Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-29

Ty cobb, the Tiger star out1elder
and batsman, and the Detroit clhn
management still have some dlifer-
ences that have not been adjusted
| cobb was to have reported at the niger
training camp al san Ant0nl" wv"
weeks ago. but up TO Sunday he has
| failed 10 show up, and Manager Jen-
nines is getting worried because Cobb
| does not report for practice, especially
since the poor showing made by ms
veteran players. A month ago the
management reported that C"bb had
| signed three-year contract calllng
for $4,000. but nothing was said of any
other differences
No one will dispute the fact that
Larry Mclean is Il great catcher and a
batter of exceptional ability, but the
big fellow does not always confine ms
batting to baseball McLeanS size
makes him a great target for pitchers
to twirl' to, and he has steadied many a
younger pitcher because of this asset
A catcher who possesses these hne
points would naturally be OF great
value to a team if he behaved himself
but if a player is a disturbing element.
he is a great handicap to any team
Someone should take Mclean aside ana
whisper wise words into his ear. The
giant athlete is acting like big. over
grown schOOlbOy.
While running from second to
| third base in a baseball game near
Kit:anng, Pa, Saturday Roy Dun
| can, aged Is, one Of the most Skll!ul
pitchers Of his age, and promising
candidate COR the Pirate team, drop
ped dead after being struck on the
head by o swift line drive by batter.
At first it was thought that he had
Stun hled, but after few minutes it
| was seen that he had died almost in
stantlv from the blow. Young Dun
can was widely known as promising
twirlrr in :he Pittsburg, Pa, section.
His death is the first fatality OF the
| baseball season in that part of he
country.
The Doves will quit Augusta, Ga.
Thursday morning after one OF the
most successful training stops any
Major League club ever enjoyed in the
South. A lot may happen in the next
| three days that might put the team in
| the ruck in the development line, but
even in this event there would not be
| many regrets to offer Seldom has a
Major League team been favored with
the delightful weather that has pre-
vailed in the Today stay Of the Doves
at Augusta. Only one morning prac-
tice session was cut short because of
rain and, on a pinch, the team could
have worked out then. The weather
has been of that sort that makes the
managers smile, and when you note
teams leader showing satisfaction in
the practice season it's a sure sign
that things are breaking his way.
The fourth cut in the Harvard base
| bali squad brings the candidates for
places in the nffeld and outfield down
| to - men, no reduction being made
| in the battery squad. The men re-
| tanned are r. H. Aronson 10, I. G.
| Bolton 70, r. j. Campbell 70, Carr II,
| w. NJ. Conant ~. j. r. Desha ~ r..
| =. Frye 10. A. Harvey II. X. Haydock
| 10. a. J. Kelley II. J. T.. Kennedy u,
II, X. $. Marshall 10. w. NJ. Minot
II. ID. V. O'Flaherty 10, X. :. Potter
| l., II. A. Rogers II and II. de Windt
| T.. A further cut will probably come
before the Southern trip. as only about
| 90 men win be taken along. The bat
| tory squad still has eight men, the
pitchers being Hicks, Mckay, Ernest
and Babson and the catchers Brown
| HOVE, Reeves and Young.