Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-20
Baseball Notes

Great things are claimed for two
Connecticut League players. Hoover
of Waterbury is said to have gone tG
games without an error. Sherwood of
New Haven is claimed to have been
perfect in Is games.
The New Bedford Evening Standard
SAYS: They certainly have strenuous
times i'll the Three | League. The 9TH
er day the league president and one
| of his umpires had a fist fight on the
| diamond at Springfield, ILL., Tachs'
| Delave is out in that league and ought
to be having the time of his life"
! William J. Bryan, baseball fan, has
suggested that the name of the Lin
coin AntelopeS be changed To the
| 'Camels.' Since he started the season
at Lincoln last Monday by tossing the
| first pitched bail the former candidate
for President has become an enthusi-
| astic fan. why don't YOU name them
the 'Camels@' he said to Don Despair
Friday ut the ball park 'rhey sure
have to go q long time without a
drink
The California League is not meet
ing with the success that its directors
looked for, and there is already talk
of San Francisco and Oakland being
discarded. Attendances around the
bay have been very struggling to say
the least. Whether this is due from
lack of advertising or from being
''smothered," so to speak, by the Coast
League is difficult to say. And even
in the interior the games have not
pulled the crowds which We're pre-
dicted.
Monday was the day designated by
the rules of the New England League
for having the different teams down
to playing basis of IA men, and
Manager Dowd of New Bedford on
Monday made a cut of one by return
ing Friene. the ambi-dexterous pitch
er hack to the Philadelphia Club.
whence he came. Friene twirled d
couple of good games for New Bed
ford during the short time that he
was there. but cut had to be made
somewhere and Dowd decided to send
him back
i never want Il bet made on me
when | am to pitch a game" said
George SuggS. the crack young Cincin-
natI tWl1ier, who has won five straight
victories for his team. The reason |
don want people to bet on me when ]
pitch is that in nine cases out of 10
Nncn man bets on you and you hap
pen to lose, that man loses a lot of his
friendly feeling towards you. / will
never advise any man to bet on me
when I'm pitching. Not that I ever
lose confidence or ever go into a. game
with the slightest idea of losing it,
Ter l don't. But just the same ! never
IKE To feel that anyone. especially
friend of mine, has bet on me"
Fhe playing season for the Kentucky
Indiana Tennessee Baseball League,
more familiarly known as the kitty,
VIII open on May 26. and will close on
sept. Il. The schedule has been finally
adopted Players have reported to
each of the clubs included IN the cir
cut, anu preparations arc well under
way in regard 10 the selection of
team and settlement or the other mat
ters incident to the opening of the sea
son. The league will lie COMPOSED OF
four towns; Hopkinsville and Paducah,
Ky: Nincennes, Ind, and ClarksViiie,
Tenn Until the last minute berth
was reserved for Henderson. and. had
that town come in. Marion, ILL.,. would
have been included also making
six-club circuit. but Henderson fell
$3.50 short of raising $500 with which
to back her team and dropped out.