Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-13
Baseball Notes.

Pitcher Seaman, who gives promise OF
developing into a National League star,
has fiery red hair, an incandeScent
complexion and a smile that won't
wear off. During the off period this
young man devotes his time to the
study of medicine.
A wild and woody tale comes from
Colorado Springs in the shape of an
account of an alleged runaway ride
| participated in five of Frank Selee's
| men and due to a drunken guide. The
| men are all right, the guide still lives
| and the strength of the advertising
| dodge is questionable.
Those pitchers who have been de-
pending for success solely upon their
ability to confuse batsmen by 4 cross
fire delivery will have to change their
style or take to the high grass, now
| that President Pulliam has issued an
| edict that pitchers must keep both feet
| in front of the rubber.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Word comes
from the training camp that Bobby
| Lowe, having demonstrated that he has
fully recovered from the injury he
sustained while playing with Chicago
last season, has received an offer from
| luSS, WIZ Wallis tlle CleNeT NeleI.tH
| for utility roles, also that Detroit has
put in a bid for his services. Pitts
| burgers fondly hope that Lowe may tie
up with the Pirates. If Drey-
| fuss signs Lowe it's a good bet that
| life-size portrait of the little Napoleon
of baseball will grace the front of the
Postotiice in New Castle. In that busy
place the native son" idea has a
| strong grasp, and no more popular N.
S. than Robert Lincoln Lowe ever went
out in the wide world to seek fame and
glory. A few years ago when he helped
Boston land the pennant there was talk
| of changing the name of the principal
street in New Castle to Lowe avenue.
/ McGraw says of the new pitching
rules: Until l get directions straight
| from Mr. Pulliam as to what he means
and what the new idea really amounts
| to, | don't want to say anything about
| the matter" said McGraw. IF it puts
an end to crOssfire pitching, as l UNDER
stand to be the case, it will put some
pitchers out of business. That's all
| they have. If they can't work their
| crossfire anybody can bat them. What
/ is crossfre? Standing to one side of
| the pitchers plate and throwing the
ball at an angle that carries it over
some portion of the home plate, but in
such n manner that it is very difficult
| to hit it with the full of the bat. That's
| about what it amounts to in the end.
| l don't want to state who the pitchers
are who are likely to be affected. but
some of the Western clubs will feel the
new notion before some Of the
| Eastern"
| Tate Crumley, the crack twirler of
the Georgetown University baseball
team, who shut out Princeton and Yale
| last week. and who is considered as one
| of the best, If not the best, pitcher on
| the Intercollegiate circuit, has been
| suspended by the athletic committee on
| the charge of having played profess
sional ball prior to his work on the
| Georgetown team. The charges
| against Crumley were made to the
| Georgetown athletic committee by
President Rauchary of the indianapolis
team of the Western League. who as
serted that Crumley played with his
team under the name of Crowley last
year and pitched the final games in the
| championship series. Crumley was n
protege of the late Senator Hanna. He
was formerly a student at Kenyon
Military Institute of Ohio, and the late
Senator Hanna was among the audi
ence when Crumley delivered the
valedictory for his class. He was i'm
pressed by the young mans bearing,
and after learning that Crumley's
people We're poor he offered to pay his
: tuition through any college he might
select. Crumley chose Georgetown, and
whatever the result of the investiga-
tions of the athletic committee he will
remain there until he graduates, as his
tuition is paid for the entire period.