Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-17
Joe Kelley Will Depend
on His Old Hands.
Most Of the Young Players on
List 10 Be Turned hdTift.
Hohe Ferris Will Play Third For
Jimmy keAIeer.

Barton, Jan. f6.--AIo8t Of the young
pIayc.4 secured by the Boston Nation
als or araf: or purchase will be turned
adrift, ~ Joe Kelley has decided 10
stand pat IN Eowerman, Ball. sam
Rrowl.o ana Graham for catchers;
Young, Dorner, FIahcrty, Pfeffer.
Lindananp. Ferguson, Boultes, ana
one other cor pitchers; Tcji1un, RItch-
~. Brain. Dahlen and Sweeney for the
infie!d, and himself. Beaumont. George
browne and either Bates or HOFFMAN
for ire outiield.
I'r1ck. tine Worctstcr pitcher. Will
probably 90 South vita the club IN
Marc.I to Augusta. Ga FrOck did fneiy
fer Worcester last year and Manager
joe Kelley thinks he will make good.
Kelley doesn't seem stuck on having
Barney Joy There seems TO be "A knock
for linn from about everybody. and he
III away out in Honolulu. President
Dovey is Of the opinion that Joy vii!
make good. The st. Louis Nationals
tried to buy Joy from San Francisco
three different times, and the last time
offered $4,000 for him. Cincinnati offered
$500 and two players. Both offers We're
turred down. Boston put in = bid for
him. along with nine other major
league clubs, and won on the draw.
Joy is over six feet tall and weighs
about 80. He is a southpaW.
Dewey was extremely lucky in draft
ing. Every man he put in a claim for
came his way. He loses Myers of Ia
coma and Schriver of GAINESVILLE, al
though he won them in drafting be-
cause Myers had been traded by St
Paul with the privilege of repurchase,
and Schriver by Wheeling with the
same understanding.
II transpries that the Chicago Nation
ais were also after Joe Kelley but Dovey
was luckier than Charles Webb Murphy
The draft Of Kelley killed off the at
teropt to draft Jim mckinley and other
PLAYERS on the champion Toronto team
Kelley. before his departure for Bal
tiInore last night on the o'clock Fed
eral Express, was rendered an informal
little supper by Mike Regain and other
friends Jesse Brrkett and John ODon-
nell. the Worcester magnates, put in Il
word for the players drafted and pur-
chased from other clubs and it is very
likely will get every man but Frocl1 back
Hugh Duffy mas also been promised
first claim on the men to be discarded
The statement that Randall and others
had been traded to Trenton. n. j.. is de-
MED by Kelley
Tie list of players purchased is: Ear
berich of Lawrence. Frock. Sliney and
Bushey Of Worcester: McCabe. Roy and
Dessau Of Steubenville. pl,cners: Knots
Of Worcester. catcher, and Hoffman of
Holyoke. outficlder.
The list drafted is as follows: Joy of
San Francisco, pitcher: Graham OF Min
ncapolis, catcher: Carris of Washington,
Pa. and Noyes of Hartford. in:ielders,
and Hail of baltimore outfielder
Cy Young was the only man who was
not sent n contract Cy will h. called
into the headquarters at the Paddock
building, made to stand on the carpet in
President Dovey's private office and given
To understand that he must get move
on next season.
Kelley will be ready to jump hack to
Boston whenever needed. but says he
doesn't anticipate any trouble of any
kind. and SAYS that old Kentucky Nc
Gam and the rest of the players will
sign readily.
Joe is not saying 50 out loud but he's
satisfied in his inmost soul that he will
be the runner mp to Chicago.