The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-02
THE WORLD OF SPORTS

jured his arm last spring while playing
with Minneapolis and has since then
been resting.
The Providence team has lost six out
OF nine games on this trip thus far.
Phillips had hard luck at Boston yes
teruay. He held the beaneaters To four
hits In eleven innings. but lot the game.
New York is playing great ball at
present and is only five games behind st.
Louis They may get out of last place
before the end OF the season, and here's
hoping they do.
Duffy will take the next trip west with
the Bostons.
"Rube'' waddell. now with Milwaukee.
held Cleveland down to two hits recently.
Pfanmiller is very slow in covering
first.
Oct. viii be Harry Weldon day in
Cincinnati.
There arc rumors OF shake-up in the
st. Louis team.
Dayton, OF the Interstate League is the
first team In the country 20 secure 20
victories. Dayton has a goo. lead In the
race.
Sullivan, the great home-run hitter of
POS
There will he some new faces I'm the
ranks of the Ponies by the time they get
back home.
without Dolan and Schoch the Ponies
would be mighty weak. 1ney are the
mainstay OF the whole team. Both are
line hitters.
The veteran manager. George w.
Brackett, is running a hotel In Lynn,
and occasionally revives old memories
by taking in a game at the south enn
grounds in Boston.
When Taylor, OF Chicago. broke into
the big league he won the first five
games in row. Last year he was off
color, getting away with only about 400
per cent. of his battles. lie looks and
acts as If he took the finest care of HIM
self.
McKenna, who was on pitching staff
Korwan. three good ones. is doing good
work for the Cleveland American League
Team.
II is said that pitcher Gus Weyhing.
who has been let go by ST. Louis be-
cause IL has too many twirlers, will be
signed by Brooklyn.
"wally' Taylor, who managed Toronto
last season, will manage the Syracuse
club until a successor to Irwin can be
found
Tommy Bannon led the Montreal club
IN batting. base running and run-getting
when he was released.
Buffalo Of the American league has
won II OF Is games played on
western trip. They defeated Milwaukee
six straight and Detroit three in success
sion.
The twelve Brooklyn players farmed out
10 minor leagues will be at liberty in
September. Several OF these will doubt
lessly wear Brooklyn uniforms during the
last month of this season and throughout
1901. notably Donovan. Steelman and
Fultz, who have developed wonderfully.
Those who are not retained will be at the
service OF other National League clubs.
who Will De nermlttc0 10 neSOlldte
any or all of them for next year.
The Chicagos have won five games out
of nine from the Brooklyns. and are the
only club to lead the champions I'm Sc
ries The Chicagos have completely OUT
batted the Brooklyns, but have been for
excelled in fielding
Pitcher White OF the semi-pro fessional
Fleischmann team of Cincinnati has
pitched seven games and not a run
has been scored off him. Seven consecu-
tive shut outs is a record which probably
stands alone In baseball history.
League players who have not yet missed
a game are the following Boston, Hamil-
ton, Collins, Stahl. Lowe: Brooklyn. Kee-
ler Dahlen; Chicago, Childs; Cincinnati.
nobody: New York. Van Haltren. Selbach,
Gleason; Philadelphia. Thomas, Slagle.
Cross; Pittsburg, Wagner; st. Louis, Nc
Gam.
The youth who writes things for the
Hartford Post has been telling Steelman
that there is only one catcher In the
league. and Steelman looks as II he had
read the paragraph. He is not quite so
bad as Kittredge. but almost, and that is
saying a good deal It's the old case of
man trying to find a hat store that has
his size.-Montreal Herald.
The real old-timers playing In the
American-men who campaigned at least
five years in the National are Jimmy
McAleer. Billy Hallman. Dummy Hoy.
Waiter Brodie. Joe Sugden. Frank Shu-
CART Dick Buckley. Lou Bierbauer, Tom
my Dowd. Walter Wilmot, Germany
Smith and Red Ehret.
The Brooklyns did not play up to the
usual standard last week, both the team
and fielding averages being diminished
a few points. An interesting struggle Is
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