Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-04
National League Standing.
Ball Notes.

There will be at least rs batsmen in the
300 class.
Newport wanted Manager John Smith
as an Outfielder.
Connie Mack has signed to manage the
Milwaukees again. next season.
Robbie Lowe will go back to his home
in Beaver Falls after the cup series.
Milwaukee has had very profitable
season. 1t is said the profits were $25, 600
"A good tribute to the excellent manage
ment of Connie" Mack.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Two rules
those governing the earned run and the
balk--should be amended or abolished by
the next playing rules committee.
McGraw and Collins are undoubtedly
the finest third basemen in the business
when it comes down to a question of field
ing bunts. says the Baltimore Herald
Waldron, with Pawtucket last season,
and loaned to st. Joseph by Milwaukee,
will go back to the latter club. In his last
six games with st. Joseph he made nine
hits % times at bat
-Four hundred and fifty dozen base balls
have been used in play during the season
just closing. The New York club used
the greatest and Washington the least
number of the horSehideS.
Frank Donohues victory in the last ST.
Louis game was worth $500 to him. Chris
Won der Abe held out that sort of reward
to him. Every Brown played ball to save
the sorrel-topped twirler and save him
they did.
the Cincinnati team when the Reds
played at Dayton, O.. the other day. The
comedian said: I'm all right; arm in
great shape. and am playing just as good
ball as did in ga
Herald Captain Duffy is a very popu-
lar young man these days. He is bearing
his honors modestly. The result is due in
no small measure to excellent judgment
on his part and to the never-say-die
spirit he has infused into his men.
I'VE won seven of the series of u
games from the Orioles because we
played their style of ball-sprung the
Queensberry dodge on them and fought
'em to finish. Fight that aggregation
of Hanlon's and they will look for a
feathery spo. to fall on is Kid Gleason's
analysis of the eX-champions.
Brooklyn Eagle: That the victory of
the Bostons is a popular one goes with
out saying. There was probably not a
spectator anywhere on the grounds who
desired to see Brooklyn win, strange as it
may seem. the crowd to a man roofing
with all their might for the leaders 1t
was peculiar condition of affairs. con-
sidering that the home teams chances
for sixth place were at stake
Cincinnati Times-Star: The Bostons be-
gan the season by playing gentlemanly
base ball. They won their games by play
ing base ball and not by intimidating UNI
pires and insulting opposing players and
spectators. Their victories can be cred
tied only to their superior skill as ball
players. Many of the Orioles victories
were due to superior blackguardism and
other unfair means that were resorted to
without the least compunction.
Exchange: Baltimore's players are
credited with $40 stolen bases The
Baltimore method is a travesty on the
rules. In one Cincinnati game they
were credited with five, when in real
ity but one was made. That was
padding up the record with a venge-
ance 1t wouldn't be a half bad idea
for President Young to issue a bulletin
to scorers next year defining that stol-
en- base rule. To incorporate official
definitions in the code will do no good,
for dispite the changes made last
spring Baltimoreans have continued 40
score on obsolete lines.
Washington Post: The pitching OF
Charlie Nichols of the Boston club in
yesterdays game with Baltimore clear
ly demonstrates his superiority over all
the league pitchers. Notwithstanding
the thousands Of bowling dervishes and
other peace destroying inventions en-
ployed to rattle him, he kept to his
work as steady as a clock, and never
for moment lost point or opportuni-
ty. He managed to keep the hits of his
opponents scattered, and by his own
scientific stick work contributed large
~ in winning the game. His exhibition
will go down in base ball history as a
remarkable performance.