The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-30
BASE BALL NOTES.

Miller of the Cincinnatis has not been
doing the work he did last season, and
has come I'm for much uncomplimentary
criticism from both press and bleach
ers. He is very much disgusted. and
doubtless would like TO try a new pas
ture.
The Wilkesbarre Record says that
city will positively remain in the East
ern League circuit next season, despite
all the rumors TO the contrary.
John l.. Sullivan will umpire one of
the Providence games at Scranton next
week.
The Providence club will play in Mon
treal to-day having been forced to
leave Buffalo without having played
one of the series of three games there
scheduled for this trip. This is an un-
usual experience. 20 have three conse-
cutiVe games postponed on account Of
bad weather.
Thus far there have been 50 games
postponed in the Eastern League on ac-
count of bad weather. The usual aver
age for a whole season has been less
than e6.
Dan Shannon of the WillSesbarres. the
first team that played at Montreal,
gives his impressions of Montreal as
follows: Montreal is a large city, but
only 10000 people there speak English.
and the French only go to soc sport on
pie tried 10 tell US that we shoud only
play Saturdays and Sundays. They
couldn't understand why we wanted to
play every day in the week.
They have had some amateur ball
there and understa some points of
the game. They are rooters, too, though
as most of the people yell in French
neither team knows what they are talk
ing about and whether they are roofing
or knocking. When the fielders catch
flies they so wild. They like that. II
a man runs around in a circle and
makes a difficult chance of an easy one
they think he is a star. But infielders
can stop hot grounders and never get
a hand. They see nothing remarkable
about that. Curve pitching is a marvel
to them. When a man strikes out on
balls that start for the plate and curve
wild they go crazy over the pitcher.
They like the clown business, too.
Dutch Berger Is the most popular man
on their team. They think he's great.
lie dances around and makes faces at
the pitcher. and the Frenchmen call
that the best part of the game If Arlle
Lathem were on that Montreal team
the Trenches would build a monument
to him in the public square. They like
coaching and plenty OF it,"
Earl Wagner VIII not have TO call the
Senators cutters next season Before
the bell rings for the opening game
next season radical changes VIII have
been made. and record players Will be
tabooed by the Senatorial management.
Men that are fast on the bases good
stickers and. above all, lighters till the
last man is out. are What the Washing
ton people want. and Earl Wagner is
iuS. the man TO keep pegging away un-
I'll he finds players OF this caliber.-Ex-
change.
Il thought last season that Klobedanz
could not run the gauntlet Of the major
league batsmen after a swing up and
down the line of the other IL clubs"
said Tom Brown. There Is nothing
puzzling about his arch-hacked curves.
which describe a sweep as swelling and
wide as the chests of tha, conceitcd
Baltimore crowd. Nor has kloby enough
speed for left-handcr. | think | took
a correct measure Of him in 1894, when
the St Louis Browns played an eXhbi-
ton game with the Fall lGver team.
Kloby pitched for Fall River, and we