The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-04

Providence Is now 50 points ahead of
Rochester and 65 ahead of the Hartfords,
who showed such a phenomenal burst.
not long ago only to drop back again to
their old position at third.
Taylor. the deaf mute from Albany has
the advantage OF not being ratified by
coaching.
Sam Crawford of the cincies is bar
ber and he expects to return to his oc-
cupation after the season is over.
Over $500 persons saw the two games
played by the Providence team yester-
day / wonder II we are popular! Win
ners always are. and we are winners.
The local players turned out about 6
O'Clock to go TO Worcester. They were
there on time but the game started late
and did not go the limit, seven innings
being all that were completed.
Umpire Egan oversight and missed
train connections to Worcester. Evans
and Magee umpired the game satisfac-
toriy.
"Jack' Walters also got left. Corridor
filed In at right. He made one hit. but
did not have a chance TO make fielding
play.
In the two games yesterday. Parent ac-
cepted 21 chances at short without an
error. Seven were tailed In the first game
and IA in the second contest.
FrieId exhibited some wildness at Wor-
cester, but was steady enough to win the
game.
An extremely large crowd occupied ev-
cry point of vantage during the afternoon
game II became necessary TO rope on
the field and to adopt ground rules, pre-
vious to the game.
Up to the beginning Of the fifth inning,
only one Providence man, Pete Cassidy,
had reached first base. and he did not
come within a mile of getting home.
Grey has replaced T. Bannon as second
in the batting list of the Toronto team.
Springfield got only hits of Donovan
In the morning game at Hartford yester-
day.
Breitenstein is pitching the best ball of
his career nowadays.
Lave Cross Is out with an announce
ment Of a permanent retirement he says
this is his last season on the diamond
and that he will open sporting goods
store in the Quaker City. u
Out Of 81 games played in the intersec-
ton series just closed. the west won ~
to 21 for the east Philadelphia made the
poorest showing OF all, and Shettsline's
men had practically monopoly on this
end of the string. The Phillies alone lost
In position. and Pittsburg. which made
the best record of all the clubs, was the
only gamer in club standing.
Strange, isn't II? Toronto ball team
comes third in the fielding average and
fourth In the batting average. Still the
aggregation is sixth in general results.
Providence leads the league in batting,
but is NTH In fielding. Ii would appear
from this that the Providence manager
simply picks men who can hit the bail
and wanders along I'm front.-Toronto
Telegram.
Farmed players have figured prominent
ly In the Eastern league this season. Pit
tenger has been a man o>>lmight for Wor-'
cester. Woods has been Springfeld's win
ming pitcher. and everyone knows that
Donovan and Steelman have done Won.
ders for Hartford.-worcester Spy.
Harry Wilson, the catcher about whom
Norwich and Derby are making deal OF
noise. attended school at the Philadef-
phia Central High school, which has turn
ed out a large number of good players
He belongs to a wealthy family Of Frank
fort, a suburb of that city.
The Referee.