Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-19
"Line Up!"
Lime up"

49,. "Line Up!"
Lime up!'
The football captains cry
Rings out upon the sparkling ar,
The players spring from where they lie.
They take their places eagerly
And toss their Samson hair.
Line up!''
The seasons on again.
The rooters crowd along the rope
To cheer the men of mighty name.
To shout long salvos to the slain
And quicken falt'ring hope.
Our summertime is done.
There's work to tackle, foes to lame,
There's all the glory meath the sun
And splendid prizes to be won.
Line up Get in the game:
Detroit Free Press.
The series of post-season games be-
tween the champion teams of the
National and American leagues is
topic of much interest among the fans
throughout the country. The games
will be played in Pttsburg and Boston
and the odd game, if one is necessary,
will likely be played on the polo
grounds in New York.
Pittsburgers are willing to back the
Pirates to win from their rivals, for it
has never entered the heads of the
Pirates friends that their team has
chance to lose. The Pirates are not in
the best of condition just at present,
but Manager Clarke figures to have all
his men playing their best ball when
the postseason games are reached.
Wagner has been out of the game for
the past few days, but the report that
he may not be able to get into condition
this year is wrong, as his injury only
amounts to 4 charley horse.
Jack Menefee, who is credited with
being one of the best judges of ball
teams in the country, sizes up the
situation on the coming championship
contest as follows:
There is no question in my mind but
that the Pirates will win from the Bos-
ton team. To go over the team man
for man, there is no place in the Boston
aggregation that is stronger than the
Pittsburgers. Bransfield outfields La
Chance on first and is just as strong a
hitter. Ritchey is faster than Ferris
and a better hitter and there is no COM
parison at all between Wagner and
Parent, although Parent is good man.
Leach is just as good as Collins to
my way of thinking. The Pittsburg
outfield is much stronger than the Bos-
ton. Clarke will play better than
Dougherty and Beaumont is as good as
any ball player living and cannot be
beaten with the bat, while Sebring will
cover the right field so that nothing
gets away from him. Stahl and Free
man have nothing on the Pirates out
field
"ln the pitching department there are
no flies on Philippe, Lever and Ken
needy, while there are some rafting
good young left-handers in Pittsburg
in Pfeister and Winham to help out
Doheny. Cy Young. Dineen and Tom
Hughes of Boston are all good men and
are not to be moderated. Phelps. the
Pirate catcher, is just as good as
Criger, and that is enough to compare
behind the bat This young Weaver
will do good work for the Pirates if he
gets chance.
Il believe none of the rumors that are
going the rounds about Wagner being
hurt so badly that he may not be able
to play ball again this year. The big
fellow told me himself that he would be
in the game again in a few days"
good judges of the National game do
not believe that the Pittsburg team as
now constituted will be a match for
Jimmy Collins famous aggregation.
The Boston Americans will have a de-
clded advantage in their batteries.
Philippe, Lever and Kennedy are
very far from being such a trio of
pitchers as Young, Hughes and Dineen,
H. v,<k ;,, oil
with Criger as q catcher. One thing
is certain. however. the games between
the two teams will be hotly contested.
and worth going a good ways to see.
II Barney Dreyfuss had not once
missed a train perhaps Pittsburg would
never have had Fred Clarke. manager
of the Pirates.
Eyes. it was very funny how I first
got a sight of Clarke years ago." says
the president of the Pttsburg club.
ITS funnier, too. how came to take a
liking to him, for his teams showing
on the day I saw him was not enough
to make me warm up-his team was
beaten % to 0 or 90 to 2, don't remem-
Der which, but either was bad enough.
ut was in the summer of 1894 that I
was coming through the South and got
held up in Memphis through missing
my connections. OF course. my first
shoot was for the baseball grounds.
where Savannah was booked to meet
the Memphis boys. I always liked to
look over the young fellows and keep
the best of them in view for an emer-
gency.
IT knew the managers of both teams
and when the boys got working I did
not feel favorably impressed with any
Of them. Tub WEIGH was to do the
catching for Savannah. but at the last
moment he sent word that he was sick
and could not come to put on a uni
form.
This left McCloskey of the Savan-
nahs in a. nice hole. for he had not
another catcher on the team.
Finally Mac called on a young fell
low who had been chasing punk hits
in left. This lad, who seemed under
sized for a ballplayer, wore a fierce
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