Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-29
Baseball Notes.

/ EHHHS.
McFettridge lost Fix st,aight for Phila-
| dclphia.
| Ted Sullivan's Paris team leads in the
| Texas League.
Bender, the Indian pitcher, is doing brill
| liant work for the Athletics.
.Hanlon's Uncertainties" is what the
New York World styles the Brooklyns.
In /! games at Pttsburg that club
made 81 runs to 20, and OF these 20 the
New IOrkS made 10.
Pitcher Vail, who has been given trial
on the Manchester New England League
team, has been released
"TIamiltcn and LANCE We're tho last of
the real base runners, says Van llaltrGn.
Would he consider Jimmy Sheckard n
fake?
Capt. Orbin led the Pennsylvania bats
men with a percentage of .2S2 The club
played "A games and won Is, score li2
runs to %.
Goldsby. an old-time Baltimore player.
who has been umpiring in the Southern
League, was mobbcd ut Shreveport. re-
Gently. and resigned right after the game
Householder and Hildebrand. the for
nler formerly with brooklyn and the lat
ter formerly with Princeton, have greatly
strengthened the Los Angeles Pacific
Coast League team
President Postal of the Washington
club, has signed Pitcher Jerry Utley, cap
tain of this seasons University of Michi-
gan Next to Nutter of Illinois, Utley
was the best pitcher of the Western col
lcges
The floods played such havoc with the
schedule of the Western League for over
Il week that it is hardly likely that organ
izaton will be able to recoup its losses,
even with good weather FOR the balance
of the season.
The Central League is having hard
time keeping its umpircs. Two resigned
in one day recently. The life was too
strenuous for them when none could tell
when he would meet death at the hands
of the spectators.
Acting on the suggestion of Bob" Lar
rer. Il weil-knoWn Washington news
paperman. about $500 has been raised in
that city to entertain as many poor boys
as possible at the morning game with
Cleveland in that city, July 4.
McGraw holds the record for tender
years in playing professional baseball He
had not reached his 10th birthday ami
record with the Olcan. n. Y. team He
is 30 years old now. This is his 18th year
rs professional.
Wilton won the greatest game, Satur
day, ever played at East Jaffrey. N. H.,
with the Jatfrey a. \. team. The score
was Gto and the game lasted II innings.
The batteries were: For Wilton. Fairfield
and Dillon; Jatfrcy, Hunt and Cutting.
Hunt struck out %. Fairfield Is
Manager LOTUS claimed that the lack
club at least 5000 and lots of games, for
he hoped from day to day that the sec
ond baSeman would round to and be
worth something to the club. There was
nothing else for the local management to
do but release him when he came back
to the club the second time unfit to play
ball
Herman Long says he is pleased to be-
come a Tiger, thinks Detroit Il better ball
town for players than New York on CIV
cry count, and especially because it does
not cost onc-half as much to live. lie
has sent for his wife and daughter, and
they will keep house. incidentally, Her
man says he is going to play the game
of his life and show New York fans that
II years in fast company has just brought
him to his prime.
Ban johnson. Saturday, at Chicago,
said. "Pulliam is weak and John Il.
Brush is taking advantage of this, and
has placed him under his influence"
I!"sidc making this sardonic commentary
on the National League trouble, i'll con-
ncction with his savage slap at Brush,
johnson charged the aStute New Yorker,
'Hllam, Potter and Dreyfuss with tam
pering with members Of the New York
American League team.
Rochester High school, which has not
been defeated this season, won the state
school championship. Saturday, at Roch-
| ester, N. H.. by defeating Concord lllgh,
! season. Concord lost the game in the
ninth on errors of Stevenson, Batchcldcr
and Kennedy. McDuffee maintained his
| average on strike-outs. Rochester iilgh
celebrated it's victory at night with Il
| street parade bonfire and fireworks.
Pat Hurley is all right says George
Wriglcy. formerly of the Worcester club
who was released, with Rickcrt and Dele
| hanty, to New Orleans mo ball player
| that ever worked for him can say a word
against him. but the town will never do
| for the Eastern League circuit. 1t Is
entirely too small to be pitted against
such as Buffalo. 1t could be made to
make money as member of the New
| England League. Why, Jack Rowe tells
| m" he has played there to so spectators
Sam Crane ably sizes up the situa:
ton in the West: ITO win in the West
n team has to keep playing ball all the
| himc The fans out there arc of the VII
| ana woolly order and demand from the
| umpire that he give them every thing IN
sight. if not more. And the umpire usli,
ally does. too. a Sunday Western crowd
Is terror for an umpire, and the Satur-
DAY crowds are little better. The police
protection afforded is much smaller than
| here. sometimes not more than three
| coppcrS being on the grounds to pre-
serve order with Il crowd numbering from
l30o0 to 20.Oo0 people. Under those con
ditionS 1t can be easily appreciated What
an umpire and the visiting teams nave
to go up against"
1T is a terrible strain to, pitch two two
games a week" said well-known Ma
tidnal League pitcher recently. tine poH
II so lar away from the home pate Una,
it requires extraordinary skill ano
strength to pitch winning ball. 1t IS not
so much great speed that cXhaustS one :
stamina as the change Of pace, the accu-
rate control one must have nowadays an.
the great activity to be exercised in felu
ing the position. In q hard game II
which both pitchers keep the hits anc
runs down it becomes an intense stral!
on the nerves toward the close OF tht
contest before Il final result is attained
What with the excitement of the croWd
the noisy coaching and the fact that ti'
= whole game depends on him, a pltchel
, | undcrgoeS an ordeal which makes IL nee
: cSSary for him to rest several days petof'
he enters the box again. Yes, two games
a week, say on Tuesday and Saturday
1 are quite enough for any flrst-cias
pitcher"
< II am willing to lose from $1,000 to 500
TO keep the game alive in Worcester bu
| cannot afford to give up more tnip
: this for | am not in the John d. Rocke
teller class says Pat Hurley OF Wor
= cester Il am differently situated fror
| most of the other cities, for. as a genera
: rule, the clubs are backed by stock com
+ panics. while | have to go ii alone, WI
or lose. There are, perhaps. sDooo per
sons in Worcester that do not know VIVA
baseball looks like. This number in
l. small city is n big handicap. Worceste
l. played good baseball last year, ana wa
nosed out by Jersey City only Tor IN
}. reason that the club was crippled in tn
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