Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-05
BASEBALL NOTES.

Dave AltiZer was under suspension
by the Tristate League for taking part
in a run-in with one of the New York
players when he accepted an offer
from Washington.
Unglaub and Wolverton. the players
who Jumped from the two Boston clubs
to Williamsport, have not been asked
to return, although they have given out
such an impression.-Boston Globe.
President Brush and Secretary
Knowles have decided to invite every
baseball club in New York. amateur or
scmiprofessiOnal, to take part in the
festivities and be the guests of the club
on worlds flag day, June II.
Leftfelder John Phelan of the Man
chester ball team is reported to have
one of the teams of the Northern
League. Pitcher Frank Lewis of Man.
chester has been given his release.
Lewis Piper of Boston has been elect
ed as manager of the Fitchburg team.
He is student at Harvard Law school
and coach of the Harvard freshmen. He
will report June II. The Fitchburg
team will go on salary June Is and will
make a tour Of Maine and New Ham
shire.
Thomas J. Dowd. coach of the Will
liams College baseball team, has left
Williamstown to assume his duties as
manager of the Holyoke team. and the
Williams team will depend for the re-
mainder of the season on Edward NJ.
Lewis of the Williams faculty. Dowd
it's trip to Princeton next week.
Rev. FIR T. ]. Corr of the Mission
church, Roxbury. has invited the Pitts
burg team of the National League to
use the locker rooms and gymnasium
of the ST. Alphonsus A. A. during their
stay in Boston this week, and the
invitation has been accepted by the
PittSburg management. whose players
are forced to room at Winthrop on ac-
count of crowded hotel conditions.
Manager Hugh Duffy of the Phillies
could not have played center field on
Sunday at Cincinnati. even if he had
not had a faster man handy in the per-
son of Johnny Lush. Duffy is a
bench manager pure and simple this
year. as he did not sign players con-
I. i
said he before leaving for the Queen
City, land for that reason I did not
care to sign q regular contract. My
agreement with the Philadelphia club
is merely as a manager and not as a
player. so I could not play even if
wanted to-"
Pete Lehman. former manager of the
Oakland champions. and once promi-
nent in the big baseball leagues. was
adjudged insane Friday at Los Ange-
les. Calf. and sent to Highlands asy-
lum by Superior Court Judge James.
Lehman was brought up from his each
home i'm handouts after figh ting des-
perately. and locked in the insane ward
of the county hospital He grabbed his
wife, threw her into a, room and locked
the door, and three officers had A hard
time to subdue him. Last March Lob
man was adjudged incompetent and his
wife appointed guardian Of his estate.
When Clark Griffith signed Chase he
got the greatest kid that has emerged
from minor league in years. silk"
O'Loughlin says in all his experience
he never saw his like. With man
who can trap" or reach with equal
ease and precision: who can kill a sac
rifice bunt and get his man at second
or third. who always knows what to
with the ball. New York's infield is in
no danger Of falling off. There is bound
to be n slump in batting. but with such
dangerous men as Keller. Elberfeld.
Chase. Laporte and Williams that
slump will not last long. New York
should lead the league by August.