Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-02-20
DOINGS in WORLD OF SPORTS.

Lynn and has an offer to play with The
Lynn club next season. lie once prayed
with Newport in the New England
League.
New ENGLAND has probably turned oui
more and better nrst-class BASEBALL sched
ule makers than any ors:tniZatioii N tht
country Manager w. w. Burnhain has
no .,,,perior in that line. Mike finn Tor
uerIv of the Newport club. has prepared
the South Atlantic League schedule th'
mast two seasons; Frank Leonard Is one
,r In. hest ever, and Manager john
Smith of the Lawrence club prepared tn.
schedule that was adopted iaat year III
the New England League.
Coney Island is to have one OF the
fif.est baseball grounds in the country
with seating capacity for more than
20 900 persons This is the plan of
William a. Brady. who has consuln-
mated a deal with Austin Corb!n, OF
the Manhattan Beach Company, where
hy the latter is to reconstruct the old
Manhattan Beach bicycle grounds. 1t
is Mr. Rrady's intention To conduct
baseball games, both amateur and pro-
fessional. on Saturdays and Sundiiy IS
during the next five years.
John Il. Conway OF Webster, Mass,
who recently was appointed an umpire
in the National League. has been
prominently connected with athletic
SPORTS since his boyhood days, being
especially conspicuous in baseball. He
has had much experience as a payer
and has managed some of the fastest
teams in his section. lie has been
prominent in politics in Webster and
Dudley, and has held various political
Offices. He is also prominent in the
Foresters and Knights of Columbus.
j. G. Morse Of Boston writes 10
Sporting Life: so far as | can as
certain, would-bc owner Frank Dunn
is not with US, having quit the Belle
vuc. where he resided. and the Bar
rister's building. where IL made his Of
fee. His suit against the pr. sent own
ers of tie Nationals Was to have been
filed some time ago, and il il ever Is
there VIII be heaps and heaps of fun
More amusement would be furnished
than anything ever III baseball Of that
kind. and would doubtless be played to
packed houses"
Manager EIcGraW Of NV York has
ordered Pitcher Leon AmeS 70 give III
bowling. AmeS took up the bowling
game at Warren, o., in order to kcel
his pitching arm i'll condition. but Ne
Graw does not believe such practice is
conducive to good work in baseball
MCGraW received word from
George Browne Wednesday that he is
leaving Los Angeles and will stop al
| Hot Springs, where he will pass Sev-
eral days before Joining til" team. DON
lin. Gilbert. DaIllcn and McCann vii
| start for Hot Springs next week
hIcairaw last Tuesday made a dra
With the Toledo Club of the American
| Association, whereby Catcher Bill
Clarke will so to that club as manager
Bob Dunbar in Boston .Journai:I hat
| Il tet,Ga-t"te with President johnson a
tie Parker House yesterday morning
He confirmed tn" statement made IT
the journal last Thursday that the na-
tinral commission would pass n ncW
rule Ti:nin Il few days. which will pro
I hibit ball players on the reserve lists
of the nIa ior leagues from t@coming
bench managers for clubs within tht
| jurisdiction Of national agreement
"IIesident Pulliam for some reason
| thought the suggestion was Il frame
| up" said President johnson, but Mr.
! Hermann favored it from the start
and on explaining the proposition t.
! National League magnat"s found that
they thought it would be i good thing
! He told President Pulliam his own
| league liked the rule and there will
| probably be no opposition"
| Sporting Life: The sad case of John
Clarkson the once famous pitcher. who
is incurably inSan" and therefor.
doomed to pass the brief remainder OF
his life in mental gloom, recalls Tho
, fact that Eot a few diamond lumnari"s
have passed into oblivion under simi-
| larly wrctched conditions. Tho most
striking cases that come to mind are
those of Marty Bergen, w. McNabb
Frank Ringo. Edward Crane. Tom
Dcasley, Jimmy McGarr. Fred Dunln p
| Win Mercer. Eddie DOheny. I.Oui$
Browning, Jimmy Wolf and Tom rs
terbrook. OF the above Bergen and
McNabb finished their careers Will
murder and suicide. while Ringo
Crane. Mercer and Eetcrbroo!: TOOK
their own lives under more or less
shocking circumstances. Wen may
men pray to b" spared that most
dreadful of all maladies. disease OF
mind,