The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-29
The Young IreIands Demonstrate
Their Superiority at Gaelic
Football by Easily Defeating
Boston Men
A TENDENCY TO SCRAP
CHECKED BY REFEREE
Goal Tender Raymond of the Wis
itors Prominent by His Work
and Kept the Score Against
His Team Down Final Score
7 Points to 0

maintained their claim for the chaln-
pionship at Gaelic football, at the
Worcester Oval. yesterday afternoon,
by winning an easy victory from the
Rangers of Boston by score of
points to o. The Worcester players
put 1t all over the visitors from start
to finish, outplaying them at every
point of the game and winning as they
pleased. The game was witnessed by
a crowd of about 300 and those who
braved the intense cold got their
moneys worth of sport.
Gaelic football is not a parlor game
and it takes hardy men to play it, and
the "a men who faced each other in
the contest were the hardest of
hardy men. While the majority of
the spectators did sprints up and down
the side lines, with an occasional quar-
ter-mile run, to keep from freezing to
death. the men in the contest for the
most part played the game In sweaters
that We're none too warm, but the
berceness of the play kept them
warm. AS was to be expected, there
MAS considerable scrapping during
ihe game, but Referee Richard Can't
we'll used his prerogative and kept the
Scrappers well in bounds The Boston
men outweighed the Worcester men
by several pounds each, but when it
came to scrapping and playing the
game they were not in it with the
Young Irelands.
The latter outkicked and outpassed
)hem and only once during the game
was the Worcester goal in danger.
That was at the very start, when the
Rangers rushed the ball down the
held to the north goal and made a try
Tor the posts The attempt at goal
failed and that was the only chance
lhe Rangers had during the game, as
Che ball was being kicked at their goal
Turing the rest of the game until time
was up.
The goal tending of Raymond of the
Rangers was easily the feature of the
game and he had more than his share
Of work. He is a big fellow, over six
feet tall and put up in proportion and
as wiry as a cat. He needed all his
Rlertness, as the Worcester kickers
kept pushing the ball at his posts so
lard and often that he was continually
on the jump. He could not do it ALL
however, and the bal got by him
Ieven times for points, the Young
Irelands falling to get a goal through
his superb playing.
A stiff and cold breeze blew dowr
The field from the north, and Capt
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10 defend the north goal at the open
ing. On the first play the Rangers
rushed the ball down the field anC
made a try for goal or for a point and
missed the latter by a few inches
The ball was kicked out of goal and
sent down the field with a rush by
the Worcester men, and after 10 min
utes of rushing, passing and punting
the ball was given a backward kick
by Flynn and it sailed over the goal
posts for a point for the Young Ire
lands The Rangers saw they were
up against it, as they could not get
through the line of the Irelands, and
they tried time-killing tactics by re-
peatedly kicking the ball out OF
bounds, hoping to get the benefit OF
the wind in the second half A few
minutes before the first half ended
Shugrue scored another point for the
Young Irelands. and the half ended
with the score 2 to 0 in favor of the
Worcester team.
The second half saw the Worcesters
defending the south goal, and here
again they outplayed their opponents
The goal was at no time in danger
and Heffern had so little to do at the
goal that he put on his overcoat anG
danced jigs to keep warm. Even with
the wind in their favor, the Rangers
We're not in the game. They kept the
ball in the middle of the field for the
first Is minutes of the second half, but
then the Young Irelands began t.
play fast football and in the last II
minutes five more points were added
TO the Worcester score by Hayes
Shanahan and Shugrue.
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