Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-14

about quitting the game and will sign
with Washington.
Pitcher Mike Lynch has been at Bos-
ton University all winter studying like
d hcpe-to-bc professor
Outficlder Fred Houtz. of the Pacific
Coast League. has gone to Texas for
trial with the Cardinals.
Haverhill wants to trade Pitcher Con-
nelly for AL. Wcddigc. Manager Nc
Dermot is thinking it over.
Manager Stahl has definitely decided to
play Charley Hickman in Washington's )
left field i'll Huelsman'S place.
Umpire OIoughlin and wife have re
turned to Rochester, n. y, from their
| briday tour of the Pacific coast.
Billy Maloney does not fancy the SAL
AIRY offered him by Brooklyn and has
KrcfuscG to sign the contract.
Pitcher Briggs, transferred by Chica.
go to brooklyn. threatens 20 hurdle to
| the outlaws unless Brooklyn raises the
ante.
Pitcher Frank FergurSon. of Stock
| ton Cal, refuses TO answer any of the
| letters that the Cincinnati Club has
sent him.
Jesse Burkett OF the Worcester team.
has sold all Of the season tickets that
he had printed and there is d demand
for more.
The Washington club, as a corporation,
has presented Manager Jake Stahl with 4
handsome and costly silver tea set IS Il
wedding gift.
Manager Saycr of the Havcrhills has
signed Fred Gibbs of Merrimac. who
pitched last season for the Biddeford
(Me) nine. .- @...t ".~.-
Tie ST. Louis Club has released
Pitcher Swan to Kansas City: Third
Bascman Suter sullivan to Louisville
and Hickman to Denver.
The Harrison outlaw club has Rub"
Wadiclls name on its reserve list ard
| if ever again he jumps organized ball he
will have to Play i'll Harrisburg.
Arndt 1Ioelskoctter, Bennett, Perrine.
Frantz, James and Hickman are the
| candidates for the third base position
OF the st. Louis Nationals team.
1t is intimatcd ;hat Kansas City will
| have u new ball park. The town is to
site isn't far away from the present ball
| lot.
Til" ma inrity or players on the CnIum-
bus. O.. team. this year have done time
in the big leagues. Ther., are compiri-
! lively few youngsters in the aeGrrga-
| ton.
| Manager McDcrmott has received the
| signed contract Of "Cy' Swanson The
latter is weaving worstcdS and yarns
| at the mill and yarns at SquccvillaSc,
II. /.
The Now York American League club
has raised the ante on Pitcher puttmaI,
| to $3.50, and declares it will retain him
| IL the Philadelphia club refuses to meet
| the raise.
Sam Brown. the catcher sold by Co
lumbus to Boston. has decided that the
salary offered doesn't look as good as
one named by All independent team at
Cniontown, Pa.
Frank V. Dunn will undergo an oper-
alton at Hot Springs. A piece Of skull
which has been pressing on his brain
as 4 result of a blow sustained when a
boy and which affected only in recent
years. will be removed
They say that Charley Murphy wanted
| to sell Walter Mueller to William Muir
ray at the recent league meeting Muir
rays face was study; then lie remark.
ed: 81 will tell YOU. Murphy. that fellow
| is all right, but l don't want him.
Joe Connor. brother Of Roger Connor.
| who was with the Highlandcrs last fall
objects to transfer to the Montreal club
and offers $50 for his release Conner
SAYS that if he is not allowed his free
dom he will jump to the Tri-State
League.
The bunch of American ball playors
who have been playing in Yucatan dur
ing the winter have returned to Houston.
Tex. They say that there IL great en-
thusiasm over the American game il,
Mexico and that the prospects are for n
good league next season.
John Murphy of Cambridge. who
pitched great ball for the institutes of
Cambridge last season has been signed
by Fred Lake for the Lowell CIub
Last Spring Lake gave him a trv.out
but had an abundance of pitchers
Lake thinks Murphy a very promising
boy
fitcher Frank Owen last week climbed
INTO the White Sox band wagon. He has
neen spending the winter at home set
tilng up the affairs of his father. q retired
army surgeon, whose sudden death called
the pitcher home in the middle of tho
post-season series last fall. Owen has
also been playing indoor baseball, cover
ing first base
Manager ). D. Flanagan of the
Mahcnester team has received notice
from secretary Farrell of the National
association of minor leagues, that