The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-26

annual meet OF the l.. A. w. at Asbury
Park this summer. The various commit
tees are not in harmony with each other,
and several who have the success OF the
meet at heart admit that the present state
of affairs is most discouraging. The
Massachusetts members are particularly
enraged. Probably more so than
the others because Boston
was not selected as the
place TO hold the meet, after it was
thought TO be fully decided. Mr.. A. X.
Peck, who is one OF the hardest workers
for the league, around Boston, had this
10 say to me on the subject: strange to
say, the race track upon which the races
are scheduled TO run, has not yet been
engaged. 1t is in wretched condition and
what is more, the brilliant promises made
at the national assembly about a
magnificent new track were crea-
tions OF the fancy, made to
suit the occasion exactly on a
par with the broken promises OF New
Jersey state league officials. We don't
hear SO much now OF the $4,000 which
was to be raised, either. This whole
national meet business has Disguised
many men, and this latter phase has
carried this same discomfort into the
ranks of earnest men on the committee
there to such an extent that it Is not inn
probable that many will resign. The
committeeman seem to have lost all
interest in the matter. Each committee
pulls its own oar, and if the boat is
swsmped, it will be their own fault. /
am under the impression that IL the track
is not made safer, when the time comes TO
get the flyers some of the best men may
be found wanting. There is this much
about the whole national meet business
the best interests OF the l.. A. w. were
subservient TO political trickery and de-
ception, and with such an unfavorable
beginning, the present condition
of affairs is a natural Sc
quence The national meet concerns the
league throughout the country. 1t is not
q local show, and the wheelmen OF any
state have a right TO demand that the
Asbury Park people look after its white
elephant aud, as the expression goes, ''get
together" This is truly a sad state of
affairs, and it really seems that the Jer-
seyites have more wheels now than they
will nave later in the summer.
The National League games are now
fully under way, although it is, of course,
altogether too early to size up or ~criticise
the relative merits of the individual
teams. Already, however, / have heard
OF several complaints against the new
rules. The one restricting coaching on
the side lines is protested as much
rs much as any,. From almost every city
patrons OF the game are declaring that
there might just as well be no game at all
unless they can enjoy what they call half
the fun OF the ~game-wind coaching. OF
course, l can readily see that to the casual
spectator there might be moro all-round
sport, more Of a hubbub, so 10 speak, a
regular hullabaloo mixed up with the nc |
tual playing itself, but it must he remem-
bered that what we term cranks really
support the game, men who
would not miss the game IL they |
should be deprived of their
meals for a week. Among this class we
find men like Hl-Hi Dixwell. men who
watch every single, solitary play and then
when they get home at night figure out
They, of course, wish for absolute quiet.
They consider quietness as important
rs in the playing of chess.
As i have said in my opening
sentence, 1t is n little too early TO
criticise; rather let us wait until
in the season, then everybody may
reconciled. President Young,
who submitted these new rules. did SO
With ardent hope that they would incline
improving the game. They were
accepted Mt the national meeting by men
as prominent in the baseball
world, and as it is in a certain extent their
support, let us suppose that they will do
nothing TO harm their own interests.
No sooner has the Chinese-Japanese
war come to an end than we are treated to
smother outbreak OF hostilities, this time
N our very midst; an inter-racial dispute.
10 to speak, or a tragedy In black and
white. ! refer TO the Walcott- Corbett
IN broglio. ! need scarcely refer at this
day to their Cincinnati episode.
nor to the pleasing epithets they
nave bestowed upon ono another, not
o their belligerent threats to dent in
ZACH others caputs with clubs. In brief,
corbett made SOME crack at Walcott;
In turn wrote Corbett, asking
TO take IL back. The letter seemed
nsolent TO the champion, and he said he
would break Walcott's head. The Eth
'pian retorted that Corbett could not
freak his head either with a club or
With his hands, and there the matter rests
t present. Perhaps the champion could
rot break the adamantine skull OF the
but it's dollars to doughnuts that
he could propel his dusky form through
by gently planting his immaculate
patents" in the rotunda OF our Joseph's
)antaloons.
l see that there is a chance OF two
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