Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-09

or" was the meek response, cts the sam
old drunk So with Tebcaul It's th'
same old injury. A bad knee, which re
mains weak and is easily rciniurcd, la
kept him out of uniform most of the sea
son. But his mastery directing hand
seen in the clubs success.
Uncle Arson has been injured too. :
the report goes. / have seen it stated an,
never denied that at least two of his lar
board ribs have been unhingcd from hi
backbone and are swinging loose at tina
end like broken down panel of boart
fence. They tell SO many lies about tn,
baseball Bismarck, however, that this ma,
be one of the July monthly inventions
Yet l believe that Ansc without any Ri
connection whatever with his backbon,
could play about as well rs some of TIN
professionals could with double set, al
fast and riyetcd.
But the Did man is growing anxious n,
the season wanes. He realizes his team,
weakness just where pointed it out scv
eral months ago. He needs pitchers. Con
sequontly lie has agents out in the wood
cunning fer specimens. According to cur
rent rumors. he is gathering in now pitch
ers By the gross from the prairies, the com
mons, the frontier and the back counties
If there be any UNCONSCIOUS Rusies
Yourgs, Hawlcys or Breitensteins wasting
their talents in the Wilderness our Chicago
uncle is the man to find them and bring
them to the front. No one doubts thai
they arc needed in the business. Clcve
land, New York and Pittsburg may no
need them, but other clubs do. This is es
pcci*lly tree of Philadelphia, Baltimore
Brooklyn and Washington.
The excitement which comes from the
great National league championship ract
makes President Youngs task of supply
ing competent umpires u very hard an(
trying one. He has been experimenting
all season ii an effort to find few Ems
lies, McGUaids or Lynches, but failure aft
or failure has met him in the work Belts
Campbell, Calvin and Tuthill have drop
ped from the list, and others are officiating
whose Sofn duty in life it seems is to cal
down the anathemas of rooters wherever
they are assigned to umpire.
MIR. Young has long since learned that
umpir.s do not grow on bushes nor is the
art of umpiring drug in the sporting
market. 1t looks as easy as rolling off /
log, and many are the men who learned
differently when they tried it. Emslie ant
keefc of all the present League staff hav,
given satisfaction this year to the team,
and spectators generally, but even they
have not escaped scot free.
1t is n notable fact that the majority OF
this years umpires in the League have
beeE pitchers at some time in their profes
sional life. Emslie, kccfc, Calvin anf
O'Day arc the prominent examples Of tho
theory that a pitcher should make a goot
umpire. Snyder was catcher. So wa
Honest" John Kelley. Ferguson was a.
infielder, and believe Lynch never playet
professional game in his life. One 0
the best finds Mr.. Young ever mad
was Stage, the professional Splinter O
Cleveland, who served part of last season
His work was excellent, and general rcsre
followed his resignation on account of i'll
ness.
The National league magnates believe,
after their legislation last spring that the,
had solved the umpire question and ha,
MT upon rules which would suppress OK
cessive kicking on the ballfield. They nov
find that the question is as far from bein,
solved as ever. The system of fines whicl