Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-11

WIN make an excellent showing on the
hpme series Of games.
1fa1Agsr .LecqnFd 81 xPSrtland. has ~
isss rscsn t san,sS vi This FIJI means n. o of course Ssss
that Woods. Killeen and McDOugall will
DO the pitching hereafter.
Secretary Morse has removed Cunning
/ ham from the staff OF umpires owing TO
pointed Charlie Brady, whose trial AT
third for BrOckton is over. The League
has had hard luck with umpires, this
year, and The umpires have had nara
luck with some Of the games.
Manager Smith Of Paw.ucket has
announced his intention Of ejecting
from the grounds some Of the rooters
who insist upon telling him how he
shall run the team when there is oc-
casion for him to discipline a favorite.
The Brockton hall team left Brockton.
Wednesday night, for Lewiston, withou.
Center Fielder Charles Willis and Thiru
Baseman Stackhouse. Willis resigned ms
position. having recently been fined ~,
for failing to appear at the commence
ment of "A game. and will retire from base
ball. Stackhouse jumped his team con
tract, Wednesday, and started. last night,
for Melville. N. ]. Two men are expected
to join the Brocktons in Lewiston. today.
| Bob Shannon, u brother of Shannon OF
| the Louisvilles, who will play third base.
and Peter Healy. who will play in the
| field. Healy is from the Minneapolis
cam.
Fall River Herald: Manager Nc
| Gunnigle Of the Louisvilles has eyes on
several members of the Fall River
| team and would like to do business
with them. but Manager Marston isn't
anxious to sell and is holding out for
| hir p,,cpNnxr Tho laftaV ha1iayac that
| the players are worth about as much
/ to FAN River as they are to any other
| club and he proposes to protect the
patrons of the game by keeping an A
No. l team all the time.
The severe punishment which nearly
every star pitcher of the major league has
once or oftener received during the
month of May suggests that batting av-
RACES this season will be much higher at
| the close of the season than they were in
1895. The five foot added distance be-
tween the rubber and the box is begin
ming to tell. Speed no longer aids u
pitcher. He must use strategy. curves
like Clarke. Rhines and Nichols In a class
by themselves and wcakens the effect
iveness of men like Hawley. Taylor and
Stivetts, who have depended for the most
part on their speed.-O. p. Caylor.
Brockton is crazy over the exasperating
slowness of Augustus game. Go sit on
Il tack for that tired feeling" Wake
upi' the bleachers would veil at the Au-
gusta pitchers in the games at Brockfon.
last week. But Augusta won both games
and that may have had something to do
with the matter. The Enterprise says:
THE whole Augusta team is suffering
from too much Dilworth. DIS dilatory
tactics are infectious. Newell pitched
with the most exasperating slowness. and
30 minutes to play. He was especially
slow with Wise at the bat, and purposely
so. Nick was badly nerved up waiting
for the ball in the third inning, with two
on bases, and finally struck out. He was
the hottest individual on the field after
it happened. -
And have you thought that you haven
seen a poor game of ball here this year
teresting. We approach soon a series of
games at home. They will determine in
a large measure the future of base ball in
Lewiston. We ask you to forget the
| standing Of the club and whether 1t wins
or loses, and turn out. You will see fine
games. excellent work, and have lots of
fun. and will help keep base ball alive.
Don't say you won't go because the team
doesn't win. You want base ball to talk
| about winters. to look forward to in sum-
mers, TO keep alive the interest of the
long summer time. Turn out. We are
| just where we were a year & with a far
better tea1n.-Lewiston Journal. There Is
i lot of sound philosophy in the above.
1t isn't always necessary for a home team
to win a game in order for il TO be a con-
test we'll worth seeing.
The Augusta club has thus far won IS
games this season. Five of these have
been pitched by Dilworth. four by
has had on its pay roll this season, no less
than eight different pitchers. yet these
three men are absolutely the only ones
who have thus far pitched winning ball
for the team. Winning pitchers are ex-
ceedingiy difficult to find. and many
teams have been unable to get them at
all. Any man. therefore. who would ad-
Nocate the letting go of "A pitcher who has
demonstrated his ability to win games
for his club. would urge a policy that
would very quickly put any ball team
hopelessly out of the race. Any pitcher
who is able to win half of his games is
altogether too valuable a man to part
with. and. If parted with a very difficult
man to replace. Having spent no little
time in the past year securing the
country for pitchers. and having sue
ceeded out of q whole raft of promising
new men In securing but two who could
win games for the Augusta club, we feel
that we speak by the card on this sub
ject. If any of our friends can go out be-
fore dinner and pick up a winning pitcher
brought to the grounds Immediately for
forenoon practice. If our heavy hitters
can not explode them, we can find a place
Tor them. Even If we shouldn't be able to
use such men ourselves there are lots of
| clubs whO would be glad to buy them of
us. Pitchers are numerous enough. but
winning pitchers are at a higher premium
than gold was in the early sixties. The
pitching business is one in which many
are called. but few chosen"
The Fall River correspondent of the
New Bedford Mercury, in his description
of the game, Tuesday, between the Fall
Rivers and Augustus, says: The fielding
on both sides was magnificent, the only
costly errors being charged against the
pitchers. Lajoie's WAS a tumble of a ball
after a safe hit. but it did not figure in
the run getting. Dilworth's was a wild
throw to first to catch McDermott. and
kloby had IA poor throw to the plate and
4 tumble of Il hard hit ball, which he
should have easily fieldedt after he
knocked it down. At times there was
very sharp work. Lyons and Reilly ex-
ceiling for Fail River. The plays of the
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