Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-03
Baseball Notes,

Catcher Bill Clarke will get his re-
lease from Washington. They won't
pay him $2400.
Gene DeMontreville has replaced
Dick Padden at second for st. Louis
and the Washington boy is doing nice
ly.
Sam Bernard OF the Lawrence club
has been released. Here is a chance for
some club to corral a first-class second
baseman.
Two wagers have been laid here on
the Pittsburg to land the pennant-$50
even and $50 against 500. 1t looks like
easy money for the other end.
Cleveland has sold Pitcher Curtiss to
Milwaukee. This is the young man
who pitched himself into fame as ..
member OF the FIT, Wayne club, last
season.
Jack Carr has evidently dropped into
good berth with the Indianapolis
team as the HOLSTERS are going along
at fast clip and he is doing his share
of brilliant playing.
Charlie Farrell is feared by the base
stealers in the American league. In
put a man out trying to steal. He has
not had an assist in the four games
caught.
Jones, the Brooklyn pitcher. has won
three out of four games-two from
Philadelphia and one from New York.
He is the only Brooklyn pitcher that
has stolen bas-. and in his four
games he has vi tde i've hits.
Cooley sIippes up In his 10th glme.
Chick" Fraser w Philadelphia was
the first pitcher p prevent Cooley from
getting in sinE e. II viii be remem-
h2rtd that T'rass gave the New York
team their fret tat ~ defei..
1t is announced \, President Charles
H. Ebbets. Of the BROOKLYN Baseball
Club. that the club NsV TOE attempt 10
play Sunday games VA 1N "a Was made
clear that in playing gam, "a that day
it would he entirely Within ,7r statute.
Freeman has made nine hits tn 10
games. and they have been go~l Cor a
total of GS bases. He has ma6a two
doubles. three triples and two home
runs. He would fit in handy in many
an outfield, for he can break up n
game when least expected with his long
drives.
1t is not the real fans that howl
when a player makes an error. 1t is
the cheaper and more undesirable set
of baseball patrons who go to the park
with q few dollars in their pockets, bet
! it with another of their own class, and
then get sore when the visiting team
gets in the lead. It's pity that these
can't be chained at home while games
are being played.
Chief thinner has made quite a hit
as an umpire in the East. In a letter
TO the sporting editor of The Dispatch
and Chief says: Il like my new work
very much and enjoy it more and more
every day. I believe 1 am giving sat-
isfaction, for thus far every one-spec-
tators and players-have accorded me
the most courteous treatment"
Detroit and st. Louis in the Ameri .
can League have established a new
record. Thus far these teams have
met six times this season. Three times
they have played IL innings, two of
these extra chapter arguments result
| ing in dead heats. 4 to each time. III
the other 12-inning affair Detroit won
! to g.
Philadelphia newspapers are now
running half-page portraits of RUDE
| WadGell and are proclaiming him the
greatest pitcher that ever traversed the
boulevard. One of these days they will
wake up to find that Rube has skipped
| the town in order to tie up with some
out of the way amateur combination.
Just ow the Butler wonder is certainly
the warmest thing in the Quaker City.
| Turner, the new recruit at short for
Cleveland, is playing much faster
game than did Gochnaur. He is field
ing more accurately and is hitting the
| ball all over the lot. He has batted
| better than the majority of the Blue
birds and in his six games has batted
| for 500. He has hit safely in every
game so far and in the six games got
twelve safe ones scored to his credit.
Don't fret, dear rooter There is
something back of this. The Pirates
are simply trying new plan to put the
other teams to the bad. The scheme is
to make them run around the bases so
often early in the season that they will
wear themselves out and be in no con-
dition to keep up with the pace the
Pittsburgs will set later on.-Pittsburg
| Dispatch.
! The Philadelphia National League
club has made couple of deals by
which Jack Doyle has been secured
from the Brooklyn club to play first
base, and Billy Lauder, the third base
man, has been purchased from the New
York club. The Quakers have needed a
first baseman badly. and as Hanlon
now has Dillon to play first for his
team. Doyle will be of more value in
Philadelphia. lauder has not played
ball this season. He did not sign a
contract. He played his first profess
| sional ball in Philadelphia.
The unconditional release from res
ervation that was granted Pat Dono-
van frem the st. Louis National League
Club by the National Commission
brought to light the fact that at various
times in the past the st. Louis manage
ment had tried to sell the player to the
Cincinnati and Chicago clubs. AS soon
as Charlie Nichols was signed to man.
age the Cardinals President Robson of