The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-21
Sporting Notes

The coaches on many football nelos
will indulge in speechmaking today.
The High School football team will
certainly get some important ln1or-
nation today. Coach Delaney hasn
forgotten Saturdays exhibition.
There is likely to be deep interest
taken in the efforts Of Worcester Hlgh
to produce a winning team, but their
start must be at once.
Two weeks of racing will begin at
Westfield today. The entry list con-
tains many horses that made the going
at BARRIERS Crossing track last week.
james Donnelly, former High
School oarsman and football payer,
was in this city yesterday. Donnelly is
a freshman at Dartmouth and is a
member of the varsity football squad.
Baseball gossip will be sizzling
around New York Thursday when the
minor leagues begin their meeting.
The gathering should be notable, and
there is much that can be accomplish
ed.
Harvard's chances of defeating Yale
this season seems very remote. 1t will
, take Harvard half a dozen years to
get UP to the standard shown by Yale
last season and which Is being main
tanned at New Haven.
Herman, the Harvard halfback, has
been one of the Crimson's mainstays.
Herman made the track team and
helped in baseball as varsity pitcher
and Saturday he surely saved Har-
ward from tie against the Cadets.
Cornet, right guard on the Tufts
team Saturday, is we'll known In this
vicinity. Last season Cornet played
basketball for few games as mem
Der of the Hudson team
Dartmouths victory over Williams
+! will do more to increase rivalry be-
| tween the colleges than any other
athletic event might. Dartmouth's
eleven is remarkably fast.
Mike Kelley of otter River, who
was once suspected of becoming first
baseman for Worcester, has signed as
manager of st. Paul of the Western
League for next season. Kelley will re-
place the veteran Jimmy Ryan, former
ly of Chicago.
| Fall River and Jersey City are two
cities that are now being mentioned as
probable members of the Eastern
j League next season. Pres. Powres is
said to strongly favor the latter city
4 because of its drawing powers and the
fact that Sunday baseball could be
played there.
| Applications for an Eastern League
franchise has been filed by Fall River
promoters. AS the rival of Providence,
Fall River would be strong, but Wor-
cester would be feeced out of its holi-
day attraction under this arrangement
But may be change would be wei
come.
Manager Buckenberger Of Boston
has been on a western trip and has
recently returned to his home in SYRIA
cuse. 1t will be interesting to watch
the list of new corners on the Boston
N. L. team just to size up Bucks
ideas of the worth of players.
-Noonan of Father Mathew basket
ball team will be a resident of Worces-
ter during the winter. Last year
Noonan was recognized. as one of the
Fitchburg trio that backed up Father
Mathew. Noonon is now in Worces-
ter.
/ Umpire Joe Cantillon of the Ameri-
can league says that young players
should not be too anxious to break
away from their teams to clutch at
opportunities to join a major league
organization. 1.-THE player should in
/ form any manager who tries to in
dHce him to jump, that he will not do
such thing, but that he would have
no objections to being purchased"
-Lajoie of the Philadelphia Athletics
/ is said to have cut off all relations with
4 John Barleycorn, and now is preach
ing temperance to the other members
Of. the National-American tourists.
There was a time when Lajoie could
haze given John Falstaff a start of five
beakers and then put him under the
table-and glad of the opportunity
Exchange.
Ambitious minor leaguers who have
tr
slow when it is understood that the
combine of minor leagues has black
list that means something. Few play
ers will think SO we'll of themselves
that they will be willing to make a try
in faster company provided that there
is no minor league club waiting to
catch them if they fall from the lofty
perch to which they they clambered
without permission.