The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-26
KING AND QUEEN OF THE DIAMOND
Short-stop Ward and His Wife Going
to Australia.

10 AuSLTdllt.
New YORK, Aug. 25.-"What splendid
double play" said Mrs. John Montgomery
Ward, the retired actress, from her reserved
seat in the grand stand at the Polo ground
the other day. 1t was the last inning of the
last game of the season between the New
Yorks and Detroits 1t was anybody's vic
tory. The score of the Giants had been
almost tied, but with magnificent fielding
the game was saved for the home team, and
the Wolverines added another TO their
already long list of defeats. The sprightly
Helen Dauvray, now Mrs. Ward, is proba-
bly, the best feminine authority on base ball
in the country. There is no point of the
game with which she is not perfectly ia
mlliar. Her Judgment is faultless, and
johnny" Ward, her lawyer spouse, admits
that she knows more about the niceties of
the game than he does, although he is the
author OF a book on tue subject, the short
stop of the ''Giautsn and the captain of the
two mines that leave in November for the
Antiuodes to play cricket and base ball in
the several Australian cities. Mrs. Ward
never misses a game. She invariably &C
companies her husband to the ground and
on his travels, and keenly criticises any
shortcomings on his part, as well as those of
his brother professionals.
my wife" said Mr.. Ward, sis great
profound acquaintance with its principles,
aud has tue faculty of making others under
stand them in very short time. She
knows also the peculiarities of each player,
and is able to make in few well-chosen
words tue differences in style and method
APPARENT
Mr.. Ward is busily engaged in preparing
for his visit to Australia. AS base ball Is
comparatively unknown there, the Amer-
cans will have to play cricket and exhibition
games of ball
The Australians are quick to learn, and
as they are very fine fielders in cricket,
they will soon prove to be formidable an
tagonists. This Australian expedition is
gotten up by A. ]. Spalding, the president
of the Chicago base ball club He is only
81 years of age and is worth over a million
dollars, all made out of the manufacture of
base ball implements. He was formerly a
professional player and was pitcher
for the Chicagos. Mr.. Spalding has
chartered a steamer that will leave
San Francisco III November for
Sydney, Australia. Capt. Ward will have
twenty-three men under him, including
Arson of the Chicago and Herman, who
with the Bostons, played cricket in Eng
land. Big Conner of the New Yorks may
perhaps go, and a number of the best
players have already signed. Two Ameri.
can cricketers, whose speciality is bowl
ing, and who also play ball, will be in the
team. IL Mr.. Spalding succeeds in estab-
fishing base ball in Australia, the game
can then be played the whole year round.
A league club, after going through the
| season here, can cross the Pacific and find
another summer awaiting them, for the
seasons are reversed at the antipodes,
and December and january are the hot
| test months. Mr.. Ward plays cricket
daily He sets up his "stumps," puts on
his leg-guards, gets some one to bowl to
him and defends his wicket and strikes with
what is to a baseball player monstrous
bat. Before the game with the Detroits
last Saturday. he batted with thu cricket
bat for over half an hour and attracted
much attention from the visitors to the
Polo ground. "The chief difficulty l find, :"
said Mr.. Ward, Sin using the cricket bat, is
the necessity of keeping it down. You see,
l am SD accustomed to holding the baseball
bat upward, but have no doubt that the
AN America team and myself will soon
get used to il. b. b. VALENTINE.