Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

MCtSraw leads the league in stolen bases
and is up with the leaders in hitting
Pitcher STREET.. recently released by
Boston. has signed with the Newcastle
team of the Interstate League.
McGraw is anxious TO secure Madison,
the spare intelder of the Pittsburss, but
Donovan will not release that player
Yeager of the Brooklyns. did spiendidly
Il. short for the Brooklyns during the alb
sence Of Dahlen, accepting % out ~ =
chances.
Joe Harrington ana Billy, Nash, , B9s-
ton league players. are hitting Lightly;
having respectively batting averages q
III and .l6I.
A plan is being talked of for the Cnl-
veFsity Of Maine nine 70 retain rs oIsair-
ization and pay in Bangor, this summer
say two games per week
Boston Herald: Manager John Irwin
Of the Manchesters, appears n UNIFORM
and coaches from the lines; Now theh'
Mcssrs. Burnham and Finn!
| Buffalo Courier: Frank Robson says
Cleveland is in the big league 70 stay g
/ the iinish-aud their finish can Dc ulnlE
disccrned on the distant horizon
Portland Press: Lewiston is now said
I to be anxious TO come into the league.
| The new Bates college grounds are avail
able ana would answer the purpose tN-
! Celenuy.
! Connie Murphy has applied TO President
! Pat Powers Of the Eastern League Tor
/ berth as an umpire. Connie mas been
I
| the first opportunity.
! 1t is said that the Brooklyn club is S}3-
/ 0O0 ahead Of the game 70 date ana that
| He Brooklyn club is also financial win
| ner II looks aS though The results Of The
| big deal will exceed expectations.
Kecler says Of Pitcher Willis Of til,
Bostors: lie just KICKS up the dusJ ana.
zip, II is past you. When h" lunseS i9r-
ward he looks SO C.nsc that | feel lik;
jumping back 70 keep him from stepping
on me.
Charles Atherton, second baseman of
the Wikesbarre club, has been sod q
mana cement is said to be negotiating for
the release OF Coughlin, Wilkcsbarrc's
third bascmdn.
President Marston is satisfied with the
success OF the Worcester team in both a
financial ana playing sense. lie thinks
both Will improve as better weather ap-
prnaches and tina; Worcester Will De one
Of the best cities IN the league.
Boston Herald: IT'S pretty state of
things when two league clubs play 2 game
ana the president Of the league knows
nothing about il. \ game was played III
st Louis the other day: ana President
Young says he dld not know Il was II
take place. It was not down on his
schedule. ana no one informed HIM
about it,
Portland Press: Portland has signed q
night. He IS }. +. tombstone ana he
comes from the Newark club of the At
lantic League tombstone pitched for an
independent club last year. ana was pur
chased by Toronto. but refused Ia 90. lie
Is said To he lust the man Portland has
been looking for.
Though / was a brotherhood Symp1- |
thiZer" says Charley snyder, II can now
see that the players made a mistakc-not
in lighting the league. but in their loose, |
careless way Of doing business. Thr
that lasted from VI 70 80. when Buck
Ewing, Ward Kelly ana that crowd of
stars were drawing bank president :
salaries.
In the account of the game Of base ball |
at Gardiner. Tuesday, that was given ~
Wednesdays paper, the error column had
five errors charged against Il. ;. Morton
of the CunY team. There was some mis- |
take here, As il was on" Of the other
players who made the i've errors ana |
Morton made but one. and that most
eXcuSHhle one. as i was made while h'
ran almost u second base in an attempt |
to capture a ball.
Sporting Life: The National League |
club which has - go away from nome
for its support should pass the ueh !
ana get OUT Of the game. Why should |
the cheap Washington club or the Inferior
cleveland club bc carried hy the league? |
Why should the patrons Of the game in
$. Louis Boston, chicago. ph.iadelphiA
or Ernnkyn pay To see their respective
teams Of trst-class players pitted lS1iuSt
insists. who are 80 ou,ciassed tnat they
are dispwned at home?
tIIbtG. connie Murphy u I'll lull tlistl <
of the Lawrence club and Will rndeavor
to organize "A local stock company.
With Manchester drawing inn
mrnse crowds. Lowell and Lawrence
must have longing for a team 10 trim
John IrWiu's boys Manchester
ana pJwtuckeL hav" taken a biz brac'
and are now Keeping an eye on that
Smith outfit from Maine. Sock
lexis IL proving n big drawing card for
Earncs Hartford team.
]. Earl Wagner of the Washington
Lass Pail Club il quoted a saying: I'm,
lZ-club league will remain intact uujl
the close of this season. In 1900 there " II
be an eight-c.ub league and eight-club
american Association. The eight clubs
ia The association VIII PROBABLY be ClcNr-
land, Louisville Detroit or Buffalo. ami
a second cub in Chicago. III The West:
Washington. Baltimore. PrUvUcncc ANA
i second club i'm Philadelphia. in the
East. The cight-club league will be madr
up of Boston New York. Brooklyn ana
Philadelphia IN the East. ANA Chicago
St Louis, Cincinnati and F.ttsburg in the
West
Boston Globe: * a meeting II thc
managers Of the Maine Intercollegiate
Base Fan Association held at the Elm
House. Auburn. Tuesday morning. Bow
dom withdrew from the league. me rea-
son for thiS course is a dispute between
| the managers i'm regard to the eligibility
/ Of certain payers on the Bates ami Bow
! dom teams Rule No. Of tho cpnstitu
ton Of the league provides that The
/ players in the league shall he bona fiji"
! students Of ,hc college or graduate de-
! partmcntS thereof ana when any man
| shan have played four years in all on am.
! Varsity team of any college or colleges
! in the United States. he Snail not be eiigi-
bic to play i'll the league Under this
| provision Bowdoin protested Capt Pui-
| sfer of Bates on the ground that ne nae
played four years on the team prior to
! this year. The facts are that five Years
/ ago Bates had no team in the league. but
! played Independent games with the other
colleges. During the season Douglass OF
! the team was injured and unable A. play
for few games. and Pulsifer VINO was
then 4 student in the Latin school, was
| taken with the team on one Of its trips
and played one game against Colby. He
was not at any time tu.rt year considered
| a member of the Varsity team. Bates.
therefore. held that he was not ineligible,
and in this stand she was sustained by
| Colby ana the University of .,iaine. ana
Bowdoins protest was overruled. On the
other hand. capt. Grcenlaw Of Bowdoin,
was protested by the University Of Maine
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