Putnam patriot., 1908-08-07
BASE BALL
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heading over our story oi enot tsoh@ place on the Providence street grounds last Saturday. It's an insult io A good caption, but having used it so long our readers have become aeustomed 10 look for IL, and if they dont find 1t this week they will never recognize our re port as the same old base ball column.
 The present handed to the taugdans by the crippled leaders Of the league, assisted by The taienders' victory over the Rosebuds, puts Us in triple tie for first place. II was no prima donna performance on the part Of Putnam E pets that turned the trick, and had the game gone many more innings the Colts stack of blues would have been on the visitors side of The table.
 Co 10 south Boston flats any time and see the Pirates and Tigers, age lim- it fl years. give an exhibition with il ball made of string, and wagon spoke for bat and 1t will look more like the real national sport, of which Saturdays contest was cheap imitation, resem. bling the real article about as much as ten cen. production of Faust does grand opera. The 35O ,005 ,000 inhabitan- ts of tie Chinese Empire wouldn | look as yellow snd any chink that couldn't Juekie Reach special more gracefully with pair of ehepstieks, than did most u the l9 performers in Saturdays matinee. would hnvc his pgtni eut  of and be transported.
 in goed plain tnIted @tales slang. the game WIS on thc ffil1, and would certainly have been pinehed and sent to the island for six months If Il had been found below I2Hd street after dnfk. If moving picture machine could have taken I record of those bal. loon aseeHsionsi parachute Jumps, slsY. roekeis, and iilllez, II would he q gaad dose ef medicine f The gran l ensemble that took part in II could be made L. watch the reproduction of II twice T day for week, and charge them Il quarter admission eaeh time. It's Il clneh, that if they weren't rent to the daily house before the week was over, when the lime was ap they would beat il to the ball ground nights, and chase over the diamond enough fo start the penpifation, keep down the weeds, and earn their weekly meal ticket.
 Met 'arthy showed up well, Ills slants looked to be the goods from the beaehefs and puzzled the besi alickefs the sisiiofz could produce, and when he famed the mighty Raymond in the seventh, With the sacks fuii. 1t MI tune ior fall blast from the orchestra nna the while Hsht. They Rot tn htts uiI hins saare they did, bal it wouldn't take i college professor yer sed h higher mathematics ta take T shingic md picce of blue chalk and figure out, hpw, with anything like the support the team ate cupahle us the hil. would De eui down to Hee The only efilicism tu he mHae K f. gar.iing hl# wildaess, which ~Hz oHlt natural "a ilrst appearance. H. pass cd l4ree men, hi one had nns W.l! pitch, and pitched himsel into She .s=s hoie quite I number If tImes. He also sianed some oi his drops too low, aa8 1t was only by the livcilest kindoi work on the patl oi his Canadian eallegian baekstop that he Was saved nom see. erai nofe wild ones.
 Aeoirdupois Farley bohhed about liNe coFk ia q ehapRN sea, aai hiyeN hihitian shane ant like diamond in bunch of scrap lfah. lie dug them eat ot the dirt. look lhom an the haana, and puilgd tl1cm aul ot the atmosphere al unnsHal heights without Hiss. and hy lhe sMeat of hls hfaM. earned hz weekly AiHend le the last copper
 Maawean ,hows. ,Ge naee tha4 have been aeins and the siens point 10 Il .gfoegA finish unless they are eeped ap for thp seasunsend5 uadheis, ene ef tAe best nFst hHseaen tn tee league, has been transferred u short, which looks like had move, although he covered his territory fairiN we'll, as did his sue. eeSsor al inst, an Italian named Lang, Dion tried second but the ball went through his nits like drop ot quick. silver and he went to the stable in the third and Mir. iiill and his pampAdeur took the second station, and hy get. ting the easy ones he managed to aN. craze e65. Although there were no errors tn the ouitield there was some stupid fielding that added to fa,nam's batting averages,
 tfspaoe permits we'll tell how Inc comedy was played, and yonl not need to be critic to notice how the l stars forgot their cues and the chorus l was eul of tune. ll,s no kid, We hate 1 sa ao is. it's like waking from dcam. ing you ye goi million before you get 1 time Ia put Il In the bank \ quaftett of Canadians eireled in the l frst. Tatro laid down little ground. ! CT thai Hogan was kinti enough Ia i tumble lie went down when Govern dropped the third strike of i4iEotte and i had to throw Ia llssi. nieu put safe. ts to right. and went down on the llFsl ball as Tate Was lerched on thied. l Marion eurped eat 4 Iitlle gfaanaef i that Gadtois >ifaadiei As g passed hN. ! Aad tNo r0as scored tafsx pFesontel . tlle sap Svoond on s bad tAtaM locasea ] ham mapping fen Morse realea ene of Ihe end ol hls has tfag we4a eNss among the autos ln figas ana Mlth a