Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-21
BASEBALL NOTES.

Hugh Duffy has booked several clev-
or class b players for draft after
oct. 10.
'Tis said that Manager Eddie Wheel
er of Denver has Il chance 10 go u
Providence.
Sunday Walsh famed Lister ana
Iiebhardt Of the ClevelantlS on six
pitched balls.
New York is the second club to score
10 victories over the Athletics. The De-
troitS have also landed that number
Cincinnati lost "a games by one run
this season. In the American League
the st. Louis Browns lost 80 glmes by
one run.
Barbeau Of Toledo was knocked ont
last week by being hit by Il pitched
iall delivered by Pitcher Summers of
Indianapolis.
If the Bostons had done us well
against the Athletics as the New YuIks,
Connie Mack's crew would not have
been able to hold first place as they did
Horace FOsel of Philadelphia saws
that if the Athletic grounds had the
capacity. an attendance of - ht0 could
have been had on SATURDAYS game in
that city.
Bill Clymer pitched the last inning
Of the last game on Columbus Sunday
against Louisville. with the score 10 TO
, in favor Of Louisville, ANA was no.
hit for run.
Pittshurg made the best mark in a
series made ny Il club in either ma jor
league. taking 20 games out of - from
I in tIhI ma IN,
st. Louis. Pittsbure made IL runs TO
u, and scored five shut-Outs.
Young Langford made Il great debut
in New York Saturday. In the first in
ming he passed two men, hit tuo, dealt
Laporte a wicked fling on his head 50
that the victim was Knocked uncOn-
| sciOus, and added Il wild pitch and
balk
Boston Globe: Pres. Johnson might
have shown Umpire Stafford the cou"-
! tesy Of letting him remain on the pay
! roll the rest Of the season. Sheridan
and Connolly We're the only American
League officials 10 show better work IN
Boston than John Stafford, who will
have no trouble in securing Il good
berth next season
Jack Dunn was the happiest ban
| player in America last spring when
, his Oriole bunch put it all over the
Providence team III three straight
| games. Dunn tried to make it I'M
| pleasant for the Duffy-Do combine
| ton at that time. Since then the
clam diggcrs have walked around the
Maryland boys like a cooper around a
washtub ana the smile is now located
in Providence
! Spit-hall pitchers in the Southern
/ lIeaGu" are up against Il Tough prom
o"ltion. The opposing players have been
reSnrting TO tie use Of fannie acid and
| hcorice, and number Of twirlcrs who
make use of the saliva-mostcned ball
have appealed To the umpires, who are
trying TO break UP this practice The
only way to get rid of this bah is 10
have rule passed making it an il
legal delivery to moisten the ball.
The Cincinnati Enquirer man lust
| throws this one: President Murphy
holsters up Cub courage in an inter-
view in which he claims, with charac-
tcriStic rhetoric. that his pitching staff
| is the mighticSt collection of SenSa-
| tion:n slabmen on this or any other
/ known team. This all sounds well, but
! it won't win the worlds championships
! The plain fact, with all hot air elimi-
mated. is that the Cub staff is the weak
est spot on the team. and probably no
! one knows it better than Frank Chance
Out iii Vancouver a father and son
| play on the same team. This is an odd
combination. and Felix Martinlle, the
Notwithstanding parent, has tried TO
| Eppn 10
Rochon. the little shortstop of the same
team. admitted that he is a stepson of
Martinke. The O'Rourkes are the only
father and son playing on the same
club. the father being owner of the
Bridgeport (Ct) club, while the son was
formerly shortstop on the Yale Varsity
team before breaking into professional
baseball.
Percy Cove, the Seattle feather