Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-15
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The attendance at the games played OH
the Gardiner grounds to date has not been
very promising.
Kelleys work behind the bat, yesterday,
was excellent. He is Il player who can
stand lots of hard work, and improves with
it.
The batteries at Waterville, today,
will probably be Patterson and Kelley for
The Kennebecs and Korwan and Shea for
the Brocktons.
Yesterdays game was an intensely ex-
citing one, being fight from start to
finish The crowd felt that it had had its
moneys worth.
Today will witness the opening of the
season at Waterville, and quite a number
OF people from this vicinity will be on
hand to take it in.
Quite number of enthusiasts from
Augusta, HaIlowell and Gardiner will
probably attend the opening game on the
Waterville grounds, this afternoon.
Doherty's third base play, yesterday,
was the finest that has been seen on the
Augusta grounds this season. In this
position he has no superior in the league.
The Kennebecs will come nearer pre-
senting their regular team, today, than
they have since accidents put large num-
Der of their best men on the hospital list.
Gigantic "Trilby" Sharp is great pet
among the fat men down in New Bedford,
who go to the games in a bunch and
whoop things up at every play he makes.
Pitcher BODICE of the Bowdoins, made a
most creditable showing in his first game
with the Lewistons. If rain bad not in
his team winner.
Korwan fooled Lezotte, yesterday. with
his inshoots. Many of them were errone-
ously called strikes, if the eyesight of other
people in line with the plato was worth
anything. Commercial.
Manager Burnham received a telegram
from Bean, last evening announcing that
he would be on hand, today, in season for
the game at Waterville. His presence will
materially strengthen the team.
Butler tires himself by pitching too fast
If he used little of Dilworth's delibera-
tion in delivering the ball, he would save
himself immensely. With his great speed,
he should take time enough in the box to
favor himself little.
We believe that any club in the League
would be fully justified in refusing to
play with teams carrying players under
contract with other clubs. If minor
leagues are to live and flourish, an end
must be put to this farming out business.
Buffers arm became little sore in the
sixth inning, but no ligaments We're
strained and he will be all right again
with few days rest. His work in the
box, yesterday, was gilt-edged, not a hit
being made off him in the first five inning.
Bangor is the only team that has beaten
Fall River twice this season. The other
games lost by the champions have been
one each to Pawtucket Kennebec and
Lewiston. The Remedies also played q
magnificent 10-inning game with the
champions, losing by one score.
Last evening. considerable talk was
made about Flynn dropping a fly and thus
losing the game, some claiming that there
were two men out. Such was not the
fact. The fly dropped by Flynn was in
the seventh inning, with the score to
6 in favor of Brockton, and it was from
the bat of the first man up.
Bangor Commercial: Perhaps the force
of the Commercials suggestion that we
don't want the same umpire Uezotte)
throughout the season is now apparent.
President Murnane evidently thinks that
he has soft thing in Bangor this year.
Alas how brief is fame. This is the
Same Lezotte whom the scribcs of the
Queen City sat up nearly all of last
Memorial night to load with fulsome flat
tcry-not only burdening their own col
umns with Mandatory gush in his behalf,
but also giving him the benefits of osten-
tatious puffery in the Associated Press
dispatches In short it looked as if the
bright people of the hustling Queen City
and better fellows cannot be found In
the world realized the fat snap they had
in Lezotte and were content to work him
through the season As Captain O'Brien
remarked, when we get a sucker we
know how to work him" The Kennebecs
have, from the first, in victory and defeat,
in sunshine and in rain, declared that
Lezotte knows absolutely nothing about
judging curved balls. The operation with
him is pure matter of gness work. He
roasted the Kennebec pitchers to death
on Memorial day. And now even the Com
M rcial comedies this point. EFT tn Brute
Alas. poor Iorick. Where now can
an abiding place be found for him,
We don't care what President Murnane
/ does with him so long as he does not call
upon him to preside at any more games
where the KennehecS Dlay