Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-15

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/ Saturday for trip on the Maine cir
cult. They will be in Bangor Mon
| day, Augusta Tuesday. Lewiston
| Wednesday and Portland Thursday
| Lewiston Sun: Tom O'Brien told
| them that the Manchesters hadn't re-
| ceived cent of salary this season.
| He said that the club would probably
| disband, although it might be trans
| ferred to Taunton The attendance at
Manchester Friday was just 49," The
above is from The Sun of Wednesday,
July IL, 1898. Aud that is the city that
the Portland Express thinks should be
substituted for Bangor in the league.
Augusta was the second Maine club
to win a game in Pastucket. $
Catcher Butler has been batting
strongly. johnson made one
error in six games last week
Bean is fast man. He is a clever
shortstop, good hitter and a lively
man on bases. Dave rickett
has got his eye in again He is in the
300 class. and is rising rapidly. In 10
games has made is hits
Treasurer Richards is with the Au
gusta club in place of Manager Glare,
VIZ 'i'''' sr'ltt iiOIiit tll rtNNouul VI lho
Wifes illncss-BoSton Herald.
A letter was received from Manager
Clare last night in which he says:
saturday night my wife came very
near diving. The doctor said If she
lived through the night the crisis would
be passed.an she would probably re-
cover She has been steadily improv-
ing since and / hope for the best. AS
soon as She is out of danger ! will re-
Join the team. 1t may be possible for
me to come to Augusta by the last Of
this week | have had too much an
Xiety here to think of anything else.
trust the boys have been having good
luck since I left them With best
wishes to YOU all, and the hope that |
may be able to be With you again soon
remain very truly yours. DANIEL
CLARE"
The old circuit question keeps pop
ping up and we are told again and
again that Bangor and Augusta must
be substituted for Lowell and Man
chester. and some of those other cities
which we are told are ripe for base
ball again There are certain objec-
tons to Bangor and Augusta, I'll adj
to keep a team in the field. until the
end of the season, and that is much
more than some of these cities with big
population and small base ball spirit.
For the life of me l can't see what ii
profits base BAH team to have a city
in its circuit with 100000 population
100 of whom go to bah games rather
than a city of 10000 people. where 500
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base ball was shown last year by the
lamented association experiment The
attendance at those games averaged a
little less than a hundred.-Fred X
Owen in Portland Press.
For Sc me reason the home team has
been according Pitcher Dilworth the
most rotten kind of support during the
past three weeks. They have utterly
failed to put up a creditabe fielding
game behind him. and their batting
has been infantile No pitcher can be
expected to win his games under such
conditions. If the boys would bat and
field with Dilworth as we'll as they do
with Newell or Weekes the team would
he far hiSher up in the race. Just look
at this comparison between the last
four games pitched by Dilworth and
the last four pitched by Newell
Hits by Hits by Errors by
opp.nts. Augusta. Augusta
Newell ........ u 90
bilWulth 500. u % p
1t will he seen that while Dilworth
was battcd for an average of three
more hits to the game. the team be-
hind him made only half the number
of hits they did in the four games
Newell pitched and two and one third
times the number of errors, Is ii |
surprising that Dilworth has not been
able to win his games? Where is Il
there pitcher in the New ENGLAND
league that could with this kind of
support: Seventeen of the hits made
off DilWorth in the last four games
pitched by Dilworth have been secured
after he had given his folders chances
to retire the side. Had those chances
been accepted the opposing teams
would have secured but 20 hits off his
delivery in these four games an aver
age of 10 hits a game This is gilt
edged work. 1t is too bad for such a
good pitcher as Dilworth to be handi-
capped by such wretched support. He
is a player who is deservedly popular
with the members of the team; but
they have fallen into the habit of put
ting up a careless. lifeless game behind
him, and ii is high time they got out
Of it.