Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-03
Baseball Notes.

Wrigley is playing sensational ball tor
Columbus. this year.
Joe Bean is putting up a great game at
short field for Jersey City.
The Boston Herald calls it too much
Patten and too little battin'."
For a big man Stahl is quite a base
purlOiner. He leads the team.
Columbus is welding the whitewash
brush very effectively, this spring.
The Boston Nationals seem to have
picked up a good yOungster in Young.
Dick Cooley has joined Detroit. and
made a sensational catch for an opening.
yesterday.
do are not able to keep the Mudhens out
of the rut.
Larry Lajoie's Napoleons have been
shut out four times. Runs certainly do
come hard.
Huelsman is the only outfielder charged
with an error. but his record is not bad
for u games.
Bill Dineen is a very fine pitcher, but
he looked no better than the others to
the Nationals.
Luther Taylor. the clever mute pitcher.
will probably be in the box for the Giants
this afternoon.
Jack Townsend says he mas mastered
the spit ball. He seems to be just the
kind the batters like.
A rumor floating around in the West
has it that Patsy Donovan will play with
the Los Angeles club.
Some of these youngsters who start so
well do not seem to last long. McAlcer
has bcnched Van Zant.
Stone is clouting the ball in the Ameri-
can League quite as hard as he did in the
American Association. last year.
1t looks rs if We shall not see Danny
Shay on the National circuit after all
Charley Nichols has given up hope.
Clark Griffith used three pitchers and
two catchers against the Athletics, yes
terday, but his team could not win.
Rabbit Robinson is putting IN a fine
game for Milwaukee at short. He is Il
good minor Lacquer. but that lets him out
Dick Cooley, the actOr-ball player, now
with Detroit, has not found his batting
eye yet. He still has that footlight stare
Tip" O'Neill. last year with Washing
ton. got four hits in Il game at Toledo on
Thursday, one of which was a three
Dagger.
Danny Shay. the shortstop, has come
to terms with President Robson of the
st. Louis Cardinals, and will join the
team at once.
Washington has won six out of seven
! games from Boston, which is about as
fine q record as any team will make off
the champions.
Gene De Montreville threw his glove ut
an umpire in Toledo the other day. The
| ump. made Gene walk after it and told
=. him to keep a-walking.
1t takes more than nine men on a base
ball team these days. Griffith used the
unlucky IL, Saturday. No wonder the
! HighlanderS couldn't win.
! If the Nationals win a game or two
from the Athletics the Boston ball yard
will hardly be large enough to- accommo-
date the crowd next Friday.
! Harry Bay is not hitting often for
Cleveland. but the Splinter is choking off
hits in center field. which counts Just as
| much as getting them at the plate.
Manager Stahl fully appreciates that
kittredSe is 4 grand catcher. for he works
! him in every game, although Heydon is
| in shape and is also splendid backstOp.
| Boston Herald: The Washington inficltl
American League infelds. They have
| twice as much ginger in them the
! EostOns-
Manager l.. J. Doyle of the Crescent
Athletic Clubs lacrosse team had a rib
broken by Il blow from lacrosse stick
! in q game with the New York Lacrosse
Club, Saturday.
| Jack Slattery will coach the nine formed
by the members of George NJ. Conan $
| Little Johnny Jones' company. He will
| Join the company, have Il minor part and
do the catching.
! StahTs men will probably have hard
row to hoe in Philadelphia. The Athlet-
/ les are going strong. and the Washing
ton team usually plays its worst games
| in the Quaker city.
! Tate Cromley lost the first game he
! pitched for indianapolis, but only seven
hits were made off MIN. while Indianapo-
| lis could get only four off the Kansas
City twirier, Isbell
New York is now weak in the pitching
! staff. Chesbro and Putnam have sore
shrowing wings, and Orth has not fully
| recovered from the blow Jones gave him
| on the bare hand, which split it.
| North American: Nobody will begrudge
! Washington and Detroit the fun they are
! having now. They deserve some compen-
sation fer having to spend the last five
months at the bottom of the heap.
Dave Pickett. who formerly played left
field on Augustus New England League
! team. is now playing the same position
on the DAYTON. Ohio, team of the Central
| League. and putting up good ball both
at the bat and in the field.
Brooklyn Eagle: Jimmy Ryan, who
years ago ranked as one of the baseball
| idols. has discovered that you can't get
much on faded laurels." That's one way
i of acknowledging an Oslerized condition.
Ryan is not bitter; simply resigned
| Billy Keller says that the secret of sue
| ceSSful batting is to meet the ball on
| the nose. which means hit it dead cen
! in COMPARISON with planting the bat
i against the ball accurately. according to
Keller. and he ought to know.
| Kittredge is catching the best game in
! the league. The strategy board showed
wisdom in retaining Kit in preference to
! Bill Clarke. The dapper little, backstop
has made more hits than any other mem
Der of the team-12 in all-Jones coming
next with II.
Washington fans can now appreciate
the value of spring training for the play
ers. They had the best camp in either
| league. and every one is going along in
his hest stride Trainer Quirk deserves a
| lot of credit. too. for keeping the boys in
excellent condition.
| John a. Heydler, secretary of the Ma
| tional League. says he witnessed Il game
| in New York in which the Nationals par
| ticipatcd. and he was very much i'm
| pressed with Manager Stahls first base
playing. The managerial duties appar-
| emily do not affect his playing in the
least.
Walter Burnham's Newark team.
| which was near the foot of the list when
| he took it several seasons ago is playing
gilt-edged ball this season. and is n close
second to Buffalo in the Eastern League
race. One of the star players of the
Newark team. this season, is Joe Conner.
who is putting up a great game at first
| base.