Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-05
BASEBALL NOTES

Jimmy Casey says he VIII net play
ball for Jersey City.
Detroit has asked waivers on JIM
Morgan and Charley Carr
Big Ed Greminger Will be with
Jimmy Ryans Montgomery club next
season.
"Rig Chief" Bender has signed with
tho Athletics. He won Is games i'll Il
row las season.
Madden. the fIaverhill outfelder, is
playing sensational ball for one OF the
Florida winter clubs.
Bender has signed with the Athletes.
The red man is one of the greatest
pitchers in the business.
The young players OF the New York
Giants will start for Texas Feb. 10,
and the veterans will leave New York,
FEB. 29.
Second Baseman Ritchey Of the Bos-
ton Nationals has led the league
second bascmen for six consecutive
seasons.
Cleveland will have two farms next
season. Toledo. managed by Bill
armour, anu .>si5IiN liit, IiiStlo0No ~
Bill Bernhard.
Fred Olmstead. the young pitcher
tried out by the Boston Americans two
years ago, has been signed by the
Chicago White Sox.
The Pirates will have a new intielder
named Wetzel Barney Dreyfus:; cyi-
IDENTIFY does rot think that German
players are cutters.
Tad Jones, Yates famous athlete,
still refuses ali overtures to become Z
professional ball player. He will be
CAPTAIN and catcher Of Yale's nine this
season.
Ed killian has attached his John
Hancock to a Detroit contract. He has
NOT been in good health since the close
Of the season, but says that he is i'm
proving.
Secretary Barnard of the Maps says
it is one best bet that Cleveland Will
keep Bill Bradley as their thlrd-sacker.
Neither the Yankees nor any other
club will have chance to get him
away, says Barnard.
Charley Comiskey says it is bad
mands, but he should be made to feel
he is getting all he is worth. If 4
player is made to believe he is getting
all he is worth he will exert himself
to make himself worth more.
William Hermann. once of the very
few ambidextrous pitchers in the
country. is slated for chance with
some big league team. His change
from left to right-hand delivery may
prove more Of stumbling block to
far batting averages than the dreaded
spit ball.
Catcher Charley Schmidt OF the De-
troit club has signed his contract for
next season. and says his fingers have
all healed now. so that he hopes to
play without that handicap next sum
mer He worked in dozens OF games
last year with his fingers broken and
badly smashed.
Three of the New York Giants, now
belonging to Boston, have not signed
with Owner Dovey yet. They are Nc
Cam, Bowernlan and Dahlen, and
Doyey is getting anxious as the time
for spring training draws near. Bow
erman baked with the Giants last sea-
son and lid not report until just before
the season began.
Negroes of Pittsburg, have plans
nearly completed for the organization
of a national baseball league, to be
known as the Colored National
League. 1t is to be an eight-club
league. with teams in the following
cities: Pittsburg. Chicago, New York.
Boston, Cincinnati. Philadelphia, st.
Louis and Cleveland.
Manager Joe Kelley of the Boston
National baseball team has decided to
release Catcher Brown of the team,
ard it is also probable that he will not
be taken South The advent Of Bow
erman and several other new men
makes il imperative that some of the
catchers should be dispensed with.
kellty picks brown as one of the men
to- go.
Sam Thompson. in his time the most
formidable hatSman in the country, is;
living a life of ease and plenty on the
outskirts OF Detroit. Sam claims that
the game has improved in every de-
partment excepting with regard to the
catchers, and he maintains that Kelly,
Ewing and Bennett were easily the
superiors of any of the present vintage
of backstops.