Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-20
Base Bal Notes.

President Reach of the Phillies states
and win play in Philadelphia next sea :
son.
+. J.. Brasher Of the indianapolis
Western League club has sent to Man
agcr Donovan Il signed contract to play
with tie st. Louis National League
club next season H.. is engaged as
utility man.
TN. areu"m"nts nf NJ" Freedman
SpH.dug baseball injunction which W;
L. hHv" been heard. ThUrsda, bE JuStir.
Scott ~ IN" supr-m" court p New York.
~dS adjourned until lrday- Tho I"iSrn
for INV adjournment was that b"-vEv,t y
Nirul. 'nIn-"l I'm Freedman. rHS al-
/ s'n' from n" city.
Frr"dnI1n. Brush ana Robson nav,
thi eaten.d al kinds ~ punishment tl
tn" members ~ tn" leaEu-. If they ,aii
~ found vino gave away secret in
formation to one or Two newspaper
men rs To- the combine.
This is col. PulIiam's ideal: While
'yudicltes may be all right in steel
and iron. you amt corner III. baseball
affections # the pcopl". They d" nyt
have to 20 to Your bali games ana tn.
whole idea j. distast"ful Ia iivcrs uf
81 ort.
Harry T. Bcmis. the crack catcher ut
tlr Toronto club Of the Easter N
League. has signed u play with Cleve-
llud next year. Remis is only % years
ol6 and has been playing profession
ally but four years. In 1895 and 1899
hc was with Paterson in the Atlantir
League.
President Whitfield Of the Western
League, stated in New York that the
Nichols affair had been settled until
jdn. !. Nichols held conference with
S0den. and the latter agreed II Mich
OILS going To Kansas City if he would
wait until Jan. l. and if h. was still
satisfied with his chances as 4 mag
nate they would release him.
DreYfus tells how he deals with his
players. Al the beginning of last sea-
son Chesbro was signed to an Slso0
contract He pitched such excellent
ban that Dreyfus voluntarily increased
his salary Ia s300o in the middle of the
season. and then paid him for the early
that Barney is popular with tn
players
The Annapolis Naval .>cad, ny baseball!
schedule has been announced. MI IN"
games. with IN. exception rf that with
Nest Point. will b. played cn the hon
grounds. The dates are a. follows
March 70 LAFAYETTE: Anril . Marvland
Agricultural College; .. Cornell Il. car
laudet; ~. Georgetuwn: ~. University ot
pennsy ylVania; May B. University Of West
Xirsini9: VI l 70 Seventh Regiment, New
arranged with Harvard. probably in The
week Of April l2-l9
Ii will be surprising indeed. II Al |
Bcckenberger makes a success of il az
the manager of the Boston club Buck
enberger seems to be very unpopular
with the other managers of the league.
~ we'll as with the players. and this /
tact is not going to help his team next 4
season. The discharge Of Frank Selee
by Boston is considered a grave mis-
take. and. naturally the man who
takes his place comes in for great 7
ieal OF criticism
The Eastern and the National
Leagues are quarrelling over George
i. Smith. the Allegheny ball player.
smith was in the winning
rochester team of the Eastern League
his season. but in October he was
signed by New York. 1t is claimed New
ork did not ask the consent Of Roch-
stcr to sign him. John r. Nash. one {
II the stockholders Of the Rochester
iub. has demanded sloo0 for the re-
Ease Of Smith.
When President johnson of the
american League left Chicago. Mon ,
ay night, il was given out that he {
as going to hunt in the Indian terri I
Dry Among baseball followers it is !
egarded as extremely proba ble that /
1e American Lacquer is at present in G
le vicinity of New York awaiting the =
ltcomc of the National League fight y
nd 10 take part. il needed to fix up a "
uce with the old league. Before leav- e.
e Johnson said he regarded Spalding is
the one man to bring peace 10 the IL
airing leagues, and predicted that y
it'll Spalding's election the fight
ould come to a speedy end. Il