The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-16

"swelled heads" is common malady
among victorious baseball teams and has
been the cause OF more good teams going
90 pieces than anything else, for when
the men once get possession Of the idea
that there Is nothing on the diamond
equal to them IL is all day with the team,
and the victorious nine drops to good
one and then to tolerably good one,
and finally TO the ordinary level of the
common. everyday nine.
This was predicted of the Brown Var
Sity baseball team when they started on
their winning streak, but j am glad to
say that the predictions thus far have
amounted 10 naught, and the men, both
individually and collectively are working
ss hard al they did st the opening of the
season, and judging from present indica-
tions, Captain Dave FuItz 10 likely to
keep them ut 1t untft the finut game has
been played.
speaking OF Fultz 1t is doubtful n there
Is q better all-arouDd captain In the col
legian world. Gave has the happy faculty
OF being able to govern the boys with a
light hand, and Ms q. result one and all
are cheerfuliy willing 10 live up to his
dictum. Though he has sacrificed some
OF his playing Ia the infield to this work,
It'll II Is understood that 1t has been
spent in good cause, end when Captain
Dore makes an error or fans out IL Is pas
sed over with all due allowances.
Brown has made sucn an enviable rec
ord on the diamond this year that there
is some talk OF the team going to Chicago
to play the University OF Chicsgo o Sc
ries OF three games on the list, 2d,.and Sd
OF July. This invitation from the u. of
L. is the outcome OF the crack western
team looking over the mines I'm the east
ern field for the star aggregation. They
have settled on Brown, and as special
n oil hal
penses TO and from Chicago, and in lieu
OF the customary guarantees make an
equal division OF the gate receipts. IL
has not been decided ~ yet whether the
management will accept the invitation or
not as some of the players have already
made arrangements To leave college i'm
mediately after commencement day.
Talk about the new woman developing
he athletic craze There Is one that has
hanged the lad 10 msnia and is now
In the professional cycling circles for the
stuff. She is Miss Tillie Anderson the
winner OF the women cycle races at De-
troit and Chicago, and has offer to meet
John Lawson the "Terribie Swede" in a
match race or series OF races for any sum
be may name.
Pottersville, Staten Island, has been
noted for It's queer porduction In the pop
nlation line, but here Is the latest.
About 30 prominent Inhabitants and
suburbanites OF the Greater New York
have banded themselves into a bicycle
club TO be known as the Westfield, nom
scorching, sit-erect club. 1he members
are prominent In local affairs and are all
pledged to work reformation in the
style OF cycling, inasmuch as none of
them Will be guilty OF cultivsting camel
hump on their back or whirl through
the streets at break neck speed. The DO
or die resolution will probably pass INTO
ancient history in the course of time, but
until 1t does 1t will be the butt Of ridicule
and the observed of all observers, from a
contemptuous stand point from the many
New York pcorchers who make Staten
Island their stamping ground. Doc.