Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-24
DAYS DOINGS IN WORLD OF SPORTS.

CduS pay run i'ttSt UP
But the Nationals salary list included
$4,000 drawn by Manager McGraw. NO
attempt has been made ny either cruz
To reduce these figures TINS year Out
The other clubs. notably the Boston
Americans have asked their players 10
accept pronounced cuts.
Doc Shively, president of the West-
crn baseball Association, has pecn III
Milwaukee to pay his respects TO Pres
ilcnt joe q Brien of the American AS
ISOLATION, and Owner Havenor. He sald:
",rhe fans at Kansas City are bowling
for ,rebeau to sell out, but he hangs on
Just the same. That may hurt the game
there again this season. l hope they
wall not shut down OH Sunday ball III
Columbus and Toledo, for it would be
a hard blow to the association. Umpire
Owen. whom President O'Brien has
siene.!. did good work in our league,
and should be a valuable man for the
American .Associa ton"
Sporting Life: To judge from present
!ndica tons the st. Louis Browns wiz
not finish last in the coming hot Amer
lean League race. They are Kidding
themselves of all the players that put
them in the eighth hole. Frisk and Van
Zendt were recently sold to st. Paul.
and now the latest ones to leave are
Catchers Joe SuGden and Frank Roth
ard Infielder Harry Gleason, Sugden
and Gleason are sent to st. Paul, and
Roth goes to Chicago White Sov, who
turn over Catcher Branch Hickey to
the Browns. With Sugdcn gone. but
one Of the Old Browns who jumped the
St. Louis Nationals in the fall OF 1901
remains-Bobby Wallace. the crack
shortStop.
Archie Mccarthy. star pitcher of thr
Montreal team in the Eastern League last
year and at enc time a member of tn
Detroit team. has jumped organized base
ball and has signed with the Johnstown.
Pa. club of the Tri-State Outlaw League.
Mccarthy. who has an offer from Pitts
burg. feared that New York would turn
him back to Montreal without trial or
account of the recent deal by which Own
or Farrell of the New Works purchased
| the Montreal club. He maintains stoutly
| that he is able to deliver big league goods
| and resents being sent back to Montreal.
| lie was covered up similarly year ago.
| and does not like the town. anyway. With
| Mccarthy to Johnstown goes Mike Me
| Kcvcny. a colt inhclder. whose batting
was the sensation OF independent ball III
Michigan last year. He recently signed
with Albany in the New York STATE
| League.
| The fighting factions OF tho American
| Association Eave been very quiet OF late.
| but they hav" been WORKING: just tho
| SANE" They have been so busy trying
| to get their mon signed for the coming
season that they have not been able to
call each other so many names but they
| have not forgotten that there are two
| factions. A rest has been given Mix.
Kelly for a time. but The Tcbeau-I @pnon
faction asserts that when spring comcY;
Mike will he surprised with an order from
the national commission refusing him
permission I" manage the team from the
: bench. If that should he the clSc. look
out for trouble. for Mike is Of tho fight
ing kind and will not stand for such work
without making Il desperate effort to get
| back good and strong. Mike threatened
| some time ago to tic the whole asSOci;,-
ton up with inianctions if the Tebcau
fIction tHcd such methods. and there is
no doubt that hc VIII be as good as his
word.
| Boston Globe: The grand army Of
| baseball Vets is fast thinning out.
| There was Il time when a dozen or less
| players made up each Of the leading
| teams ANA players would remain in one
place for several years. In this way
| they bccImc well known to the patrons
| of the game. both at home and ?broad.
| There WAS 4 time when the different
members of the old Boston champions
were rs we'll known as the mayor of
the city and the fans never tired Of
singing their praises. The chances are
that out OF the Sc regular players that
| will hustle fpr the Boston teams the
coming season. less than 10 of the num-
Der would be recognized if they walked
the full length of Washington street,
and Fred Tcincy alone OF the league
team would be recognized. All mas
| changed: all Of the clubs now sign up
twice as many players as they intend
to carry and in the general nli;iup the
players change about until the stars
alone are known to the general base
ball public.
j. G. Morsc's Host on letter to Sport
ing Life says: Fred Tenney has been
engaged in making spring plans. He
has DOul'cd to play at Charleston April
>. and viii play Princeton University at
Prlnccton-an old one-day stand of
Frank Sclee'S--April 10. April IL will
fnj him at Newark where Walter
Eurnnam Will spare no pains to take
4 fall with him and the opening will
come of an the 18th. | see that Burn
ham has secured Outficder Drennen,
formerly Of the Northwestern League.
and shall he Very much mistaken if
this young man does not max the big
StSt kind Of Il hit. This young Outtield
Ell vas recommended to me a long time
ago and | called the attention of the
Boston National Club people to him
and Moskiman. the latter now with
PittSburg. and pointed out the work
they had been doing on the Coast. but
nothing came of it. Durham has made
some fine finds. 1t must be remembered
that Jimmy" Sheckard first attract
cd attention when a member of thu
Erot ktng Club under Rurnham and
inst Pittirscr belonged to the same
dub. going thence to the Boston Ma
tistaIs. Seloe did not bite on Shock
ard. hearing he had too many outs but