Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-09
Baseball Notes.

| Baseball NOTES.
Some 5000 people turned out at the OPP
! eninS OF the championship season III view
| Orleans
| Des Moincs will not get Foil after all.
| The catcher. after his release by Cincln-
| natl. is sulking.
! Sioux City has signed an ontteider
| the league afire.
| The Haverhill Gazette picks Nashua.
| Haverhill New Bedford and Lawrence Tor
| the first division.
| Concord has suspended Eustace and
| Stewart for not reporting. They are play
| ing independent ball.
Boston Herald: 1t is question indeed
| IL Bean Woald not have the preference
| over Abbatichio as a pail player.
| Denver fans are not turning ont to the
| games as OF yore. otto FlotU says that
| while the team is playing winning bail IL
J lacks the necessary ginger to attract the
I crowds.
| Lawrence Telegram:-We'n have f"
| brace up soon or We will touch bottom
| before We know it, From experience we
| know 1t Is hard work climbing up, once
We are down.
New Bedford Standard: Klobedanz was
| put out OF the game at Lawrence, Tues
day. for throwing 4 bat at the umpire.
What's the matter with putting the
| Dutchman out OF the business altogether.
McNeely and Coons are the only tried
pitchers on the Colorado Springs stan.
ana the latter Is considered u back num-
Der and unless a couple of good ones; are
picked up the Millionaires ar. doomed to
take a tumble.
Here is what the Denver Post has to
say about Harry Welsh: 'rhen came
that terrible fellow. Harry Welsh. What
| ana ne DC? Oh. mott her. it's 4 81 sln ,lit
RI" landed against the sphere with might
and main and away back of the club
house is where it landed"
"Reddy" Maher, who played with st.
Joseph last year is in an kinds OF trouble
a. nj EnI ant l,.il
club at second base under the name OF
Lyons and was doing good work Lyons
either play there or buy his release.
| Boston Herald: President Pulliam
means business. lie will not stand kel-
leylsm or l.eeverism. ana intends 70
| start. President Pulliain's in
| Structions to the National League UNI
| pireS regarding the baik are grnerLllX re
2arded as too drastic. and are not follow
| ed by the minors.
Kansas city World:-Tebean must De in
! hot water just now with his two clubs in
the seventh and eighth positions. Ills
bunting. but it appears now that the sec
ond division will hold them for u while.
| Something will drop in the near future il
Louisville does not soon strike Il Winnint,
| gait.
! .. \. Bloomington. Ill. dispatch says:
! President Holland of the Three-I league
| has completed his instructions to unprcS
/
! when the members Of til" staff report
| here. A novel feature is an order to fine
| players for the use of profane language
in the hearing of patrons of tn" grand
| stand Each "cuSS' word VIII cost 81
| hereafter.
New Hampshire Patriot:-Don't deny
your boy the privilege of playing baseball.
| There is not a muscle or faculty Of body
or mind but what it calls into action
| There are lessons taught in the game that
are worth needing. TO be good base
| ball player You must be strong of arm,
| fleet of foot. keen Of eye, unrrling in
| judgment. You must he able to decide
quickly and decide finally: YOU az taught
| Let your boy play ball
Injunction proceedings. which papers
| We're served on Robert Davis of Jersey
| City shortly after midnight Saturday
! night. prevented the playing of an East
! ern League championship baseball game
| between Jersey City and Montreal teams,
| Sunday. Davis is one of the directors OF
| the organization which owns Eastern
| League park. in Bayonne. \. j.. where
| the game was to have taken place and
the papers were issued by Chancellor Pit
| ney Of Hudson county. Saturday. on the
| complaint of Rev. Hilton +. Grant of the
local NJ. E. church.
! Philadelphia Prcss:-Some notable feats
Awere performed by the Phillies. Wednes-
| 5 to 4 i'm favor of Brooklyn but that's a
| mere incident nowadays. For two reasons
there was cause for hilarious joy among
I
| Phillies won. Second because it took
ten innings to beat them. With SO much
| TO be thankful for. the Philadelphia fans
| should not mourn too much over the de
| feat. Some people cannot stand too much
| joy all at once. 1t is evident that the
| Phillies are getting ready to pull them
| selves out of the losing; rut and they
| want to gradually prepare the public for
| the fact.
| Collins team is in it's four year. but 4
| goodly bunch of players have been re-
Il
| in fast company are Pitchers kellum with
Cincinnati, Altrock with Comiskey. Mitch
ell will, Duffy and Hughes, with New
| York Nationals and Schrecongost with
| the Philadelphia Americans, Charley
| Hickman with Cleveland. Jake Stahl with
| Washington. Gleason and Outi-lder
| flemphiil with st. Louis Then there is
Tommy Dowd with New Orleans Pitcher
| Apkins with Baltimore, O'Brien and
| Stone with milwaukee,, Charley Jones.
| outflielder. who was with ComiSkcY hunt
| allowed to go elsewhere, and Pitcher
| Nevis. who has retired A good team
| could he made out of this lot.
| Abiding to the Sunday ball question:
| Frank Patterson of Baltimore writes:
IF the Shhbatarians were. in a great
| jority they would not. in my opinion,
| have any right to interfere with the
pleasure Of other people, provided it did
| not interfere with them; but they are
mere minority. who attempt, ana for the
| most part succeed. in forcing the great
| nOn-church going class: the Catholics,
| who favor a continental Sunday: the
| Jews. whose Sabbath is on Saturday: the
| MahometanS any many others, to Oh
| serve Puritan Sunday. In year or
| Two | hope to see Sunday baseball at
, Highland park. Washington park and the
| iolU Grounds. 1t seems almost too much
| to hope that fandom in staid old Halt1-
| more, Boston and Philadelphia would
| ever have the nerve to demand Sunday
| ball but the world moves fast in these
| times and it may come sooner than ex-
| pected. In Baltimore. counting liberal
| Catholics. Jews and the nnn-churchgoing
| class. it is practically certain that The
| nlXocattS of q blue law Sunday are OIL