The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-12
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The Pittsburgs will play in Evansville
Sunday, April 8.
Clark Griffith thinks that Washington
will be much strengthened by the acces-
sion Of Lave Cross.
Charley Murphy has signed a pitcher
named Fred Beebe and an outfelder
named Willard Dodge OF the Lacrosse
(Wis), club.
Ban Johnson says the later opening OF
his season will not affect the games. but
there will be more double-headers as a
consequence.
Orvlle Woodruff. once with Cincinnati:
and now with Columbus has purchased
a 40-acre farm in Ohio and will move his
family there March 1.
Princeton and Brown hockey teams ap-
pear 10 be very evenly matched. 1t took
just one hour OF actual playing to decide
which team was the better.
Dr. Frank Reising. who is wintering In
Ohio, is doing so we'll with dentistry that
he may not pitch next season. He says
he will never go back to Brooklyn.
McGann. Gilbert and Donlin of the New
York National league champions will go
TO Hot Springs for a month before they
start in with their club in Memphis.
1t seems rather strange to read Of
sleighng in Philadelphia. while in this
vicinity the amateur reinsmen are taking
theirs in matinee wagons on the speed
way.
The Boston Americans will play at
Nashville. Tenn, April O. Manager Micky
Finn has also arranged to have Cornell
May 2s. Cleveland April and L. and Pitts
burg April and s.
The American athletes tried 10 have tho
big Athens Greece) athletic meet post
poned n month or two. but without avail.
The Athens people claim 1t would be too
warm In June or July.
Umpire KERN OF the New England
league staff, who winters at East Pepper-
ell. has an offer 10 umpire I'm the Eastern
league next season. and 1t would not be at
all surprising IL he were TO accept.
There will be a general shifting Of
yachts in the racing events at Gravesend
Bay this year. Plans have been perfected
10 build a large number OF boats this
spring, as nearly all the old yachts have
been sold.
The undergraduate committee on athle-
tics at Columbia will meet TO confer with
the committees Of alumni and faculty on
the ClSCuSSlOn or nlelnOuS tndt VIII DflnR
about more general participation i'm ath-
letics by the student body.
Battling Nelson has grown so accustom
ed TO using the newspapers for match
making purposes that he even proposed TO
a California girl by means OF an interview
in Cleveland the other day. Some people
are awfully careless and absent-minded.
Ice hockey pays in Canada. on recent
trip the Ottawas played four games, for
which they received just $1,000. All were
played for straight guarantee. $1,000 be-
Ing drawn for the two games in Winni-
peg and $500 each from the Kenora and
Fort William fixtures,
There are now in France 21 stallion de-
pots Ohoroughbreds. Arabs half-breds
and heavy draught horses. where 5000
stations are kept for the use OF breeders
at merely nominal fees. A winner OF the
French Derby and Grand Prix stands at
a fee OF only 81. and there are many good
ones that stand at the fee OF 81. OF the to-
tai number OF stations 247 arc thorough
breds.
Manager Frank Eustace of the cham
pion Concords OF the New England league
is wintering In Concord and expects 70
have his team practically intact next sea-
son. Pitcher Irving Young OF the Boston
Nationals is also wintering I'm Concord,
and keeps himself In blooming condition
by working in the car shops, and is tick
led over the way the club has been
strengthened for II means more victories
for him next season.
Says a Chicago dispatch-Tebeau. Grif-
fiths and George Stalllnge OF the East
ern league, were in secret session at the
Grand Pacific nearly all day. and rumors
are ahoat Of a threat TO bolt the meeting
unless separate class be made for the
three chief minor leagues, Eastern,
American association and Pacific Coast.
The old heads, however, say that any
such alleged bluff will be called, and that
is likely to occur.
The actions Of Rube waddell. the crack
pitcher OF the Philadelphia American
league team, before and during the
worlds championship series, is likely TO
be made the subject OF an investigation
by the National baseball commission The
American league magnates, and especial
ly Ban Johnson, president OF the organi-
cation, are highly incensed at WaddelIs
antics. There was something suspicious
about Waddell's conduct at a time when
the Athletics required his services most
Prior TO the worlds championship games
rumors emanating from all authorita-
tive sources said that Waddell had been
approached by certain gambling interests
to either incapacitate himself for the
contests in which his club was about 70
engage or throw" the games in which
he was TO pitch.