The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-15
GENERAL
SPORTS
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John Anderson, Of baseball fame
NAV be engaged to officiate as referee
of the Jenkins-L undin wrestling mattel
in Mechanics Hall, Thursday night
Jack Sharrott's indoor baseball
league may not come to the SURFACE
this season. Mechanics Hall is the only
suitable place for playing the games
and the cost is too great
Football teams produce some
tongue twisting names, but this season
crop is especially rich. Butkiewicz OF
Princeton and Pickarkoh of Pennsyl-
vania are men with mighty names
The meeting of minor league mag
mates in New york next week VIII De
attended by President p. H. Hurley OF
the local Eastern League team. more
than 100 magnates are expected.
Billy Hamilton, the veteran Boston
outfielder recently said that DOC car
new is capable Of holding his own with
any club in the country. Hamilton also
has a good word for Joe Rickert.
ERNEST ]. Flanagan, the baseball
EXPERT. in a review of the past season,
saws that "the Eastern League OF
1901 was run in a manner that would
have brought disgrace to the Gas and
Oil Association"
Albany. N. Y. and New Haven
Ct, are said to be cities sought for the
Eastern League. Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
believed to be a likely city, although
either New Haven or Albany would nj
into the circuit better
Clarke Griffith, one of the original
tout for the stuff baseball players
and a leader in American League CIR
cles, is in Boston. Griffith says that
the American League Will not lnVaue
New York next season.
The Amateur Athletic Union plans
a housekeeping. but If the Dob is done
thoroughly, there will be scarcely any
need of the Amateur Athletic Union
Purity in amateur athletics is an I'M
possibility under existing conditions
Thomas r. Johnson, Worcester
boy now at Yale, is a promising mem
Der of the varsity football squad.
Johnson's connection with the crew
placed him in prominence. and the
coaches consider him q strong lineman.
The National Cycling Association
proposes to adopt measures that VIII
result in the establishment Of an accl-
dent fund for cycle racers. IL is
planned to utilize the fines imposed
on riders by the Board Of Control for
this purpose.
in four games Princeton has scored
40 points and has a clean record, Dut
the Tigers have had weak opponents.
Instead Of Yale and Harvard being the
whole thing in the Big Four this year,
however, there is every indication that
Pennsylvania and Princeton will be
heard from.
The Worcester High School team
wasn't provided with life preservers
and may be that accounts for the post
ponement Of yesterdays game at Will
braham. 1t isn't often that the weather
is miserable enough to kill interest in
football, even temporarily. but yester-
day the rain triumphed.
Although the constitution and by
laws OF the American League call for
the annual meeting OF that organiza-
ton tomorrow, there will be no run
together until Dec. 2. when the expan-
sionists will gather at Chicago. Inc
unsettled condition Of baseball affalrs
is responsible for the postponement-
Tomorrow Yale meets Bowdoin and
opportunity for a comparison OF scores
will be afforded. Harvard won by d
score Of u to 0 over the Maine men,
Dartmouth appears to have a re-
makable fast eleven this fall.and big
crowd Of the alumni viii attend the
game at Newton Centre. Saturday when
the Hanover boys line up against Will
Hams.
Harvard will meet Wesleyan at
football tomorrow. and on Saturday
the crimson viii hutter at West Point