Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-27

| part 81 ministers ana laymen and the pos
| Slblllty OF the sheriff enforcing the exist
ing laws, Sunday games scheduled for De-
| trolt by the American League have been
| called Off.
Says Manager Watkins of the mdianap-
oils club: The foul-strike rule will cause
the injury of more pitchers than was ever
known before. 1t does not make a per
i ceptiblc difference in the batting strength.
| around from one side of the field to the
! other. according to the position at bat,
ard instead of fouling them Off when not
| quite ready, will lace them right through
| the box"
The spring series between American and
| National League clubs resulted in seven
victories for the former and six for the
latter. The National victories were four
Tor the PhillieS over the Athletics. two
for the Cardinals over the Browns, and
one for Brooklyn over Washington.
Washington defeated the ,Phillies twice,
games, the Athletics We're successful with
the Philles once and Washington won Il
game from Brooklyn.
President Sexton of the Western and
Three ] League, says in his instructions to
bis umpres: Under no circumstance will
an umpire engage in an argument or dis
pute with any player over decision. Deal
ging and faulthnding. You are not ex-
pected to submit to insulting remarks
from players before the game is called or
after its close. and you have the SANE
have during the progress of Il game
Manager Fred Doe of the Brockton team
Of the New England League, has secured
two more men who will be put in practice
next week for the opening games. They
are Jordan, pitcher and w. A. Ward, i'll
fielder, and were secured when Doe was
in Worcester, Friday. Doe is also after
Mike Donovan, another inficlder but the
latter is holding out for advance money.
Donovan may go to Parkersburg. va
where he played last season. The Brock
ton team is showing up finely in it's prac-
| tce.
Says "Sy" Seymour: That Freedman
was the most peculiar mark l ever work ed
| for He'd come to us every spring, just
| before the opening of the season, and
make us a speech in which ne would tell
us that if we wanted we could win the
pennant for him. and that he fully expect
ed with the bunch of talent he had signed
| the tall tent pole he had planted out in
center field ON the polo, grounds. Then
when We didn't make good he would roast
| us individually and collectively. and swear
| that he would send the whole bunch back
to the minor leagues"
Il don't take much stock in your reputed
heavy hitters," says "Muggsy" McGraw
They are not steady, as rult in their
then is not half as important as the pref
i ty little two-bagGer or single which you
can count on when there is a man on sec
ond and third | want players who can
| drop the bail lust back of the diamond
SO that the intjeldcr and ontfielder both
try for it and both miss it; batters who
center of play is on the left side of the
! diamond, and vice versa. ! think | have
the men who can play these tricks"
| The international Baseball League was
Montreal, Rutland and St. Adams, Vt.
| and Plat1sburg and Malone, n. Y. The
! season is to open not earlier than June y.
and close not later than Sept 10 Officers
| pT 'fI
| &. 7. ChlGs of st. Adams; vice presi-
dents, j: A; Clark of Montreal. j. S Col .
vim Of Rutland, f. G. Ryder of Malone,
and r. II. Robinson Of burlington; secre-
| tary and treasurer w. f.. Holt of Platts-
burg A meeting of the executive com
mittee will he called by Col Childs some
arranged
York National team has been anything but
impressive, says the Sun. This does not
has been fully up to his reputat ton. Babb
and Gilbert have vet to show New York
ers that they have it in them to play better
than minor league bah. Gilbert, neverthe-
| less. is an Improvement on George Smith
| at second base The most prominent of
| the youngsters seen here to date is Nc
Cretdle Of the, Brooklyns-not from what
| he has done, but from the way he han
/ dies himself. He Judges a lily ball we'll
stands M at the plate nicely, picks out the
ball he wants and is a quick, sharp hitter.
IA
| a requisiticn issued for the crew of the
| Missouri includes two punching bags, "a
| baSeDallS. four footballs, Il baseball bats.
| four catchers masks. nine basemen' $
| mittS. four pairs of stockings. an equal
| number OF football trousers, with belts,
and six pairs of S-ounCe boxing gloves
The order further sta ties that when the
commanding officer of any ship shall re-
: port to the department. that there is on
| board the vessel under his command a
| We'll developed baseball organization. the
vessel will be supplied with 70 extra base
ball suits. the shirts of which will bear
the name of the vessel on the breast. The
government IS also prepared to furnish
trophies for the gallant tars to strive for
on the baseball and football field.
Comiskey will never surrender his ella m
SO long as organized baseball exists. and
it has come to be a matter of principle
with both the American and National
Leagues that no one player or one mag
nate can defy the edicts of the league.
says the Chicago Tribune John T. Brush
is treading the dead line SO closely that
he is in reality defyng Pulliam outright,
but so clecerIy that he has not yet com
mitted the overt act which he knows will
end his career in the great game. Freed
man would long ago have Numbered into
his old-time open defiance of the league
but for having Brush to teach him the
safer way. 1t is for that tutorship that
Freedman IS paying Brush good salary
as president of the New York club dad
John T. earns it. se-
John T. Brush is following closely in the
footsteps of the man he claims To have
I succeeded as the owner in New York. This
even extends TO the passes issued by Pres
ident Pnlliam. which are stamped in red
3 passes are recognized in every other city
in The league, but they do not go hi Nt.vy