games won and lost a per
! GSntage OF .S46 in victories. Donohue of
Pniladelphia is second, Howell of Balti-
and Hahn of Cincinnati is fifth. Wits
of Boston is eighth, Nichols twenty-third,
Lewis twenty-fourth and Meekin forty
second.
Boston is on the down-grade, writes
/ L Ledger.
much dead timber in that team Long and
| Lowe are about done for Duffy and
HTSlchois nave almost run their race and
mar tt. Is no Longer. the star he once
was, though the latters trouble is an in
Jured knee which does not want to heal
| The New York Times says of the work
| Of o. the Bostons in the series in Brooklyn:
me Bostons did not display that ag-
| gressiVe style of play that has made them
famous They seemed to realize the fact
that they had no chance to beat out the
,BEIrooRlyns at this late stage of the race
a fast game throughout !"
Kumar Shri Ranjit Sinhji, the East In
dian. who has achieved the first place in
English cricket as a batsman at least
and quite eclipsed the celebrity of even
w. q. himself as the popular favorite
is always doing something marvellous in
the game. His latest feat is to score over
5000 runs in first-class cricket in one sea-
son, which has never before been reached
If the St Louis can not win pennants
they can raise a big row. Judging from
the hot times about League Park of late
the locals-not all, but some of them-ares
trying rd 81, for pugiiisttc honors and not for
careful or he will have to be called
''Scrappy Mike" while Tebeau is almost
Post.
Tom Tucker declares that he will not
retire from the game Had the league
allowed me to continue my original coach
ing methods, it would have been big
money in their pocket. Base ball with
out coaching is about as suggestive as
Grape on the door of a house with rooms
to let. I'll be in the game next season
II have to organize a new league is
the way Sir Thomas of Holyoke puts it.
Unless base ball teams contemplating
visits to this city this month have Sc
cured accommodations in advance, they
may have to court natures sweet re-
storer, balmy sleep, in the purlieus of
or Brooklyn. There Is bare chance that
the desire of the people to see Dewey and
the yacht races may cause them to over
look the wants of the ball players.-New
York Press.
Kuhns created a good impression when
he took Longs place at short, but he will
have to know a lot about base ball before
he can fill ''the Dutchman's shoes. When
Long is at his best he is the most won
derful short stop ever liz the game. Kuhns
fielded his position cleVerly, and his sin- |
gle was one of the most timely of the
game as it brought in the winning runs.
But he has not yet won his spurs as a
major league infielder. Like Sullivan, he
may prove find and he may not.-Bos- |
ton Record.
1.-THE difference between me and some
players / know" said Oliver Tebeau yes
terday afternoon, lis that I know l am
reaching the 'has-been stage, while they |
think they are as good as they ever were. |
can get out there and play good game |
some days, but / know well enough that |
if l tried to. play regularly | would show |
less speed than l did once I may not be |
a 'has-been at this moment, but it is |
coming. Why not leave the field before
you have to? A player might just as well |
retire from active work before he is |
kicked out of it,
The cable watts over from Glasgow this |
hot air from "Chames" jeffrey: Il shall |
stay here for a week and then sail for |
home on the Dominion line steamer New
England arriving in Boston Sept. 81 Inn |
mediately upon my arrival home l shall |
go into active training at Allenhurst, N |
j. Four weeks will be all that is neces- |
sary to get into shape. l am Just as con- |
.as OF dnfna Ting Sha rlsa IL i