Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-01
WORLD OF SPORTS
Baseball Notes

| Now that Walter Johnson has signed
! his 1910 contract Washington fans are
breathing easier
! 1t appears to be pretty generally con-
coded that Miss Mcguire. who is to marry
Rube Waddel is a courageous young
woman.
Ray Demmitt. last season with the
Highlanders, is making good with the
St. Louis Browns.
Josh" Devoe looks SO good to Nc
Graw that he NAV be placed at the head
| of the Giants batting list,
Miller Higgins is showing good form
about second base and looks to be the
best bet for field captain of the Cardinals.
Iris Speaker is still the hitting kid
| uitt, the BOSTON Americans The Texan
| is a great performer of classy willow
music
Charley Prueitt the former Boston Red
Sock and George Robe whose hitting
won the worlds championship for the
| Chicago White SoX, are members Of the
New Orleans club.
Christy Mathewson i'll commenting on
the season of 1909. said that only once
balls when he was actually working hard
to make the batslnan hit. Clement was
the man who fooled Matte.
Stanley Robson, the owner of the st.
Louis Nationals, thinks that Zach Wheat
will surely be another TY Cobb. Robi-
son says the Brooklyn club got in Wheat
the greatest of all around players picked
up from the minor leagues In years
Wheat is Kansas City boy
The Louisville management is attaching
the hardware to the surplus talent. Third
Basaman Barker goes to the Bluegrass
League and Outheder Offa Neal was
uncondtiu nally released.
Harry Noyes has written the Haver
hill baseball management that he has
decided to play with Haverhill the
coming season and would report in two
weeks Noyes was sold to Haverhil
by the Nashville Tenn club, but at
first declined to agree to the transfer.
Cincinnati has found d phenom in the
person of Wingo Anderson. q southpaw
of immature years and d reformed right
hand. Anderson has proved to be the sen
sation of the Reds training trip His
right hand is almost entirely missing,
having been cut off i'll an accident. Just
the same this boy can pitch. and his
fielding is fast and certain.
Manager Jennings announced def
nitelv Wednesday, that the Tigers
would start the season, as they finish
ed last season, except for the additional
battery men. He stated that neither
Liester nor Ness had proved equal to
Tom Jones and that Moriarty's thow-
ing arm was entirely too valuable to
waste its use by transferring him to
first base.
The Detroit American League team left
San Antonio Wednesday night The
ond division. under the leadership of
Manager Jennings on the route north
ward will play a series of games at To-
peka, Kan, Kansas City, Fort Leaven-
/ worth, Springfield. H. Indianapolis and
| Cincinnati. April 10 the other division,
| after number of Southern games, WIFI
join Jennings division at indianapolis.
| Entering from Dean Academy in Sep
| temher, where he made a record both
on glidiron and the diamond, John F..
| Hegarty of Newburyport. Mass, has
kept up his excellent record DIT Holy
| Cross. ON last seasons football team
| he altornated between guard and end
| Both on the offence and defence. he
| played a strong and "headY" game.
AS Il baseball man Hcgarty's chances
| for plac" on the purple Varsity. even
at this early 1atC, seem most prom
ising. IlcgartY was a guard on the
Freshman basketball team