Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-10
Baseball Notes

Woodle. the Princeton pitcher,
struck out II Quakers i'll the game
with Pennsylvania Saturday.
Hagal. the Haverhill shortstop is
said to be one of the speediest men III
the New England League. His long
euit is stealing bases He steals home
now and then.
Clyftorl Hewes. a Senior. the star
pitcher of the Thornton Academy team
this year, has won three of the four
games he has pitched this spring. He
is scheduled to pitch the next three
games. as the academy team is shy on
tWirlerS.
Mitchell. catcher of the Highlanders.
was formerly a pitcher on the Boston
American team. He makes a fine back
stop and is performing so well that he
has nos'sd out kleinow as a regular
performer.
The Tufts baseball team will play
two games away from home this week.
The Medford nine on Wednesday
meets Trinity College at Hartford. Ct,
and on Friday d return game will be
played with Holy Cross a Worcester.
The first game With Holy Cross was
won by the purple, to 1.
J Tim Jordan. first baseman, has been
released by the Brooklyn management
to the Toronto Eastern League club.
Jordan is in a hospital in BROOKLYN.
being treated for a seriously injured
knee. Jordan formerly was one of the
heaviest hitters in the National
League.
A baseball game between a team of
nine young women and nine young
men well known in Philadelphia socl-
ETY. was feature of the opening of the
season at the Belfeld Country Club.
| The men wore shirtwaists and skirts
that the contest might be more equal
The women won. SO to 10.
! A one-hit baseball game was played
at GAINESVILLE the other day by the
Fort Wayne and the GAINESVILLE teams
| of the Central League. The lone hit
| Of the 81 innings was made against
Connolly. of GAINESVILLE by Donahue of
Fort Wayne. Pfeffer of Fort Wayne
did not allow a semblance of q hit. but
his team lost the game. through an
error. This is rare baseball for teams
| of even the highest class.
comparison of the batting and
| fielding averages of the two Boston
teams for the past week shows that
the Americans suffered heavy losses
| in both departments of the game.
dropping 81 points in batting and IL in
| fielding The Nationals improved
gaining % points at the bat and in
the field. The Red Sox showed IN
poorly against the sidewheelers who
opposed them. making it evident that
they need deal of coaching and
plenty Of morning practice against
southpaws. About every regular on the
nine failed even to maintain his aver
age of the previous week
The batting of the Harvard nine is
causing much worry as to the outcome
of some of the big games which are
gradually drawing near. The teams
batting average is but 1852 per cent.
Wofully weak average for so prom
inent team. Potter leads the team,
with the same average as last week
.4S1; Babson is second. with 1868. hav-
ing come up over / % per cent during
The week past. He is the only man on
the team who is hitting the ball con-
Sistently. Hicks has dropped from sec
ond place to third. and has gone down
in his average to 1921. Capt Lanigan
has improved greatly during the week.
rising from AS to .t61, and now holds
fourth place in the list. but is not hit
ting the ball even now in anywhere
near old time form.
For the first time since the DAYS in
CINCINNATI when Tony" MuIane used
to switch arms and rest one by twirI-
ing with tother. there's an ambidex-
trous tWirler in Major League COM
pany- HIS name is Charles Friene and
re Is member of Connie MaCk's
Philadelphla Athletics. Friene first
attracted attention as ball player
while pitching for Santa Clara Col
lege, the institution which produced
"Haf' Chase. the wonderful first sack
er OF the New York Highlanders. Then
he broke into the Pacific Coast League
and year ago pitched game for
San jose against the Chicago White
Sox. in which said Sox looked like a
dack OF deuce spots. They secured six
scattered hits off the youth who
switches arms while pitching.
Baseball engages the best families
these days, but the ex-Presidents of
the United States hasn't many name
sakes in the game. There is no Wash
ington in the game, but there is an