The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-07
VENTS IN THE WORLD Of SPORTS

In the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. game yes
terday the Rowdies got only one hit in
the five innings played. but this was suf-
fcient to score the single tally which
won the game.
Worcester and Providence will close
their series with games at Adelaide Park
today and tomorrow. The contests will
undoubtedly be hard fought and pro-
ductive OF much excitement Kittredge
always loses hard and he has the pre-
vious defeats fresh in his mind.
Dunkle Will pitch for Providence to-
day, and Faulkner of North Attleboro
fame may oppose him.
Instead OF Worcester. Manager Murray
has engaged the Cincinnatis TO play at
RocAey Point Sunday. The teams are
fairly well matched and chances are
good for Providence TO win. One of the
pony pitchers may do the twirling
palau are reported to have been released
by the Springfield management
Brooklyn was unable TO stop the Pi-
rates onward march yesterday. 1t
really was too easy.
Rube Waddell has returned TO Pittsburg
and is pitching good ball. After he left
the Pirates he pitched magnificent ball,
and upon promising to leave booze alone,
Dreyfuss took him back.
Joe Quinn is booked for release by Gin
cinnati.
One fault noticeable about the BROOKLYN
base runners Is the way they lag In going
down TO first on clean hits to the outneld
The result has been that many chances
to reach second on fumbles have been
lost.
The New York team has won more
games than IL has lost since George Davis
assumed the management
Thomas. or the Philadelphia team. has
dropped below the 300 mark In batting.
Even so. he has scored more runs than
any other player In the league.
Clements is one OF the most gingery
men In the business. He looks upon
earning a salary fog playing baseball
as a toke.-Worcester Spy.
The Boston club could have bought
put on him by the Pittsburg club scared
the Boston men. Now they wish they had
bought. and Dreyfuss is glad he did not
sell.
Pittsburg has closed the deal for kit
ty' Bransfield OF the Worcester club. and
he will join the team at the close OF the
Eastern League season on Sept. %
TtAr ic tlxa1x I~,
Chicago and Cincinnati over Hartsel OF
indianapolis. Both teams claim him for
next season.
Manager Allen now sits on the Cincin-
natl bench minus a uniform. Since La
than joined the team there is no necessity
for Allen to get on the lines.
Talk about getting a bicycle with a
pound OF tea! just think OF the prize
Manager Murray drew when he got
Parent for S5.-Worcester Spy.
Wrigley is showing himself a thor
ough sportsman when he goes into the
game in a crippled condition and fills
the bill as creditably as he has done in
centre.
Pitcher Jack Taylor, OF the Chicago
team. is rapidly recovering from the ef-
fects OF blood poisoning in his arm.
1t Is not generally known that the
Brooklyns have been holding their own
at the top for the past few weeks with
only sixteen players on the pay roll con-
siderably less than any other club in the
league. There are only five pitchers in
cluded I'm the list. besides two catchers
five infielders and four outfielders.
Charlie Zuber says: 1.-THE Philadel-
phia team needs pitchers and brains
more than any team i'm the league
There Is not one real brainy man on the
teams infield. and the pitchers are of
an inferior calibre."
A new one from Arlie Latham, the
clown of the game: 'I stopped at a
Wheeling hotel once where the walters
talked nothing but baseball says Arlie
when I ordered plate OF pork and
beans the coon yelled Cincinnati and
Boston-one double header"
Wilson. the pitcher who jumped Does
team, was struck by hard hit ball at
Philadelphia a day two ago and Sc
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