The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-22

MOST EXCITING 0AHEOF TIE YEAR
AT RHODES-ON-THE-P AWTUXET.
Canonicus Lodge l. q. o. y. Has Two
Crack Clubs. Either One Of Which
Could Down the Grays.

The game OF ball by the 'Cellar Dig
gers" w. the ''Tar Roofers" Of Canoni-
Gus lodge OF Odd Fellows at the annual
outing at Rhodes yesterday. furnished
no end of sport for those on the "bleach-
ers" as we'll as the "artistan The ac-
tions OF the "Cellar Diggers" were un-
der the supervision OF Brother Johnston.
whos In the future. will be called cap
tain. The team was made up as follows:
Johnston, 3. g.; George Grachian. c.;
Salisbury. 2b.; Myers, !. T.; Harvey. r. 4 !;
Joseph Grachian, h.; Wood. C. T.; Payne,
3D.. Fred Gracnian. y. The "Tar Roof
ers" were. on the whole, a better looking
set, but they lacked skill. and conse-
quently lost the game.
The heavyweight OF the lodge, Brother
Shove. was the chief engineer of this lot
and the nine played as follows: Shove.
p.; Bennett (ne OF the state house), c.; /;
S,nford, 2b.; IA. f. Carpenter, 1h.; Dur
fee. r. L.; eckhinier. l. T.; w. S. South
wick, D. s.; Delmage, q. T.; Sherman, 30.
In the first inning the good-iooking fel.
lows thought tnat they had a "picnic,"
as they made three runs, and Shove WAS
happy. Th II the Johnston gang" went
to bat, but this WIS simply n change In
positions. as they did not even get a
ghost of run.
In the next innings Shove's players
scored TWO more. which by the way were
the last they got. The "Cellar D.ggers"
got another chance AT the bat, aud thi =,
lime Grand Mas er Payne hit the ball
AN awful whack, and when IL landed 1t
could not be found u It'll he had reached 4
the third bass, and could MAKE n home
run but he was short OF breath and was
obligel 10 stop. This was The only star
hit Of the day and Payne was tie lion OF
the hour. There was no more scoring
until the last hall OF the flftl aud last
innings when the Cellar Diggers" ma ie
i've runs.
The victims lay h, whole blame upon
Salisbury. Bro her =. w. M ithewson
kindly consented 60 officiate AS umpir e.
but he lost many Of hi, best friends Dy
doing so. A representative OF the News
kept tally on a sningle, and only tie
winning team spoke TO him at er the
game. The game was witnessed Dy iwo
judges, one member OF the hous OF rep
sent atives. two lawyers, one doctIr. one
newspaper man aud \ number Of com
mon every day sort Of folks.
1he Boat Races.
After the lame there was rowing
matches In the singles, Fred. Joe and
George Grachian, DIR. Abbott and Sher-
man filled the river full of boats and fun.
The doctor won, but here was protest
entered AS the Others in the race thouah hi
tnat he was ringer" In the doubles
Bennett and Myers, Hoaglan aud 1 ink
ham, sherman aud CARPENTER. Abbott
and Grachian were the contestants. THIS
was rath r exciting and ma y OF the
member were giving long odds that che
10 iRe would at the next meeting De OBJ
liged TO pay funeral benefits TO at least
four OF the brethren's heirs. Happily al
landed in due time with Bennett ano
Myers as the first boat load home This
ended this sort of sport.
Ihysical Culture Class.
DR.. Abbott then introduced his class
In / hysical culture. and very decided
inproveme t from last year was noticed.
This closed the exercis Of he day anC
the members sat around and alked o
the days gone by until about Z o'clock.
some of those Present.
Amunx tho notabl,s present were
Grand Master j. Milton Payne, Crane
Warden George McKinnon, Grand Rep
resentative Peter j. Trumpler, Judge,
SNeetland aud Johnson aud Hon. George
Brown. The committees were IS fol
lows: Conductor of the fast light,
Myers. TIE products OF the farm were
In cdarge OF battey; in the STAKE boat,
Remington and GiDboJs; startrr, "Ev'
rybody"; judge. Il. A. johnston 'ora'
tor" William Sweetland. The commit-
tee OF arrangements was Past Grand
George III. Remington, Frank A. Sails
bury and John III. BaJtey.