The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-07-03
Boston-New York Game Prevented By
Rain-Baltimore Defeats Washington.

Baltimore ............O U U U o B IS
Washington ..........O o o o o.
Batteries-Nops and Bowerman; King
and Farrell.
Take Care OF Your Wheel.
When you come in after long ride,
you doubtless do not feel much inclined to
look after your bicycle, to rub it down or
to oil it. However, you should brace your
self and look to your wheel before you at
tend to your own comfort 1t will pay you
to do this. 1t will also pay you not to let
the air out of your tires when the wheel Is
resting. Nothing so quickly cracks tire
as to be left with the weight Of the bicycle
pressing on 1t with no air in the tubes.
An Attractive Bicycle Costume.
One of the very latest and prettiest
bicycle costumes is that worn with tt
short open jacket The novel and smart
skirt of this costume will be found equally
comfortable and becoming on and off the
wheel The jacket tabs are trimmed with
buttons at the sides and cut in one with
the skirt, which Is unlined but for a wide
band of stiff interlining or lnenette, on
which the falso hem of brown sateen is
mounted. A stripe of brown velvet is put
treme edge
Clipped Diamonds.
Tom News bumps the ball with the speed
of pile driver.
Providence plays Springfield at Rocky
Point tomorrow.
Manager Marston can't gee what license
the Fall Rivers, as at present constituted,
have to loose game.
Bill Coughlin is on batting streak of
late. He laced the ball around very mer-
rilly in yesterdays game.
Lajoie is not hitting safely as formerly,
as the pitchers are getting onto his weak
ness, and the fielders are learning where
to lay for him.
Few first baseman in the New England
league are playing any better ball than
Beaumont. Benny is getting his eye on
the ball again too.
for the first time in six weeks. Great
schedule Is that in vogue in the New Eng
land legue this season.
Rupert who was released by Fall River
this week, took an awful slump in his
work this year. Last year at this time
several league clubs were discussing him
for faster company.
President Moy received a telegram last
evening from Secretary Morse authorizing
a championship contest at Crescent Park
tomorrow afternoon when the Pawtuckets
will meet the Tauptons.
Righthelder Waldron of the st. Joseph
| club Of the Western Association, has
played In all but nine games for that team
and has not famed the wind once. He is
batting like fiend, rapping out doubles
and ee-baggers with persistent re-
| gularity.
The Meriden correspondent of the Sport
ing Life says that George Bone is easily
the best second baseman In the Con-
necticut league. The Meridens have q
wonderful record of Is games won and
six lost. No club in the country can touch
that record.
A familiar figure at second base was
Count Frederic Doe, but he was almost
Chesterfieldan in his politeness. He played
with a sort OF "I-take-a- bath every-morn-
ing" air and did not seem like the same
Fred OF old. Several bleacherites took oc-
casion to inform Doe that he was a pretty
fair poloist, but this Is not the polo season,
you know, and the old New Bedfordite
took the hint with the quickness OF a
tramp at hand-out banquet.