Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-04
Baseb all Notes.

Washington has played "a men, this sea-
son.
BROOKLYN hasn't n base runner who has
stolen % bases.
Waddell has pitched 81 innings without
n run scored Off him.
Hugh Duffy has signed to manage Ine
PhlllieS, next season.
Wagner and Burke We're put ont Of the
first game at Pittsburg, Saturday, for
lighting
Jap" Barbeau has been sold by Co
lumbus TO Cleveland. He Is the second
third basemGn Cleveland has picked up
there.
Philadelphia Press: Baseball has many
queer wrinkles, but one of the oldest il
how the same spectators can go wild over
a player one minute and roast him unmer-
cifuIly the next. As for the players. they
doubtless believe its all in the game,
but the memory of the jeers lasts longer
than the recollection of the cheers.
n. Y. Herald: There is some interest
in watching the careers of the youni;
pitchers who have been throwing the spit
bail this summer. Many ball players
think that when next spring arrives tines"
pitcners will find punches of stiff muscles
in their arms, and some go SO far as 20
say that their pitching days Will be Ger
Globe: Comiskey's White Sox are the
wonders III basAballdom. Hitting second
from last in tie American League, and
with no pl; yer in the 300 class. the team,
| has gone along near the top all the year
and now 1t il astonishing everybody by
! up 50 close to the pennant leaders az to
| make the race as uncertain as it was Il
| year ago.
Fulton, in The Empire State League
| has young pitcher WHO will bear watch
| ing. He is Joseph Seitz. u. Georgetown
University man Some have called him Il
ringer" hut thCs" who know say his
name is Scit2 and that h" is n college
man. Seitz en-" daH last week struck ont
| IS Of the Seneca Falls players and later
he famed i Of ;he Oswego team. Scitz
is :: lcft-handcr
Herald: "A month ago I thought that
there WAS nothing to it but Cleveland"
suid Lajoie the other day. but We have
met with so many accidents and ON
pitchers have gone back a little, with the
result that there is one team at least
that stands q better show Of finishing first
than we do That one team is the Ath-
letcs" Larry now looks to Cleveland to
finish second. with New York third and
Chicago fourth.
Globe: Frank Smith. who had not won
4 game for the Chicago White Stockings
since Aug. 10, and who had been battcd
off the slab three times recently came
back In q remarkable reversal OF form
Saturday. and missed tying Cy Young 3
worlds record by four inches. That is
| the estimated distance by which Davis
missed Stahls hot grounder in the second
inning. and Stahl was the only Senator
| who reached first base during nine in
nngS.
Globe: President Puliam Of the Ma
| tional League, will offer n reward for the
| capture Of the three hoodlums who as
slulted Umpire tombstone on his way to
| the Polo grounds. Wednesday. Outsd"
| Of few scratches. tombstone emerged
| from the fray without serious injury. Tho
assault took place within few blocks of
the Polo grounds. tombstone has an
| notmced that he will resign at the end
of tho season. 1t has certainly been q
| lively year for him.
| This week Signalizes the end Of the
| NV England League season. and some
| warm contests ar" expected. Concord Is
booked for four games at HON" and two
| away during the week, and FAN River
| will play four at home and one away
| Holyoke still maintains its advantage in
| the Connecticut League, with Springfield
Haven and Norwich battling for last po-
| sition. In Tn" Eastern League JerSc%
| City still leads the way.
Exchange Manager Fred Clarke SAYS
| that he is cure the board of directors will
approve the verdict of President Pulliam
| in the matter of New Tork'3 protest
"McGraw got his team in a nasty mess
and 10 save himself las 70 fight TO IN"
| finish said Clarke. Tile New York club
after making its protest did not file line
of evidence to support its claim, and it's
failure to do SO was Il confession Of weak
ness. | am glad that the case has been
carried TO the board oil directors. Ter
hapS this body Will impose fine upon the
New York team for leaving the field and
insulting the largest crowd that ever paid
TO see a game in this city.
Herald: Athletic and Cleveland players
were discussing the record of successive
strike-outs the other day. Someone re
membercd that Earl Moore had famed
seven men in a row one day last year,
ana no one could think OF u better per
Torrance. Rcd Donahue was appealed
to for his opinion. Said he: Dutch Car
ter of Yale. probably holds the record. 1t
was made in 1903. the year the New York
team trained at home. One of their prac
tice games was with the boys from Now
Haven, and | saw it. Carter was i'll the
box for Yale. and he struck out the first
IL men that faced him. That feat. | think,
has never been duplicated" DR.. Ell Mich
OILS of Harvard. performed il long before
against Brown. striking out Il in the
game.