The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-22
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After its nap of nearly ten years,
| Worcester will wake up to roller polo
and welcome the game and players.
| Anybody who thinks that the rush
| ers of the old days were the nearest
! things to winged creatures that polo
has ever produced will see that DAILY,
! first rush of the Worcester team, is
about the fastest man that ever
creaked over a surface on rollers
Mechanics Hall will not be any
too large for the throng that will
gather Wednesday night to see Wor-
cester and Salem have roller polo
battle
-Hjalmar Lundin is anxlously
awaiting some word from John Pien-
ing, the Butcher Boy The New Yorker
was notified that no hall could be Sc
cured for Dec. 3d. the original date of
the proposed match, but that a night
could be picked about Jan 10. Piening
is giving exhibitions in a New York
theatre two men each night in Is min
utes or FORGETTING $50. Piening has had
remarkable success at this sort Of
work and is one of the best drawing
cards in the athletic line that New
York has had for months.
Rogers of Fitchburg, doomed by
his friends for a place in the top ranks
target of a business like statement is
sued by Lundin. Hjalmar says that he
is willing to go on against the Fitch
burg man in that city or Worcester,
guaranteeing to throw him three times
in an hour.
Jock Rumohr, the sculler who once
got joshed into believing that he could
defeat Edward Hanlan Ten Eyck, is
now chef in Port Arthur, Ont, res
taurant. The Canadian says that he
intends to get backing for a race with
the professional champion, Jake Gau-
daur, but Rumohrs closest friends are
inclined to smoker at the thought of
such a race.
Boston critics say that Harry
Boes the Worcester scrapper, has lost
some of his speed Thursday night
Boles and Tommy Duffy of Woburn
went six rounds to a draw.
Thomas w. Lawson's son, Arnold,
Is on his way home from England
Young Lawson is said to have recent
ly purchased three dogs at a total cost
Of not less than $500 The animals
have been blue ribbon winners in Eng
land for two seasons past.
Manager Shettslime of the Phila-
delphia National League club claims
to have made arrangements for the
pitcher, for next season. Felix is not
counted jumper, and unless the
Philadelphia management parts with
cash, Charlie Dooley will undoubtedly
have Harry under his wing next
spring.
Con Riley, a former trainer of Kid
Mccoy recently granted a Western
writer an interview, in which Riley
says that Terry McGoverns eyesight
was impaired by frequent appearance
before the footlights and that Terry's
defeat at the hands of COrbett was
due solely to that. Most people are
satisfied that it was dull. sickening
PUNK on the jaw that put Terry away.
But for months yet, the how did it
happen fellows win be kept busy ex-
planning McGoVern's knockout.
-Patsey Donovan, manager of the
st. Louis Nationals, says of Jesse
Burkett, who has Topped to the Amer
lean team in that city "Burkett is a
great theatre fiend. He goes almost
every night to some sort of a show,
and the kind where there are pathetic
scenes gets his money. I'll never for
get the first time I went to the theatre
with Jesse. Knowing him only as a
ball player | was just little bit leary
about how he might act, for the per-
Torrance was a high-class melodrama,
and thought that IL Jesse should hap
pen to take objections to the villain he
might want to leap on the stage and
throw the spikes into him. But there !
was mistaken, for Jesse's heart was
made of mush. In the very first act |
there was a bit of pathos. heard some !
one sobbing, but never thought Of
Jesse. I turned around, and, bless my |
soul, there he was crying like a baby. |
Why, you could hear him all over the |
house. The play was just TO his liking |
and every night that week Jesse went
just to cry. Just about that time we
were playing in hard luck and Jesse /
was not getting his share of the hits.
This always affected him and he was
rather rowdy. | remember that one Of
the papers came out and roasted him
for squabbing with some other player,
and referred to him as being hard
hearted and selfish. People who only
see Burkett on the ball field don't
know him He is kind-hearted and
goes out of his way to do some one a
favor If a man on the same team is
taken sick Jesse will sit up all night
with him, and the man who is In need
can always get lift from Burkett"