Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-27

not protest t0dayis ,Eauaet on account
OF Holmes being in it. The action Of
the board Of directors IL clearly H.
legall." This was before the removal
Of Holmes suspension.
New York World: The truth is that
Mr.. Holmes has won glorious VIC
tory, and that the National League
laid down" before II ever got within
hailing distance Of court of Justice.
The position in which the most ,ex-
perienced and conservative magnates
were placed by the directors, four OF
which are hired men. was most em-
barrassing. and crawl was the one
thing left to do.
Boston Journal: The board of d.
rectors of the National League let
themselves down easily and expedi-
tlously by giving President Young the
authority to cast one vote removing
the suspension Of Holmes. The Balti-
more club may discipline Holmes, but
that is doubtful. The fellow who pre-
cipitated all the trouble by calling
Holmes lobster" would, If his name
were known, have acquired an unen-
viable notoriety.
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Sun claims that there is no good rea-
son why Baltimore should not beat
Boston. Figures Of the season Of "a
are brought in as evidence. In that
year, as now. with so games to play,
Boston led Baltimore by 81 points. AZ
ter playing those so games. Baltimore
led Boston by 66 points. Finally, ac-
cording to the figures offered by the
Baltimore paper. there is no good rea-
son why the Orioles should not win.
None whatever, except that figures are
notorious liars, and tnis is '98 and
not "a.
Boston Journal: The ST. Louis
Browns" returned home from the
Eastern trip to find the treasury de-
pleted. President Muckenfuss, who Is
also the receiver of the club, stated,
Wednesday night, that there was no
money at hand to pay the overdue SAL
aries of the players. The players have
agreed to wait until after Sundays
game, in hopes of large attendance.
Mr.. Muckenfuss says that unless
enough money Is taken in next Sun
day to meet the salaries of the players
an appeal to the National League for
that purpose Will have to be made.
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| franchise
Says Pres. Pullium of the Louisvilles:
II notice that some of the principal
men in the league race are censurng
the board of directors for not punish
| ing Freedman. Well. some of the men
who are the loudest in their denun-
citation had Freedman with the goods
| on him. Didn't Freedman say that
Nick Young wasn't fit to hold his posi-
| ton: that he instructed the umpires
| to give certain teams the worst of it
and other teams the best of it, He did
last year and this year, but didn't
hear of any of these big guns hurrying
to get into trouble with Freedman
They ignored what he said. which was
almost as bad as his conduct with
Holmes. Now. We are being criticised
for not doing what these big guns in
the league refused to do
Cincinnati Enquirer: Tom Tucker
the Browns first baseman. was the
only player of the almost so that We're
at the Grand Central depot, yesterday
afternoon who believed that the Reds
will win the pennant. All the other
players pick Boston as the flag winner
Tucker and Tommy Dowd. the browns
right fielder, had a little argument
nient ab6ut the Reds and the Bostons'
prospective chances last night. which
ended in a derby being wagered on the
result: Dowd said: L can't seen any
thing but Boston in the race. They
finish the season at home with about
% games. and who can beat that? The
reds. of course. have good chance to
regain first place. but they will hardly
be able to hold it against Boston,
which has the advantage later in the
| season."
After returning to Cincinnati Capt.
Ewing was interviewed as follows:
las for those games in Boston, / want
to say that | never saw one team have
so much luck against another team as
the Bostons have against US. In no
game this season have we had the
least lcck against those fellows. and in
close games it is the lucky team that
wins. Wwyer should have won both
his games in Boston. On Saturday
| we We're defeated 2 to l, but the VIM
ming run was made possible for Bos-
ton by the umpres. who allowed Duff
fly to interfere with Beckley while the
winning run was scored. The inter-
ference was so palpable that the crowd
Kissed and groaned. That cost us the
game. In the second game yesterday
We were so unfortunate as to make er-
rors at critical moments, and after
those misplays had been made wecould
do no better than to tie up. We should
have won in a walk"