Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-04

John T. brush has wagered Sic0 SUI
the New York National League team viii
beat out the Brooklyns this season.
Farrell had batted for 500 up to thu
j time he was hurt and had failed in bu
one game to hit safely, and then he Wen
to bat but twice. His is a loss, surely.
The late Win Mercer always carried a
/ book with him in which he entered after
each days game notes regarding ne "a.
ting strength of the men he pitched
against.
The Providence baseball club has signed
| farkeS of the st. Louis National club, and
Billy Kelly from Poughkeepsie, as pitch
ers, and William Diggins, who was with
Montreal last year, as catcher.
1 This story that my knee is injured per-
! manently, says John McGraw. "is all UNI
true. My knee is not I'm the best of shape,
and 1 shall be careful on slippery fields
just now my bruised nose is my main
| trouble
| The ST. Louis teams have the brother
| batteries. ONeil and O'Neil and Donahue
/ and Donahue; the Columbus club has the
animal battery, Wolfe and Fox, and ST.
Johns College. Annapolis, still possesses
its famous lobster battery, Stick and
Mudd
| The race in the Pacific Coast League is
| very one-sided. Los Angeles won Il games
| before losing, 60, in San Francisco, and
IN four games running beat Oakland. 20
1870, o and 80. which is certainly Il record
| for series. Sacramento took 10 out of ID
and Portland lost IA out of IL.
The four pitchers that played on the
| Kansas City Western League champions
| leagues this season. Bob Ewing is with
| Cincinnati. Jake Weimer with the Chica-
= go Nationals, Norwood Gibson with the
Boston Americans, and Billy Wolfe with
the New York Americans.
! The Chicago team which Manager Selee
| has put against the Reds does not i'm
press one as being strong enough to occu-
| Ply a prominent position in the race at the
| finish, says ED Grille in the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune. Selees team may
squirt now and then. but it is not strong
enough to go through a season and be
lighting for a good position
Pres. Comiskey has finally decided to
abandon the historic white stockings OF
his team: The suits for home wear will
and lettering, instead of the red trim
nlings of last year. The stockings will be
navy blue; ,e except ta, four-nch band Of
thought sufficient to retain the old name
of White Stockings" ' r.. y. wv
William A. Sunday. the former Nation
al League baseball player. who a number
OF years ago gave up baseball for evan
/ gelistic work, has been ordained formally
as an evangelist of the Presbyterian
church: He was ordained last week at
Chicago, when DR.. Wilbur Chapman
preached the sermon and DR.. Alexander
Patterson delivered the charge to the old
ball player.
Delehanty made a great catch in Wash
lngton,. Saturday. 1t came about in the
ninth inning. CAMEL hit a low-line fiy
into left, and as Del started after it the
chances appeared remote of his getting
to the sphere before it struck the ground
lie kept on running, however and while
going, at full speed stuck down his un-
gioved right hand and scooped in the bail
ABOUT three inches from the ground. Last
season Delehanty made catch almost
identical with that of Saturday.
The Seattle club of the Pacific Coast
Ie9Sll is feminine Shortest trI
desert Des Moines, but he declines to
! Jump, OLeary has two brothers. one -
third baseman and one shortstop. who
are much better than their big brother.
Frank O'Leary, the younger but Is years
old, is playing this season with the South
I hdMt 5 5eam MI, G &c the Other who is
port. The Des Moines player was men,
toned in connection with the PhilIies.
John Foster of the Telegram. pays
nice compliment pin , to to rsandaw" Mertes
OF Rurkeville, by playing, left field better
than 1t ever has been played here. That
statement is made adyisedly. and includes
base running. and his general knowledge
OF the fine points of the game He has al
ways been a favorite wherever he has
played, and this year he Seems to be at
his best perhaps little better than his
best has ever been before
The two oldest men in fast company
are jimmy Ryan of Washington, and
Jimmy Mcguire of Detroit. Ryan went
to Chicago in the fall of 1883 as a left
handed pitcher, and Mcclure caught Tony
Mullane in Toledo in 1854. thinner made
his appearance in 1856. and so did Jack
OConnor Van Haltren came East in 1887
to pitch for Chicago. Jim O'Rourke play
ed hrst base for the Bostons in the early
i0s and is really the veteran of all veter-
ans, while 'Doggie'' Miller caught in Har-
in 1883 u
| Jacob Becker and Daniels O'Neil of
hn IInl,r oil
chiSe in the Connecticut Baseball League
early Saturday. The decision was reached
after an all day session of the special com
Smiling Mickey" WEIGH of HoISoke
was given the franchise at $50 p NJ Fri.
DAY yam and had until midnight to pay for the
mark and the vote was revoked. The price
paiid G;e e sGS F. Harrington for the fran
| tracted to the present time.
I'VE are more afraid of the Cleveland
crowd 1sS,,a, than we are Of New York Phil
say they are not In the best of shape, and
farm against village lot in Nowhere
vile that they'll be fast enough 10 cause
US whole lot of trouble. We want the
ing after it, too, but We all dread Cleve-
land, with its tall pitchers and hard nit
t terS; "A pitcher who has faced Lajoie.
In one afternoon is apt to remember thar
he has been in a ball game
when the All-Americans were in In
dianapois says Third Baseman Bradley
of the Clevelands, 'one of the clerks at
the Grand asked me if l would meet him
at certain hour in front of the Manhat-
tan building. He said it would be worth
while. and 80 ] was on hand at the apt
pointed time. The fellow took me through
one door and out another: into one hall
and then another and finally paused at
the door of little room. Go in there,
he said. opened the door and stepped
inside. A bent and crippled man was sit
| ting in a big chair. He put out his thin
cold hand. and. speaking very low. said
L am John T. Brush. MIR Bradley, ! want
You to-play ball for me- ;"
| Ban johnson should abolish the foul
strike abs,irdity.-Frank Hough, sporting
editor Philadelphia Inquirer. And so say
! thousands of others. Says, Mr. Hough:
"Mr. Hart. in defence of the rule, points;
| to the fact that over q, 900 persons were in
attendance at the opening games with the
Athleties.- No argument could be sillier
The attendance at Boston proved that the
baseball enthusiasts of the Hub love the
| national game. not because of the foul
strike makers. but despite them. Presi-
dent Ban johnson has always had the
cotuag e. to do the right thing at the right
time. The right thing for him to do now
| would he to call, off, so far as the American
f1LcagHe Is concerned. that foul strike abb
surdity,. x s4s 4 -