Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-12
Baseball Notes.
n lost 10 straight.


Springfield, ILL.,. took one out of H.
Catcher Bemis hit for 80 in Ii games.
Dufy's Quakers are moving at hot
pace.
Tom Bannon is playing good ball for
Lynn.
wild Bill Donovan of Detroit. has
bad arm.
Cheshro of the New York team. is again
in shape.
Springfield gathered nine out of its first
That was a grand game at Manchester,
Thursday.
Tom McCreery is captain of the Indian
apOlIs club.
Cleveland is saving Red Donahue for
warm weather.
The Washingtons. leading the league,
rank last in batting.
Pres. Soden has decided to release
Pitchers tOlZ and Hershey.
| Chicagos errors proved costly in the
game with Boston, Thursday.
Another Boston victory was spoiled,
yesterday, by lain, at Detroit.
| Jim O'Rourke has consented to the re-
| instatcment of Player Tuckey.
Only two men struck out in the Boston
Chicago game at Boston, Thursday.
The Western clubs will not find 1t SO
easy in the East they did last year.
The winning Nationals seem to have
broken up the "Old Boys golf matches.
| Phil Geier hit for 400 in his first Is
games, and Doc Carney for 125 in Il
| games.
knocking the ball over the fence ut the
| Boston South End grounds seems to be a
| lost art.
The Rochester Eastern League team
| was shut out by the Montreal team.
! Thursday.
Boston Nationals were forced to nay
| Vic Willis $500. this season. 1t went
! against the grain. too.
Wyatt Lee pitched his first game of the
| season. last Thursday. and was batted
| freely in the first inning.
| Young Young is a wonder for a pitcher,
| but he allowed four men to walk in the
! BoStOn-Chicago game. Thursday
The Lynn New England League team
| Is still dropping games with commend
| able frequency. One more, Thursday.
Ed Grillo's Louisville bunch are i'm
| proving. They landed six victories in 10
games. and threaten to leave last place.
The Rogers benefit game was played in
| Boston. yesterday. and the baseball fans
| swelled the funds by generous contribu
| tons.
George Lachance has received an offer
from the Columbus club through Umpire
Rausewine, but al last reports he had not
| accepted.
| Montgomery. the Louisville third base
| man. broke his ankle sliding to second in
that city. Sunday, and will be out of the
game for some time.
Jack Chesbros spit-ball arm has been
| chilled since the drenching it got on the
| opening day with Washington. when it
| poured while the game was being played.
Boston Herald: Doesn't look as if the
| WashingtOn's would finish last. this sea-
| son. Wouldn't il be funny if they landed
| in the first division? Look out for them.
Jack Boyle. the former old Philadelphia
| backstop. played first base for. Toledo,
the other day. after being out of profess
sional ball for a long while. He made
| two hits.
bat like New York West Side iantor
beating a rug. He strikes at the ball
hard enough to break the cover but sell
dom connects.
The Harvard baseball team will play its
next game at Philadelphia. Saturday,
| with the University of Pennsylvania, and
left Cambridge. Thursday. thus getting
Friday for practice.
The New Yorks are certainly dandy
base runners. III they pIlfer bases on
Lou Criger what will they do when they
run up against catchers that have not a
| whip equal TO his?
| Sharpe of the Boston Nationals, proved
| to be the right man in the right place in
| the Boston, Chicago game. Thursday
| His two running catches proved to be
| one of the features of the game.
Stroh. the Boston National catcher is
out of baseball for the year The injury
to his arm. received while playing bas-
ketball will heal in time. but his doctor
hes advised him not to play this year.
Batting has been SO light. tins year.
that there is great howl going up i'm
almost every city. With the foul-strike
rule and the spit ball working in harmo-
NY, it looks as if the pitchers had too
much the best of it.
Playing against Wagner, always had
"A great respect for mis- ability declared
Peitz, but now that | am with him and
can see him i'll every game he plays, that
old time admiration is increased tenfOld.
I think he is the ideal of modern play
ers."
A Washington furniture firm offered a
Morris chair to the first Washington
player who made home run in a cham
pionship game. Tom Hughes claims the
prize on his long swat out of the New
York grounds. He will send it home to
his mother
Umpire Sheridan of the American
League. SAYS that he will leave the dia-
mond for good at the end of this season.
1t will round out a complete - years Tor
him. He is the dean of all the umpireS
now working in baseball. EmslIe Is the
next oldest in point of service
New York Evening Mail Nothing Sc
riOus seems to be the matter with the
Washington baseball team up to date.
Unless something does happen pretty
soon. some of the other clubs in the race
will only be able to catch a glimpse of the
leader by means of a telescope.
The national baseball commission
Thursday. dismissed the claim of the New