Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-27

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Louisville club, to whom baseball profits
for some years have been as strange and
unknown quantities, announce that they
have money to burn as an offering to the
gods if a good winning pitcher be sent to
them. Brooklyn's magnates stand ready
with bank roll in hand to pay for the
needed article, and Baltimore champions
would mortgage their entire team to secure
q man capable of filling John McMahon's
shoes.
But the market Is almost barren. Not
one Of tho 80 Or more youngsters drafted
from the minor leagues by the National
league has up to this date shown an abil-
ity to go to the front and stay there. Con-
stans indulgence and plenty Of opportuni-
ties may send a few of them to the goal,
but while they are being whipped into
winning form their respective clubs are
suffering reverses, and it is the seasoned,
assured article for which the clubs arc
looking. Right in the face of this dcarth
of good pitchers comes tho lamentable
news that John Taylor's arm is so badly
injured that he may never pitch again. Ii
it be true, and he, as we'll Us Mcmahon,
goes upon the permanent disabled list,
baseball will have suffered another disas-
trous blow, for he was just coming into
the rare class with Rusie, Meekin, Hawley
and Nichols.
Where, then, may the major clubs look
for new pitching talent if tho minor
leagues fail them2 Perhaps the colleges
may turn out the required article in small
proportions. Some fine pitchers have como
from the university clubs. Men like Stage.
Carter, Hutchinson and Avery have shown
their abilities to stand in the first rank.
Hutchinson Of the present Chicago team is
the only college pitcher of prominence
who ever tried to earn place with the
leading professionals and succeeded, but
have no doubt that Stage Avery and Car
ter would have been just as successful had
they consented to enter the professional
ranks. Hutchinson in his time took off hi
cap to mono of them, and even now he j,
not back number. His work for Anson
this season has been much improved over
his rather poor showing in 1894.
l was one of the first who cndeavorod to
get Hutchinson into the professional ranks.
In the eighties ho was clerking for a rail
road company at Cedar Rapids, Ia, and
there 1 sought him for the purpose of per
suading him to pitch for the Cincinnatis,
but he resisted tho tempting offer. Arson
later on succeeded where l failed, and Viii
lie joined the Chicagos, where he has ever
since been the star of the Colts in the pitch
ing department.
Two more university pitchers will be
tried by the National league this season.
Sexton of Brown by the Bostons and Bos-
well of the University of Pennsylvania by
the New Yorks. Tho latter has already
well After Mcekin was knocked out OF
the box at Louisville Boswell relieved him
and in six innings held tho Colonies down
to two hits and gave only two bases on
balls. In that little time he showed mar
velous courage, good control and the pos
session of Jump" ball which is rare
article in trade for any pitcher. His work
against tho heavy batters of the Pittsburg
team on May II was also very creditable
Eleven hits were made off his delivery, but
the New Yorks got 13 off Killen and Col
colough and won the game.
Boswell, like most college pitchers, uses
extraordinary motions while delivering tho
ball Carriers unique delivery is very COM
monplacc in comparison. When the Penn
sylvanian delivers the ball, the entire right
leg from the knee to the toe lies on tho
ground and his two long neither limbs are
almost continuous straight lines parallel
with the course of the ball.
While Fanny Davenport was in Cincin-
natl she created some Juror in baseball
circles by making public comparison of
baseball playing and stage acting. She
called tho latter a mobile art" and classed
ball playing as "splondid sport" Tho
cause that drew this classification from
Gismonda's pen was a misunderstood
ing which arose between members of her
company and some OF the Cincinnati clubs
players. The Davenport artists had asked
for recognition at the gates of the Cincin-
natl ball park and got it, but when the
'splendid sports" applied at the doors of
Fanny theatcr the following night they
were turned down and cast out-in other
words, were referred to the box office. The
sporting editors took up the ball players
side of the affair, which action called forth
Miss Davenport's card She denied that
there is comfy bctwixt the two professions
and declared that members of her company
had no right to ask for favors from ball |
club nor to promise an exchange after re-
ceiving them.
The divine Fanny pays her way into ball
grounds, and she goes to see the splendid
sport" quite often. But she has dealt n
worse blow to the theory by which base
ball stars classify themselves with Jeffer-
son, Booth, Mansfield, Hopper, Crane and
Fanny than she gives to the william of her
play when she cleayes his head in twain
with an AK. But fear the talented actress
has not heard the last of this controversy
between the stage and the ballfield.
Several accidents which happened on