Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-11
Baseball Notes.

Auburn Will play Lisbon at Lisbon, Sat
urday.
Sullivan beat Bucksport, to 9, Wednes-
day, at Bucksport.
The Lewiston Athletics will play Booth
bay HarHor and Squirrel Island, Aug. j.
and 16.
George Lachance helped win a game for
Montreal from Newark, Saturday. by
making three hits. one OF them Il double
and stealing Il base.
Arthur McCabr, the Aicridcn center
fielder, has made his second Jump to
Pennsylvania. lie felt diSsruntlcG because.
Burke and L"nOX Were sold TO Ncw lla-
ven.
Toronto has made an Offer 10 ed Bar
row, manager Of the Indianapolis base
ball team, to go to Toronto as manager
An offer has also been eXtend-d to Carr
of Cleveland.
Gladfelter and Carriss, two Of the best
ball players developed III the University
of Pennsylvania in the past couple Of
seasons. are playing fast ball Tor Wash
ington. PA. Both have had good offers
but they prefer tn" small town to amy Of
the minor leagues.
Noodles" Hahn may retire from base-
ball after his 10 days expire with the
Cincinnati club and practice as !, veterl-
nary surgeon. Hahn was drawing %4'O0
from tn" Reds the figure the American
League Offered him during the war and
which Pres Herman maintained.
Dolan. the former Manhattan College
pitcher, who was heralded as Il wonder
early in the spring, has been released by
the Rutland Northern League team. and
he is now out of a job. as the Coates
Vile Tri-State club to which he went has
decided to give uD the ghost
Last year Umpire O'Day was hit on
the side of the head with a foul tip and
the injury developed ali absceSq Just back
of the ear and O'Day was laid up in the
hospital in New York for weeks. The
"a.
from foul tips and often the elaborate
harness which he wears for protection
does not shield him.
An amusing incident happened in 81 at
Toledo. O., when Il foul tip struck Catch
er Tug" Arundel on the top OF his head
and bounding off was caught on the fly
by Third Baseman "Foghorn" Miller.
Hank ODay was the pitcher. and Arun-
del. who caught . consecutive games
without gloves, mask or chest protector.
was not injured.
Kuhr NickerS has returned. penitent.
ana wants to hand over some real money
to purchase his release from Hoyoke.
He realizes that it will be cold up in
Vermont before another season opens and
he would like a chance to earn an honest
living down in a warmer cline. He has
posted forfeit of $50 for his release and
the balance Of the 500 was to have. been
paid, Thursday.
Friends Of Billy Lush say that he won't
bc bothered amy if the national baseball
commission blacklists him after 10 days
for playing with the independent Plttts-
burg team. AS his newly-signcd three
years contract with Yale calls for him
to direct the fall practice OF the univer-
sity baseball candidates annually, begin
ming about Sept. 20. it is difficult to
how he could return to Cleveland to fin
ish the season. There seems little doubt
that LushS big league days are over.
At Plattsburg he will be in close touch
with Capt. Frank O'Bren of the Yale
team who lives in that town.
Jiggs Donahue says Ban Johnson can
not SUSPEND him indefinitely. and yet
Jiggs' position is about like that of the
man behind the bars who said that he
coulI not be imprisoned. Jiggs is still
ION the ground.