Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-13
Ball Notes.

Butler. formerly of Louisville, is catch
ing for Montreal.
Nyce was sent to the bench in each of
two games in indianapolis on Labor day.
Pitcher John Foreman struck out II of
the St. Paul team on the afternoon of
Labor day.
Pitcher Killen is to invade the matri-
monial ranks in December. His engage
ment is announced to Miss Sarah Hutch
inson of Sewickley, Pa.
Western league players have been Off
eially notified by President Johnson that
hereafter IF a player strikes a fellow
player during the progress of a game
he will be fined s25 Should he be guilty
of a second offence he will be suspended
for the remainder of the season.
Abiding to the present iniquity of the
drafting system on the part of the league.
Charles II. Zuber writes in the Cincinnati
Times-Star THE present arrangement
is that the minor leagues are deuces in the
deck. The magnates put out their good
money for franchises, develop players
who put the clubs on a paying basis, and
then are compelled TO give up their star
players for a paltry $500 at least, without
any appeal or recourse.
Rem milford says in the Cincinnati
Post: President Young is in favor of
an amendment to the rules which will
prevent the choice of home substitutes
like McGinty. Wolf and Bittman when
ever the regular umpire is absent. He
thinks the visiting team should select
m official to act Better, however than
such an enactment would be the spec
tacle of the league unbuckling its pock-
ctbook and indorsng the double umpire
system
Norman Elberfeld. the crack third base
man of the Richmond club has been pur-
chased by the Philadelphia club and will
Join that team on the 10th, hte day after
the Atlantic league season ends. Balti-
more, Washington and one or two other
cities wanted the agile Brownie, but
Philadelphia offered the best price. Elb-
erfleid comes from Maysville, Ky. Man
ager Stallings of the Philies declares him
one of the finest third basemen he ever
saw play
Frank Kitson. Baltimore's new pitcher
Is Michigan boy, "A years old. In 1892 he
attracted more than local attention by
striking out Y men in game at Benton
Harbor and after that he played for a
while at Muskegon. His father then call
edhim back to the farm but in 1895 he
again got back into the game. Last year
he was called into the Virginia Ieague
and until Hanlon called him into the
Baltimores fold, he stood at the top of
the western association. being Burling-
tons pitcher
Boston Herald: The picayunish mag
mates fairly fail over themselves to in
form the public that the present umpires
are the best the league ever saw. and this
in the face of the fact that both Arson
ard Ewing declare that they We're robbed
of games in Baltimore. This fulsome
adulation at the close of the season is
partly to head off the demand on the part
of the public for the double umpire
system. 1t has got to come. and the mag
mates may as well make up their minds
to it. If Boston loses the pennant it will
be largely due to the fact that the double
umpire system did not prevail this year
Boston Herald: President Freedman
Of the New Yorks misses no opportunity
to vituperate President Young but he
simply wastes his breath. The league
could not replace Mr. Young today. and it
| is fearful to contemplate wat would hap
| pen to the game if man of Mr.. Freed
mans disposition were invested with the
! rcins now in the hands of the esteemed
| president of the league. 1t would be inn
| possible to linda more loyal and thorough
| ly capaDie official than Mr. Young He
| has been criticized for his handling of the
| umpire question, but with the present
system in vogue it 1T impossible to give
| satisfaction. There are too many to
| please.
of the Cincinnatis were refused admission
| by President Freedman to the New York
grand stand Tuesday. Harry Weldon the
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer
with the club says of this action: rs
it any wonder that Freedman is un-
popular with the ball players? That a
man IS capable of carrying spite as long
| as he does seems beneath the dignity OF
any individual at the head of an enter
prise that handles hundreds of thousands
| of dollars, as the New York club does
| Becky was released by the New York
| clubs president because he was no use 10
| it. Most club presidents would be glad to
| see an ex-player succeed in his neu
venture Freedman, however. is not built
that way. Beckley committed a terrible
| error in Freedman's eyes In not playing
miserable bali and sinking back into d
minor league. Freedman's little trick Of
refusing players admission to his park will
not help him in the opinion of the rank
and file of the profession