Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-15

ter weekly.
Manager Armour Of Cleveland, Tues
day. released First Baseman !, ossie
SchreckengoSt. Catcher Wood Will play
first base for the present.
lott. who PLAYED light field for Dover.
has been released to Concord and is play
ing good ball A change of base makes
a great difference some times.
! Globe: Fred Doe is thinking seriously
of engaging himself TO play regularly or
/ the Dover team. Fred ought to make a
pretty good man for Manager Doe.
Jake Gettman, the man released by
Manager Lotus to Buffalo, Is putting up
a tend article for the Pan-AmS Jake l.;
smashing the cover off the spheres also
Philadelphia telegraph: O'Loughln, ne
OF the glecful name, apparently KNOWS
his business, ana what nc says goes, eNeh
il he has 10 wheel ii around in push
cart.
Farming is not allowed in the minor
league Organizations. For farming
player a club is liable to Il heavy fine
and the player may consider hlmseti
released.
| Pitcher Burbadge, released by lowell
! to Dover has won three straight games
in which he has pitched. His latest Icdt
WA TIE shut-out of Lawrence on Mon
dav Doe thinks great deal of him.
Handsome Z. Eugene Mccain, The
"Algy'' Of the, Brooklyn team, has ber1
released IianlOn says he couldn stand
Tor any Of his men wearing creases IN
their knickerbockers during a game
The National League has q debt Of $780,
600 to pay off first. That $l00oD was III
I counterfeit money. AS to the players
! iurnpina. 4 i0-ceiit piece would start the
! lightweigths that have jumped in ana out
; Of late.
The philadelphia papers are roasting
Z the Philadelphia League club unmefcliul III
Z ~ for taking their deserving players INTO
court ana thereby ueprivinE Philadelphll
! OF the pleasure Of witnessing the WORK
I Of old faYorit"a
! Ned Hanlon says he doesn't go niue"
( on "hunchcs" in the baseball business.
Now there was. Winham; one would call
the turn on that name for a pitcher, but
/ try fair, and ] let nim go, SAID Ned
! At last a name has been found for lit
( tie Jimmy Bannon the crstwhilr right
gardener for the Boston Nationals ana
now with Toronto Of the Eastern League.
Because Of his almost white mar, ne NH
been dubbed "Whitc-tup Foxy Grandpa.
| washington can MAY better bal! than
| the article that Baltimore is handing out.
The Senators may BE pardon d for having
dropped three genes in Philadelphia bI-
cause the team was broken I'M, pat ION
that defeat in Baltimore there IS no "A-
cuse.
Larry Lajoie must be enjoying his posi-
ton after all. lie can sit down all dIE
7 ana devote his time Ia the. perusal o.
newspapers that tell about his numerous
| tatteriaG offers ana think how rich ne
might be some day if he could only gobbie
them all up at once.
| Dover Democrat. Manager Smith is "a
! &, ntlemauly BAH player. bus ne has about
the worst Kicking aggregation nf Dali
/ tnssers that have been seen here o. the
| diamond at Central park They kictel
| So hard AT one time that IL caused The
grand stand to rack.
| While it would d. "a real pretty thing
! for Tom Lotus t. do there isn't one
chance in million that he will traul
any Of his players ion thc sake Of hclniG"
| any other c-uD escape Legal litigation.
| Monte Cross may BE- a good player. hu,
he's not the fielder nor the batter thar
Ely is
Hank .ODay has been Kittredgeizod
again. This time ii was Jack O'Counor.
( in the second Brooklyn Pittsburg same
| Friday. Jack jumped aside ana let jhe
/ ban bounce off ODay's chest, rs Sit
tredge used to do couple o. seasons age.
Jack said he got his wires crossed with
/ the pitcher ana didn't mean it.
| Washington Times: Ana. after Mil
/ while The American maGanatcs are SUE
ming themselves i'll th7 deception smiles
| of Illusion, might there not hr just "A
small kernel Of truth i'll tnat story about
4 the 3loN,U"n raised IN the National to @,i
( hold of some Of the Amerlrlu TIA yer-+
! Three Of the alleged National CONTRACT
/ jumpers have gone over again.
! Lawrence Eagle: SockaIezis ~ already
/ done Up Or pretty rear il, with rheuna
tiSm. This report vas daily expected NY
those who knew ih" Indian best Lowell
Citizen: Sock is booked for All summer
\ with the lnWel team. His rheumatism
hasn't put him out Of the game. and with
| warm weather coming hen easily hG!d
his OWL with The best Of them.
| ''What't the use Of an this fighting
anyway" said Manager Lotus last night
on his return from Baltimore. There's
plenty Of room for two big leagues in this
/ country. Teams in Boston, Philadelp hia.
+. Chicago and st. Louis could clean lt,i
! n i Nh
| ton games to pay tne running expenses
/ OF the teams during a season. It's too
bad we can't get together
| The baseball movement Mt Milinocket
! progresses with great rapidly. and the
promoters say they are taking Tong steps
| toward the collection of an aggregation
Of world heaters. MI funds necessary t.
| provide Il tirst-claSs team are secured,
! and the Northern Maine League is GER
tainty so far as Mi.linocket is concerned
Billy Long, the manager left. Tneaday
on 4 trip to secure the necessary players
to FIJI up the ranks
Lowell Citizen: Poor old Nashuat with
all of the work done by Henry Burns 20
get together winning team il looks as
if the fans Of his village are doomed a.
see the other fellows walk off with vic
| tories by wholesale this season. The
! team is lamentably weak-much weaker
| than that of last season-and, with all of
the other teams playing faster ball than
q year ago. it's q certainty that Nashua
will loaf around last place all summer
unless the team is born again.
| Manchester Union: Lawrence seeems to
! be playing in the same kind Of luck that
! characterizes the Manchester game at
times last summer. Everybody knows
that Lawrence has a winning team aud
nine of batterS, but, SO far, they have
| failed to do much with the ball. Haver-
hill is another team that has played I'M
| der peculiar circumstances As 4 fielding
team the Shoe city is almost, If not quite
| the equal of any in tho league ana Net
| they have been beaten right ana left The
| season is only a little over a week old
| though. and another month viii SCI
| things going along III q settled way.
| The Manchester Union says that The
| playing of the Fall River team is the
surprise of the league. That team de-
feated Manchester twice last week ard
| the Union goes on 10 say that ii looked
| as if luck we'll us ball playing had
| entered into their games. The Mauches-
| ter papers cannot get over ''knockiug' |
the Fan River team just because ii was
reported before the season began that |
the SouthernerS had a weak team.-Ha-
yerhill Gazette. Tie early criticism Of
the Fail River team by Manche ster |
scribes arose from lhe fact that Reed oi |
Manchester One Of the directors. was ont |
against the admission Of Fall River To /
the league The Manchester press has !
no use for Fall River.--I.owell Citizen.