The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-17

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| Frank G. Selee, the clever manager
engaged by Pres. Hart for the Chicago
! Nationals, says that next season will
! be one of the best that baseball has
| had for many years. He believes that
| A. G.. Spaldings election to the presi-
dency of the National League will
boom baseball all over the country.
! Austin Rice, the Connecticut feath-
erweight pugilist, will go on in a pre-
| liminary wrestling bout against Wood
| land of Worcester when Lundin and
Schmidt meet in New London, early in
January.
A H. Stone, a Gardner boy, has
been elected captain of the Dean Acad-
envy basketball team. While in Gard
ner High, Stone was prominent in foot
bah and track athletics. He has
played at half-back on Dean Academy
football team with marked success.
The veteran rider, Nat Butler, was
one of the worst sufferers among those
who participated in the six days race.
Butler injured his head in a fall, Fri
day, and at the close Of the race he was
in a trance. His partner, Mclean,
wept when he saw Butler falling to the
rear in the final sprint and instead of
first prize, $780, the pair had landed
fifth, $3.50.
A championship ring contest will
be pulled off at Fort Erie, tomorrow
night when Rube Ferns, welterWeight
champion will tackle Joe Walcott Both
men hit with trip hammer force with
either hand. and there will be some
fearful battering before the battle is
decided.
South birmingham basketball team
in the Massachusetts, League has won
seven out of eight games and is the
leader In that league. The Burkes of
Lowell are In second place and the
PawtucketVille A. c. quintet OF Lowell
is in last place, having lost three
games and won none.
Arrangements are being made for
a six days bicycle race in Boston, early
in January. A majority Of the teams
engaged in the Madison Square Garden
race will be entered and as ten hours
per day will be the riding time, the
pace will be hot and the strain on the
men severe.
Jack Warner. the New York catcher,
has been signed by the Boston Ameri-
can League. Warner will double up
with Criger, and Boston will be well
equipped for backstops, as Warner is
hardy chap who can do the bulk Of the
work without firing.
One of Nat Buffers decisions dur
ing the last day of the six day race
was a peculiar one. He continually
criticized the management for building
a track only two feet wide for a
six months race" At one time he
thought Benny MunrOe was a cat and
Lester Wilson, a dog. and that both
were trying to catch him, intending to
scratch and bite him.
David o. Williams. young Penn
sylvania lad. has been signed as pitcher
by the Boston americans on recon-
mendation Of Rucky Freeman. VIII
liams is a left-hander and he is hailed
as a wonder
Pres. Ban Johnson of the American
League. declares emphatically that I'M
der no conditions will the league admit
Andrew Freedman as magnate. We
do not want him, says Ban. He is a
baseball disturber and always has
been one. II the American League
places a club in New York 1t will do
so without the cooperation of Andy
Freedman
The st. Louis Sporting News says
that John Anderson's contract for next
season will call for $4,000, but that John
IS worth every cent of It, He ranks
high as a batsman and is one of the
best fielding first baseman in the
game" says the Sporting News. He
may not think as quickly as Tenney or