The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-13


stead OF making sure of the man at sec
ond. the catcher tried his arm toward
third. lie caught nobody. and New York
made Ave runs after that and licked us.
Those are the sort OF plays that make
man tear out his hair In lunches"
Levers feat OF tanning ten Reds In
Thursdays game caused John Gruber 10
overhaul his records. In 1855 Tim keeI.
then pitching for the New York team.
which won the pennant that season,
struck out IL Pittsburg batsmen on May
l5 and repeated the feat on May IL. thus
getting 22 strikeouts In two successive
games. In 1859 John Clarkson, pitching
for the Bostons. struck out IL Pittsburg
batsmen Two seasons later, In 1891. Bry-
nan and Nichols. pitching for Boston,
a dozen Pittsburg batsmen famed. The
record in the league Is 10 strikeouts. made
bv Charley Sweeney OF the Providence
| club. In 1854. against the Bostons at Bos-
| ton. Tom Ramsey in his day struck out
| II men.-Pittsburg Press.
The Iion IN " team has first base
man BY the name OF Ryan. who, accord
4 ing 10 Max FIfschmann and the membe
| OF the Mountain Athletic Club team. is
| the greatest card that ever broke into
| baseball. Ryan. whose distaste for bor-
| rowing money from his friends leads him
| into baseball during the summer. is a
| transforming Thespian during the winter
| months, putting i'm his time in barns and
| water-tank towns instructng the rural
| folk in the beauty OF Shakespeare and
! other writer's of tragic verse. He brings
| his art of the stage on the field with
1 him and is no less amusing for IL than
! Is Latham with his funny sayings. In the
game between the Ilion team and the
Mountaineers Ryan was much in evil
dence. A bad decision by the umpire
brought forth kick from him something
on this order: Look to yourself, rascal.
or by me halidom ! will destroy your
beauty. or am no ball player. Your de-
| cision was atrocious. sir. atrocious. and a
| repetition will be followed by serious con-
| sequences" When a Mountaineer rushed
| into him at first and almost upset him.
| he yelled: Now, by the gods. this is too
much Zounds. man, could break you
| to pieces had I wanted to-" balk that
was not allowed called forth the decla-
ration that .it was a palpable balk. sir;
palpable balk." For the good Of the
game IL IS hoped that RYAN will become
| nothing better than a semi professional.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Theodore Breitenstein, one of the pitch
ers OF the Cincinnati club. was born June
! lst, 1859, at 81. Louis. Mo. and began his
| baseball career as pitcher on the open
lots about his city. His first professional
| enga agement was with the Grand Rapids.
Mich. club in 1891. The latter part OF
that same season he was brought to the
notice Of Won der Abe and given a trial.
He was very wild at first. and bases on
balls off him were numerous. but he
| steadily improved until he became a star
I'm his profession. Besides being a fine
pitcher, Breitenstein is superb fielder in
his position. and can 20 good work in the
outfeld He is a fine batsman and n
clever base runner. He remained with
the st. Louis club until after the close
of the season OF 1897. when the Cincinnati
| club bought him for $500 II he were not
| left-handed. he would. with practice, De-
come a great infielder.
| William r. Dahlen. the clever short
| stop of the champion Brooklyn club. was
born on June 5th, 1871. al Fort Plain. n.
Y His professional career began In 1890,
when he accepted an engagement with
the Cobbleskill club. OF the New York
State League. He remained with that
| club until II disbanded late in the season.
when he was signed by Manager Thomas
York, for the Albany club. which was al
so In the same league. AT the close or
tnat sea son Manager York signed Dahlen
for the following year. but as his Alhafy
club was not under the protection or the
National Agreement, he could not. under
baseball laws. retain the player. Joseph
Battin!sthe veteran professionally who had
been umpiring in the New York State
League during the season of 1890. recon-
mended Dahlen highly TO the Chicago
club, and he was Immediately signed. He
remained with the Chicago club until the
close of the season of 1893 when he was
traded at Baltimore. which club trans
ferred him to Brooklyn. He is equally at
home at third base and shortstop and has
been credited some of the most remark
able plays ever made at either position.
He is not heavy batsman, but t,meiy
hitter.
Tho DofoSoo