Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-30

| Grounds was over, he gathered the men
| about him and said: Two things for you
TO remember today, tomorrow and every
day this season. Speed is one; condition
is the other. Continue with the speed and
| Keep up the condition.
Eugene Curtis, the heavy-hitting out
ileldtr VINO was tried out by Pittsburg.
last IAN, has jumped Wheeling to accept
an ofler from an independent team in VIII
| mlngton.. Del 1t is said he has been
blacklisted. and it will cost him $500 to 50
nack IN minor league company. The
wheeling management was given Sc
we're Jolt by Curtis's unexpected deser-
| tlon- he was local idol, and was han
died with gloves.
Tim Hurst. or Sir Timothy" as the
| abJect ball tossers refer to the scrap
pE niue man, will not be an umpire in
| the National league this year. ''Sir limo
| ahy d y. not ask for an appointment
| "hlcn is construed to mean he has a bet
ter thing: Hurst is the original peace
prcserver of the diamond, and in many
citles people go to a game to watch him
Keep the refractory players in line. All
| othef ears are rank limitations of Sir
Timothy"
New YORK World:-It was reported that
Jack Doyle. of the Brooklyn Club, and
| Billy Lauder. under reserve by the New
1ork cub, have been released to the
| Philadelphia National League team
Since Dillon arrived from California and
took charge of first base on the Brooklyn
nine; Doyle has been warming the bench
LAUDER was rendered contract by Mana
ger McGraw last fall, but he refused t.
| sign at the terms offered. 1t is said
neither Lauder nor Doyle will object 10
going to Philadelphia.
Brockton Entcrprise:-If the New Yorl;
courts decide that baseball can be played
When "a spectator buys Il score card for
p cents, but cannot be played before
spectators. who have paid . cents for a
| ticket at the gate, another example will
| pc furnished of the remarkable and
case get the money The public pays
the usual price for accommodate and
the players labor on the Lords day-and
What can you call it all but a rafting
farce when an attempt is made to get
over all this by selling score cards instead
| of paSteboard tickets.
A special from Pittsburg says that the
Ilttsburg baseball club shook the bones,
MONDAY. and threw out of its graveyard
| some of its dead ones Barney DreyfusS.
shortly after the return of the premiers
from the south communcd with himself
and. Weakening from his trance, said two
must go He slept on it. thought it and
ate on it. and then wired Capt. Clark:
'Pfeister out. Internationally" Both
have failed to make good. and Col. Drey-
fuss has left the Kindergarten school.
Moren is on the ragged edge and will like
ly be farmed out TO some minor league.
All the signs point that way. Dreyfuss.
when asked why he was Strengthening his
anna tours, said: I'm after the pennant
again. If | cannot win it with the men
I've got I'll get others, but L want that
bunting"
There was a little excitement around
the New York bench before the opening
game in Philadelphia. Manager Clarke
Griffith punching Photographer r. w.
Pierce, who was trying to get the mana
ger to pose for "A picture. Pierce had
asked Griffith to stand up. and the latter
said:-''Go away: [ haven't time to fool
with you now" Pierce. anxious to get the
picture said:-"I'll do it quick, and
Griffith misunderstanding him and think
ing the photographer had used a vile
term. started to assault the innocent
Pierce. and in minute the latter had Il
bloody nose and a pulled face. Plerc"
tried to get the officers on the grounds to
arrest Griffith. but they refused. Pierce
then hustled to Magistrate PullinSerS
office. Swore ont warrant and, during
the third inning, the constable appeared
on the New York bench. read the war
rant, and during the fifth "Grif and the
constable slipped quietly out of the field
They met Pierce in the office of the club
under the grand stand. and the affair
was patched up without Griffith being
taken into custody.