Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-07
BASEBALL Notes.

Ncu ramon says there are but three
iloieS i"'he'S IN each major league.
De,ro 1a mas taken 10 out of the II games
"a against .2J1
ired IpsIal says the running expenses
OF the washington club are $500. He sold
OUT because ne was losing, and came out
almost even.
Umpire t.bright OF the Southern League,
resigned because he was not given pro-
lection from the throwers of soda water
bottles at Atlanta
Walker of Louisville, is considered by
some ne pest pitcher in the american
connection with the Boston Americans
and Cincinnatis.
II Is expected that n player named
Donahue: Of the Butte team. will JON
the Senators in a few days. lie was rec
commended ny Jack Hendricks, who also
while it lasted.
Tenney,, Douglass. Doyle. Chance,
Branstleld and Hackett are inst hasemen
who were once catchers Beckley IS the
only original in the group. In the Amer
lean. l-achance and Clarke We're catchcrS
and lsbel ami Hickman were pitchers.
a Spokane writer says: Eastern man
ayers VINO are looking for IN outfielder
should not overlook Charles Donahue OF
Sail Lake who is without doubt the fast
est man III the league and during the timo
Tinker. of Chicago, kept his hustling To
hold ms own.
When in Detroit recently Ban johnson
pail McAllister a nice compliment while
sitting in Angus box: II don't see what
you want of better bactstop than that.
he exclaimed as Mac scoopcd up q hot
one. PLAY him regularly in the position
and none of EN- will have much coming
on him.
Washington Post: George Lachance,
the big first baseman of the Bostons. is
suyed more by the rooters than any other
PLAYER. ne wears such a peculiar express
sion that he boys make fun Of it on ev-
cry occasion, and yet Lachance is Il very
nice fellow and attends strictly to bust
ness on the field. His unpopularity is not
of his own making. 1t comes Of Il pecu-
liar mixture Of q deep voice and not a
very pretty face Neither of which
George can help.
The Sporting News says of Ferris: He
does one or more sensational stunts III
every series that he plays in St, Louis,
and local followers of the game consider
him the best second bascman in the buSi-
ness. barring none. Lajoir will outbat
him and 50 will Murphy, but none Of his
rivals will equal him in fielding. Bill hi
necn, the Boston pitcher, says Hone Is
| the greatest in!eder who ever worred
behind him. and his st. Louis perform
anccs force the Browns admirers to yield
the palm to the New Englander
The Sporting News makes this excel
lent suggestion: THE rules of the game
should be revised and codifcd before the
next race by a committee of newspaper
writer's by the American and National
Leagues and the National Associations
The diction of many rules is bad, and
others are so clumsy in construction
that they are ineligible only through in
ference. A code prepared by them would
be an improN em9nt in every respect over
the cruGe and conflicting digest of the.
games laws which has been in use for
years.
The veterans Jim" ORoul'kc and Rog
A.
the following from 1the pen OF a Spring
field writer shows: 1t is a strange sight,!
indeed, to soc such veterans as Jim
o Reurke and Roger Conner holding their
own among the youngsters. O kourKe
does all the catching for his team, while
Conner plays his old position, al first
While Roger is hitting near 800, It is
strange he is a poor pinch batter. being
almost useless when runs are! needed. the
orators son Jimmy, IT.. puts up a fair
game on third base though it is hardly
probable ne will be as famous III his dhd.''
:" Charley horse is the bane Of The
who had "a dose recently. 1t is a strain
of the muscles OF the thigh" explained
the veteran. ''and when you use That
| muscle it feels just as if Il needle was
stuck in there. Some players have them
in the, back of the leg and some in the
front. I'VE seen Buck Ewing laid up
with them 50 he couldn't move, and there
was Il lump as big az a marble on each
FOR como TWO ond tbo ntbor r., ~,
ono in tho ntbor thig, +,>,i,,y 10 nT,al.a5' 81
nn thn w,,,z ~ two rbni, d4n,t trat n,oi
to ,,oIn '0' '''' 80 WI
Tho ,,,,,,+ of - pi++,,,,,r,, ,,,,it., 40.
poston and CInyni1,ld in ~ h,nn,i'",'
u,a,.n not tnl.int. ono,,ob al ~ ~ -
nav, oynn,tnc bSs Irnrob+ o,,t tb ,at,rt /
frn,,, Ham,, Itdv,n,d 81 th ,Ii,,.nIIi
p,nin nnaiI,. '.f,I,aio,,a IL ,,,n N TN liz
rn,,, teams in tbe cn,intr,, tha, l.. t ~
to have sati.f,ctnr' i, ii,, - 5'tiI@
riabt sid, of H. i,iar ,,,t'i, ~, V.d a .,i1
i andod r. fnct IL - ,'In1.i,,,, i V%tr'ii
icbt now, IN sit ~ = -, ~ h !,,f ". noINe.
the tam is nndnr Snmnre ai,n1itg ~
- is tnss IN, r.biob s "ritH IN
ra - y aTaS =" "i Potton I.ltAing 'ne
NJ, Vol I,,t H. tta,.1, lr ~
i,oon a,,Inh tI't "a, bon,,t, n,,,i,, 10 10
hoo,, ,nnt and r,.o,d',,,n N>lN'''' mas
"~rt ~ '','' Wv 0i'e
Boston JOCKS somewhat better than
tIttSnurS' says the baseball writer OF
tnc NISilnSton loSt. IL VIII be assert
ed that the l'lttsburgS are so much supe-
nor TO their associates in the National
League that they appear as mountains TO
molehilis shaped up with the other seven
clubs. That is true. There is not the
same class OF players IN the National
League as is to bc found among the men
VINO compose the American, excepting |
PlttShurg and ('nlcap E,HmiD3 l1