Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-16
BASEBALL NOTES.

boston taTHtTiCdn smut Jul MERCER W.
lege to Wednesday at Macon, Ga.
Harris. Kenney and Winter pitched for
Boston.
Dusty Rhodes has n long head. He
went to Kansas recently and bought a
farm, which he sold later at a profit
OF $1,000.
Pitcher Ivor Wagner of the Columbus
baseball club has purchased his re-
lease from the club. He took the action
to avoid being farmed out to the
Wilkesbarre. Pa. team.
The baseball fans of FAN River do
not take kindly to the PROPOSED trade
of Guiheen for Jackson and they are
putting up such a kick over the deal
that it looks now as if the trade would
not be made.
The worlds champion pennant. which
tional commission. will be made i'm Gin
cinnati. 1t is said that the presentation
will be made while the Western teams
are in the East. Barney Dreyfuss will
be invited to attend the ceremonies.
Criger, the Boston American League
catcher, who is ill at Hot Springs, has
picked up a little the last two days,
but it is the opinion of ball players who
have been with him that Criger will be
unable to do much work Oh the dia-
mond this year. and possibly may not
be able to play in one game.
Mertes. who has Joined the Giants at
Memphis, has been practicing in Cali
fornia and it will not take more than
1nx, fCr- 70, hn in inn n
play good ball. Happy, the canine mas
cot, who ruled the polo grounds as he
pleased last year. is TO make another
visit to New York this summer.
It seems that the reform Griffith in
troduced last season in the way of uni
forms is not to be retained. The New
York Americans are to go back to the
old blue suits and white stockings, the
most unesthetic attire hat ever Of
tended the artistic sensibflities on the
diamond. But all will be forgiven if
Grin Gun snare the elusive pennant.
IT'S not the clothes that make the
champion.
If the contract which has been signed
by Catcher Long" Mclean. Of the
Portland club, comes into general use
throughout the baseball world it is
likely to have a depressing effect on
the rum traffic and cut down the fig
ures of total sales Of intoxicants. III
Mclean takes a single drink during
the playing season of 1906 it will cost
him under his contract just 5000 coin
OF the realm.
This thing of early spring training. y
says an old Lacquer. "spois the chances
of a good many men to make some handy
pocket money. / never had any Of 1t.
but some of the players who used to pick
up $500 and s4OO from colleges every spring
for eating fare and looking wise while the
students were training for the varsity
ball team are down on their luck. II
used to be the regular thing for members
of the championship team to get berthi
coaching college players
at is peculiar fact that excessive
cigarette smoking affects the batting
eye. Ballplayers who are known as
constant users Of cigarettes are not as
good batsmen as those who eschew the
white cigars l know how cigarettes
hurt my batting eye years ago. said
Harry Blake IL was almost a fiend for
cigarettes and there were times when
I stood at the plate that 1t seemed al
most as though I had a veil over my
eyes Tom Mccarthy blamed it to Gig
arettes. I swore off and my vision be-
came as good as it ever was"
Western League baseball in Des Moines
and Sioux City, as well as Three Eye
League ball in many Iowa towns. is
II, for oh hxy Iaf anti
Sunday baseball bill recently passed by
the Iowa Senate. AS the Senate is the
more liberal body. it Is freely predicted
the House will pass the measure. Base
ball in Iowa without Sunday box-ofiicc
receipts would be practically impossible.
Local sportsmen are considering hurting
Il lobby into the House to work against
the bill. Sunday theatres are also pro-
hibited by the proposed law.
At a meeting of the Central League
at Grand Rapids, Mich, Tuesday ii
baseball schedule of 154 games for each
club was adopted for the season of
1906. The schedule was submitted by
Henry F. Schmidt of Terre Haute.
Ind. The season will open April &c and
close Sept. %. Each club will have II
Sundays at home and Evansville,
Wheeling, Dayton and Grand Rapids
Will play at home on two holidays. TIE
other four clubs having but one holi-
day at home. Grand Rapids. Wheeling.
Springfield and South Bend will open
the season with four games at home.
Evansville will open at Grand Rapids.
Dayton at Wheeling. Canton at
Springfield and Terre Haute at South
Bend. Those teams which have always
proved the most profitable are given
the largest mileage in the following or
Ger Evansville. 57S4 miles; Wheeling,
9.51; Grand Rapids. 5617: Canton. 5252:
South Bend. 1855; Dayton. 1880. and
Springfield. 1903. The Central League
umpires will met at Springfield April
l. to receive President Carson's in
structions.