Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-22
Baseball Notes.

"Rube" Waddell landed five straight.
Fancy Bill Coughlin hitting for $40 in
16 games.
Fred Mitchell of Brooklyn. hit for SIG
in six games.
Spratt is playing a good game at third
for Manchester.
Centerfelder Hart of the Louisvilles,
has jumped to Altoona.
Jake Stahrs Washington team is fast
coming down to the champions.
The Cincinnati Reds are finding the 60
ing about as rOught as the champs.
The Boston club has decided to release
Barclay, and either Harley or VolZ.
The Western clubs had it all their own
way in the American League. Saturday.
The tailenders in the National League
standing. played great game, Saturday,
"A innings with the final score, to 2.
Pitcher Wigs of Altoona. has the rec
ord on strike-outs. this season, having
famed IL of the Lancaster team, last
Friday.
Freeman is evidently fatting his bat
ting average these days. three hits with
2 total of seven bases is not bad, at three
times at the bat.
Lumlcy, an untired batter. won the
game from Brooklyn. Saturday, in the
game with the Reds, with clean single.
with the bases full.
Boston and ST. Louis are evidently in
the same class, although st. Louis has
had q little the better of the hard luck
thus far. this season.
Both the American and National Bos-
ton teams played with St Louis teams
Saturday, one winning and the other los
ing, by the same score.
One of the local fan is willing to go on
record as saying that the Boston Ameri-
cans will lead the Washingtons within
the week. 1t might be so.
Mike Grady has a badly sprained knee.
received in a miXup at the home plate in
the Eoston- Cincinnati game. Friday,
when Needhan blocked him off.
Bradley. Cleveland's third baseman. is
playing rather rocky. with the Cleve-
land team, making two of the teams err
rors. in Saturdays game, with the Ath-
lctes.
Very few fly balls in the Roston-St.
Louis gtme. Sunday. the st. Louis team
being credited with q assists: In this. II
nothing else. they have the seasons
record, il in nothing else.
Herald: Fred Lake is leaving no stone
,mturned to make that team of his in
Lynn rs good as there is in the circuit
worth Dragging about he says.
TIE BROOKLYN Nationals tried three
pitchers in Sundays game with Chicago.
and succeeded in making the poorest
showing they have made this season. Ten
thousand people were spectators of their
downfall.
The towns of Kingston. Raymond. Ep
ping and Fremont. n. H.. have formed
TIE coming season No matter how small
the town. there is current somewhere that
little baseball germ
Wolfe of the Washington team met
rather a waterloo. at Chicago. Saturday,
allowing four men to walk and 10 hits
were made OF his delivery. Not one
strike out to his credit at that. One more
game like that will probably mean a
blue envelope.
Maurice Blair of Richmond, Me, is
playing the game of his life at shortstop
for the SOmerville High school baseball!
team. of which he is the captain. His
team has only lost one game out OF IL
played this season. and that one to the
Harvard I'd team.
Catcher Reisinger of the Nashville
team. the young man who broke his leg
in two places while attempting to field
one of the Boston Americans out when
that club played in that city in the early
spring. is getting along nicely. and will
again be in the harness before the season
is over.
Philadelphia Press: Magee is somewhat
of a disappointment. Great things were
expected of this yOungster. Perhaps the
disappointment is keener because he may
was overrated. On the contrary. we pc
lieye Magee has in him the making of a
great outfielder. In his case: however
the people are from MissOurl-he has got
to show them.
no shortstops like those of olden days
does not seem we'll founded, says ape
wager in the Brooklyn Eagle. "B1li DAN
len. who has always been regarded as
star at shortstop has never played nei.er
His work has been gilt-edged IN every de
partment and the thousands of baseball
enthusiasts interested In the success OF
the New Works realize the fact and give
Dahlen a hand nowadays nearly ever!
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