Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-20
BASEBALL NOTES

Jesse Burkett, having WIN t-N -"
England pennant with his worcester
team, has signed 10 pitchers.
Eddie. Konetchy. the big first base
nan IF the st. Louis Cardinals, IS play
ing center on the Co. L basketball team
OF La Crosse.
Word has foated into the Brooklyn
camp that in Zimmerman, the new
third baeeman, the Dodgers have
drawn q good one.
Washington Star: The new Union
Association has five Offices in Phild
deIDhia, anyhow. AS a winter league
the new organization is cutting quite
a figure.
The Southern League has an
nn1:nced q 10 per cent. cut in salaries,
and the howl made by the players has
| been so pronounced that 4 10 per cent.
raise may be the result.
jack Powell, the veteran pitcher for
tia. St Louis Browns, has been keep
ing in trimming all winter, doing road
work in town. He is going to try for
q delayed record next season.
Manager Mc.Aietr expects to dis
cover 4 marvel in oIe Of his young
pitching recruits. He has four of them
and they are all left-handerS. and IL
needs j south-paW finger. too.
Toronto made 50 much money last
season that III" club has offered $3oHp
for Puck" Freeman, and 'Holne-ruii
Puck" Was not considered strong
enough for the American League.
joe Ecllcy. Who is to manage tae
Boston Nationals this coming season.
batted 81 In the Eastern League last
year. He should hit wen up around
| the $50 mark with the bis leaGuera.
Manager Billy Clymer, if he wiA,
| the pennant next season for Colun,-
/ bus. as he says he will. Will have cs-
! tablished a record as a four-time VIM
! ner in succession. Go to it, William.
Manager Murray OF the Phillies ex-
| pccts 10 take IA pitchers South for the
| suring try-out. Eight OF the bunch
! are slated for the can before the real
coming of the good old summer time.
! Ccniskey is to have a bigger squad
! of bail players on the training triI
! this spring than last He proposes ["
| give all his recruits for the White SoN
u thorough test before letting any o.
| them get away.
Hughey Jennings says he is palm
| ist. why" said Hughey the other
| day, Il merely looked at a players
hand last night and told him he would
soon have money, and sure enough he
got it. He held four aces"
McGray has physical wonder in one
! OF his recruits Pitcher Mckinney. WHO
no TatfTisc
| He and Catcher James. another of Nc
| Graw's recruits, will make the biggest
| battery in the National League.
Tim Flood. umpire batter. is slated
| to manage the st. Paul club. the
! Eastern League has the bars Up
against Flood, but President Powers
made no charges against the player
There is one food-hearted magnate.
Tom McCreery has bobbed UP again
for his second time on the baseball
| earth. After being in retirement tc:'
two years. Tom is booked to become
| Hoosier. Now there must be an
where.
| Cleveland fans are planning on a
pennant next year. If Laj0ie and his
crew fail 90 land the American League
FLAG there is still hope that the Cleve-
land Giants. one of the strongest col
orei teams in the country, will win out
in the National Colored League, which
| is about to br organized.
out Of the West comes the wooziest
baseball yarn of the off s. eason. In
effect, the story says tiiat President
Fielder
! Jones to remain in the game cniy by
making q contract with his player
manager calling for $4,000 for tive
years That sounds like the old war
time talk, when ell the sCribcs were
recklessly flirting with big figures.
With percentage Of .36I Wood Q!
the Toronto nine. led the Eastern
League baseball batsmen last season
Wood, however, played in only II
games. Connor Of Toronto, III il
games. was second. with .353, while
Hoey II the same team, was third with
.323. The one who really made the
best showing, from the fact that he
played in lO2 games. was Thoney Of
Toronto who had .32G.
President Ebbetts mas determined Ia
put an end 10 late hours and bad
habits in the Brooklyn ranks He l.
not the only person >yhO believes that
some Of his players did not deport
themselves in q way that secured the
best results last season. Pat Dono-
van has been given the authority ne
cesSary 10 maintain discipline, and the
first man tn ovr:step the dissipation
line will lie handed a suspension paper
calling for a vacation without pay
Donovan Is on still hunt for another
outtlelder. Any fleet young person will
batting average of smart proportions
can obtain a regular job by proving
his worth to Manager Pat.