Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-02
National League Standing.
Base Bal. Notes.

with the New Works. This season.
Henry Chadwick says: Deliver me
peciaNy the McGrawS Of the professional
base bah fraternity, for assuredly no
greater foes OF the game have appeared
since the Old days OF the decade OF inc
los"
Business Manager Bancroft Of the Gin
cinnati club, thinks there should be some
term in the score which would snow
which players bat in the runs. When
asked what term he would give it he sliid
he did not know but thinks sand" would
be a good term.-Philadelphla Record.
Why not call it luck? asks Frank Rich
ter. Ii takes luck, Of course, and sand,
too, but above all. batting ability.
The New York correspondent of the
Sporting News narrates this interesting
Bit about the great turnout in Pittsburg,
July 4. The Boston club played TWO
games at PittSburg on July of this year,
and Secretary Rogers of the Boston club
told me that Harry Pulliam. the genial
business manager of the ItttsburS cluh'
got SO excited over the way the money
was pouring in that day tndt he was lit
orally buried in coin and greenbacks, and
bawled out orders to shut the windows
and not sell any more tickets. Harry
was plumb crazy for q time. This may
seem like fairy tale. but it Is true, ana
shows the substantial appreciation OF the
Pittsburg fans for iirst-Class club. They
deserve the pennant as the banner city.
and may get it, | cannot disguise the
fact that it would be good thing for
base ball
There hasn't been a year since have
been a base ball player, SAID PLAYER,
the other day. when ! suffered so with
the heat as have this year. | guess that
you will find that is true OF al the men
who have been on the diamond this sea
son. Time and time again it has been
about all that | wanted 10 do 70 drag my
self out to the field. ii seemed to me as
If | could not lift one foot in front OF the
other. The result has been that the play
ers seemed dopy and lazy TO the Specta-
tors. when the fact Of the matter was
that they really suffered physically 80
much that they We're almost incapacitated
from playing The weather people say
this is the hottest summer that ever was
experienced in the West ana in the East.
too, and | say to you that the ball play
ers will confirm that statement by their
own experiences.
The Sporting News says Of tho st.
Louis club owners: Some Of their invest
ments in talent were questionable. That
Detroit deal was Il bad one; far too
much money was paid for Mccain. \eis-
ter is gold brick. ana McGraW ana Rob
inson have not earned. an. players, the
salaries paid ttcm. The Oriolc leaders
We're expected lo 80 much. Neither was
given authority ana they were expected
to accomplish wonders. II is out Of the
question Tor a player To earn 5000 in five
months as third baseman or bit~man,
or for y catcher who is worked semi
occasionally to give service that Is worth
$1,000 for the same period HAD tile man
agemcnt been turned over To 4lcC;ra v
and Robbie been appointed his lieutenant,
the men who made Baltimore factor IN
1900 would have put the Perfectos i'm the
race and kept them there.
Roy Patterson. Comiskey's kid pitcher
started in fresh from his Northern HON,
he is farm boy from up near 81. raul
AS green as grass. no rXperient o, M
knowledge Of base ball writes NJ. A. Phi.
low. Jr. Of Chicago. He luSt seven games
on, Of his first ~ AS he has won IL out
pf bi- LAST I, lint tf -