Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-11
BASEBALL NOTES.

to the farming business and will not
have farming station anywhere.
mick" Altrock is making a great
name in the Over the Rine district in
Cincinnati as pool player.
Pitcher Seaman of the Brooklyns is
inclined to quit baseball for medicine.
and Will make q shift in that direction
one or these days.
! First Baseman Jordan has not come
to terms with Brooklyn but there is no
doubt that matters will be arranged to
his liking at no distant date
] Pitcher sam Lever of the Pittsburgs
J co pl, ted a decade as a professional
! Lase''all player last season. He has
worked regularly for Pittsburg since
1892
The old guard in baseball is getting
less and less. Mcclure, Gleason,
Lowe, Davis and Young seem to be
the only ones sure of their places next
season.
Billy Sullivan. the star catcher of the
= White ScX team, has not yet got over
his crouch against fate for not getting
a single hit in the post-season world S
championship games.
Manager BILLY" Murray is getting
along finely and will he able to TAX"
up his duties as manager of the Phil
lies loEg before another championship
season rolls around again.
Having thoroughly dgested the
Presidents message. fandom has its
ear to the ground. wondering what the
National League masnates will 10 III
New York and the Anne lean Lcaguers
in Chicago.
Oliver D. Pickering. the outtielder
secured by st. Louis from Columbus.
first attracted attention when with
Houston. Tex. where he played in
1892. '93 and '94. He is :. native of
Olney. Ill.
Dick Cooley's friends arc busy put
ting it Ill over the wise ones who said
Dick was all In when he was released
by the Boston Nationals. Dick batted
for .3O5 last season with his own team
in the Western League.
Out in Springfield the ar" still doing
honor to Pigs To- ahur. The
knights of Columbus of that place gave
him banquet some nights ago. il
! which the oratory. literature. music
and eating were prominent.
In politics a boom is often an abbre-
waited bOomerang-Silk OLoughlin-
Washington Post-Silk tried for place
in the New York Assembly and lost
out through bad decision. He decid-
ed to run On the wrong ticket Demo
cratic).
Sandow Mertes lows that if he can
a in MI mill
he is DESTROYS of swapping some cash
for, he'll give up baseball. Sandow new
er got over the surprise he experienced
when he was swapped to St. Louis for
Spike Shannon.
Willie Keller is worth $4,000. Now
will any one doubt that Willie contin-
ues in the game because he loves the
sport ?--BOston raveler-Willie is not
the first and will not be the last to love
a good sport from which lots of dough
! may be cOaXed.
Jimmy Ryan. an old Washington
player. who managed the Evansville
team of the Central Lea que the past
season, IS of the opinion that Osborne.
secured by the Chicago Nationals. will
make good Ryan touts the youngstcr
as strong hitter.
Manager Joe Bean of the Jersey City
club has been in that city making ar
rangements for the coming season. He
has his eyes on several players he
expects to secure for next season, and
is confident he will have a team that
will be we'll up in the race.
Harry Aubrey. once a Boston Nation
al League shortstop and now with the
New York State League, led the short
stops Of that league in fielding last
season, with the fine percentage of $50.
Lautertorll fielded for 900. The vet
can Billy Mailman led the second
lasemen with 1865.
There Is a lively row in the National
League over the playing of games with
American League clubs in the spring.
The president of the Chicago club is
scoring the Cincinnati club for arrang-
ing spring games with Americans. IL
the Chicago Nationals had won the
worlds championship the chances arc
that no such squabble would have aria-
en-.
The latest addition to Newark ;;
lengthy pitching staff is Howard l..
Buck of Adrian, Mich. who comes with
the recommendation of Pitcher Bill
Carrick of this years twiring staff.
Buck has not had much professional
experience, but has been pitching ball
for six years with high school and
semi professional teams in Michigan.
He is 10 years of age. stands feet ii.
height and weighs 175 pounds
The Rochester Eastern League club
will be sold to the highest bidder at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The sale
will be held at the Monroe county court
house at Rochester, n. Y, and it is eX-
pected it will be bought in the interests
of the present owners. The sale is the
outcome of the collapse of a part of the
granistand at the Rochester park and
the large number of damage suits
which followed.
Connie Mack has already signed three
"Rubes" for next season. RUDE Wad-
dell was such a big 'un with the Ath-
letics when he adopted that nom Dc
plume that. of course. like all great
men. he had his imitators. "Rube'
Vickers and "Rube" Wigs We're the
two imitators who became well known
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