Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-20

Well. we must plan to give New Bed
ford a sweat today.
| Newell and Clare are due to pitch
the games at New Bedford, this after
| noon.
two games in New Bedford both Thurs
! day and Friday. We shall he grievously
disappointed if the boys from the capital
| don't knock at least one game off Fail
| River.
Eight games in four days is pretty
| stiff programme for any bail team; but
| that IS what is mapped out for our team
this week. and. if the weather holds fair,
| our boys may be depended upon to carry
| it through.
Boston Herald: Kelley of Augusta
has failed but once in II games to bat
safely. Augusta did well to take two
| out of the three games played in Paw
ticket this trip.
The people of the Kennebec valley
| are rallying Loyalty to the support Of
the team. ard nearly everyone seems
willing to contribute something to en-
able it to finish the season.
| If the boys should win even three
games on this western trip they would
break their record up there. If they
win four they will do better than they
have ever done there before.
Fan River Herald: The Augusta club
has suspended w. l.. Whiting a brother
TO lIobe Whiting of the Pawtuckets, Bill
sisned an Augusta contract early in the
season and has refused to report al
though ordered to DO so several times. He
is playing with the Aberdeen club in
Maryland.
Brockton Times; rs told for fact
that Mrs. Lang wishes her husband
would come home for the windows Of
their house are all broken by their boys
showing the other children how papa
Snapper's not Old enough to be married
and be the father OF children.
| Two fielding errors and 30 hits in two
games is certainly good work, and the
| boys have no reason to be east down
even if they did fail to Win. That kind
of ball playing is sure to pull off a
large number of the games played.
A leading citizen of Augusta now alb
| sent from home, writes Il director of the
| team as follows: II notice the LeWiStous
have thrown M the sponge. and | hope
through the season. If you find It neces-
| sary to raise any money to keep them
| through the year, you can put me down
| for $40"
Pawtucket Post: This talk about
Newell having no curves. and that he
| gets away with his games with his
nerve. may be true, but there are many
VINO will doubt the truth of the asser-
| ton. The boy surely shows as good
! judgment as any tWirler who has
played on the Dexter street grounds
| this season.
At the urgent request of Manager
| l7lack. who said it would be impossible
t. play the games scheduled Withou,
another pitcher. DilWorth Joined tht
team in Brockton, yesterday An all
night ride would not leave any pitcher
in condition to do his best work, and
il is not altogether surprising that he
was batted hard.
Lewiston Journal; Maine has stood
/ bs- the ship TO the sinking. Lewiston
| if it ever has the chance. will reorgan-
ize base ball under new deal and viii
| raise money enough to see things
through To the finish. We are not
ashamed of Names record in the New
| England League, and Bangor. Augusta
| Portland and Lewiston have never
done anything to injure the game. As
! for Lewiston. give us a winning club
a first division club-and we will draw
as much money day in and day out as
any place in New England,
Pawtucket Post: The Augustus split
even with the home team. yesterday
afternoon. each club winning one game
| The regular game WAS PLAYED first and
the Colts mad pretty easy time OF it, the
errors of tn" Phenoms proving extremely
1 costly. The base running of the boys from
the kennebcc valley opened the eyes Of
| the spectators. they purloinins no less
than 10 bases. Yeagers arm was not liz
shape ard he couldn't get the ball down
| the diamond with mis- nS1iJl
! COughln put Up a good game at third
baSe. hut second ana short were poorly
! played. The only redecming feature in
the lirst game was the home run scored
! by Coughiin when the ban was hiding in
! the long grass in the field.
! Pawtucket Times: one thing must be
said in favor of the lively team from the
capital city of the Pine Tree State. ana
! that is that the youngsters gave the
greatest exhibition of base running that
/ has been seen on the grounds this season.
No less than 10 bases were stolen by the
Colts. and though several of these were
materially assisted by the poor playing Of
the home players. the credit of trying is
as great Is the credit of succeeding. Yea
the youngsters We're not slow in taking
advantage Of. IN fact the whole Paw
tucket team seemed demoraizcd and not
able to put the visiting team out till runs
had been scored in almost every inning.
Well, the boys got a little set back
at Brockton: but few people expected
them to win there. The Brocktons
have a great ball team, and We're play
ing on their own grounds cheered on by
an enthusiastic home crowd 1t would
y have been a great piece of work
against heavy odds if our boys had
pulled off either game. AS it was they
played hot ball. especially in the first
game, ard while they did not win made
q good showing against one of the
strongest teams that has ever repre-
scented a city in the New England
League
The withdrawal of Portland and
Lewiston and the declnation OF the
four southern teams to come to Maine
is straw which shows in which direc-
I ton the wind will blow next spring. 1t
means that Bangor and Augusta will
not be members of the circuit and that
| their place will be taken by Manchester
and Lowell or two other cities we'll sit
uated and which are not new to New
England base ball. Portland Ex-
press.
The learned scribe who penned the
above had evidently not heard that the
New England League had been re-
organized upon a six club basis and