The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-25
IN SPORTING CIRCLES.
Championship Season Of the Eastern
League Opens this Week.
WORK OF THE LEAGUE PLAYERS.
Johnny Murphy. OF Boston, Agrees to
Meet Australian Billy Murphy-Bniy
Sullivan and Rogers to BOX ON Thurs
day Night,

Saturday was great day for the base
ball cranks OF Providence. They won
both ways. First. the local team OF the
Eastern League wound up the New Ha-
vens TO the tune of o to ., and then the
Browns vanquished their old-time oppo-
nents, the Harvards. by a score OF 4 to 3.
after a battle which lasted eleven innings.
This victory to Brown is worth more than
all their other winnings this season. To
beat Harvard is always their ambition,
and now that that ambition has been
gratified it makes little difference what
like TO make it a double-header by beat
ing Yale, too.
Before the present week closes the
battle for the championship will be on
and we will then be fairly in it. The man.
ner in which the Grays polished off the
New Havens on Saturday proves beyond
any question Of doubt that we have a
chance with at least one club in the
Eastern League, and before the first tour
of the circuit has been completed some of
the other teams in the League will dis
cover that Providence Is in the fight for
keeps"
In the National League.
The baseball season Of '92 is two weeks
old aud the Bostons are tied for first place
with Louisville.
The team left last evening for an ex-
tended tour. To-day and tomorrow they
are scheduled for New York. Wednesday
they will play of n postponed game in
Washington and then leave for the West,
where they are billed to play two games
in each city.
On the result OF these games and the
other contests of East VS.. West much
depends, and when Boston returns. May
IA, to meet Brooklyn, one can probably
I-G ~ lost fAutc faar
nant possibilities.
Joe Quinn leads the every day men on
| the Boston team in batting, with the fine
| average in seven games of .345.
Nash is second on the list of the regular
| team with .2s5, and Duffy is third, with
| gait, and all Of his eight hits have been
| singles.
Kelly has not yet made hit, but he has
| worked the pitcher and umpire for the
most bases on balls, eight in five games.
| Capt. Nash coming next with six.
Long, Lowe, Tucker and Stivetts have
made one hit to every four times at the
| bat.
Duffy has stolen seven bases, or one per
game. Mccarthy Is next, with five to his
credit.
| In the field Tucker, Stovey. Lowe, Nc
| Carthy, Camel, Staley and Stivetts have
not yet been charged with an error.
Long is playing n remarkable game mt
short In seven games he has accepted 81
chances and had two errors, an average OF
1862.
| A remarkable coincidence is that the
four leading batsmen, in Brooklyn,
Brouthers, Joyce, Ward and Collins,
have identically the same record; games,
80 times at bat, l2 hits, average .364. A
| pretty good quartet to lead off with,
followed by Burns, Corcoran, Griffin, Con
DALEY and Tom DAILY.
| Among the Amateurs.
| The Bristol High School team played a
picked nine on the Bristol Common Sat
urnay afternoon. Both teams played
| good ball. The feature of the game was
/ Kinder's three-base hit and his one
| handed catch at first, which pre-
vented two runs from being scored.
was nas as foilows: fonoS B. H. s.-William s Nc,
Cam, c.; L. O'Donnell, captain and p.; X.
| Kinder, h.: j. Ccngdon, 2b.; w. Nc
Laughlin, 3D.; f. A. Rounds, SIS; f.
Gladdin9, IL: j. Golf, CT; ii. McCaugh-
| r.f Picked nine-R Connery, captain
| and c.: p. Keagen, p. G: McCaw, h.; Il.
| Westcott. 2b.; c. Reed, 3D.; &. King, S.;
| r. Duffy, L.; q. Duffy, CT; p. Thomp-
son, r.f. Umpire. James O'Donnell. The
score by innings:
n y Innings. s..a ..............aa asss ga,
| =. P.N........................0 8 . 1 8 3-lt
The Bristol High School team is to play
the Warren High School nine on Bristol
Common next Saturday at 2:30 o'clock.
Manauers and caDtains of Amateur ball