Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-27
Baseball Notes.

Phil Lewis. the Cornell shortstop is
playing a swell game at short for the
baltimore Eastern League team.
THE coaching rule if nothing else
says Connie Mack. will make games live
her and Keep everybody on the jump
Pitcher Orth will not be able to join the
washington team for two or three weeks
as his illness has greatly weakened him.
Harvey Hollis has accepted terms with
manager Billy Hamilton. of the Haverhill
son.
Now another Giant twirler has some
thing new. ChriSty Mathewson saws he
has 4 slow ball that will keep them all
guessing.
Washington Post-Such fielding as the
senators are doing cannot be surpa SSed,
hut the lack of batting is nosing the team
out each day.
1t has been claimed that Powell was all
in as a pitcher, but judging from the
game he pitched against the Montreal
team last week he is still in the swim
Montreal only got two hits off his deliv
The batting averages of the Cleveland
Blues on their training "trip show Lajoie
to the front with 1872. Turner braced up
on the latter part of the trip and averaged
go. His place on the regular team is
now secure.
The police arrested three ball players Mt
Brooklyn, three at Bayonne. n. j., Sun
day. five arrests were made at Ridgewood
Park. New York. and the game adver-
tsed at Binghampton was abandoned.
Strange indeed are the vicissitudes Of
baseball. Lew Wiltse was signed by the
New York Americans last year and after
playing part of the season was released
by Griffith Now he is on the pitching
staff of the New York Nationals and is
regarded by McGraw as find.
Manager Selee claims to have an agree
ment with the father of Walter Clarkson.
the Harvard pitcher. that If the young
man ever goes into professional ball Selee
will get the first chance to sign him for
the Chicago club.
Otto Jordan. who did such clever work
in the Brooklyn infield last season, has
finally decided to cease negotiating with
the Brooklyn management and look out
for an independent berth. He rejected
the terms offered by Hanlon and is now
considering several offers from indepen-
dent clubs.
The New York Telegram expert is siz-
Ing up the American League teams, hits
it about right when he says of Cleveland:
Perhaps the heaviest batting club, but
one that mas yet to show any systematic
team work that will be available to win
the pennant''
McGraw's New Workers. are said to have
developed spirit of scrappiness that win
land a number of them on the bench dur
ing the season and cause the team to be-
toihc uHpopGldT OH TIE iout so
long as they win games by such tactics
McGraw will not worry.
Surprised by the defeat by Brown,
Princeton's ball team will settle down for
hard work. The probable personnel OF
the baseball team that will meet Yale is
not yet definitely decided even In the
mind of Captain Stevens. the doubtful po-
sition still being first base and shortstop.
New York Tribune:-Sunday baseball
and Sunday theatrical performances are
prevalent in numerous Western cities. and
Here in New York attempts are now
making to initiate these Western exam
ples-attempts which ought not to sue
ceed
Henry Chadwick of<Brooklyn. the ia
Their of baseball" was an INTERESTED Spec
tator M the washington game, Friday.
and was pleased with the fine exhibition
on both sides. He praised Patterns work,
which, he said, would win most any game