The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-22
ShOrtstOp Davis Of the New
York Baseball Team Has
His Troubles.
He May Be the Defendant in q
Sensational Breach Of
Promise Case.
B4SEBALLEST LOVED TOO MUCH.
He Was UnmercIfuIIy Guysd BY the BIeacher.
ties In the Game at BaItlmore Yesterday,
Bat Played Great Ball.
Especial Dispatch to the TrrEusx.l

Especial Dispatch TO the TRIIUNE.l
BALTIMORE, June 22.-The bleacherites
on the ball grounds yesterday were up to
their eyes In cheerful repartee, while lorg-
nettes on the grand stand swept the field
for view of one who loved not wisely
for he loved too much.
George 8. Davis, erstwhile captain and
present favorite shortstop of the New
York Club, is q great ball player, but he
has been catching and his game was
simply "Yellow." George Is accused Of
surreptitiously reducing the distance be-
tween bases and of making love to two
women at one time who lived under the
same roof. He appears to have been sue
cessful for while, but Of course there
came foul, and there Is documentary evil
dence to support the cry for judgment that
will cause tears for mans perfdy, and
sympathy for woman's trust. It's awful,
that evidence.
No. % West 65th street is close to Central
Park; the locality of all now in New York
where every breeze watts tenderness, and
every block houses great chunks of love
that are generally supposed to have no dies
ON them. George has maybe made up an
other nine, but these two will bother him
In management. When they signed they
lived safely apart. ''Peaches, that 10 what
he called her, Is stately blonde who has
lived in No. 20 through three years Of
probably fervent courtship but positively
burning correspondence. "Kittens," the
other, brown-eyed and widow, lived In
Harlem. Then 1t was easy; but "Kittens"
moved down town and took fiat right
over "Peaches," and George with the ar
roQance of man accustomed to all sorts
of umpires while away, came home and
smoked his pipe in powder mill.
Why can't true love run smooth? The
ladies were unacquainted and George
wasn't doing q thing but making home
runs. when uPeaches" clock stopped and
she went down stairs to get the time.
People who live in fats are not always
naughty and right round the Park one
can sometimes form friendships; the ladies
liked each other 80 much at meeting that
"Kittens" soon told of her love for the
baseball man. To "Peaches" the conf
dence was delightful for had not she
diamond lover? And they talked and
talked of love and marriage, and OF the
fark Dclng 30 ulce lOI Cuiiureu' Ahoy
forgot the clock and became intimate and
"Peaches" told who caused maiden's
prayer, at the moment that her friend
named the probable successor to Mr..
Kittens.
What then happened must be left to
panied Imagination, but "Peaches" says
George has worked her very serious harm
by keeping her from all other friends and
matrimonial possibilities for three years
of her early womanhood, and that she has
completely soured on him. Her lawyer
says so too. The widow says that OF
course its all over, but she has been 80 fond
of him, she don't know that she will sue.
George says that he Is very much aston
ished and that under the circumstances 1t
would be unfair to the ladies to talk on
the subject.
That may be so, but 1t looks az though
he was in the outfield, and until the ladies
leave the game he will be lucky II he Is al
lowed the bench. Why, oh why, will men
monkey with two, when one is q widow?
II ever George played for shortstop he
needs to now.