Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-28
Baseball Notes.

Worcester has won seven out of nine
games from Providence.
Faulkner. the pitcher. was offered 500
per month to join Toronto.
Omaha blanked clubs II times this sea-
son, and was once BANKED.
The Sporting News says that .Muggsy-
McGraw is the Aguinaldo of baseball.
Syracuse has three former New Eng
land League pitchers-Billy Fifeld, Willie
Mains and George Wheeler.
Dummy Taylor of the New Yorks.
went 81 times to bat in l3 games, and
made one hit and one run
Corsicans, leader in the Texas League,
won 2 straight games before going down.
But Il of those games were won on the
home grounds.
big Mike Sullivan will pitch for the
Boston Knights of Columbus against the
New York Knights on the American
League grounds, Aug. %.
''McGraw will last about three weeks
unless Freedman goes to Europe" said
one of the New York players. "Muggsy
is not the man to listen in silence to one
of Andy's TRADES. and there will be fun
when the two clash.
Thomas j. Swelly the new Holy Cross
captain. has played two years on the
team, stands second in hitting and play
ed in right field with but one error. He
is a graduate of Norwich Free Academy,
where ne captained the baseball team for
two years. Besides his work in athletics.
he also found time to obtain honors i'll
his classes and is good debater.
Frank Patterson writes from Baltimore:
''The Baltimore club did not lose money
last year, and would have made money
but for its pitiful failure in the pennant
race. This years team, the most eXpen-
sive team in the country, and yet drag
gring along near the bottom would not
make money in any city in America, and
it comes with bad grace from McGraw to
talk Of its not making money, when he
ure to do So McGraw said in this city
that Baltimore lost $1,000 last season, an,l
that he had put up $4,000 of it.
George Whitecotton, brother of Mis-
souri's speaker, made this speech when
he presented Jake Beckley with $50 in
gold, the gift of friends at Hannibal. Mo.
July Is, when the Cincinnatis played
there: "A few weeks ago Hannibal enter
tanned Mark Twain, who brought his old
home into worldwide prominence. You
have gained for outdoor sport what Mark
Twain has done for literature. 1t is men
like you who have made it possible to
perpetuate the greatest of outdoor sports
The name of Beckley is idoliZed by the
sport-loving just as that of Twain is by
| literary people. Two of Hannibars sons
have reached the top"
The Chicago Journal says of Waddcll:
His endurance is that of an iron man
| His skill, despite the fact that he is a jay
| from Jayario and wild untutored Rube
| is almost as great as his physical pow
ers. Almost perfect control is his on the
| day when he is at his best, and the va
| riety of puZzling shoots thrown in, too
with wonderful judgment as to how eacs
| batsman doesn't like them, is something
almost incomprehensible. 1t is hardly
likely that Amos RuSie, the husky giant
| of the past, could have pitched such long
games as Waddell, and Amos, even whel
most powerful, could not have held his
| men to fewer hits, fewer bases on balls
| or fewer tallies. Great is the Ruba
| Where in all the archives of baseball car
| be found his equal Charley Radbourr
| for one, who fairly won pennant sin
gle handed, who had unlimited endurance
and all that is included in the art of per
feet pitching.