Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-03
Baseball Notes.

| Jersey City at Buffalo, Montreal at Balti.
| more.
Baseball Notes.
The Utica club of the New York State
League, has secured new backing
The Hoboken Independent Club has de-
feated more major league teams than any
| other outsider in the country.
| Pitcher Buchanan of the Fort Worth
| team has struck out 10 men in each of
| four games and Is men in a game against
| Dallas.
! Umpire Rudderham of the New Eng
l"nd has resigned again, this time for
! good. It is expected that Harry Nc
| l.u.u VIII Le back by Monday.
l They have such changeable weather in
| Butte that it is not unusual for time to be
| called for 10 or Is minutes to allow a
snow or hail storm to take its course.
Unless Comiskey relents with Fielder
Jones' the player may be out of the game,
next year. He insists that he will go to
| the New York Nationals or get out OF the
game.
Oscar STREET, the left-hander who once
pitching great ball for the Montgomery
(Ala.) team Another pitcher of that
| club, Polchow, has done some remarkably
| effective work.
The Cincinnati Reds are a listless lot of
veterans. A majority of them are too
slow to get up a sweat, writes A. j. Elan
ner of st. Louis. Joe Kelley has d diff
cult task to land that bunch in as good
as third position.
Detroit has found Washington as hard
customer as it has been called upon to
face. this year. Detroit has taken eight
of the Is games with that club, but
Washington has scored 81 runs to so and
has batted .254 to .235, showing the effec-
Dave Brains soreness is caused by the
fact that he DrcmjSp6 half the
money it cost Robinson to secure him.
That puts it up to George Stallings, and
if Brain has nothing in black and white
to show for the promise given him it is
difficult to see what success there is in
store for him.
The veteran Perry Werden, one of the
hardest biting first basemen of the coun-
try, Is handling the Memphis team of the
That aggregation has record of 10 con-
secutive victories and is making a strong
bid for the pennant. New Orleans, the
pennant winner of 1862, is in last place.
Bug Holiday failed to make good as
an umpire and it was doubtless owing to
the complaints received by Pres. Pulliam
that he decided that the removal of this
official was necessary. All of the present
players. Emslie. ODay and tombstone
were formerly pitchers and Moran was
an infeder None of Ban Johnsons UNI
pires made hit on the ball field, by way
of direct contrast.
Baseball was not conceived and perfect
ed for one person, says IL. G. Merrill,
hut for a nation of bustling, huStlng peo-
pie. and it is beginning to dawn upon the
small coterie that for years assumed the
position of dictators that it is legacy to
future generations and not a monopoly
for few seltishly inclined men to carry
on as a business enterprise, and then
transmit to another coterie to perpetuate
after the anne fashion.
A disappointed crowd of more than 1900
persons left the New England baseball
grounds at New Bedford Saturday after
noon. without seeing the two games which
they thought were to be played between
Haverhill and New Bedford. The Haver-
hill club failed to put in an appearance
through a misunderstanding regarding
the date. which. 1t is said, was changed
early in the season. 1t is understood that
Haverhill supposed the games We're to be
played in that city
This from such a National League ad-
herent as J. I'D. Grille of Cincinnati: 1t
only required a slight skirmish for Garry
Hermann to lay John 7. Brush low and
here is hoping that he may never rise
again-but he will. The result of the
league meeting proves conclusively that
most of the magnates, including Harry
Pulliam, were not very familiar with the
obligations of the peace compact. nor
have they a very hne sense OF harness
or they would not have agreed to take
the steps in the Davis case that they did"
The territorial battle Between the Amer
lean Association and the Western League
will doubtless come to an end with this
season. Milwaukee cannot support two
teams. The situationfis little better in
Kansas City, where two former pitchers
Charley Nichols and Dale Gear-are at
the head of rival teams. 1t is peculiar
coincidence that two former Boston Ma
tional League pitchers are at the head of
clubs in the same league in conflicting
cities and both have shown pronounced
ability in their handling teams and both
have landed pennants.
The veteran Sam Crane is as clever with
the pen as he used to be with the ball
Partisan though he has been, he has come
out strongly against the barefaced at
tempt on the part of John T. Brush, the
VI eaS TO
in baseball" declares Sam. "and must be
nursed. fondled and never allowed to go
astray. Baseball is a sport. a pastime,
will only take to it. patronize it and make
it popular when it srtln on popular lines.
The decline of local interest in the game
when hundreds-yes, thousands-of old
times patrons were antagonized through
various causes, was CHIEFLY owing to the
sentimental part being made secondary to
the business end"
Manager Billy Clymer of the Louisvilles,
was probably put out of the game for the
season by peculiar accident, last Sun
day. Clymer had an argument with UNI
pire Foreman over decision in the
eighth inning Outfielder Odwell of the
Louisvilles, followed several other players
into the field and picked up the ball. which
lay near tie pitchers box. While stand
ing on. the second base line Odwell sud
denly hurled the ball toward where the
men We're arguing. Clymer turned to start
for his placeSin the field and the ball
He was knocked to the ground and a ply
stefan was called from the grand stand,
and accompanied Clymer to town on
car, 1t was found that Clymer sustained
had nothing to say about the accident
after the game 1t is supposed, from the
manner in which he threw the ball. that
he intended it for the umpire instead of
his managers