Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-06
BASEBALL NOTES.

Moore leads the HaVernlll team of
the New England League in batting,
having an average of 29l for 81 games
PLAYED and 309 times al bat. He has
made 80 singles. 13 two baggers and
three three baggers, scoring A runs
for himself
The Cleveland baseball club Thurs
day announced the purchase of Out
fielder Burns of the Danville, H.,
Three League team, and Outfieder-
Callahan uf the Eau Claire, Wis. State
League team. They will report at the
end of the season.
Newark. the leading team in the
Eastern League race, is drawing
crowds of Il, 900 and $1,000 every Sunday
when at home. Joe McGinnity is wad-
ing IN clover up to his Shoetops The
tunnel under the Hudson river gives
the New York fans a chance to go over
to Newark in a few minutes.
Pres. Navin of the Detroit American
League baseball team, announced
Thursday that he will Immediately re-
call the following recruits who are
now playing with minor league teams:
Charley Ness. who is playing first base
for Williamsport, Penn; George Har-
den, al present pitching for Williams
port; Jay 'Hirke, infielder with Scran-
ton, and Delos Drake, an outfielder,
who has also been playing in a minor
league
Bert Leichen, the Detroit lad who
accompanies the Red Sox on the road,
and who is to be given a trial in the
infietu by Manager Donovan, was pre-
sente'd with a magnificent gold watch
Thursday by friends in Detroit. The
presentation speech was made by Sec
rotary BreSler of the Detroit club. This
yOungster is said to be one of the
hardest and most natural batSmen ever
picked up by a professional club, and
Detroit fans are delighted that he has
been taken up by such d fast bunch
as the Speed Boys.
plan is on foot in New Brunswick
to form an international baseball
league for next season, which will in
clude towns in the province and Maine.
Team managers are already talking
plans for next year. The proposal is
that the league should include ST.
John, st stephen and Woodstock,
with possibly Fredericton in New
Brunswick and Calais and Houlton in
Maine. These towns are close to-
gether, and a compact circuit could
be arranged.
JAKE Beckley, former first Sacker of
the Kansas City Blues, has applied
to President Chivington for a position
as umpire on the American Association
staff of arbitrators. His Barrettsville
club, of which he was manager, has
70 h. I.1 TT
of a job. He thinks he can Judge plays
well yet, even though his batting optic
is not clear as it was won't to be- Jake
is anxious to get hold of another club,
and It is rumored that he will hook
up with some Ohio State League team
next season.
The New Orleans Pelicans must be
made of the right stuff With Manager
Charley Frank in the hospital for six
weeks as the result of an operation
for appendicitis, they worked harder
than ever and now lead in the Southern
League race with d percentage of .596,
a margin of SO points over the Atlanta
Crackers, who are second. The Peli-
cans We're little slow getting started
this spring and struck their stride
about the time their manager went to
the hospital 1t was anything but un
pleasant confinement for Frank, for
day after day he read the accounts of
how his boys were forging to the front.
That an invasion of the baseball
field in Pittsburg is not only planned
for next fall, but that details are
practically complete SO far as Pitts
burg is concerned, was made public
Thursday through the admission of
those handling Luna park. John A.
Sharpe, renting agent for the Luna
park property. said Thursday
that he was negotiating with Western
men who were to put a. new baseball
club in Pittsburg. An option has been
taken on the park. which is larger than
Forbes field, and in this way effort on |
the part of the old leagues to block
the coming of the new league to Pitts |
burg will be frustrated.