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

The Northern League has adopted $50
ii week salary for umplres.
The Champions won T. and lost nlne
games i'll their last home series.
Cy Seymour is the slugser OF the Ma
tional League up to date with ii total OF
-.
Duffy's Cuakers have made less errors.
this season, than any OF the major league
teamS-J4
Wagner is after the batting honors OF
the National League, this season, and
now leads with .as6.
DocSsrher, a former crack Fordham
college twirltr. has been secured by the
Rutland, Vt, team.
Duke Farrell WAS the only player lett
at home on tins trip. The duke Is not yet
down To his best form.
Lewis of Brooklyn is a second Wagner
and one of the finest players that has
come to the league in years.
Tom nowd Of Iioly"ke and Pitcher
Wigrs jumped the Altoona. Pa, Tn State
League team for Burlington, Vt.
There are II men in the National League
in the 30G class, showing that the SPIT
ball is not being worked to any extent.
Six clubs in the Connecticut League are
close up in tn" race. with tiolyok'
SpTngfif Id and Bridgeport the. dangerous
propositions.
The New York American team is the
only team which has not beaten every on"
al It's rivals ttltlS lar. IL mas Vet To
from Cleveland
There are only Is American League
play "rS who have played every game.
this season. Rurk'u is Boston : repre-
Stntativ" in the number.
Two amateur mines played n thinning
gam" in baltimore July Fourth. The
Splrrow's Point a. A. beat the Stcelton
A. 4. by a score of I to A.
lIillchrand, the famous Princeton twirl-
or IF recent wears, now with pEattsburS,
la..l.l AI.,g. liz.
Wednesday. but lost : to q.
The Boston Americans ar. on 4 three
weeks trip, which will include PhllIdci-
phia. Chicago. ST Louis. cleveland and
the Detroit games at Columbus.
capt. T,nn-ys boys nr- last in batting.
last in fielding. ana clos. 4" Last in the
race and vet tn" team has put mp some
grand good baseball, this season.
Tennry's Boston Nationals ar" home
again, to-day. They just kept ont Of last
nlac" hy jumping On the ErooklNns.
"Wednesday. Their quality OF baseball
however. is b"tt"r than their record OF
games won.
An intimate friend Of Rlrncv DreyfusS
is rcsp"nsihl" for tn" statement that Fred
CLARKE is to retir" from baseball ut the
end of this season, and that Ned Iianlon
will mtnag" til" Flrat'.@. mkt year. FIX
chang" Why not St."nr" 2 good man from
the Smoky City-iiush lmmN, Tor m
stan ceH-BOStun Gl"bt
been characteristic Of ty Young that he
never kicks at any raw decision H. may
get from the unllr" on balls ana strikes.
Il always feel that things even them
selves up, tN has often told me-. ''lh"
strikes | get that ought to have been balls
square the balls that should have been
strikes.
William u. Reidy of Melrosc, one of the
leading members of the MelrOse Athletic
Club. has closed Il contract with officials
OF the Northern Stat League Of Yer
mont to umpire games during the remain
der of the season, which closes with la
Dor lay. In Boston and the suburbs.
ReIdy has been an enthusiastic ball player
and has h3ic an enviablc reputation rs 4
player and umpire in many Of the semi
professional leagues.
Boston Journal: Cy Young pitched the
last six innings Of that great game
Wednesday, with an arm that would have
sent many pitchers to the bench Muir
phys hot groundcr in the 18th innin&;
bruised the forearm of 'CyS" pitching
arm SO badly that it puffed up in short
order; The ball carromed to Ferris. who
completed the play to first And yet the
Athletics made only two hits in the re-
| manning six innings.
Boston Globe: Charley Snyder was at
he American game, Wednesday. The Ia :
| nous old Boston catcher is employed by
til" Washington club in looking over tn"
young talent around the minor leagues
lie has sZ' Il mp the YOUNGSTERS i'll the
Connecticut League and viii now look
League. Snyder was the best catcher Of
his time and should max" :, tine Judge
OF the coming bail players.
Bob Dunbar in BOSTON Journal: While
on this subject | want those persons who
are 50 quick to roast an umpire vino is
often mark for some ban player who
| Is anxious to cover mp his own bad ban
play ing, to ponder over what Cy Young
| told me. yesterday. ! asked the veteran
about the umI ring IN Wednesdays 2D-ln-
ming game. "McCarthy,' was the reply
all
and | don't believe he lost more than two
strikes in that time" Two strikes missed
| in 70 innings of an exciting gam" of base
bah by an umpire. who. before the game
hours, splitting hairs for contcnding ball
players and excited fans, Think II over
boys, and be less ready to show thumbs
down to the poor uinplrtS. 10y further
told me that he was convinced that Sey
bold caught CrigerS liner, about which
there was SO much doubt
Judge Weiss, Thursday. ut Harrisburg,
Pa, dissolved the temporary Injunction
which had been granted by the Dauphin
county court restraining Pitcher WiltSp
and Outtielder Hayden from playing with
the York TriState baseball team The
two players jumped their Baltimore con
tracts and tn" management If the latter
organization sought to prevent them from
playing with the York team. The tempo
rary injunction was secured q week ago
by the Baltimore Eastern League club,
from which the two players jumped, June
2l Judge Weiss SAYS that THE ternlna-
ton of the relationship with the defend
ants, unbecoming and unjuStiiable as il
was, does not begct n situation which
would warrant the continuance. Of the in
junction. 1t would not compel the defend
ants To return To the service of the com
plainant. All il would accomplish is their
restraint from playing with the York Ath-
letic Association. The purpose is by such
restraint to return to the complainant, but
this is not the province of a preliminary
done. 1t may be done on final hearing.
The motions to continue the preliminary
inIunctions are overruled and the injunc-
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