Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-08

Heights, and Columbia April II.
Harry Pullian says that Nick Young
never looked better than he did when he
saw him in Washington. Jan. l.
Cincinnati was willing to give overall,
Chech and another In trade for Young
of the Boston Nationals. but it did not
work.
Jimmy Casey says that baseball play
c!9 e-c t-rT.c c..ougl -.rr ~ '>' llI !:
ar..,. ,3.'s Lind AIore truth Than poetry
In this.
Good old Tom Lynch, formerly the
crack umpire Of the country. with Mrs.
Lynch is enjoying the good things of life
at New Britain. CT.
Ban Johnson's corps of umpires is conf
plete, but O'Day, Emslie and Carpenter
are the only National League incumbents
who are sure Of places.
In less than eight weeks some OF the
major league teams will be making for
the South The Boston Americans will
report In Macon, Ga, nine weeks from
Monday.
Willie Delahanty, the youngest mem
Der Of the famous family of that name,
who got = very short trial by Billy Ham
ilton, will try his luck in Montgomery.
Ala, next season.
Dave Fultz Is doing we'll with his law
business He WAS asked the other day
If he thought that the law beat baseball.
YES" said he, ''in the winter time.
Whereat Griffith smiled.
Pop" williams. pitcher on the
Portland team last summer. has been
engaged as gymnasium trainer for
Hebron Academy II" will also train
the Hebron baseball team.
Manager Jake Stahl of the Washing
tons does not believe IN slicing salaries
He believes that one of the greatest Sc
crets Of success Is to have the player
perfectly satisfied on the salary score.
New York World: Baseball men are
asking the question II the national COM
mission Is supposed to be a court of last
resort and is overruled by n court of law
then why not dispense with the national
commission altogether?
Tho new manager of the Louisvi!les
of pennants among the minors. ard ought
to make 4 great record. 1t all depends
II he has full sway, perfectly free from
Interference. he will undoubtedly do welt
1t is claimed that the St Louis Cardi-
nails have expended $4,000 for players fol-
next season. A very respectable sum and
there ought to he something to show fol
fnl,r a
who landed a out of 80 games for the
Parsons. Kan. club last season. alst
Frantz, the chap who hit SO hard foi
Kansas City.
Ed Seward, famous as pitcher with
the Philadelphia Athletics in 1S9e-e7-9s
who is now 4 member of the Cleveland
fire department. was badly hurt las
Monday while fighting a fire in the busi
ness center He fell headforemost dowr
an elevator shaft, dropping three stories
and landing on his head. His helmet
saved him from instant death.
Two of the most successful clubs in thG
country today are those who pay the
highest salarieS-the New York Nation
al and the Pittsburg club. Presidents
Brush and Dreyfuss and Managers Nc,
Graw and Clarke think II better to raise
than lower wages. Dreyfuss went SO fan
as to give each of his men O. gift of 4
800 bill as a Christmas present.
Milwaukee, tie farm of the White SoN
OF Chicago. Is very productive. 1t fur
nishcd several good players last year. in
cluding Pitcher Dougherty and Outiield-
aaIy "a,
bus says that O'Neill has improved won
1erfullv since he lsft Boston and Wash
:.rt,r. it'1 70 ~ uudoubt' dly n Ike
-i,,. '.t!' NY >. or glle club
Norwood Gibson says that the Boston
Americans would make Il grave mistake
to cut out Buck Freeman. and thinks
Euck should be put into the Boston out
field and kept there "Gibbie" is also of
the opinion that a most grievous nhs-
take was made to let "old man La
chance get away. The release of La
chance" said he the other day, Just
broke up Freddy Parent. Both were
French Canadians and chums, and It
broke the little chap all up in every way
to lose his friend. and | doubt # he will
ever get over 1t. 1t was more than fool
ish to break up a combination that was a
winner for two years"
"The trouble with the foul strike rule. -
says Johnny McGrnw. ''is the effect It
has on tho weak batters. The good hit
ters do not suffer SO much. but the weak
hitters are affected II good deal. The
games are getting too short. When you
see the crowds begin to gather around
the entrances before the gates are opened
you can make up your mind they aren {
in Il hurry to get away. Games of from,
an hour ard three quarters to two hours
would suit most people better than games
of an hour and % to an hour and 30 min
utes long. The only kind Of fouls that
ought to be called strikes are the inten-
tiOnal fouls. Make more work for tho
umpires? Oh. l don't know. There
aren't more than one or two men on each
team that can foul them off Intentional
ly, if that many. and the umpires could
give those decisions as well as they do
other decisions"
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