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

Every team in the Eastern League has
defeated every other team in the league
at least once this season, with the excep-
ton of Syracuse, which has failed to de-
feat either Toronto or Montreal.
It made the eyes of Englishmen stick
out to see the sang-froid of Americans
who bet on Holacauste and lost when
Sloan's mount fell in the Derby. The So
called English pluck wasn't in 1t for
minute.
Jeffries is said to be in danger of giving
way mentally under the strain. There's
something wrong with a champion who
says he Will fight Other champions did
nothing but talk on any subject except
boxing.
The proposed one-third mile board track
at the oval has been needed in this city
for the past ten years, but no attempt
was made to construct it until the local
cycle clubs started out to erect one of
their own.
Ball players don't drink beer; that is,
everybody says they don't. 1t would be
better for the Worcesters, however, If the
management provided a keg or two in
stead of allowing them to drink well water
at the oval.
McDuffie stands ace high with Boston
newspapers, so when they say he quit in
his motor-paced race with Major Taylor
Saturday there is little doubt they think
McDuffie found he couldn't hold Worces-
ter's speedy rider,
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crew is sluggish The Harvard watchers
who sized up the crew at work came to
the conclusion that the Yale men were
about as sluggish as Cornell was at New
London last year.
There's ball team playing at the oval
these days, and it behooves Worcester
base ball men to support 1t. They have
been praying for a good club for years.
Now they've got it, and there's only one
thing to do to keep it.
Pawtuckets folded up their tents yester-
day. and, like the Arab in the night, de-
parted silently and without the usual
blare of trumpets, They have left the
team of their own accord.
Major Taylor knew what he was about
when he insisted on striking out the
clause which called for a new start if the
motor cycles broke down. He had tan
dem and quint to pace him, and he didn't
care what became of the motor pace.
Boston school-boy oarsmen showed
themselves a great crew Saturday. They
would have beaten the Weld Juniors but
for an accident to one of the seats And
at that they rowed a shell which was too
heavy for them and consequently slow.
The Providence people are hopeful Man
ager Murray says the team as now con-
stituted is stronger than it has been for
three seasons and that il has got to
working together in good shape. He
thinks it will be a winner from this out.
Editor of The Spy: Can you tell me the
origin of the peculiar base ball term
fan PA Base Ball Crank. It's a con-
traction of fanatic, and was originally ap-
piled to those spectators who acted like
persons just escaped from funny house.
Martin Flaherty got the decision over
Charlie Miner on a foul, and there is a
suspicion that Flaherty made the foul
possible by falling without any impetus
from Miner. Flaherty is noted for his
thickness in the ring and it's not always
legitimate.
Some newspapers still persist in con-
tinuing the controversy they started
amongst the Associated Cycle Clubs on
one hand and the VernOns and the Casey
brothers on the other, which is con-
demned by all the followers of the sport
in this city.
AS a rule the summer hotels have been
quick to see the advantage gained from
establishing golf courses, and the big
houses of entertainment perched away up
in the mountains or along the seashOre
have made every effort to cater to the
popular desire.
Wheeler, the Worcester ball player of a
week ago, was In this city Saturday eve
ming, on his way to BinghamtOn, N. Y.
where he will play the remainder Of the
| season. He played on the Websters Sat
urday. He received transportation from
Binghamton several days ago.
Rieff, the English Jockey, bids fair to be-
come rival to Tod Sloan. 1t is noticea-
| BILE, however, that Ref owes his success
| to copying Sloan's method of riding. All
| English jockeys are attempting the style
| peculiar to Sloan. which they ridiculed
when he first appeared among them
It's up to a Providence writer to set the
alarm clock. He writes: Umpire Burns
has been released from the Eastern
| League staff. Burns work in this city
was way ahead of any Of the others who
have been here this season. The. Eastern
| League umpires are pretty bum lot as a
rule"
It will probably surprise most people to
| learn that within the last few weeks 10000
golf club heads have been shipped to
| England by firm of American manu-
facturers, and that within the past six
months 1t is estimated that double that
number of clubs have been sold to foreign
dealers.
While the Worcesters were on the Con-
necticut valley trip Frisbea showed his
| cleverness at bunting. An exchange says
of his work: The prettiest hunt Of the
season was by Frisbee, the ball dropping
directly in front of the plate and remain
ing exactly where it landed. He reached
| first easy"
James ]. Casey and Victor Ekberg
played in hard luck Saturday at Charles
River Park, the latter being thrown from
his wheel and Casey being the victim of
| foul riding on the part of Bowdoin of
Providence, who ripped out SIX sp0!kes
from his front wheel, preventing the Wor-
| cester rider from getting place.
There is a large increase of bicycle
riders this year, but there is no CORE
spending increase of members Of the l..
A. w There does not appear to be much
in the league for the ordinary rider, now
the league pays so much attention to con-
troll of racing It would be better If the
league looked after securing rights and
privileges for members.
Johnny NIcGraw of Baltimore gets more
credit than anybody else in the base ball
world for making Derelicts so strong. II
is now predicted that the strength OF the
team won't last, but there's no telling. 1t
was predicted early in the season that the
team would be lamentably weak. All pre-
dicttons were wrong then, and they may
be now. Here's hoping they are.
There was one paper, the only one in the
entire country that didn't know Brans-
field played centre field for five innings
Saturday, and there was one paper, the
only one that didn't give Branstield credit
for two hits Incidentally It was the only
paper that said Hannivan played centre,
Bannon right and Wagner short stop Tor
Toronto. The positions We're: HanniVan
short Bannon centre and Wagner right.
The Spy had them correct, So did every
other newspaper in the country except the
only one that always makes mistakes.
Boston's infield is the greatest the base
| ball world ever saw. No writer has thus
| far ever given the true secret of its sue
cess. In addition to being good men To
| play the game, the Boston infelders thor
oughly know their opponents. and field
according to the ability of the latter on
| bases. They never take chances on a
| fast runner when they can nail slow
| one. They never attempt a hopeless dou-
| Bile play on a fast man, which other in
| felders do. and are thus liable TO make
errors. The secret of their success is
knowing just what to do at all times and
doing it.
Charley Cancels father was passionate
| " fond of base ball in his youth, and al
Racine, Wis, where all of his children
were born with the exception Of the eld-
until his sons were big enough to take his
place. He has 10 healthy. robust chill
dren, all married five of whom are sons
and five daughters, the sexes alternating
regularly, and the youngest daughter
cnmnlating the family circla On ST Pat