Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-08
RI. Ranyor CORRESPONDENT Of the

The Bangor correspondent or the
Boston Globe says: Considerable en-
thusiasm Is manifested here over the
fine showing of the Bangor team In Its
lopening games. Last year ana IN 1884
one game out Of the first eight was
about the best the club could do. 1t Is
now believed locally that outside OF the
pitchers box Bangor has the strongest
and st-balanced aggregation In the
New England League"
Tebeau Is a character. On the ball
field he is the best hustler in the bust
ness. He knows no friends on opposing
| teams. All are his enemies. And he
knows the game as well as anybody in
| the business. OF the field he Is as
genial q man as one would wish to
meet His quiet humor is irresistible,
and he deals 1t out to teams and indi-
vidual players in way that almost
convinces one that he Is In earnest.
! Brockton Enterprise: We are stuck
on the Bangor base ball aggregation.
| They have thumped us twice, doing the
trick again, yesterday, to !. but in
this case, consoled by the precepts of
true religion. we are ready to love
| those that despitefully used us. We
may be wrong in our prediction, but II
! Bangor doesn't come pretty near pull
| ing the New England League pennant
up to Maine this year, the fault will
be with their pitchers. We cannot see
many flaws to pick with the rest of the
nine. Unless they get to chasing the
willabus wallabus too ardently through
| the back rooms of the Bangor cigar
stores this season, and unless their
| pitchers go to pieces. the Millionaires
ought to play funny tricks with the
other teams when they get on their
] own hunting grounds this season,
| Catcher Harmon and pitchers Newell
and Conroy arrived in the city yester-
dag They say that the team has been
! fielding elegantly; but has been play
| ing in hard luck. Harmon says the
| Kcnnebec infield is the fastest he saw
ON the trip. He also says that the boys
are batting well and the best of feeling
exists in the team There is no doubt
but what Manager Harrington has now
at hand the material from which to
| develop good corps of pitchers. but
none of them have had opportunity as
| yet for much work. All are more or
less Wild, and here has been the chief
cor cerned. The cold weather. too. has
made progress in this department
somewhat slow. We have no hesita-
ton in saying, however. that the team
| is stronger today in the box than it
was a; any time last year. y little time
is necessary TO work the men out and
when that is done we will make the
best of them hustle.
Lewiston journal: We have received
the following letter from Manager Car
rity: In regard to the team ] am sat
isGed that they will be all right when
the pitchers get in shape. Williams is
troubled with his side but his arm is in
fine shape Forrid has lame back
and a cold. and in fact most of the men
are either sick or have colds. We
should have won all three games we
have played losing the first game at
Fall River by luke. Today is the
first day | have been on the bench as ]
VIZ compelled to look after the gate
F'r lay and Saturday. The game today
was a hair-raiser Morse did good
work. keeping the hits well scattered
but had he received better support the
sccre would have been -. They only
give us one error here but we had four
eos tly ones Shea is d star, fielding
and hitting as he never did before. In
the eleventh today GooGhart put it over
the fence but it was called foul. he then
got a base on balls, stole second and
scored on a hit by Shea with two men
out winning the game. Fitzmaurice
is playing Q great fielding game and
viii surely get hitting. Yours, NJ j
Garrity.''
The exchange of compliments between
Fail River and New Bedford has been
renewed this season and really interests
us. The Fail River Globe, for instance.
agreeably remarks: "A few days ago
base ball cranks in this vicinity were in
70! med by Fred Doe that Tommy Nc
Carthy of BROOKLYN had made him an
offer of $1,000 for Sharp. Birminshm and
Braun. 1t sounded well enough but
what Mccarthy could do with them Not
one OF The men. especially Sharp, is
worth one-tenth that amount to any city
but New Bedford. where the tougher
PLAYER is the better he is appreciated.
it's hard on players when. to boom them
up, Il manager finds it necessary TO send
kilograms 10 himself" To which the Fail
River Herald adds: More likely Tommy
Mccarthy is going into the museum bust
ness In Il tent Sharp and birmingham
coild make a good living as the fat man
and the skeleton.
NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATS