Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-30

| The St Joseph club has signed Third
| 5asCInan MoulH ntaUN OF INC Ihlcaeo Icy
| L"agUr.
! Tie Brooklyn club has purchased In.
| fielder Hummell ana Pitcher Hartley Of
| the HOlyoke club.
The St. Paul club has purchased Pitcher
Fred Steele from the Osk3loosa cup ol
the Iowa League.
The Los Angeles club has released
| Pitcher Eu%ene Wright to reduce TO the
| li-men team limit.
Not one Of the Boston National pitchers
! has made q home run or Il thlee-DGGseF
| so far tins season.
Mathewson has pitched eight games
against Pittsturg, this season, and has
won four OF them
The Detroit club has bought Pitcher
| Tyrus Cobb from the Augusta club OF the
| South Atlantic League.
| Charles Clancy, a former Holy-okc
| pitcher, has been signed by Rutland, Vt,
! TO play the rest Of the season.
The Minneapolis club has secured Pitch
ers Weisenberg and Brittson from the
| Springfield club Of the !. L. ]. League
| The Cincinnati club has secured an op-
| tOn on Ouitielder Charley Hemphill of
| milwaukee,. the former ST. Louis player.
Sandow Mertes now leads the New York
| Giants in stolen bases with 81. Dahlen
| and Devln are tied for second with 81.
has signed two new umpires named KieIcr
and Gregg, succeeding OConnor and La
| Vellc.
The INDIANAPOLIS club has purchased
! Catcher Shannon and Pitcher Summers
OF the Springfield club Of the Central
| League
George McQuillan. 4 pitcher known as
Mack" has been sold by the Paterson.
hudson River League, club 70 Jersey City
for 500.
The New York American club has pnr-
chased Pitcher Robert I<ecfc from Taco
ma, and Outticder Frank Delahanty from
birmingham.
Dygert. the former Poughkeepslo tvirl-
CT, Will join Inc Philadelphia Athletics,
| his release having been purchased from
| New Orleane.
Brooklyn has secured Ilummol Of IToI-
yoke, VINO Ins hit ton .329 ia 81 games. ami
! HartIy of the same club, whose batting
average III ~ games Is 81.
Pitcher FalIIcnbcrg nnd Outficlder
| James Murray have eft the Harrisburg
outlaw club the former joining Washing
| ton and the last named to Buffalo.
Vice President Myrick OF Dcs Moines,
has wagered 4 s. hat that the Aliwa ul,eo
team. managed by the Cortilions, Will win
The rennant in The American Association.
George MorIariy. the Toledo third base
man. vino VIII join the Hlehlanu"rs soon.
bases. with thi. t%-f"lm 20 tbs credit 80
Iar.
Charlie Dexter. formerly manage ii
| louisville and st. Joseph, has signed q
ity man Znram. the catcher OF the 81.
Joseph team, succeeds Dexter as man
aGer.
The Chicago White sox has seven first
class PITCHERS on the payroll In Altrock,
and Callahan. Double-headers should
help out in the rice with this bunch of
box men.
Ifnrlv Mcccrmici, who PLAYED the ont
League. Mike O'NeiI. a former member
Of the st. Louis Cardinals IS pitching fo-
Manager Armour Of the Detroit -trneri-
can League club, announced. Monday,
mat he has signed Davy Jones. an out
fielder: Scver, pitcher, and Schmidt.
catcher. all Of the Minneapolis American
Association team.
Cest"r county youth signed by the New
| York Americans, struck out q men in
an M-inning at Whit!nsvillr; SATURDAY,. He
gave hut on" base ON balls. His team,
Whitinsville, ted. | to |. With the Wor-
Ccstcr Gyms.
It Is said that Pitcher Falkenberg is so
tail that Long Tom Hughes looks like
Il sprout lined up beside him. Washing
ton hns the greatest number of tall play
"r9 in any league. FalkenbeTg, Hughes,
S;ahl. Hutlsmln, Anderson and Jones
are each above six feet.
The Cleveland American club has sign,
Pitchers RAYMOND ard Rrnum Of the
Atlanta southern League team. The CLUB
has mad arrangements TO- train. next
sprlng IN atlanta; Ga Ga ;er This i clear
Sporting Lii: At Frostburg. Nd,
Aug. l.. the frostbwG and Homecoming
teams Of III" Georges Creek League.
played one Of the most remarkable games
| - rprOrI-.r @
| 10 in favor Of Frosthurg. F'rostllrG
made its one run In the last hall Of thr
I'd inning, with two men out.
Robert s. Ganley. left fielder for tho
Drs Moincs club, will become an outlicld-
er for the Pittsburg National League
club. Herman Long. manager Of The Des
Moines club. speaks in the highest terms
of Ganley. Before going West at the
| opening of this season Ganley had an Of
FER to play In the New England League,
but declined. He played in Oakland. Cal,
last year
The New York Americans have already
bought II nov mon at a cost believed -
| he S20Od0. They are: Keefe. pitcher, Of
Tacoma; Hahn, outiielder. of New Or
lolns; D"lehanty, Birmingham, Ala. out
fielder; Thomas. catcher. from Provi-
dence: Messenger. pitcher, from Buffalo;
Laport, second baseman, from Buffalo;
McCaliister; catcher. from Buffalo; Mort
. arty, Toledo, third baseman; Mccarthy
and Leroy. Montreal, pitchers. and Gar
lie Of the Wisconsin League.
a Cleveland paper quotes Jimmy Collins
rs follows: Accidents? What of that?
That's baseball. And it is not baseball
| luck. either. team can escape from
| such luck. We have done il for three
years. W" have done it BY taking proper
| care Of ourselves on and off The field
Our pitchers are az careful Of their arms
| as Russell Sage would be with . s. gold
| piece, while q skilful player can avoid
being spiked and vet pull off the play
| properly unless an opposing player
| spikes him purpOSely, and there are none
| IN the American League that | know OF
| that would turn such contemplate
trick"
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