Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-27
Baseball Notes.


day, at Portland.
Next to tile error microbe the poet is
the worst pest in baseball.
Morgan. the ex-Georgetown iniielder. is
batting .'sS' for Providence.
D0nlin leads the four New York Nation
al batSnen above tn" 100 mark.
Danny Friend lost a lO-nning game for
Williamsporl to York. Friday. 10 ..
Happy Jack Chcsbro and the Highland
crS had an EASY time with ST. Louis.
Jimmy" lannon's Montreal team has
not won a game from Baltimore, tins sell
son.
Glade of the St Louis Browns. is said
to have Lost Is games by oue-rtn m;ir-
gins.
Kenlcr. leader Of the New York Amcri-
can hittcrs. also has the team record for
sacrifice hitting.
| The Boston Americans have cancelled
| the exhibition arranged at Lynn with IN
Nov England League team Tor the 2ith.
AL Orht is back In old-tiine form. lie
has held his opponents down 70 less thah
nve hits on IN average in his last i've
games.
Tip o. Neil may have b"cn unable /"
| fill the bill with the Boston and Wash
ington Americans, but IL. Is III" goods in
Milwaukee.
! George Stone has hatted safely for ST.
Louis in nearly every gum" This season.
| Ills output al SAT- ties includes many tN-
| ira base hits.
Rube Wadd.ll has lost III" pretty gold
| watch charm which was tho medal re
ceiNed for helping III" Athletes win III"
p,nnant in l:"..
In tho North Atlantic series. Tuesday.
at Rockland. Arkansas beat Florida: b 10
/. and L. s. :. Newark beat Hnckllnd
Y. NJ. c. A.. 10 to
T:nnchill of the Boston Americans. has
won l. ont of II ;sann's. ''''y' Young S-v.
| -n out Of 3G Bine"n eight out III IL. and
Winter seven out OF Is.
"a ;,, l.t..t n
| the Eastern League al! right, and New
ark Toronto and Rochester ar" having
| a little battle Of their own
| Pitcher Ames of the New York Nation
game in Is p ycd- lie also averages Il
| little more than three bases on balls TO Il
game.
Springfield Union: Umpire Horne was
so unpopular at Holyoke. yesterday. That
a large group of kid" followed him 10
several points in tn" grandStand during
| the wait caused by ram
| Herald: Ruhe Waddell is sore on I'm
| pirc Conner. the latest addition to TIE
| American League stall. II recommended
| him for the Job" says Rub. and then
| he roasts me On balls and strikes until
have 10 leave the game.
! New York Telegram: Hugh Jeans. .
Iboseball pIaver OF tIc Eastern League
| who was the star catcher OF the Hartford
| team last season. has constructed Il very
novel and rfectlve nquhni n al>, ACT IN"
1
| Ed Abbaticchio has had a remarkable
| number Of chances this season ut short
lie has accepted 490 out of al chances
which is nearly 100 more than Freddie
| Parents total chances. To b" exact
i'aren, accepted 3,S oml Of $40 chances
| Wei. Washington would com" close 10
win Il pennant if it had representation
In a football League with Is present
dcrson. Huelsman Hickman, Jones
Hughes. Hill. Cassidy. Iieyd"n. etc., i'll
It. with NJ. J. kittredee AS quarierback.
| Cy Seymour Of Cincinnati; and Wagner
| of PittsburC. are having q hard tight Tor
batting honors in the National League
| The latest compilation OF statistics SHOWS
Seymour still in the lead with an av"rag"
| Of 49,. pressed closely by his i'ittSburS
rival. who is only two points b. hlnn
| Chance al Chicago is third aud Donlit
Of New York is fourth with ~
An effort IS being mad" n Dexter Z"
| form a baseball team Of mostly local IlaE-
crs and from the present outlook til" plan
will work successfully. 1t IS pl"I"sed to
have no regular salaries paid hut III" play
sport are hoping for some good contests
during the next two months.
Globe: Elbcrfcld stands 50 cios2 to tn"
| plate that the pi cher must get the ball
| over or else hit him. Getting hit with the
hall has no terrors for him. pitchers
have tried to drive him from the plate
by shooting fast ones at his head, but
with little success. for he ducks and
twists, gets the ball on his BODY. and
then is given his base by the UMPIRE II
| the pitcher puts the bah over the plate
he clouts IL.
| "A star pitcher need not necessarily he
n twirlcr who occasionally pitches a no.
hit game" says Manager Hugh puify.
| I'm the many years | worked With Char
| lie Nichols on the Boston team L don
believe he ever lot an opposing team
down without hit; Yet | do not hesitat"
| to say that during all those years there
was rot a pitcher in tho National League
| who worked as we'll as NiChols-who
pitched such uniformly good ball and
made such a high percentage Of victories
year after year
| Bob Dunbar in Boston Journal: rreSi-
dent Harry Pulliam told me that he tried
| Otis ClymerS case. Yesterday morning,
over the long distance telephone. [ sup
nose by that that he heard the UmpireS
version of the case and decided upon that.
Mr.. Michael Donin. who has been quite
| tame this year until recently. will be
| tried today Wait until the Giants have
| n bad slump and then you will SEQ all
these gentlemanly players transformed
| info umpire baiters. 1t is so easy TO be
ali smiles when things are going your
way.
| .Tho Lowell baseball team will he in
| charr, Of Manager Burns until mkt sat
urday," said Sec. Morse of the New Eng