Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-29
BASEBALL NOTES.

Mike Kelley had an American As
% successive games. Friel of Columbus
hit safely in % games this year, but
he quit on win" Kelum.
The Boston Nationals have pOStpOn-
ed games as follows: Brooklyn Of
April Il, New York of April 10, Phillies
of May and g, Cincinnati May II.
The Americans, Detroit June 5.
Jimmy Casey, the Brooklyn captain,
is playing better ball just now than
he has been doing for the last three
years He has been banging out the
ball for doubles and triples and besides
is fielding his position admirably.
Washington Star: An austere Boston
expert criticises Umpire Sheridan for
allowing "a number of players to ques-
ton his decisions" In the heat of the
argument an umpire is apt to remem-
Der that there are more players than
umpires present.
Pres. Powers of the Eastern League
has telegraphed to the management of
the Toronto baseball club as follows:
Flood is expelled. He is not fit to play
in civilized ball" Flood was put out of
4 game Tuesday for aSsaulting the
umpire, and later he was sentenced by
Magistrate Denison to u days in Jail
at hard labor.
The ArOostook League game at
Pressure Isle Thursday with Fort Fair
field went Is innings, the score being
tied a second time i'll the 18th. The feat
ures of the games We're the pitching
Of Upton, who struck out Is men and
the batting Of Cronk, whose hits tied
the game in the 18th and won out in
The 18th.
st. Paul Dispatch: Some of the other
managers will begin to understand that
Bill Clymer isn't winning pennantS
through luck or through any mere su-
peTiority in the men, and they will
begin 10 give less attention to the bat
ting averages and .more to the difficult
task Of coaXing the average baseball
player to comprehnd that a lead piece
vas made for everyday use.
jesse Rurkett made a very interest
ing statement at the New England
League meeting Wednesday night. Il
take good care" said the veteran, mot
to have my players interfere with the
game, as it means the weakening of
my team and the loss of games The
Lynn club last season lost the cham
pionship by having their best players
put out Of the game for umpire bait
ing" Manager Leonard Of the Lynn
club fully agreed with Rurkett and
said: 1t was my one great trouble
trying to teach the players this import
ant fact" If championships are lost,
as they often are, bv the unwarrant-
able actions Of players, encouraged for
bulldOZing methods. it is about time
the men who invest their money in the
game get wise and take 4 tip from Mr..
Burkett.
Good bah players are as scarce as
1874 dollars" SAYS Clarke Griffith
PLAYERS who have the real brains and
ability and who have nothing the mat
ter with them cannot be had for love
nor money. There are plenty of players
who are there with the goods when it
comes 10 playing the game and who
might be got. But it doesn't take much
scratching under the surface to find
that there's something the matter with
most Of these pretty good ball players
whose employers are willing to turn
them loose for a piece of money
They're pretty liable to be dsorganiz-
ers. grOuchns. crabs. chronic kickers,
fellows who take the dark side of ev-
erything from the color of the mat
tress Of their sleeping car bunk to the
gold filing in the umpire's teeth. Just
one man Of this kind on ball club viii
queer the whole outfit"
The ball game at Fort Fairfield
Wednesday between Fort Fairfield
and Caribou was well patronized and
was very interesting game from the
first The two Bnwdoin pitchers, Files
and Sparks, pitted against each other
very close up to the seventh when
Files wildness and heavy batting by
the Fort Fairfield team put the game
on ice for the locals. Manter pitched
the last two innings for the Fort Fair
field team, showing good speed and
control. The features of the game were
the playing of Bernard of Fort Fair
field, and Pond, who broke finger in
the seventh inning but caught a hard
fly in the eighth also with the bases
fun in the seventh. Manter laced out a
tWo-bagger. scoring three runs. Final
score, eight to three in favor of Fort
Fairfield. Sparks pitched a fine game.
Fort Fairfield played Presque Isle
Thursday at Pressure Isle and lost by
a score Of seven to eight in wildly
exciting Is inning game.