Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-02

They have been roasted, parboled, peeled.
When now the sphere we once did thump-
With eely grace eludes our bats,
The grand stand shouts "Ah, see the chump''
And all the bleachers echo "Rats!'
George Moore Of Bangor and Quinn of
Haverhill will play with the Cambridge
reds.
Globe: Lewiston has signed John
O Connell, Charles Brady. Geo. Grant, L.
J. Cushman and Frank Shea, and has &C.
cepted the terms of Alex Person, whom
they suspended.
Scissors" is the pet name Patsey Rol-
Inns has for the elongated korwan.
Wise is in his own way in LETT field; the
Brockton team isn't strengthened any by
having Irwin play at frst.-Fall River
Herald
Commercial: Billy Mains forgot him
self several times Tuesday, and went to
playing three old cat" Once he pitched
the ball over the grand stand and another
time he tied himself in bow knot trying
to hit one that Kildare tossed across the
plate.
New Bedford Journal The defeats of the
New Bedford club in Maine have had two
beneficial results. 1t has reduced the size
of few ball players heads-not among
the Maine clubs Secondly, it has been
gUdsend to the clubs in Maine. Although
the results have swelled many heads in
that state, they have done the treasures
lots of good
Commercial: Honestly now, what has
Billy Long done to make the Dangers
Dc,
we wish he would place a chip on his
shoulder and get after some of these
games that we are allowing to go by de-
fault. Then the Boston Globe might not
yoke him up with Doe as the inferior
managers of this league.
Our Lewiston friends meet the protest
Of the Remedies on the game taken from
them in that city by disparagement of
Manager Burnham, but we think the d.
rcctors of the league will ask for more
substantial backing for their case than
this. Manager Burnham protested the
game within "a hours after it was played
as provided by the constitution.
Portland Advertiser: 1t would be
games between the four Maine clubs after
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teams are now very evenly matched and
such series would arouse no little inter
est Each city could play three or five
games with the three others. Col II. A.
Osgood of Lewiston has already offered a
gold bat to the winning team provided
the series Is arranged,
The Belfast correspondent of Bangor
Commercial says: "There is a fair pros
pect that the league teams of Bangor and
Augusta will play game of base ball at
Belfast on Monday, August 18th. J. S.
Hartman of this city, was recently in
Bangor, where the preliminaries were
talked over with Mayor Snow. Mr. Snow
wrote Mayor Hanson that the clubs would
come and that he wanted the mayor to
appoint Is special policemen, the clubs to
pay the bills. Mr.. Hanson has replied
saying he would comply with the request
If the game is played here the grounds
will be put in condition and a good crowd
will surely be in attendance. 1t is ex-
pected that Dilworth, who is Belfast
boy, will pitch for the Augustus The
boys will give Dilworth good reception. ~
Brockton Enterprise on the recent
work If the shoemakers: They are pull
ing the limbs of the Brockton Base Ball
Association, buncoing the public and Civ
log base ball black eye whenever they
play. They lack discipline, they lack am
biti1n, and to say that they know any
thing about team work is to libel team
work most grossly. Capt. Irwin has at
present the weakest combination that has
represented Brockton this season. The
stonewall outfield is gone, and neither
Wise nor Slattery can play with Nadeau
or Willis Toman has played poorly thus
far in his games in this town at short, |
and the team lacks life and cohesiveness
The Brocktons are now in fifth
place. Are you. satisfied with that, Mr..
Irwin? The Brocktons seem to fear 10
slide to the plate, even when they see the
ball coming.
New Bedford Journal Perhaps some
other manager than Fred Doe could have
put New Bedford in as good position as
second this season, but it may be doubted
says the Boston Herald. He started in
with no players at all, and had to build
his team afresh, while Fall River was al
most fully organized when he started in.
The Herald states the case clearly and fairly
in few lines. All of the teams in New
iSheiohu WIN oiS cACcpulDu VI UQe hen- |
nebecs, were as good as completed when
Doe started on his hunt for players. Fall
River had practically strengthened its
champions of two years, and was looked
upon as having winning team. Bangor
was backed by moneyed men, and the |
manager was Instructed to collect team
of champions. Notwithstanding this, Doe
has worked his team into second position
and will hold 1t. Bangor, with all its
money and its two months start, is still |
behind Doe. Frank Burnham. who Is
looked upon as one of the brightest base
ball managers in the country, and who |
has several times been mentioned as a |
possible manager of team In the big
league, is having a fight for last position |
There is only one man in the country
who could have Collected team to defea, |
Fall River in the given time, and that ia |
our own Frank Bancroft.
Eastern Argus: OF course the writ =
In the Argus has no desire to misrepres emit |
Lewiston, and the statement that Lewis |
ton has no official scorer is not true AS
to Manager Burnham's protest, it is some
thing he did not think of until the naxt
day. Does the Argus writer think he ia |
fair to decide that there is mot the least