Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-18

Louis. Saturday, by Stanley Robson, we
National League Club, that 10 players
We're signed in Philadelphia. last Wednes
day, for the season of 1903. They are
Pitcher Mike O'Neil Catcher John o NeiI,
Murphy. Yerkes, Pearson, Barclay'
Smoot, Hartman, Farrell ana Bfaslea''
Speak king of Bresnahan. says the Ne"
York Press, there is one of the pest youile
ployers who ever broke into the natloni!
game. A great catcher, an accufdtS
thrower to bases, a fine batsman ana taSL
on his feet. he has leaped INTO populdI
favor at bound. 1t is deilSnt 10 see
him IN the game. alIs ~ ,,i oil tha
tious and earnest, he plays TO win All tiis
time.
Harry O'Hagan who played first base
with Rochester. last season, had con
ference with the local magnates at Rocn-
ester n Y. Saturday, after whlch ne
signed q contract and VIII Join the Roch-
Z ester team at Jersey city, Moaday-
lO'Hagan, this season, has played with the
| Chicag1 and New York teams in the Ma
| tional League, and did some work in the
American League
| Not since the days of Bill and Deacon
White Of the Cincinnati club. in the early
IS0's, has there been a notable ana effec-
| tive battery composed of brothers as the
/ two O'NeiIls, who are playing with the
81. Louis National League club. Mike
O'Nenl, the pitcher, has speed and all
| the other essentials Of a successful twiri
| er. while his brother Jack has been doing
| GOOD enough work to keep him in the ma
| lar leagues without his brothers sup
port.
Stone, the left fielder of the Omaha
team is the greatest hitter that has ever
nut in an appearance of the Denver did-
inond In four games which have been
PLAYED he made 10 hits out of IL times at
The bat. and got home run every DAY,
although two Of them might have been
headed OFF if properly fielded. This is
wonderful batting when taken into con-
sidera tion that the team in which he was
L. all -
| when his team was behind he tied the
score with a home run. Stone is young
fellow, and looks like conner.
| Plans were set on foot at Brunswick,
Saturday, to form a baseball league com
| prising towns and cities on the trolley
| line Ire scheme calls for eight clubs
| Brunswick, Bath. Lisbon Falls Freeport.
! Yarmouth, Westbrook, Fort Prebie and
| Fort Williams These teams have been
playing this season without having
League and have aroused great deal Of
| enthusiasm. 1t is expected that the
| league will be formed and in working
order so that at the opening of next sea
son the teams can at once begin contest
ing for the championship.
Camden's threat to withdraw from the
Knox County League unless Belfast was
substituted in Warren's place nearly dis .
rupted the league, but, Saturday an ar
Management was made whereby Belfast IS
admitted. This team takes Warren $
place at the foot of the standing and
games. Under the arrangement the
league will continue until Sept. D. y new
lschcdule is being arranged. Dresser VINO
has pitched for strong teams In anu
iaround Boston. has been signed by Rock :
land and Will arrive, Monday.
Dreyfus has suffered in the bitter school
Of experience and he is prepared to pro-
tect himself from further injustice. says
the Sporting club. He will insist on the
government of the league as the ocn-
stitutiOn provides, through president
land a board Of directors; he will demanl
the discontinuance of the policy which
makes the National League a tender to
New York; he will ask for fair play for
all and faVOrs for none. If his enemies
try to crush him. he Will seek other asso-
Citations. The PittsburS public is with
him. and he is ready 10 make the change
at short notice.
The petition Of the Philadelphia Nation
al League Baseball Club for an injunction
against Lajoie and Bernhard, the ball
players. was denied in the common pleas
court At Cleveland. Saturday, The Phila-
deiphiI Club sought to enjoin these two
players from playing with any other
Imam the Philadelphia Club An injunc-
ton had been granted in Pennsylvania,
land il was sought to have ii extended 10
Ohio, but the court denied this on the
ground that it wcuid interfere with the
internal policy of a sister state. The case
settles the status of the players named
for the rest of the season.
1T was the National League that began
the d1spisable habit of stealing players,
saws Ban Johnson They seem to have
| ever, Dick Padden was the first player
to be 'swiped, to use a Slangy phrase.
In 1900 he had led Connie ; braves to the
championship. He had not contracted for
1901. our had been placed on the Chicago
clubs reserve list. However, Harry Pull
liam go him to desert and sign with Don
lovan. That was the first case of one of
the leagues stealing the others players.
And. to my way Of thinking, ii mas prov .