Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-28
BASEBALL NOTES..

Manager Fred Tenney is after Short
| stop Neal, who is ON the New York
reserve list.
Pitcher Frantz of st. Louis is think
| ing seriously OF dropping baseball to
pursue his studies for the ministry.
Frank Leonard is busy framing up
several schedules, one of which the
New England League VIII work from
| next season.
Cornell expects to have the services
of Hugh Jennings from Jan. 1 to April
| l. Indoor practice will begin Jan. s.
| The outlook for q strong team is eX-
| cellent.
Dave Brain, the new third baseman
of the Boston Nationals, has seen SER
vice in Des Moines. Buffalo, st. Louis,
st. Paul and Pittsburg. He batted for
| .247 last season, played in 1913 games,
went i55 times at bat maze AZ runs. lIo
hits, with total of 40, making u
doubles, II triples and homers, II
sacriiice nits and stealing II bases.
The next meeting Of the national
| na aeba!l commission has been post
poned until Jan. II. at Chicago. in or
| der that the commission can wait until
after the meeting of the minor leaguerS,
which will take place Jan. 8. The prin-
Cipal question that will come before the
meeting Of the minors VIII Ee i'll re-
gard to the drafting rules. and the ma
tiOnal commission will guide its action
| by the conclusions arrived at in the
minors meeting.
The Tristate League of baseball
hoe In civ hC ;,,t., ND
ask an injunction restraining Vic Will
| lis the big Boston pitcher, from playing
with Pittsburg. Last spring Willis. al
ter an effort to get certain salary
| from the Bostons, is declared to have
signed ii contract with the Altoona
club. Boston finally gave him his sal
airy demand and then Willis returned
to Boston. The Tristate League men
think they have a good case.
President Barney Dreyfus of the
Pi;tsburg baseball club announced
Wednesday that the Pirates would
start on their southern transforming
tour March II. This date was fixed at
the suggestion Of Manager Clarke who
is now on his Kansas farm. Three
weeks will be spent in training at Hot
Springs before the team enters on it's
exhibition games. Only about five
transforming dates will be made. as
Barney says he doesn't want his men
to overwork themselves.
1t was announced at Wilmington,
Del, that Capt. Lave Cross OF the Phil
adelphia American League Baseball
Club has bought a home at Millsboro
Del, where he and his wife will spend
every winter, and which they now oc-
cupy. Cross is great devOtee of gun
ming and fishing, and his new home be-
ing On the Indian river, he has ample
opportunity to hunt and fish. This week
he and William Ellison of Camden,
Del, went cunning and bagged 81
ducks. They shot 65, but lost IL of the
number. Cross has a naphtha launch,
and he and Mrs. Cross, who is also a
good shot, being especially efficient at
blue rocks, enjoy life i'll Sussex county.
Practice for the Harvard baseball
squad will begin on Jan. g. a week af-
ter college opens after the Christmas
vacation. This will be several weeks
earlier than the team began work last
year The freshmen will not be called
out until a month later, after they
have gotten through their mid-ycar
examinations but some of the 'O9 men
who made a good showing in the fall
practice last October will be started
with the Varsity squad. About two
weeks after work begins BILLY" Keller
Will take charge of the batting prac-
tice. and by that time there will have
been a cut or two in the squad There
will. however, be no professional
coach for the pitchers this year, as