The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-05-04
WHEELS FOR USE in WARFARE THE SURVIVAL OF SPORTS

took In the game was q good thing for
baseball mt that. for they were always get
ting of gags" on tho stage about tho
national game. Hopper's rendition Of
"Casey at tho Bat" put many q dollar
into the pockets of the club owners Of the
country.
Some people cannot understand why Ed
Hanlon has made tho success In baseball
that has been his To those, however, who
knew Hanlon az player and manager the
question is a simple one. The Oriole
leader knows his business in the first
place, and having been player he did not
have his head turned when he came up In
the world, and he knows how to handle
other players In the way of getting the
best possible work out of them. The Bal
timore players realize that they have q
friend In their manager president, and
under such conditions working man can
always show to bis best. .Hanlon Is firm,
and he Is disciplinarian, but be Is not q
slave driver. 1t was a diplomatic move
for Henry Won der Horst when he In
duced Hanlon to locate In Baltimore.
Recent troubles over college games
would seem to warrant the formation OF
an intercollegiate baseball association on
the same lines as the Athletic association.
Princcton's refusal to abide by the um-
piro's decision In New York recently,
Haryard's refusal to live up to her con-
tract with Fordham college for a game
and the University Of Pennsylvania's
troubles would indicate that something
should be done. The college boys will re-
sent tho intimation that their conduct
was unsportsmenlike, but 1t will have to
go at that until some moro fitting word
can be coined. The trouble In New York
will result 1t Is said, In Columbia college
playing her games on college grounds
hereafter, which will mean a distinct loss
to the managers Of the Polo grounds. A
wng suggests that it is timely for chang
ing tho name of the New York grounds
because the Spanish minister Polo was In
such bad repute when he left these shores.
When around the metropolis, 1t might
be well to suggest h" Sorappy Bill" Joyce
and his "Giants" that he dig up new
name for the entire outfit. Since the in
PRODUCTION of the Brush angelic rule
"Scrappy" seems woefully out OF place;
but, to tell the truth, it does fit the New
York manager to a nicely. But Joyce
might induce his friends to drop the
"Scrappy" and call him "Bili' or "Bul-
liam" or any other old name for the re-
mainder Of the season. The name "Giants"
Is also misnomer, and IL has been for
many years. The players are not gigantic
In stature, and it certainly has not done
much In n gigantic baseball playing way
since Ward dropped the management at
the close of 1894. The "Harlem Kickers"
might do. and II not how would Moses
Laborers" strike the fanss
This Is the season of the year when the
youthful phenomenon prances to the
pitchers slab and sends the batsmen back
to tho bench as fast as they face him.
Then the well informed critic devotes col
umns to the youngster and tells the as
tonished public that Manager So-and-so
has the pitching find Of the year. Then he
goes on to prove 1t by saying that the
young man Is doubly handicapped be-
cause IL is his first year In the League and
that he has not as yet had time to fed out
the weak points of the batters. 1t does
not occur to the critic that the batsmen
are equally ignorant as to the pitchers
weak points and that they have not as yet
got their batting eye on the ball. Many of
these youthful twirlers will be decorating
the bench I'm July while the veterans are
doing the trick Of stopping tho fattening
Of batting averages.
Still Baltimore seems to have found q
more than promising man In James
Hughes, the pitcher from the Pacific coast.
Hughes work in holding the Senators for
a single hit and then shutting out Boston
without hit or run was certainly more
than promising. Boston's game that day
comes pretty near being record, the
champions making neither hit. run nor
an error. Few teams 90 through game
without blunder when their hitting has
been stopped. GEORGE X. STACKHoUsE.