Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-26

Baseball Notes.
1t is reported that Johnny Lush is soon
to join the ranks of the Reds.
Charley Nichols has pitched but one
championship game this season.
There are now three New York Giants
in the 300 class. Eresnahan. DOnlin and
Strang.
HolyOke, of the Connecticut League.
lost its first l0-innins game of the season,
Thursday.
Catcher Phelps of the Reds. has fallen
heir to $4,000. He will continue in base
ball, however.
.215 in batting. while the American League
can show but 20.
The early squirt OF the Senators is said
to be due to their perfect condition at the
opening of the season.
Billy Lush of the Philadelphia team.
may be signed by Cincinnati. COrdy Do
Ian is slated for release.
The Brooklyn baseball public is howl
ing about the weak ball players Messrs
Ebbitts and Hanlon are furnishing that
city.
Louis Fiene. the extra pitcher on the
Chicago American team. has been sold to
the Toledo club of the American Assoc
citation.
The St. Louis Nationals are capable of
playing good ball at times. Thursday,
they played an errorless game. shutting
out their opponents. to
Wallace and Sugden are the last OF the
original Cardinals now with the Browns
who jumped from the Nationals to the
American league in st. Louis.
Clark Griffith. after pitching one inning
was banished from the game at Detroit
Wednesday. for kicking. Hogg pitched
great ball for the Highlanders.
.Rube'' Waddell was replaced in the
Th,rrS6aV nv Fender "RnhQ'
times plays good ball for the Athletics,
but he proves to be very eccentric.
Quint. pitcher for the University of
Maine in Thursdays game. made a good
record for his first appearance of the sea-
son, allowing but four scattered hits.
New York Americans now are weakest
in the box, where they were supposed to
be strongest before the season opened.
The good twirlers have gone wrong all at
once.
uled to be played on Soldiers field on
Saturday has been cancelled. The Lehigh
men cannot come on account of examina-
tiOns.
President O'Brien of the American Asso-
citation, has suspended Left Fielder Flour
noy of ST. Paul. for three days for as
saulting Umpire Kane in last Fridays
game.
Cincinnati will release Cozy Dolan when
the team returns home. Coy is all that
between the Reds and White SOx two sea-
sons ago.
President Fulliam has read the riot act
to the Cincinnati club. 1t will require
something like a demonstration with the
hI. stick to make that unruly bunch obey
baseball law.
Jimmy Sebring. right fielder of the Gin
cinnati National team. will join the Will
Transport. Pa, team. next week. by which
time he hopes to have secured his release
from the Reds.
1t is thought that by the time Billy
I.ush's contract with Yale expires both
jackson and Vinson of the Cleveland out
field. will blow up. and Larry La joie will
call upon Lush to fill the gap in left field.
The largest crowd in the history OF
baseball in milwaukee saw the game.
Sunday. between the home team and Co.
lumbus. Twelve thousand people were in
the grounds. Columbus won easily by
hitting the ball.
Robert A. Theobold of Sar Francisco.
was elected captain of the Naval Acade-
my baseball nine, Tuesday. at the meet
ing of it's members at Annapolis. Harold
V. McKittrick of Rochester, N. Y, was
elected manager.
1t is evident that Pres. Pulliam has de-
cided to relegate John J. McGraw to the
background. as he has notified his UNI
pires to look to Capt. Daniel McGann
alone for instructions while at the Polo
grounds.
Sebring. right fielder of the Reds. has
jumped 10 WilliamSpOrt of the Tri-State
League. his home town. He refused a
request of President Hermann to remain
with the team until another Outfielder
could be signed.
Tom Mccarthy has caused some dis
pleasure amorg the baseball players at
Holy Cross, where he has been coaching
the team. Mack differed with the cap
tain of the team, as he was most likely
to do with his remarkable inside knowl-
edge of the game.
One thing that worries Trainer Quirk
of the WashingtOns, is the fact that the
pitchers will not take his advice and cease
to use the spit ball" The new delivery,
the trainer says, Is very injurious to the
deltrOde muscle, and soon or later will be
the undOing of every twirler that depends
on that style of pitching to win his
games.
The baseball fever has struck the lower
Delaware towns and movement is on
foot to organize league. Charles L.
Moore of Georgetown. is at the head of
the movement and has called a meeting
to be held in Georgetown within a few
days. The towns interested in the organ
ization of the league are Milford, Laurel
Seaford, Lewes and Georgetown
Many baseball men of experience and
good Judgment believe that President
F'nlliam is making Il mountain out of a
mole hill in the McGraw-Dreytuss con-
| troversy. The National League has no
jurisdiction over players Off the field or
owners. either Their personal Guarrels
never should be dignifed by a hearing
The National League president might best
serve the best interests of his own organ
ration by washing its dirty linen in pri-
vate, not in public.
Coach Glenn Warner has evidently Sc
cured a star in Mount Pleasant, the Car
Isle Indian. for Cornell next year. Mount
Peasants hest specially is at broad
Jumping. "a he recently won the event ~
the University of Pennsylvania carnival
at Philadelphia. He is reported as being
a clever football player also. He Is cred
tied with having run hundred yards in
y