Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-08
NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE.
Baseball Notec.


Detroit has lost II games by single
run.
Joe Bean Is putting up a great game at
short field for the Jersey City club of the
Eastern League.
Frank Ferrcll of New York. has a race
horse named ElueS. and also has ball
team that gives him the blues.
Bender, the Indian pitcher is now doing
brilliant work. He is Il great student of
RUDE Waddelfs style of pitching.
The veteran printer pitcher. Billy Hart.
has broken into the game again. lie
shut out Kansas City with two hits
The Chicago Americans have six men
batting over 800. while the Nationals OF
that city have only three III that class
The Cleveland club refuses to reduce
the number of it's men TO fifteen, notwith-
standing President Johnson's orders to
do SO.
Someone asks how Connie Mack man
ages the eccentric RUDE Naddeil. This is
the wayne just lets Itube do as he
pleases.
The Brooklyn Times says conservative
critics declare PittsburS will finish first.
Brooklyn second, and either New York or
, Chicago third.
Bill Reidy, the st. Louis pitcher whom
the Senators lambasted in Washington,
has asked for and received his release on
| account of poor health:
The Baltimores have released Pitcher
| Wiltse and Shortstop Weigand has de-
/ serted the team because he could not
stand criticism from Baltimore paper.
Unglaub, the third baseman of the Mil
! Waukee team, is n dcVout Christian. and
in his spare moments essays missionary
work in an endeavor to convert his team
| mates.
| Ruffalo's crack left fielder, Mcintyre.
| formerly of the Augusta. Me-. club, has
not made an error this season, and is
batting at a 400 clip. He is in demand
| by several major league clubs.
| Delaney, a former Augusta third base
man., and George Henry formerly a mem
| Der of the Bangor team are playing sec
! ond base and center field for the Spring
field team Of the Connecticut League.
| Joe Conner is putting up n fine game
| behind the bat for the Springfield team
of the Connecticut League. There are a
number of players in the National and
American Leagues who are not in his
| class.
| Newenham, formerly the pitcher on the
| Colby team, is doing brilliant work for
the Newark team of the Eastern League.
Monday, he held the heavy hitting Roch-
ester team down to five hits and won his
game. 10 to ..
The report has gained circulation that
the Philadelphia Nationals, with the aid
of other National League clubs, contcm
plate raiding the New York American
team. That sounds nice for peace, but
it probably is not true.
l johnny ljDDDS, TtIt:lStu pE Nlltlllld u
and Chicago. is pleasing Manager Hanlon
Immensely by his good work. He has
earned regular place on the Brooklyns
Hugh Jennings is relieving Mccreedle
who is not well and needs n rest.
Mullin of Detroit, has Il tantalizine
habit of holding the ball and looking the
batSman in the eye for several seconds
at a stretch. When he docs turn Tho
leather loose his deep curve is so d"ccp
tive the victim does not know whats
doing.
The Cincinnati scribes travelling will
the Reds declare that n bomb will b.
exploded in the camp of the American
League inside of two weeks. 1t will be
Il sensation of large proportions, and vii
he the outcome of the secret conference
which was held there a few days ago
The reinstatement of Davis is said to be
trivial in comparison to what is coming
| Could not be that Washington is to be
given winning team once?
Washington Post: Baseball is the clean
cst of all sports, and makes for the high
est morality The man that attends s
| baseball game is getting the benefit o.
fresh air-scmcthing not to be had at 8
cooking main or a prize fight lie is MOI
; gambling, as at horse race ne is no
cheering manslaughter and mayhem, II:
at n football contest; he is neither manG
ling his fcioW-man with an auto nor be
ing mangled by his fellow-man; he is no
ieopardiZng his life and others in {
yacht: he is not rocking boat; he j!
| not blowing down a gun barrel to SCI
whether it's loaded; he is not climbing the
Alps or lcapng from balloon with {
parachute: he is not beating his wife
Chicago Tribune But when he's watch
ing the Senators he's wasting time.
The New York correspondent of thu
,, Pittsburg Chronicle-Tcleeraph sent tn
following to that paper. Monday: ut l.
plain to baseball men that 4 new reSin
is in possession of the National League
and that next weeks meeting to talk owe
the Davis case will show that DreyluS
, and Brush rule the roost: Every NOV
made in recent affairs shows that tn
Pittsburs and New York magnates hav
, formed n compact to do others If the
| management could have sent George Da
Wis in against the Reds when they wer
i here and thus have made the gate large
for Cincinnati. but they waited until IN
FittSburgS came along. Then there is tn
fight between Eowerman and Clarke: N
wild Indignation comes from the lhttSDur
team because BowermbliJ has not bee
l punished. There are people who say tina
= Bowcrman may be hauled before IN
= meeting, next week but this is doubte
/. Thy persons following baseball politics
i 1T is a terrible strain to pitch tw
games week. said We}l-known M
-, tinnal League pitcher recently. "the 20
!, is so far away from the home plate tina
{ it requires extraordinary skill an
= strength to pitch winning ball 1t is no
= 50 much great speed that exhausts one
stamina as the change of pace, the accl
rate control one must have nowadays
y and the great activity to be exercised !
j ! fielding the position. In hard gam
{; in which both pitchers keep the hits an
:, runs down it becomes an intense strai
! on the nerves toward the close OF In
contest before Il final result is attained
What with the excitement OF the crow
1.-THE noisy coaching. and the fact that IN
whole game depends on him, pitche
/. l,Indcrgoes an ordeal which makes 1t nee