Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-06
BASEBALL NOTES.

Manager Cantillion has secured Cal
weston. Tex. for training quarters for
his Washington boys.
Beaumont. outtielder of the Pitts
burgs. is busted with the profitable &C.
cupation Of poultry raising and expects
to ship more eggs this winter than he
ever did.
Barney Dreyfus and Billy Locke,
the secretary of the club, will repre-
sent Pttsburg at the annual meeting
of the National League in New York
next week.
Thomas McDermott has not lost his
love for the game. although he dispos-
ed of his Fall River holdings. Mack"
may take up the reins once more after
a little rest.
Several Western papers have made
the mistake of thinking that the Mike
Lynch of Cambridge. recently signed
by Baltimore, was Mike Lynch, the
Pittsburg pitcher.
cosy" Dolan was the first Of the
Boston Nationals to pay Il visit to
headquarters and he went away much
impressed with the beauty and the new
president of the club.
Despite the fact that Buffalo has
lost Il crack pitcher in BrIckctt, who
will go to the New York Americans.
the lcub will not lack for strength with
f<issingcr. Michigan, Tozier, Greene,
WOwinklc and Currie left.
Messrs. Dewey and Tenney have de-
cided to send the Boston Nationals
South this spring as usual. and will
pick out an exhibition trip through
Virginia. making II special effort to get
games at Norfolk and Richmond.
Manager Frank Leonard expects good
things from StOp>Orth, who play
"a with the Mt. Clement team of the
Michigan League last season. The vet
,ran Frank Schebeck spoke we'll Of
the player and that induced Leonard
To take a chance on him.
Business Manager NJ. j. Navin Of
the Detroit Americans received a let
ter Tuesday from Pitcher Frank DonO-
hue. rendering his resignation as a
member Of the club, and announcing
that he had purchased Il hotel in Phila-
delphia and will give up baseball.
Nike Kelly, once with the Augusta club
with the American Association and last
season manager of the Minneapolis club
Of that organization. has been expelled
from that organization along with Secre-
tary l.. A. Lyd.ard, charged with con-
spring to ruin the reputation of Umpire
owens. The annual meeting Of the Amer
lean Association will take place Dec. %
AT Chicago.
One day when the Athletics We're re-
turning to Philadelphia Connoe Mack
picked up an Indian player named
Finance. He was already long on ab-
original talent, for he had bender ami
Louis Bruce. The appearance of the
third Indian alarmed Hoffman. Them
lnjuns may be good ball players all
right. all right he told on of his
friends, "but | hate to see so many
foreigners breaking into the game"
What st. Louis fans did to honor
COmiSkey Tuesday night will he du-
plicatcd by his many friends in this
city Saturday night. April 6. When
Dewey returned from Manila he was
lioniZe1 and feted in New York and
other cities, and why should not the
hero Of Americas national game be
honored i'll every city that knows him ?
st. Louis knew him first as local
member of her Brown Sox, Cincinnat tt
second as the commander of her Red
Sox, and while he was honored first
where he made his reputation, he will
find he has not been forgotten in the
| city he served 50 faithfully for three
years.-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.