Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-28
Baseball Notes.

Cook County, Ill., is trying to secure
the site of the Chicago National League
baseball club to build extensions to it's
hospital. which adjoints the grounds on
the north. 1t is said that $125,0O will be
offered for the site.
George Stallings declares his Buffalo
team is complete, and he expects to win
the Eastern League pennant.if all the
others drop out. No pennants for George
if he can help it, but an eyelash finish
and second or third place.
The Pittsburg club has signed a utility
outfielder named Weaver, of New Castle,
Ind. Last season Weaver played with
Ashenbach's Charlotte, N. c., team until
it gave up the ghost, and finished with
Newark in the Eastern League.
Harry Arndt will play with the Column
bus team. this year. Harry looked pretty
good, last season, during the short while
he was with the patched-up Baltimores
Another year in minor company should
ripen him for the American League.
All the talk about Bill Lange returning
to the game must result in talk for it is
said that the tall fielder has spread out
so wide that he is nearly as big as old
Pop Milliken, who wore the mask and
pad for the Athletics 10 years or more
ago.
Billy. Mailman. who is playing in kid
mapped in New York" saws that the
wooden shoe speciality in the play has
kept him in fairly good shape during the
getting down to weight when he joins the
Phillies
President Hart has been unable to Sc
cure any exhibitions with teams between
| Chicago and the coast, so he will likely
give UP, the proposed trip to California
to do the spring training. The expense
would be enormous without any attrac-
tive games on the way and plenty Of turn
stile returns.
Bob Blewett who was one of George
towns greatest pitchers, will make an
other attempt to enter the major league
company. Last season he pitched for the
New Yorks, but with no one behind him
to do good work his pitching looked much
worse than it really was. Such an outfit
would discourage any young twirler dur
ing his first year in a big league, and it
Is not wondered at that he did not sue
ceed
Barney Dreyfus has declined the propo-
sition of Connie Mack to play spring
series of games. Dreyfus believes that
nothing is to be gained by such a plan.
as the Athletics are not in the same class
with the Pirates. Besides that the Pitts
burSs will be kept working in the South
until day or two before the regular sea-
son opens, and does not wish to expose
his men to the chilly northern atmos-
phere.
'Cy" Seymour of the Cincinnati base
ball team, took fall out of each of the
Tannehill boys. the other day, ON a howl
ing asiey IN chicago. Ihey disputed over a
game of pins, and Jesse Tannehll was
not content until he had picked a fight
with Seymour. They-got to work and Lee
Tannehill interfered. "Cy' sent him
about his business with swift jab in the
nostril that broke his nose That was
enough for him. Then Seymour finished
up the other brother with jaS or two
Seymour came out of the fight Unmarked,
G. Harry White, who will play with tho
Chicago Nationals. this season, is bn;.s
ing up a splendid dental prasi,ee IN n
Washington and it is doubtful if he will N
much longer He has received snleniid an
couragement from his MANY Washinet tm
friends and is q great faverite with t tbn
Georgetown University boys, who are
they can How pleasant 1t would he % fay
Harry to play with the Senators. and
what a help he would be to the local
twifling stan.