Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-10
!: BASEBALL.
Mcclure Orders Some
Players to Report Early.
Wants Them 10 Take the Baths
dHotSprIngs Before Practice.
Duffy and Doe In court..-Beston
Nationals Making Plans.

Boston, Jan. g-The first gun of th-
baseball season Of 1908 has been fired
by Manager Jim Mcclure of the Red
Sox. Yests rday he notified Pitchers
Young. Winter. TanneiTli. Morgan and
Burcheu. Cstcher5 Criger and .IarFar-
land and G,t6elder Barrett 10 g" /"
Hot Springs an Feb. Is and remain
there until ,Iarch 10, Eher they WI.
join the rest If the Boston squad al
Little Rock Manager McGuir" feels
that these arc the men Tho need the
most boiling out and for thai reason
he has assigned them la three weeks
course nf mud baths at the Springs.
Old ~ Young does not care very
much for The oiling-out-pr"ccss ana u
the winter at Peoli. o., remains suf-
ficlently open 80 that he can work
around the farm it is doubtful if he
will take the trip to Arkansas Until the
main squad goes. Manager Jim Will
leave that entirely to YOunG'S diScre-
ton for he knows that If Cy needs the
sweating he will take il. If the veteran
is compelled to lie around the house all
winter he will undoubtedly go to the
reservation.
The boiling out at the springs last
year did George Winter a whole lot OK
good and while he very seldom puts on
much flesh during the winter, yet the
course down there puts new lie ana
ginger i'm him. Barrett has been get
ting little heavy during the past two
years and while that knee that bother
ed him so much in the last two years
is now practically well. he will need
TO drop some weight to get into the
best shape possible. Jesse Tannehill
also IL inclined to add weight durin"
the off season and that bad arm may
also need q little more attention than
It would get in the regular practice
work at Little Rock.
As Mcclure expects to use both Nor
gan and Burchell a great deal in the
early spring games he wants them to
get into condition as soon as possible.
Criger and Mcfarland will be the re-
ceiying end of the practice at the
Springs though the baths will do Eddie
a whole lot of good.
Both the Red Sox and the National
League officials are greatly pleased over
the determination of the National Corr
mission not to open the regular season
until April 10. That is what the clubs
situated in the North have been work
ing for for two or three years. the
tendency Of late has been to put the
opening date a little earlier each var.
Last year the season opened up on
April II, and everybody remembers the
kind of weather in Boston for weeks
following that date. April 10 in Massa-
chusetts is an ideal opening day. for 1t
combines with fairly late day the ad-
yantages of being holiday.
The row between Hugh Duffy ana
Fred Doe over control Of the Provi-
dence Eastern League club has finally
reached the Massachusetts court. Duff
~ suing Doe to recover $3.50 on a
note.
Duffy claims ,ia he loaned that
ainnInt Of money to Doe on Jan. 70
1907. He asserts dat Doe and himself
bought on that day from Patrick L.
Powers of New York 1853 shares of the
capital stock of the Rhode Island En-
hibition Co, owners of the Providence
team, and that they pledged their stock
to secure notes both had signed in ia
vur of Powers.
Some OF these notes held by Powers.
he Claims, have been paid. while 9TH
crS are not yet due. OF the shares pur-
chased, LIS are in the name of both
Duffy and Doe. and Duffy asks that
the form be changed and that he be
given his shares individually and in
his own right. He also seeks to get at
tie interest Of Doc in Does own stock.
subject TO Powers rights. in order to
pay aim what Doe owes him. on his
note.
The Eoston Nationals viii go South
about the middle of March. from the
10th to the 18th. according to the
schedule To be adopted by the Nation
al League, President George r. Dewey,
who Is about again and really himself,
said yesterday that nothing definite In
the matter would be decided till the
arrival of Manager Joe Kelley on Mon
day. Dewey will not say where the
club is going. but it's right good guess
Ing 1t will be to Augusta, Ga. although
there has been some talk of Atlanta
Still there are few other places lett
and there is no fear that tile Doves
cannot get in for the few weeks de'
SIZED.
An emissary of indoor baseball was
at headquarters yesterday, and triee
TO get George interested. Pitcher Mike
Lynch. who is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS so a.
10 graduate with his LIZ b. from Bos
ton University in the late spring. wa:
approached and offered the nunificen
-(?) sum Of So per game. "Say some
thing about $500. and even then l doub
If you could tempt me-" said the New
Yorks' pitcher.
It was quiet all day at the Paddock
building. Secretary John took rul
out to the grounds to look over TIL
plant and figure again on the chang
OF the seating plans.