Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-18
OTHER GAMES, SUNDAY.
AT Acknowledgement. 5; Newark,
Baseball Notes.

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Buelow of the Detroits. has batting
percentage of 10 in IS games.
Tom Bannon Is to captain the Scranton
team of the New York State League.
The Boston Americans and New Yorks
have each won five games OF the ~ De-
tween the two teams.
The farming rule is dead letter. The
st. Louis Nationals farmed Catcher Byers
to Baltimore. and other cases are too nu-
merOuS to mention.
Boston Herald: Fred Doe got in game
| the ether day. Getting ready for that
contest with John Smith, probably;
Too bad Ered Doe did not succeed IN i lnnoc
rare stick work these days.
Hayward. formerly of the Bangors OF
the New England League leads off In the
batting b order of the New naTe ,a v tea' ie
catching for the team. and one OF the
Bannons is playing shortstop.
The batting averages of the Boston Ma
| tionals are as follows: Cooley. ~; Ten
ney 2s6 ne.lhehanty. 81; Fatty; 20 20
Fisher. 81; Cannell. Us; Raymer, -;
Carney. Isl; Willis. IFS; Pittinger. .l2';
Wilhelm, .O61.
Treasurer j. B. Billings of the Boston
| Nationals. is enjoying rest at the Isles
of Shoals. and says all the talk that he Is
down and out of the Boston club is sheer
rubhinsh ;, am still treasurer uer of the ne
f'oStOn cluD, ne writes 10 t1le f1eTdll L
have simply shifted some of my work, and
| that is all there is to it,
1t appears that everybody who was ask
ed to take Dougherty baked and wouldn I
have him as gift. until ii came to Clark
Griffith. who could mot get him too quick
| ly, and was so happy when he landed him
! hat visions of the pennant danced before
ms eyes: D1ueherty is stlll on me New Nv
Will be there another season.
If turns ont that Otto DpininCpr former
| ly with the Ilaverhills of the New Eng
| land League. and once with the Boston
Americans. has jumped the Toledo club.
Jumping is generally rather serious Of
fence. but if half that Herman Long says
about the Toledo club is true it is Il won
der that otto didn't jump long tune ago.
The independent club has this blessing
that it is ii haven for the player who is
forced to remain among unpleasant sur
lrOundngS.
NO man enjoys reading baseball news
any more than | myself do: and no man
appreciates witty stuff better than my
self" says Washington writer. hut
when baseball games are reported in I'M
intelligible English. and. needless to say.
| test. And this tendency that some of the
newcomers in the ranks of baseball writ
ers nave which causes them-Judsns
ball and its opponents in the same light
that they would a pugiistic contest pulled
| off in stable between a couple of Hitter
ate tenth-rate pugs.' should be cHod
down at once by every experienced and
| self-respecting baseball writer in Ameri-
ca
Sam Lever. the veteran pitcher says:
New York will win the pennant. | can
| not see it any other way. Look at the
| record they have made and the hold they
at present have on first place. 1t doesn t
| look as if they could be routed from their
stronghold. | am sure that no Western
| team can win the pennant from Them I'M
and do their share toward pulling the
Giants down. and the West need not OK
pect much aid from the East. They talk
ly over, Suppost that is so. although they
still have quite "A few contests with the
East and have a number of games at
their IF the III SRend wn
tie it. 1t looks like the Giants for Win
nerS to me"
The veteran Ted Sullivan says: Speak
ing of natural leaders on the ball field,
! mean genuine ball men and not men
that are manufactured by newSpa perS OF
enthusi astic fans, but baseball men in all
that the sense implies. man to know
first whether the player has hiah-cla Sc
speed in him or not. and secondly to be
able to get it out of him by methods pc
culiar to the leaders personality or indi-
viduality i'm full measure John McGraW
of New York. is this kind of man. The
next living man to him in style of man
aging with keen intuition of knowing a
prayer weakness ana GOOD pOlntS-a
thorough general with magnetism OF
healing a wound when he makes one, with
a temperament similar to McCiraw. This
man is Joe Cantillon, manager of the Mil
Waukee club
Shreveport Times: Getting back to
umpires," said Mike Finn. let me con-
tribute new one on Red Ashenback.
managing Charleston in the South Allan
tic There was some umpire down there
handing it to Reds gang good and plenty
one day. The team was away from home
ard Red had to sit on the bench and take
his medicine. Finally in the last inning.
with a man on third and two out. the
other team hit a ball down to McKernan
at second. Mac slammed the ball to the
catcher in time to get the runner by eight
feet, but the umpire said safe. 1t was
pretty raw. and Red. sitting on the bench
went up in the air. When the umpire
yelled safe, Red reached down and picked
up the Satchel in which was carried the
balls Giving it a swing. he landed it on
the umpire's back. Here yelled Red
YOU have taken everything else. Here's
my franchise "