Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-04
BASEBALL NOTES.

BASEBALL NOTES.
The major leagues expend fully $780,,
iCC0 in salaries annually.
| "Cy' Young will try his 18th year of
major league ball in 1907
| Pitcher Mcfarland of the Brooklyns
Is treasurer of a theater in Fort Worth
Tex.
The veteran "Dick" Paden NAV he
found on the Indianapolis roster next
season.
| Outfielder Tom McCreery. once a
! member of the Boston Nationals, will
be back in the game next season, play
ing with indianapolis.
|. Billy Hamilton, the old Boston out
fielder, has been offered the position of
\ coach of the Dartmouth team for next
| season. He probably will accept.
! Connie Mack ought to have little diff
iculty in picking out Il likely let Of
pitchers next season. He has Is on hi:
| list. ana they hail from ell parts of the
! country.
Leu Criger of the Boston Americans
expects to be in as good condition as
ever next season. He recently went on
a long hunting trip and returned i'll the
! best of health.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Gus i-onao. Il To-
cal pitcher. who has been secured by
Washington for next season. has a rec
ord OF nine strike-outs per game aver
tage during the past season.
| Sandow Mertes of the s. Louis Car
| a lc- hot
| baseball. He has secured an interest
in a California planning mill and expects
to make all his dust" there in the
! future.
| Washington Star: With RUDE Wick
ers and RUDE Waddell on his payroll
Connie Mack will imagine he is running
Il team of freaks next season. Vickers
is nearly as eccentric as Waddell and
iWaddell is the limit.
There is talk of a deal by which the
!Phillies will turn Ernest Courtney.
third Eascman, over to st. Louis in eX-
ichange for Pitcher Mike O'Neil, the
!SOuthpaw. who has been with the in
dependents for some time.
Blaine Durbine. the lefthand pitcher
secured by the Chicago Nationals from
l
that circuit during the season just clos
ed with a record Of 80 games won and
eight lost. a percentage of 800.
Washington Star: Boston critics
declare that Fred Parent has
gone back greatly as a short
stop, AMI that it behooves the manage
mcnt of the Boston Americans to be
the lookout for a successor to the once
| greatest that is
Jiegs Donohue of the White Sox told
his Springfield friends last week that
his team surely would win the Amer
iican League pennant again in 1907. SO
once more the worlds series will be
limited to the confines of Chicago, if
;Jiggs is a true prophet.
Charley Carr says that the major
ileaeues omitted the best pitcher in the
|. American Association when it passed
w Pitcher Tate Cromley. the Indanap-
Oils pitcher Carr says he had the best
control Of any man in the league and
is one of the coolest pitchers in the bus
mess.
Il Comisky says that Hugh Jennings
will materially strengthen the Detroit
/ Club, AMI that if Boston succeeds in
securing a live manager it will be IL
I n position to make fight for the flag.
\ He looks for a repetition of the race in
/ the National League and picks Chica-
go to win in a walk
4 Joe Bean will manage the Jersey City
+ Eastern League Baseball Club next
/ year, taking the place Of Billy Murray.
who will go to the Philadelphia Nation
! al League team. Bean is regarded as
| one of the most aggressive and headi-
! est players in the Eastern League He
! has been a member of the Jersey City
| team three years. acting as it's captain.
More than anything else that has
disappeared from the diamond since
| the old days, the fans of today miss
| the delightful comradeship that existed
between players and spectators in the
| SOS and 90's. There are no players in
! the major leagues now who can keep up
running conversation with the crowds
as Ewing, Kelly and Latham did while
the game was in progress.
IF we could afford it," said Lajoie.
the other day, "it would be rare fun
to have that big sevcn-foot pitcher.
Walker with us again next season. We
all felt SO snug and safe when he was
along. And then, too. he was so handy
to have around. He could carry a 600
pound trunk as easily as one of The
rest of us could swing a hand YaliSe.
and. when he asked an umpire for any