Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-06
Baseball Notes.

A meeting of the New England League
will be held in Boston within FEW weeks
to settle bets and grudses.
There is some talk of a series OF games
with Providence and Fall River before
the opening of the season OF 1906.
Manager Murray Of Jersey city, speaks
in high terms of Pitcher Clarks"n as a
good pitcher and Willing worker.
No more transfers have been recorded
in the New England League. Franchises
have been frOstbitten and the market VIII
not show signs Of life until the spring.
Bill Foxen, the Hartford pitcher for,
merly with New Bedford. recently had
the N-ray put on his hand. believing he
had a broken bone No fracture showed.
Dennis OHara states that he viii make
n specialty of hand ball to Keep in con
ditiOn during the winter. II Is very
cheering" saws Dinny and it keeps
Pitcher Walter ClaIkson is the only
player thus far who has contracted TO
play with the Create ric NeW GrRs h Iet
year, calls for his service IN announcer CAM
paign.
Exchange: Catcher Malachi llittredge
Is getting ready to spend the winter III
Maine, and Will do a lot OF hunting UNI
til it is time for him to go 10 Raleigh
N. c., TO coach the baseball squad Of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College Of
that city
Sporting Life: In the major leagues
this year, the pitchers who achieved that
acme of pitching skill, the no-hit game,
were Henley. Smith and Dinecn III the
American League; and MatthcWsOn III the
National League. In the minor field eV-
cry league in the national ASSOCIATION
Boosted of on" or more pitchers who per
formed the :eat, last season. For Il fact
this once rare feat is becoming rather
common under the perniciOus fnu-strikc
rule.
If Murch, the new Boston American
first basernan, proves the part there VIII
he hardly need Of fun complement Of
players. He has Il batting average of GOO.
never made an error, can cutrun, outtalk
Outright and out any old thing any young.
or old man in the business. He is a gen
eraI all round man and il is possible that
the Boston team may impress him into
service a. q press correspondent. Bur
there have been such things as exploded
pTrnOInS
Two championships are now credited to
ST. Seymour, the famous outfelder OF
the Cincinnati Reds Pitching and bat
ting, the two greatest accomplishments OF
baseball, have been mastered by him, and
today he has reached position where
| he stands as the greatest all-round bali
player of the world Most players reach
game, but not 50 with Seymour. II was
not enough for him to strike ont @i5 men,
| to be the leading pitcher OF the league iii
1895 when 4 member OF The Giants, but
during the season just past he has accu-
Inulated a batting average or .3ll, beating
| the great "Honu@" Wagner by u points.
and has won the unIutSliontu titlc Oh
| champion slugger OF the world.
Detroit doesn't know exactly where it
| is at in the matter Of big league ball.
next year. The Louisville writer's will
! have it that johnson is after Tebeau's
| scalp and proposes to transfer the team
| to Louisville. This is later denied by
Johnson. Writers from Detroit say thu ;
| the whole story is II joke on Onr of the
| Workmcn at the BAH grounds. Louisville
| papers, however. have gon" 80 far as to
predict q big row in camp wilson the big
| league team cuts into the territory Of
| TIA. minor league club now located there.
| ApropOs of this the Sporting Life says
Under the national agreement q ma ior
| league can enter any minor league city
| legally and Dust tne poSStSSOr upon ten
der OF $50 outright ana damages as ar
| bhtra tors may agree u.On.