The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-21
WORLD OF SPORTS
Brown Gains Easy Victory Over VIII
|iams, Score 7-2.
Providence Grays Play Exhibition Game
with Fall Rivers.

Tho Providence team journeyed 10 Fall
River yesterday morning and played an
exhibition game with the Border City
team I'm the afternoon.
The game was the opener for the New
England leaguers and they made a good
showing against the Providence Grays.
the score being tied up till the ninth
inning.
Bert Conn and "Chummie Gray served
up the ball for Providence and McKenna
held the basket
The game started in with plenty OF
hitting In the FIRST two innings, each team
securing three runs In the first.
Providence made It's winning run In the
ninth with one man out. The score:
Innings ....... l 3 8
Providence .. sol 0 l o l. 6
Fall River ..... 8 2 0 0 o o. 8
Hits-Providence IL, Fall River 10. Err
rors-Providence q Fall River 3. Bat
teries-Conn. Gray and McKenna: Nor
gan, Yeager and Ward.
The American league season was
opened In Boston yesterday. the home
team defeating the Philadelphia
Americans before 1916 spectators, the lar
gest crowd ever assembled TO witness
morning game In Boston.
Boston's new catcher. Farrell, was e.
hind the bat and played an errorless
game. The score:
Innings ........ 3
Boston .......... 0 -
Philadelphia -. l 0 o. 4
Runs-Dougherty, Collins, Stahl, Free
man. Lachance 2. Ferris ,. F'arrell-s;
Davis. Cross. Murphy. Schreck-i. Earned
runs-Boston 8: Philadelphia 3. Two
base hits-Lachance. Davis, Winter. j..
Cross Sacrifice hits-Dougherty. Pa
rent. Ferris. Stolen base-Collins. Double
play-Farreil 10 Ferris. First base on
balls--Of Winter. 2: of Dineen. j. of
Waddell, 2. Hit by pitched ball BY
Winter. /: by waddell. !. Struck out
BY Winter, 2: by Dineen. 2; by Waddell.
o. Time-2h. Umpires-Connolly and
Hassett.
The afternoon game brought out an at
tendance OF 1922 and was won by the
Philadelphia team In the last three Inn
ings
Up till the sixth Young held the visitors
from a hit, but in the last three innings
they pounded his delivery for six hits,
three OF them being three-baggers. Ben
der, the Indian pitcher. pitched strong
game. The score:
Innings ...... / 2 CTS
Philadelphia 10 0 0 o o s SD
Boston .......... 0 l.
Runs-Davis 2. l.. Cross 2. Seybold ..
Murphy. Pickering. NJ. w Cross. Bender
10; Stahl. Freeman 2, Parent, Lachance
?, Ferris-7. Earned runs-Boston 4,
Philadelphia s. Two-base hits-Stahl.
Freeman, Parent. Three-base hits
Dougherty. stahl, Freeman. Parent. l..
Cross 2. seybold, Pickering stolen
bases-M. Cross. Pickering. Hit Ivy
pitched hall-By Young. l. Struck out
BY Young, S; by Hughes, /; by Plank. j.
by Bender. ]. Passed ball--Powers. wild
pitch-Hughes Cmpires-Hassett and
Connolly. Tlme-2h. 22m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
The Philadelphia Nationals played two
games at Boston yesterday, each team
winning a game.
Boston won the morning game, 4 to g.
McFctridge going TO pieces in the sixth
inning. The score:
Innings ........ : 7
Boston ........... o 0 0 3 o l -
Philadelphia -. 900 o 0 O.
Runs-Tenney, Abbaticchio 2, Cooley:
Thomas Keister Douglass. Two-base
hts-Abbatticchto. Cooley. Home run
Keister. Double plays-Hallman and
Douglass. First Base on balls-On Pit
finger, /; off McFetrldge. 3. Hit by
pitched ball-Bonner. Struck out BY
Pittinger 3; by McFetridge. . Wild
pitches McFetriige. 2; Pittinger. Time
In. 4cm. Umpire-o'Day. Attendance
--lS27.
Philadelphia won the afternoon game,
10 to I. Willis being hit hard throughout
the game. The score:
Innings ...... 2 3 7S9
Philadelphia 80. o "a 0 0-=1O
Boston .......... 2 0 o 3 0 o. I
~-Rans-Thomas, Wolvertnn,-p Douglass
Hallman 2. Hulswitt. Roth . Mitchell -
10: Tenney 2. Abbatlcchio 2, Cooley. Kit
tredge, Willis Earned runs-Phlla-
Cooley. Thomas. Douglass Willis. Nit
eheii. Three-base hit-Barry. Stolen
oase--Abbaticchio. First base ON balls
OF Willis. :; OF Mitchell. 3 Struck cut
by Willis. s; by Mitchell. l. Wild
pitches - Willis. Mitchell Umpire
O'Day. Time-1h. 5sm.
The New Yorks played an thinning
game with the Brooklyns on the Polo
grounds yesterday. Taylor was hit hard
by the Brooklyns. Bresnahan was put
out Of the game in the eighth for kick
Ing. The score:
Innings 80. g plo1
Brooklyn 80. o o 1 % 200 %
New York. o q o 0 o o 2 o o--5
Runs-McCrecdie q strang. sheckard,
Floods: Browne. McGraw. Babb. Gil
bert. Warner-S. First base on errors -
New York I. Brooklyn 2 Left on bases
New York 9, Brooklyn q First base On
oalls-On Taylor. q. of McGinnity, /: or
Jones, a Struck out-By Taylor, .; by
NcGinnity, Z: by Jones. T. Two-base hits
-Browns. Babb. Stolen s--Presna-
han. Babb Gilbert g. Strang. McCreedic.
Flood. Double plays-Houssholde TO
strans. DOYLE 70 Flood: Dah!cn To Flood
TO Doyle. Hit by pitched balls-By Jones.
Umpire-Moran.
AMATEUR BALI.
English High defeated the Bryant e
strstton College team yesterday after.
noon In rather one-sided game IN.
score being IL TO s.
The English High team outcIasseJ ,heir
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