The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-30


Kansas City Saturday and Sunday, March
81 and April l.
The Georgetown University manage
ment is looking for a hall In which the
pitchers can warm up In February.
Harvard and Yale are tied for first place
in the intercollegiate hockey league. Both
teams have won two games and lost none.
Cincinnati manufactures from 5000 to
1000 balls daily. and the Cotton States
league has adopted a ball made In that
city.
Harvard evidently regards Pennsylvania
as a minor college in baseball. The new
deal In baseball places higher premium
on HI"
Louie Bacon is to lose the Troy fran
chise and II is 10 go 10 Jack o Brien,
formerly OF the Boston Americans. and TO
Ed Rabbett.
The Southern Baseball league has Sc
lected three OF it's umpires, Dan Pfenniger.
w. j. Buckley Of Rochester y. Y, and #.
f. Rudderham.
The colt pitchers and catchers OF the
Phillies may go 10 Savannah a week
ahead OF the regular team. The regulars
will go March or March g.
Manager Mike Finn, once a resident OF
Natick, has arrived in Nashville Tenn.
and will at once take up his work there
as manager OF the baseball team OF that
city.
Charles NJ Hastings. who umpired in
the New England league last season, IS
drilling oil wells in West Virginia but II
ready to take hold OF the indicator again
the coming season.
Manager Fred Lake OF the Lowell base
ball club would like 10 hear from any
first class minor league players who are
not yet signed for next season. He can
be addressed st the Arlington house.
Lowell.
Al Kaufman. the California aspirant
for the heavyweight title, made such
fine showing in his recent night with Bar
ry. the Los Angeles club is going 10
match him against the winner OF the Hart
and Burns fight to be held next month.
Steve Mahoney. manager OF Jimmy
Briggs. received an offer from Albany
yesterday for Briggs TO meet Willie Ho-
sey. who recently beat Jig Stone. A San
ford elttb-eise- -F4aada-a- hid for
Briggs services, but both offers were de-
clned.
Catcher Heny Peitz has sent his con-
tract to Barney Dreyfuss and says that
OF flesh this winter but that he is as fast
as ever. He mourns the loss OF his Gin
cinnati job under a Republican admins
tration.
While the warning turf bodies are get
ting ready TO continue their fight at Louis
VILE with rival tracks. the Kentucky
legislature is about TO consider a meas
ure. which, II passed. will Kill racing In
that state But the opposition is so strong
that the racetrack people are not worry
ing at all
The new plan OF the intercollegiate
Athletic association, Of dividing the profits
OF the championship among the colleges,
with the distance TO come as a factor.
will be boon for the small colleges A
number OF even considerable institutions
have been deferred from sending teams
on account OF the expense.
The veteran catcher. Buck" Ewing.
who has lived in his home in Cincinnati
ever since he quit baseball. Is I'm bad
shape He has been down with Brghts
disease for some time and only his rugged
constitution has kept him on earth this
long. Buck" was regarded by many as
the best catcher that ever handled a hall
and a host will he sorry TO learn Of his
inability 10 keep in health.
Marvin Hart's first public appearance in
Los Angeles is the talk OF sportdom, be-
cause Of the snub which Jeffres admins
tered him. Before the Gauffman- Barry
mill the other night Hart stepped into the
ring following cheers and calls for him.
together with calls for Jeffries. The re-
tired champion also stepped within the
arena. shook hands with several persons
but took pains TO ignore Hart. The evi-
dent snub was noticed and the crowd
cheered some more Hart is credited with
making charges against Jefferies regard
ing the Root championship battle at Reno
last summer, hence the ill-feeling