Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-25
BASEBALL NOTES.

Loyalty to a ball team IS IN telllnG tnc
truth without roasting the players.
All the American League teams ar"
getting their bumps. Cleveland won the
first three and lost the next three.
The Brooklyn baseball club announces
that 1t has traded First Baseman Gessler
for Pitcher Knobs of the Chicago Ma
tionals
Manager Tenney decided after the gamc
last Saturday that Pitcher Mccarthy
was not league timber. 50 wrote ont th-
young mans release.
Pitcher Moskiman of the Jersey city
club is serving up some red-hot curves
this season. Tie has been pulling the
battcrs in many of tho games.
Harry Murch is i'll at his homo at So
bago Lake. He has tho malaria con-
tracted while practicing with tho Boston
Americans on their Southern trip.
Baseball will be the rage for fair after
this week. The Eastern and Connecticut
Leagues will open their seasons Thursday
and the New England League will begin
its schedule FRIDAY
NCvice-Thcre is but one pennant in
would land a pennant thi; season origi-
mated in misplaced confidence. There ar,
not enough to go round.
Things are not looking very bright III
the American Association. The aSsocia-
ton is 50 full of factioral dssentiors
that baseball has been crowded out. and
now many are looking for its disruption
as the finale of the strife
Jesse Burketts team has been putting
M the real article in the preliminary
last week and at the close of tho series
Providence Eastern League aggregation
games. 1t played several games with the
honors We're not far from even.
Expires. William Freeman of the Man
chester club is still a great fan and kind
ly disposed toward Steve Flanagan ami
the gentlemen who are now backing base
ball in Manchester. Good baseball is sur"
to be appreciated i'll Manchester this
year under the brand new ownership.
The attendance at the National and
American League games thus far this
season is evidence of great enthusiasm
i'll the national game. When nearly 20 OnO
people attend single game it IS a sure
sign of enthusiasm. A crowd Of 12.OOo or
l4.ooo is not uncommon al one of the BIZ;
league games
frledenberg, McCarlcy and Roach wcrn
released from the Fall River team last
saturday. New men will be given try
out Roach is a Massachusetts man,
| rriedcnoerg halls from Chicago and Nc
Narley from Leominster. McCarlev and
friedenberg were given their trvouts n
iioiHoke and Roach PLAYED his last game
against the Jersey City team. Friedep-
oers Is the big man of the trio He camc
from out Chicago way and has 9, gro !.
record on paper. He has hatt;,, go
, age OF .2'S and fielding average Of d;
, for 2s games - ~
rres' Powers Of the champior PROV;
, uehce team Is planning for a r,I, a,,
!, next Thursday. when the cbamn;orshi,
. season OF the Eastern League onens a,
Meirose park. A brilliant array of h.so
oali men will be present. Including tJorr,
Nhanwick, the father of the game. pro,
6an johnson of the American Ioa,,,a
fres Pulliam of the National Ia..,a
fres. Taylor of the Eastern League pres
farrell of the New York State Ieay,,
ana secretary of the National Associatio
"i minor League Clubs. Pres. Nturnap
anu sec Morse of the New Fnr,,,
: League. and others prominent IN hasal,oi
|; circles in New York. Boston. Worceste
Y and elsewhere.