The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-02
STARS PLAY A
RAGGED GAME
American League Champions and
a Team Picked from Others in
the League Give an Exhibition
. at the Oval
LAJOIE THE IDOL OF
COUNTRY COUSINS

COUNTRY COUSINS
Players Show Little Disposition
to Play Their Best and the
Crowd Could Only Sit and Ad-
mire the Men Whose Playing
They Seldom See
1.-THE national game as she is not
played by the American League" was
the terse way the game at the Oval
yesterday afternoon was described by
one enthusiastic rooter from Fisher
Vile, who journeyed from the town
| that produced the famous Foxes to
see Larry Lajoie "hit the ball on
| the top of the head" Both American
| League teams certainly did hit the
ball ION the top of the head" all right,
| but, as the Baskerville rooter ex-
claimed in disguised tones: eve
! would not sign dem from the Wor-
I cesters"
| Outside of the hard and fast hitting
the game was one of the most
wretched exhibitions seen at the
grounds in many day The players
were out for a lark and didn't care
who won. Horse play predominated
all through the game, with an &C.
casional side light of phenomenally-
fast playing that brought the crowd
in the grandstand and bleachers to
its feet to vigorously applaud the par
Elephants in the play.
The Chicagos won. But that was an
unimportant part of the afternoons
sport. The score was IL to 7, but that,
too did not make much difference with
the American leaguers. The All-Star
aggregation had several of it's brilliant
, luminaries dimmed by reason of ac-
cidents and illness and they present
ed patched-up constellation. The
great and only Larry" Lajoie, to see
whom all the fans who slaughtered
the English language from Baskerville,
Whitins and other neighboring cotton
mill towns, not to mention those from
the classic confines of Dungarven
Hill. came and watched the DIST
player in the American National
league" 1t was a picnic on a small
scale and afforded all sorts of amuse-
ment for the fans, who would other
wise have become Disguised with the
exhibition.
Some of the players on both teams
were at first inclined to take the caus-
tic remarks of our country cousins to
heart but they soon got wise and fol-
lowed the example set them by Dunn
my Hoy and when they did talk it was
to jolly the Lajoie adherents in the
grandstand.
The game opened favorably for the
Lajoie aggregation who slammed the
ball for fair. Barrett, who led off for
the All-Stars, hit like a fiend. He met
Katolps offerings square on the nose
for a single time up, a three Dagger
next and capped the climax with a sin
gle the third time at bat. He did not
finish strong however and failed to
reach first in his other times at bat.
ICY" Seymour, once a farm hand on
the locals when they were known as
the Agriculturalists boosted the ball
over right field fence for a homer. That
was the sum total of his hitting for the
afternoon.
Donlin did some tall hitting. He
reached for a safe single first time up
and rounded the four sacks on a long
drive to centre field. But while the
All-Stars succeeded in connecting with
KatolPs delivery for the long drives
the Champion Chicagos got going in
the seventh inning with a vengeance
anu ali lOBGlutI eight Nus that uGIIeu
them seven TALES before the side was
retired. 1t was a runaway after that
Mr.. Bernhard who oficiated in the
box for the All-Stars was heart
broken and allowed three hits in the
following inning which trotted two
more men over the plate.
Lajoie who has made his reputation
as a second baseman played shortstop
with poor results, being charged with
al l..
him that looked as though they should
be stopped Bresnahan burned his
hand on hot one and retired from the
game and a general shakeup occurred
in that inning, the first of the fifth. The
outcome of the game did not bother the
players in the least All were out to
whang the ball and whang it they did
with a vengeance.
The All-Stars started the scoring in
their half of the first. e. Barrett and
Donlin hit safe. ICY" Seymour foul
flied to Mcfarland. Barrett got home
on Lajoies hit, Donlin being caught off
second, Sugden to Mertes. Lajoie died
at second, Mertes handling Harry
Davis grounder throwing Larry out to
Shugart.
A hit by BradIey,a pass to Mercer put
two men on the bases in the second for
the All-Stars and Barrett's three-sack-
er brought them home to score two
runs.
The champions woke up in the second
and Callahan and Shugart hit safely,
being sent home by Sugden's two bag
ger The All-Stars kept plugging in
the third but all they got was the run
scored when ICY" Seymour lifted the
ball over right field fence. ICY" was
the first man at bat so his drive did
not bring any more than its face value.
In the fourth Barrett was perched on
first safely, and Donlin pasted the ball
to deep centre. Donlin did some fast
base running and was ambling between
third and home when the ball was re-
turned to catcher Sugden. The latter
could have nailed Donlin at the plate
but he simply threw the ball at the
runner allowing him TO score.
The Chicagoes. scored in the fifth be-
cause of two passed balls by Bresna-
han. Callahan hit safely, went down
to second on a passed ball and went to
third when Catcher Bresnahan dropped
the third strike on Foster and had to
throw the latter out at first. Then
Bresnahan hurt his hand on a speedy
one that went through him like a seive
and Callahan scored. 1t seemed rather
hard on Bernhard to have all this hap
pen as he struck out three of the four
men UP. But Mr.. Bernhard had his