Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-20
Baseball Notes.

Hamilton leads the Tri-State League ir
| run getting.
Havcrhill is booked for a double header
at Fall River on Saturday.
The Colorado Springs club Of the West
crn League. has been transferred tc
Pueblo. Col.
Herman Long is making winner 81
the Des Moines club. Ills friends vii
rejoice to hear it.
kecler was the only one of the New
York Americans to hit for over 200, and
Chase is second with go.
Kansas City is now the tail-cndcr OF
the American Association. Arthur Irwin
has good reason to feel blue.
The work of Jones in center field is
nothing short of miraculous these days
says the Chicago Intcr-Ocean.
Up to Tuesday. Cleveland won nine
games out of - since Larry went out of
the game. An excellent showing.
Robert SPOTS Graham of Tazewdcll
Va. has been chosen captain of the ball
club Of the University of Virginia for
next season. He is a second baseman
The Franklin IN. Id baseball team in
cludes men from Dartmouth. Tufts,
Brown, \. II. State College. HoldcrncsS.
school.
RUDE WaddelIs father has been ap-
pointed mascot fer the Philadelphia
Americans. The eccentric twirlcr de
manded that Manager Mack confer that
Boston has landed seven out of II from
the St. Louis Browns. Chicago nine out
of |. from Washington. tho Athletics hut
five out of nine from Detroit. cleveland
seven out of eight from New York.
Pittshurg has turned the % mark in
victories and the Phllies and Chicagos
are near it. There's about as good a rae.
between tho first four teams OF the Ma
tionals rs there is in the American.
TIL" Bridgeport Post wants the Boston
Rascman Bill Yale. Charlie SNYDER of
Washington did so and he declared that
Yale was not Il major league possibility.
Catcher Jack Mclean. Cambridge
boy, who was traded nv st. Louis to the
Portland club for Pitcher Thielman. has
made a hit with Pacific coast patrons
When he is not catching he plays first
base
Manager Pierce of the Auburn baseball
team, has arranged games as follows
July o. Squirrel Island at Squirrel Is
land; July -. Westbrook ut Auburn; Aug.
;. Lisbon at Auburn, Aug. l.. Lisbon at
Lisbon.
A worlds record has been established
Every man on the team mutined and
was released. After the wholesale head
chopping four of the penitents were re
engaged.
Outfiolder Murray. formerly of the Man
chester club and this year with Toronto.
has accepted Hamilton OverturcS to Join
the 1attcr's club in Harrisburg. Murray
is TO receive 800 per month this season
and next
Jack Doyle. the veteran Holycke resi-
dent who got back into fast company
last week for one game with New York
Americans. has returned to Toledo. He
has Il lawsuit on there against the base
ball club.
The Lowell Citizen saws of the New
England League umpire John ]. O'Brien:
John o Brien is one of the best UNI
pires the league has produced. Bill Sulli-
van and Jim Hassett were never any bet
ter than O'Brien."
McGraw. the Norwich outfielder in the
Connecticut League. is a former Exeter
Academy player. Just because he has
minded his own business thus far, it has
been suggested that he is not related 10
Muggsy McGrlw of New York.
John Hatfeld's throw of 135 yards.
foot II. inches. made at the Union
grounds. Brooklyn. in a throwing tourna-
ment, oct. l.. 1877. has never been Off
cially equalled. The ball was thrown
across the wind and the distance prop
erlv measured with steel tape.
Pres Burns of the Taunton Baseball
Association, has, it is said, been asked