Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-08-25

under President Brush. including Kelley
and Seymour. is put at $3.50. Kelley re-
ceives $500 and Seymour $500. President
Herman of the Cincinnati club. SAYS he
is willing to expend from $4,000 to 81, 900
for new players.
Klobedanz hasn't pitched a poor game
for Lawrence this season, and in most
games has been remarkably effective He
is in frst-class trim and is doing fully
as good work as he ever did when with
the Boston club.
Bob Ewing, the pitcher, was released
Saturday. by Cincinnati. President Herr.
man, Saturday, sent kilograms to all the
pitchers in the American League to send
their terms to the Cincinnati club. The
National League club of Philadelphia
while here, Saturday, signed. Jack Berry.
The Sporting News says that the trium-
virs never made a bigger mistake than
when they let Selee go and took Bucken
berger. But how Selee could have done
any better than Buck is not made ap-
parent. Buck lost Lowe, remarkably
fine player, and otherwise had Selee's
team
Billy Keeler of the Brooklyns, declares
that the Cincinnati right field is the hard
est field to play of any in the National
League today. "The old Cincinnati right
field was pretty tough, declared keeler
but the present one is much worse. 1t
is hard matter to see ball until it gets
above the stand, and by the time it gets
that high it has gone some distance"
THAT ought to be a hot series in Kan
sas City after the season Closes" OBJ
serves Charley Nichols. Il accepted the
challenge of the Association team for a
series of five games with my bunch. and
we are to get together and arrange details
of the games after | get home from this
trip. 1t will be a series for blood. Win
it? l should say we will Well VII
those games If we never do anything
else
Abe Yager of Brooklyn, writes: There
ts. al, 1s..frr r..y, fhs.
Brooklyn and New York magnates,
which has been extended to the other
Spalding- Freedman people, fact which
is evidenced when it is known that Pres
been here in daily consultation with the
Brooklyn magnates during the greater
part of the week. This was acknowl-
edged, yesterday, but what method of
procedure has been determined upon the
local magnates would not disclose"
A Des Moines writer says of Joe Quinn,
who used to play with the Boston Ma
tiona! and American teams: Joe QUINN
certainly is a wonder when it comes to
sizing up players, and the way he has
brought some of the men around to play
ing ball is a feather in his cap" Sandy
Griswold, the noted Omaha writer, says
that Quinn is playing as well as he did
in 1889, when he was with Des Moines,
from which club he came to Boston to
begin the career which earned for him the
reputation of being one of the greatest
infielders in the business.
Brush cannot block the path to peace
much longer, says the Sporting News. He
has no vote, and his influence is limited
to the faction which he formed to carry
out his trust scheme. The new Cincinnati
magnateS belong to no clique and will not
be blind followers of Freedman. The adj
vocates of peace can count on their as
sistance in bringing it about on terms
that will be honorable to all parties and
beneficial to baseball. Freedman is the
only club owner who is for "a finish fight
with the Americans. Brush, his leuten-
ant, will be a nonenity at the National
Leagues meetings
Through lack of offering sufficient fl
nancial inducements, Comiskey has lost
the only left-hand pitcher he has ever
had who has made good for him, for
Wiley Piatt has signed for 1903 with the
Boston National League club at a salary
of $500. The best offer made by Comis-
key was $2400. Offers were received by
Piatt from the st. Louis and Baston Ma
tionaI League clubs before coming East
on this trip. Since signing with Soden
he has also been asked by Shettsline of
the Phllies for his terms. Comiskey
knew of these offers but failed to meet
them, so when the club was in Boston,
last week. Piatt signed with Soden and
received $500 advance money, with $500
more to be paid him Feb. l.