Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-23

That most wonderful of intttrS
Ieather-kjlIing la-j1f-wce.
Hes Il marvel. and his glory
Covers him with matchiesS fame
How the. pitchers shrek and Shivcr
At the sound of saves name.
Pope.
short hit frequently wins long
game.
Everybody slides for home" when the
game is ended.
.Jimmi. Jackson stands second among
American League hltttrS
Cincinnati Will carry IS players. this
season. Including six regular pitchers.
The Chicago club has refused to waive
claim to Catcher BlankenshiP of Cincin-
natl.
Carney of st. Paul. leads the aSsoca-
ton in sacrifice hits with nine to his
credit.
Chance and F,vers are back in the game
for Chicago and Selee's men should begin
to climb.
The Brooklyn club has returned Holmes,
the big left-handed pitcher. to the Grand
Rapids club
First Baseman Clancy Of Pittsburg. is
an ice cream soda iiend. He never drinks
anything stronger.
The Toledo club Will secure Catcher
RlankenShip ana Pitcher Ed Mln:til;tn
froEi the Cincinnati club
The Chicago Nationals luck seems to
have changed now that Frank Chance and
ENerS are Dack III lllc game.
A Boston fan wants to wager SD, to 800
that the Collins team will once more WIN
the American League prnnant.
Lajoie says that Jack Powell and Harry
Howell are the hards ST pitchers in the
American League Tor him /" walIop.
Abbaticchio's Playing ut short for tn"
Boston Nationals Is getting rather tire
some. Two more errors i'll Monday
game.
Lynn and Concord teams in the New
England League. both taii-'nderS in the
league standing, played errorless games,
Monday.
WITH Chcsbro. Newton and Elherleld
laid up. the EIighlanders are in a sorry
plight. Powell's work III the box has beer
mediocre.
Willis would make good cook. He
seemed to know how to mix up the bat
ter all right, in Mondays game with the
St. Louis team.
New York defeated the Pittsburg Ma
tioial Leagu" team Monday. iii n fast.
clean game. > to l. before an attendance
of 10000 people.
Roaring Bill Kennedy. who once ca
vortcd ON the National League circuit is
now the mainstay in the box OF the
President O'Brien is after Will Terry.
the old National League man. to go ont
for n few days as arbitrator. He will
insist on having five umpires after this.
Berger Of Columbus. has the best strike
Toledo. has 40 in seven games, and
DouGhcrtv of Milwaukee. y in tive games.
The Boston Americans did not play.
Monday. and the team after days rest
should be able to give good account
of itself in today's game with the Cardi-
nails.
St. Louis played ar errorless game.
Monday. with the BOSTON Nationals and
still they lost: but then. Il team that can
secure but four hits during a game de-
serves to lose
Vas5nGcr. who led the Pacific National
League in batting last year, and who has
been signed to play with Boise, started
three times at bat.
Jack Hedricks. who has been at his
wifcS bedside in Chicago. and Winnie
Cutter. who has just found 4 wife in Sun
Jose. Cal. are both due to join the In
dams at Salt Lake.
Billy MalOnoy of the Cubs. has stolen
seven bases in Il games. He will b" one
Of the fastest men who ever PLAYED in a
Chicago uniform if he can do some bat
ting and keep his job.
Boston Nationals won from the ST.
Louis team. Monday. and both are now
sa at ths RSom p if fhf % be the
teams next stopping place.
Young Graham. the New England
I.eaeno player. will join the Giants. He
is now an NJ; D.. having Just graduated
from the Baltimore Medical School He
will be used as utility Outfelder
Two bat boys are in ma ior league teams.
Altrock of tho Chicago Americans, one"
carried the bats for the Cincinnati Reds.
and I-nglaub of the Boston Americans.
did the same duty for the famous Balti-
more teams.
In the last four games played by Column
hns. Davis. Pickering. HulSwitt. Congal-
ton. kim. Wriglcy and Barbeau, the
first seven men in the batting order. hav"
made A. hits an average OF ST. That is
team batting.
Ned Hanon is said to have signed a
contract to manage the Cincinnati Reds
next year. President Ban johnson said
when he was in Boston that he should
not be surprised if the Reds secured the
Brooklyn manager.
Jake Stahl has infused the proper kind
of ginger into his Nationals He has in
StruCted the infcld to go after every
thing. and Sinking by players calls for n
roasting from the Illinois graduate: More
have been turned into outs
While catching in a game of baseball in
PrOoklyn. James Miles. q vcnth. has been
almost INSTANTLY killed by a pitched ball
A very fast ball. which he failed to stop.
struck him between the eyes. He was
carried home where it was found the
skull had been fractured. Death enSued
in Il few minutes.
1t is no wonder that the New York fans
are enthusiastic over the National League
team in that city. Each and every mem |
and, NOR" than that, they look and act |
like gentlemen both on and off the field. |
That is a good deal more than can be said
of the individual members of one of the |
other teams in the same league.
The sudden death of Edward ". Johr- |
SfOn has put an end to Il ball game at |
Chicago. in which he was n player. John |
ston was at bat Just before his death. |
He hit the ball and ran to first base: He |
was put out. When he reached the base |
he turned to run back to where other |
players were. He had gone but a few feet |
when he fell forward and died almost in
Stantly from heart failure. Johnston was
years old.
Washington Post: 81 was deceived in |
the strength Of the American Association |
ball SAYS Manager Barrow of the In
dianapolis club. They told me it was
about the same strength the Eastern |
League: Well. if it was this strong last
year, 1t Is nearly 20 per cent. stronger
than the Eastern League. Why. 1t is ma
Jor league ball one sees here. 1t is Just
as hard to get runs and to pull off plays
as in the American League. You can
depend upon one thing. and that is we
VIII be strengthened quickly"
cit was almost a miracle Burdock