Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-29

ed the game and it's officials are popular
not only with the home patrons, but
among tho magnates with whom they
have business associations. The fact that
the team has won out with their best
pitcher disabled during the last six weeks
of the season serves to add to the glory of
tho Orioles success.
In this triumph of the Baltimore team
is a lesson which must put tho average
manager and magnate to thinking. In
the entire lot of players only three can be
classcd as veterans Hanlon has gathered
his pennant winners from the four corners
of the earth, so to speak. There is Billy
kccler, who was twice a castoff before he
landed in the Monumental City. He play
ed in 1892 In the Eastern league, where
he led the batsmen for quite a Time and
played moderately good third base. The
New York club, through Manager Ward,
bought his release and played him on the
regular nine for some time. Keller was
not strong enough, however in Ward s
opinion, and he was released. Brooklyn
took him up last year, but put him on the
bench before the season was over
Last spring the Baltimores wanted Dan
Brouthcrs, and they went to the Brooklyn
club and offered Trcadway for the big
first baseman The Brooklyns, however
wanted a third baseman and demanded
Shindle and Treadway for Brouthers The
Baltimores declared they must have man
for man. Then the Brooklyns thought of
Kccler. They didn't want him anyhow,
and Billy was slated even at that time
for release. So they put Keelcr in as boot"
to Brouthcrs. Hanlon took him, gave him
q place in the outfield, and what game
he played for the coming champions!
There is Kelley, whom the Pittsburgs let
go; Brodic, for whom the Bostons couldn't
find place on their nine, and Jennings,
who was not good enough to grace the
bench of the Louisville tail enders. They
all went to Baltimore and became famous
and skilled members of the champion
team.
McGraw, Bonner and Rcitz are young
bloods picked out of the state leagues.
Clarke, too, jumped from oblivion into
that shining company. Gleason, who
couldn't or wouldn't win game in St.
Louis, was transferred for monetary
consideration to Baltimore and there made
the League record of successfully won
games. Esper had no merits in the Wash.
ington nine, and they let him go. Hanlon
pulled him in and won game after game
with him. Hemming couldn't pitch we'll
enough for the miserable Louisvilles, and
Hanlon got him in swap for Inks. Now
see how Hcmming is moving down bats
men for the Baltimores.
1t is truly a marvellous collection of
baseball players-a regular mosaic collec-
ton of young and old bloods-which is
bringing such great honors to the metrop-
oils Of Maryland. Few of the wise men
in baseball believed Hanlon's team could
stand the pace. Even their own officials
did not believe it. But the Orioles fooled
everybody.
Next comes tho contest for the Temple
cup. The series will be played during
the first half of October between the Bal
timores and New Yorks scarcely without
doubt. The fact that the winners of the
series get 65 per cent of the proceeds, to
be divided up among themselves, will In
sure the games being played on their
merits. The outcome of the series will be
watched with interest all over the land,
and should the New Yorks win the cup
they will share the honors with the cham
pions. In the IL games which the two
teams have played with each other for the
championship they have divided evenly
But the New Yorks lost three of the IL
last April, when they were not in good
form and when the Baltimores had Just
returned from thawing out trip to the
south.
The Giants believe they will easily de-
feat the Baltimores in the series to be
played for the cup and will thus be hailed
as the real champions If not the legal
champions. The New York men allege
that they were beaten in the race at the
start because the Baltimores were in much
better playing condition during the first
month of the season by reason Of their
trip to the south and their training in
warmer climate. There seems to be JUS
ticc in this claim, and the series of nine
or eleven games between the two teams in
the contest for the Temple cup and tho
SIGH prizes (monetary) attached will de-
tide the mooted question.
One thing can DO depended upon, and