Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-06
BASEBALL NOTES.

club with his Jersey City aggregation at
the Borden City April 19 and y.
Fred Crolius will manage the Lam
caster, Penn, team this year. He is
also athletic director at Villanova.
Kip" Selbach is having his second
lease on life. according to reports from
the training quarters of the Boston
Americans.
The state Of Tennessee has granted
the Nashville Baseball Association au-
| thority to increase its capital from s1O,-
! go to s25,O
Bob E.mslie. KLEIN and Tommy Con-
molly are the only big league umpires
who are getting experience before the
season opens.
| A young man known in St Louis as
| "Cy Young Ill" has been given the tin
| can by the local lcaguers. In this case
the name did not help him bit.
| Hub Hart. Georgetown's former catch
er, is slated tc take Danny Green's place
in Chicagos right field Frank Hemphill
will succeed callahan in the left garden.
Fincenty, who played a very fast game
with the Conants of Pawtucket and other
independent teams last season. las sign
ed with New Bedford. He will play short
stop.
| Byram and Doyle will be Princetons S
pitchers this year. Yale will have Jack
son. while Harvard will have to de-
velop an entirely new string of varsity
| box men.
| The Ohio nsylvania League will
| fierI,f ..teN
| Sunday ball. Thousands of dollars will
be lost if Sunday ball is prohibited in
that league.
| Larry Lajoie has fixed" his batting or
| der. and says he will not change it bcfor"
June ]. no matter how things go. Jimmy
| Collins holds the record for making few
shifts in his batting lists
Mulln of the Detroits VOWS that this
year will be his last in the baseball pro-
fession. He intends to go into business
| at indianapolis after the championship
| season ard give the national game the
| so-by.
cap Bill Joyce is an interested
| spectator at the st Louis series. He
still maintains an interest in the old
game and his advice is sought by the
National and American league man
ayers alike
Horace Fagel says that the reason
why he was not a success as a baseball
mataser was because Andy Freedman
didn't care whether he had a good team
or not while McGraw is given unlimit-
cd power by John T. Bush
| Jake Stahl of Washington is having
hard time to fill shortstop. Otto Will
lams. purchased from New Orleans will
not come back from Altoona where he
Jumped. Williams was counted on to
heip make up Cassidy's loss.
Managers Finn and Vaughan have
not yet reached an agreement regard
ing Charlie Elsey, who signed with
| birmingham without the consent of
Nashville. Finn wants 500 for him,
Which Vaughan refuses to pay
Sec. McBreen of the Boston team is
preparing some splendidly cmbelIished
ihV't'tiohs for the American League
opening at the Huntington avenue
grounds. Pres. Ban Johnson of the
American will make it point to be
present.
A game on the South End grounds
has been arranged May 10 between
teams representing the Boston stock
Exchange and the New York Stock Ex-
change. 1t will be the third ANIMAL
battle Of a series which began in Ros-
ton two years ago.
Arthur Clarkson probably will he ~.
umpire for all of the Harvard o;nor
home games this spring Garrison IL.
| umpired regularly at Andover sever;
seasons and has been tried at Cam.
| pricse with entire satisfaction in OOH
games during the past two years.
Inc John P. Squire & Co baseball team
vi boston has reorganized for the season
OF 1905 During the past four seasons
'hey nave won from some of the strong-
est semi-professional teams of Now Enc
iahd' They would like to arrange game.
away from home with semi-professionaJ
teams paying reasonable guarantee
Aodress r. E. Bigney. Sec and Treas
| Box 1926, Boston.