Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-01
Augusta Bangor Series
For This Week.
In Augusta Wednesday and
Thursday, Then in Bangor.
The Quilting OF Portland Does
Not Disrupt the League.

Augusta has no idea Of quitting To
begin with Manager McDonough is not
made Of that kind Of stuff, and then
again Augusta people want to see the
schcGI 6 played out, for they have
been seeing IA fast and clean baseball
as was ever played in Maine. York
Beach and Pine Tree went to the wall
early in the gam: then Lewiston Cell
by the wayside. and now Portland
with almost 100000 people to draw
from, cannot scare up a few hundred
rooters to attend two games week.
But Augusta stick md Fangor
sticks and Eidi"ford sticks. Bidde-
ford, however, j. in Il bad way and
as thr'c-tcam arrang' ment is not
practica' the season viii close with 4
series between Augusta and Bangor.
Biddcfcrd gave it' team q grand benc-
fit yesterday, and tine IN ,ncy RAISED
will aid Manager McG:aw to escape
going into a hole His men will get
their money or most OF what is due
them anyway. All of them are college
boys who VIII soon he back at their
studies
The plans for the rest of the season
between Augusta and Bangor We're
made by t" eph"ne last night. Mhn-
ager McDpnoush and lott talked Ii
over and arranged to play in Augusta
"Wednesday and Thursday and in Ba IL
gor Friday and Saturday. Both teams
will IA" Kept toy Their Just as they
have been playing and the games VIII
be und': the state League agreement
as t. Euar1 nt"cv, umpire, etc. The
plan" n"At Monday. Labor day arc
yet T." be determined Perhaps d
morning Eaulo will be played in Au-
guSta and an Afternoon sam" in Pan
gor. or it may be that both games
will he played over on the PenpbsrGt.
Anyway the Labor day games will
close the regular stat" League schcd-
ule. though i; Is possible that a series
of exhibition games may then be ar
ranged for the ArcoStook towns which
are said t" be baseball hungry.
1t is a pity that Portland did not
have tho nerve to fight it out 1t was
at the top of the list when it quit bur
of course cannot claim the champion
ship as it fails to finish the season
Its dropping out leaves Bangor on
top. Bangor won the championship
this year it will have to open the
throttle some AZ Augusta is camping
on it's trail and has won the last tw ,
games played That 9 to o victory
last Saturday will make the Augusta
fans turn out in great shape to tho
games of Wednesday and Thursday
The games will be at 4 o'clock and
there ought to be big crowds in at
IL tI,D hac
ing and 1t will be the last real base
ball of the year for this section of the
State
Yesterday afternoon Manager Nc
Donough took the Senators to Car
diner on little outing Three regu-
lar men We're missing and the others
" played out of position so that the
- game was not very hot stuff from
,,4 scientific standpoint The aggregation
e was reinforced by Actor jenkins Of
the Island Park theater who made his
debut in right field. Charlie Allen.
Gardiner boy himself, tossed them
over easy and it was worth the trip
to Gardiner to see Pitchers Thompson
and Irish play second and short re
spectively. Cohbossee Inn won. to o.
1t is likely that the players will
make little canvass of the city to-
day and tomorrow with tickets for the
) "Wednesday and Thursday games and
no doubt they will get cordial re
! Ceptlon on all sides. They are gen
. tlemen as we'll "a ball players. and II
Augusta is in the baseball business
next year 1t will want to see them all
= back here They have stuck by thor
3 popular manager in loyal fashion. have
y given Augusta great baseball ami
. having it's team stay in the league
9 when Portland. the FtropoliS had 20
. drop out. They have not been getting
. much money tn he sure, hut their zeSt
to play the best baseball that was III
; them ha. never suffered on that ac
\ count They have received very little
local assistance outside of the attend
ance and that has never been as large
as the games have warranted and de-
served.
With Augusta and Bangor at IN"
Driving park Wednesday and Thurs
day afternoons there will be two more
great game;, for the local fans and no
body can afford to miss them who can
possibly be there. 1t is not simply
case of helping out tho team. irr
everybody is guaranteed their money
worth of the fastest baseball