Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-15
THE DAYS DOINGS in THE WORLD OF SPORTS

Seymour has certainly earned back
back good part of that $4,000.
Oddly enough. the Boston Nationals
have won eight and lost eight games
each with st. Louis and Brooklyn and
seven won and seven lost with the Gin
els.
Burkett leads the New England
League in batting. with .3l7. Iacher
BIZ. Chadb"urne 500. Pastor 300, Nc
Daniel .299, LaDelle .294 BiSble W,
Eurl1e .21S. Madden .215.
New York Sun: Probably no mana
Gc-' shakes up his batting order less
frequently than McGraw. He shook it
up twice last week and each change
delivered a victory.
Up to the present home series. Birm-
ingham, Ala, the Southern League
leaders lost but one game on its own
grounds. Wednesday last double
header was won from Atlanta, 4-3 and
AZ.
Roy Reeves. secretary of the Phlla-
dclphia Nationals, is invading the m
dependent league ranks. He is after
Starnasie. the crack Altoona back
stop, who has agreed to finish the sea
son with the PhilieS.
This is a prosperous year for the
New England League teams. With
Lynn. Worcester and Lowell all i'll line
for the championship, the other f1Ve
towns are sure to make money during
the remaining weeks of the race.
New York Mail: Umpire Owen, al
legged to have been the victim of a ne
furious plot. has sued the Minneapolis
ball club for 100000. That's too much
money for any young man and the
Judge will probably see that he doesn't
got it all at once.
In the matter of q claim by the Hol-
yoke club to Player John w. Deal, now
with the Cincinnati club, it has been
decided by the National Baseball Com
mission that the Holyoke club failed
to establish its claim, and that Deal
was Il free agent when he signed a
contract with Cincinnati.
Although President Murphy Of the
Chicago colts has stated that he VIII
not assist that the fine imposed on the
New York Giants for failing to play
his team last week be paid, his senti-
menus rave llDlIilIS " w Will IL ~
Giants broke one of the most important
rules of the league. and Pulliam says
he expects the directors will insist that
New York live up to the $1,000 limit
of its obligations.
One Biddeford paper is bowling ca
| lamity for all it is worth, while the
other is backing up the team and do
ing what it can to keep alive the base
ball interest in that section. If mat
tiers are as bad as one paper paints
them there ought to be a city ordnance
against ball playing in the city limits,
| but if the team is q good as the other
paper makes out, BiddefOrd ought to
| hold the team together and break into
the New England. the Trolley or some
| other good league next season.
Judging from the following clipping
from Springfield paper our old friend
Holvoke: Cox and lott were in the
points for the home team and they Were
| the stars of the day. Innocent jimmy
had more varities of puzZlcrs than Il
much more dangcrous-looling tWirlcr
| could be expected to have. He mixed
| en- up to suit the queens taste and had
| the speed that sears q black spot when
| tie willow comes in contact with the
| ball. lie kept the hits we'll scattered and
| brilliant support helped him on one or
| two occasions. Only two of the visitors
| reached second base during the afternoon
| and none got beyond that point"