Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-10
Baseball Notes.

Baseball Notes.
run it OUT is New York watchword
Jake Wei,ner Is pitching great ball for
the Chicago Nationals.
Strang is playing the game Of his life
with the New York Giants.
Connie Mack's Athletics lead in team
batting in the American League. y
The New York Nationals have a team
batting average better than 800.
The great catcher Of his day, Nat Hicks
is in charge of a billiard room at Hobo
ken hotel
Jake Beckley is the top-notcher among
National League batsmen with an aver
age Of .429.
Washington has a team batting average
below 200. There will be drop one OF
these days.
Once more the Pittsburg Nationals won
OUT in that inning yesterday. in the game
with the Phillies.
Cleveland has four men hitting better
than no. They are Jackson. Bemis.
Bradley and Flick.
kid Gleason Of Philadelphia. is one
of the old-timers who is hitting the ball.
His mark is above $50.
Eddie Mcfarland leads the American
League at the bat. with an average OF
.453 for eight games.
Remis in PLAYING a good game as back
stop for the cleveland team. even II ne
has jumped contract
Washington hasn't a man batting any
where near 100 and vet the team is cut
ting much ice just now.
1t is hard to remember when f.ajoie has
had such low batting average. The
unofficial figures are .243.
Washington won from Philadelphia,
Tuesday. and regained second place in the
American League standing.
PraSs will
he unable to play with WilliamSport, this
season. owing to bad leg.
The Pittsburg club has but one kick
against Pitcher RObertaille. He has IA
miliar fcndness for cigarettes.
Jack Knight, the youthful member of
| the Athletics. is still among the first 10
| batsren of the American League.
| Chicago scored every third inning. in
| the game with Cincinnati. Tuesday. 1t
is still a case of Chicago's lucky third.
Sam Crawford. who could not earn his
salt with the bat, last year. is Knitting
them some" He has an average of .3n.
| The Lowell Nashua game at Lowell was
a record breaker for time i-e-nine inn
ings played in an hour and thirty minutes
Five out of seven for the Boston Ameri-
cans with the New Yor!s's is pretty fast
ball playing. Watch Boston climb the
| ladder
| Pitcher Jake Thielman Of St. Louis. is
| brother Of Pitcher Harry 'rhielman.
| formerly of New York and Cincinnati
| now of Jersey City.
welt. the National Board of Health. Dr.
| Welker or somebody else to take steps
| to suppress the "spitball"
| The Minor league teams can play good
! ball as evidenced in the TOronto-Ro
| ter OF eleven innings. Tuesday, the former
| winning by a score of s to 4.
The Boston team secured five hits and
| three passes from POwelfS delivery in
the RostOr-New York game. and Powell
soon retired in favor Of HOgg.
| One of the disgraceful elements in base
| ball is the 'kickers". A row wound up
the Newark Providence game. yesterday.
| and the game was forfeited to the latter
| team.
Jack Chesbro is to become manager OF
| bowling alleys in New York after the
baseball season is over. Frank Farrell,
owner of the Highlanders. is to be the
| silent partner.
The baseball game between Tufts Col
lege and Rochester University. scheduled
| to occur at MedfOrd, May II. has been
| cancelled at the request of the ROches-
| ter management
| The Washington team is slow with the
| stick but when it comes to fielding they
arc delivering the goods. Another error
| less game. yesterday, but stick work is
what counts most.
| The Yale Daily News severely censures
| the Yale baseball team for unsportsman-
like conduct in the game with Pennsyl-
vania. Yale men hurled personal slurs
at the Quakers from the bench.
| Jack O'Connor is keeping himself in con
| ditiOn, in addition to conducting sue
cessful wet goods emporium in the Mound
| City. He expects to come to terms with
the Browns management shortly.
Nine errors in the Pittsburg- Philadel-
phia game Tuesday. ard seven in the Bos-
| tOn-New York American. The minor
league teams may not play such fast
| game. but they do hate. most awfully, to
so disfigure the score sheet.
Treasurer Oscar Chandler of the Rogers
heneft committee. received. Monday. a
check for 800 from President Garry Herr
mann of the Cincinnati club. 1t was the
league clubs. but it Is expected that other
donations will follow.
| The Chicago National Exhibition game
at Lynn. Mass. Tuesday. with Lynn As
ISOLATION. independent. was called off
name, New England League. forbidding
a National agreement team playing in
protected territory.
In the grand stand at Boston. Satur-
day. one of the most interested specta-
! tors was a French gentleman, who is
himself something of follower of ''le
! sport" having rowed at Henley a few
years ago, but this was his first game of
baseball A little coaching put him wise
| to the principles of the game and he went
away enthusiastic. He declares that next
! time he will sit on the bleachers. where
| he can get more enjoyment out of the
game.
The Bowdoin and Colby mines meet at
| Waterville. this afternoon for their first
game of the season. In the past three
seasons they. have played eight games of
baseball, BOwdoin winning six and Colby
two Last year. they split even. Bow
doin winning the first game. to 0, and
Colby the second game. to 2. In 1908.
RoWdoin won two games. to 0 and to ;.
| and Colby won one. 10 to s. In 1902 Bow
doin won the three games. to 8, II to 10
and to 0.
Lave Cross captain and third baseman
of the Philadelphia American League
| team. was more seriously injured by a
ball batted by Frank Huelsman during
| the game at Washington. Monday. than
was at first supposed. Cross broke the
force Of the terrific blow with his feet.
| and the ball bounded up into his face
and crushed the bridge of his nose. frac-
! turing the bone. For 10 minutes he lay
bleeding on the field. and for an hour and
a half it was impossible to entirely stop
| the flow. 1t is thought that a small blood
vessel was ruptured. Cross eyes are bad
| ~ swollen. and it will necessitate his re-
tirement from the game for some time.
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