Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-18
BASEBALL NOTES.


fielder Hoey of Holy Cross cinched.
Pitcher Mccarthy. Bill Commits
pitching find from Ashland. has signed
with Woonsocket
Barrows, who pitched some for Port
land last year. is twirling for West
brook this season.
Leonard Cote. who signed with Bid
defcrd, will probably play with the
Greenfield, Mass, team.
Fourteen straight games dropped by
Tenney's men. Cheer up. that's only
half as bad as though it was IS.
The game between Biddeford High
and Edward Little High, scheduled to
be PLAYED at BidGeford, has been can
celled
Josslyn won a good game for Prov
idence from Rochester allowing but
two runs and four hits. He has land
ed three games.
The Biddeford management has given
Trlbou his release. He requested it
that he might accept a summer position
which promises to be more lucrative.
Doc W hite. star twirler for the White
Soy. has finished his work as coachcr
of the Annapolis team of middics and
is back with the Chicago aggregation.
Higgins. the Prcsque Isle pitcher,
struck out an even dozen the other
day and only allowed three hits in the
game against the Fort Fairfield team.
Evidently Tcnney does not believe in
| leaving well enough alone. Had he kept
| Stobel in the game Tuesday there is
ittln dan would
Cincinnatis consumption of beer in
creased 1000 barrels in April. base
ball season opened that month and the
| populace was doing its hest to forget
| it-ChcaGo Record Herald.
The Stockton Springs Baseball Asso-
| cis ton has been organized by the
election of Perry w Spraguc and p. J.
Cox managers; Walter +. Trundy.
captain and Howard II. Colson, secre-
tary.
Arthur McCartys friends think that
his work in the past entities him 10
| place on the Harvard team. Last sea-
| son he was the second best batSman on
the nire and this year he has held his
own in stick work.
Manager Jesse Burkett of the Wor
cester baseball team Wednesday. re-
leased Right Fielder Roy Sheets. Left
| Fielder Ambrose r. Kane and Catcher
Daniel J. Dugan. All three players We're
members Of the Concord team last
year
John Parent, aged 40. an old time
Massachusetts ball player. while de
spondent and out of work as Il meat
clerk committed suicide Wednesday
night at Waterbury by morphine. His
home was in Fall River. and he has
wife and 14-year-old son there.
| For using improper language to an UNI
pire in the game between Lawrence and
Haverhll in the New England League.
at Lawrence Wednesday. Secretary j. G.
Morse Of the league Thursday suspended
Right Fielder billiard Of the Haverhili
team for three days and fined him $40.
| Chicago in the lead again. 1t looks
80 though Pres. Pulliam knew a thing
or two When he intimated that the Gil
ants had nothing like double Clinch-
ed lead pipe cinch on this years pen
ant The race is young yet. but has
gone far enough to demonstrate that
| Chicago has a red hot team.
| Pat Conroy. the welI-known Portland
first baseman. is playing great ball for
the Hartford nine, the leaders Of the
Connecticut League. COnroy is hitting
almost at $50 clip and is fielding his
position in fine shape and the Hartford
papers are giving the big fellow ex-
tremcly complimentary notices.
eff the Boston National League poo-
pie only had a good nine to take the
piece of the one which represents them
this summer. we might get a black eye
in Boston which 1t would take more
than one season tC overcome says
Charley Somers of Cleveland 1.-The bad
luck of the Bostons hits us as hard. or
harder, than any other club in the
| American. for Boston was one of our
best cities. owing to the many friends
possessed by Lajole throughout New
England"
1t is understood that the Biddeford
shoe clerks have challenged the Port
land shoe clerks to play game of
, baseball Whether the game will be ar
| ranged remains to be seen. but the con-
test would be likely to arouse consid-
cradle interest in both cities and the
managers of each team would have tn
keep their eyes open to see that the
opposing team was composed strictly
r Of shoe clerks and not Of strong semi
, professional players posing as shoe
. clerks pro TEN.