Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-12
Baseball Notes.

lnf1elder Shaefer has been appointed
captain of the Milwaukee team.
The American League is building
new seats at the Boston grounds to ac-
commodate $500 more fans
Duffy. of the Phillies, is said to be
after Harry Patee, star shortstop of
the Brown University team
Barney Dreyfuss will spend S.. 900 IN
repairing the Pittsburg grounds before
the opening of the season.
THE coaching rule. if nothing else"
says Connie Mack, will make games
livelier and keep everybody on the
jump"
| Charley SOmers says that Cleveland
Is all right and he knows of no better
city iii baseball, with the exception Of
New York.
barney Dreyfuss announces that no
exhibition games will be played after
the opening of the season until the pen
nant is cinched.
There are only two teams that will
give us race" says Manager Nichols,
OF the Cardinals. These are Pittsburg
and New York"
Herman Long, who will manage the
Toledo team this season, says he will
fool Il lot Of the wise ones that think
his baseball days are about over.
sam Crane says that Muggsy Nc
GraWS system of training has been 4
revelation in birmingham, and will rev.
olutionize the sleepy methods of the
Southern Leagucrs.
Shcckard. Brooklyn's star fielder and
base runner, is doing great work at the
southern training quarters. In Il game
with l'ufialo his batting ana base run
ming was the feature of the game.
The Hildcbrand brothers, the famous
Princeton ball players, who signed con-
tracts to play with the Washington
club, have announced that they will
not fulfill their contracts. They We're
requested by their parents not to play
professional baseball.
Mcintyre, the left fielder, who started
his career with the Augusta Nc, team
under Jack Leighton, and who went to
COMFY Macks Philadelphia aggrcgl-
ton, is playing ball. He always did
that, but big league maGnatcS are
sometimes blind as to their own al
vant:iScs. In this case, Detroit is the
gamer. for she has Mac. In a game at
Detroit, last Friday, with indianapolis,
Mac was at the top of the batting list.
was up five times, made one run three
single hits. three putouts with no assists
and also no errors. That simply shows
the kind of players Augusta has sent
out to he admired by patrons of games
by faster teams
Strict enforcement of the rules in the
National league this coming season will
be insisted on by President Harry Pull
lam, who has already issued instruc-
tions to the umpircS to especially en-
force the bai!< rule. Any bluff motion
Of the arm, leg. shoulder, hip or body on
the Fart of tn" pitchers will he con-
Strucd as u balk and called such, he
told his officials yesterday, and as a
penalty any runners that may be on
h;,ses will he allowed to move up q base
and the bah considered dead until the
penalty in enforced. Section II of the
rules says that if one or more members
Of the team that is at bat congregatc
around base for which a bascrunncr
is heading, thereby confusing the field
ing side and adding to the difficulty of
making such a play, the bascrunnor
shall be declared out for the intcrfcr-
ence on the part of his team mates.
When there is no runner on the bases,
| in case of a balk the umpire will call Il
| ball on the pitcher. even if the ball
| passes over the plate. unless the batter
strikes at it: in that event it is a
strike. The pitcher will have to have
| both feet on the rubber hereafter and
not he allowed one foot to the side of
the plate.
The hundreds of Journal readers who
saw the Fairfield Wat"rvillc game. last
| season, when Il pitcher named Piatt
| started a game for Fairfield. was bat
ted, pounded ami pummclcd in all di
rcctions to the delight of the friends of
| the opposing team. may find something
of interest in reading of his record in
game at Nashville, Tenn, last Wedncs-
day. lie was throwing the ball over
! the plate for Nashville. That team fin
ishcd the game with its original nine
| men. The other aggregation of ball
| tossers is called the Cincinnati Reds
ana this outfit put up two pitchers.
Hahn and Ewing. Nashville won by
! the very modest score of 10 to 0. Nash
Vile made a collection of II hits, while
The Reds-it must be a big league team
of some kind made five off Piatt. who
we saw but who failed to make good at
that -Watcrvile game. 1t
took hour and ~ minutes for Pi1tt to
do the job. IN that time he made n
two-haggcr allowed but five hits, Civ
ing two bases on balls making one wild