Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-28

Coombs of Colby College, Maine, will
help out in the pitching department.
Lowell Citizen.
Manager Carney of Nashua. has con-
Guided the purchase of COughlin, out
fielder of the Montreal team. He IS
ordered to report DIT once.
Patsy" Donovan. formerly manager
of the ST. Louis National League base
ball team, has been formally given his
release by the National Baseball Com
mission. 1t is said he will be ma ! /.
manager of the Washington League
team.
Joe Corbett's feat of tanning ten bat
tors esta blishcd the record for strike
outs in the National league Sc far this
season, and it will probably stand for a
right hand twirler. Matthewson's best
performance. and the league record
last season, was twelve trke-outS.
John J. O'Brien. second baseman of
the Newark Eastern league team. has
been secured by Captain Flanagan to
play that position on the Lawrence
team and also act as captain. He is
now coaching the Bates college team.
but will report in Lawrence in season
for the opening game with Manchester
He is a former National league player
Manager Doe of New Bedford, has
sent Grant and Connors to their homes.
Grant is n pitcher who has been nurs-
ing sore arm ever since he arrived
and Manager Doe concluded that h4
could not afford to be maintaining d
hospital Connors was allowed to 90
he 10, i1l o ha {
some better hitters who can field as
we'll as he did.
Haverhill Gazette: Manager Billy
Hamilton is satisfied with the showing
made by his colts at Manchester, de-
spite the fact that they We're beaten
twice by the Smith aggregation. 4
told the men before they went on to the
field in both games" said Hamilton,
mot to exert themselves, and while the
wind was blowing across the field, we
| took our time and simply played the
game, with no special attempt to de-
feat Manchester"
New Bedford Standard: Billy Ham,
ilton, who will endeavor to land a pen
nant for Haverhill this season, is given
all kinds of latitude in the matter of
expanding money for players. He has
been told to go ahead irrespective of
expense and get together a team that
will defeat all Corners in this league.
Under the circumstances, it is all up
to Hamilton's managing ability; he
has the money, and it is now in order
for him to produce the material.
In Monday afternoons baseball prac-
tice, ut Ithaca. n. V, Giers, the fresh
man catcher, split a finger and will be
out of the game for some time Welsh
suffered the same accident last week,
so there remains but one candidate
Champaign, for the position. Thus
crippled. the nine will have n bad hand
leap to overcome in Cornelrs Princeton
game, Saturday. Otherwise the work
on the diamond today gave great prom
Use. A fast practice game was played
with Stiles school.
The Boston Globe tells the story of
University of Names defeat. by Tufts,
Monday, as follows: Dickinson and
Frost both pitched good game.
Dickinson worked the Maine boys
easily. especially on high balls. He
| would have scored a shutout except for
| two bad errors and a wild pitch which
let in two men. Frost was wild in the
first two innings, but steadied down
and was too much for his opponents
until the 10th inning. when they landed
on him for the two hits which won the
game
Hartford Courant: The Hartford
baseball team won another game, Mon
day. Pitcher Luyster has been award
| ed to Montreal. Bobby McLatchie was
married, and Ray Dean is not to re-
turn owing to chilly tootsies. This
sums up Manager Kennedy's bulletin
OF war news, mingling of the good
and the bad. The management was
prepared for the announcement of Nc
Latchie's marriage. but when word was
received from Secretary Farrell that
Luyster would not be at the disposal of