Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-19
Baseball Notes

Earl III. Barter of Tenants fiai poi'
graduate of Rockland High school, l"'
class. has signed to play ball WIN ih'
Lawrence club of the w"
League, for the coming season
Manager Donovan says ne i'eu 90
are one of the finest all-rouho teams
ever looked at | am satis'e" u 'aN'
NV chances without a single cha1lse uu'
ing rho season as we have SeVerdi hii'
n,avars raadv TO lump in in case OF SICK
nass ~. ;ri,,rv rs a pleasure managing
such q bail club.
The Boston Post says: Charley Wag'
nor of the Red Sox does not get half OF
Tho c,adit that he deserves. Heinie makes
en- MANY wonderful plays that the mard-
est fielding stunts look easy when he Is
the performer. In some cues, however
he is rated as Honus Wagner the sec
ond. In New York and Philadelphia ne
is certainly given his just due.
Manager Flanagan of Brockton Satnr-
dav released Kimball, the Winthrop third
baseman; Williams. an OSWego recruit
whose batting eye is off. and Brown,
likely youngster from New Hampshire
but not quite fast enough for the team
that Flanagan want to send into the Ne"
England League race Friday. The Brock
ton team will be picked Wednesday OF
Thursday.
Hamilton Colleges baseball squad is
at present hard at work in preparation
for the Southern trip. which VIII begin
Wednesday at Carlisle, when the Buff
and Blue play their first game of the
season against Dickinson College. The
trip i'll cover Il period OF i've days and
includes games against Rando!ph- Macon
College and Washington and Lee Uni
VerHitV.
independent baseball will be ushered
in TODAY in Greater Boston, many inn
portant games being scheduled. Quincy
of the Old Colony League will meet Bos.
ton of the United States League in Quin-
cy in the afternoon. AL Biorkland, the
old Mechanic Arts pitcher and second
baseman, has been reappointed manager
of the Quincy team. He will have such
stars of Walter Lonergan, formerly OF
B 'ighton High, and John Murray Of Dor
chester.
The Harvard Varsity baseball sq,laC
rived ut charlottesville, Va Sunday
evening for a weeks practice and two
games with the University of Virginia
The weather is rainy and interfered witt
the morning and afternoon practice tina
had been planned for Monday and Tues
day. The games with Virginia Will bt
played " Wednesday, and Thursday anC
one with Georgetown in Washington
Saturday. The Harvard team spent foui
hours in Washington on the way down
Saturday, but did not repeat last year:
visit To the White House, as some 81
the more SuperStitious feared bad lucl
from the Yale influence at the Capitol
The New York Tribune says: ''Th'
pitchers battle between Jim Vaughn
ara Joe Wood in the closing innings o
that memorable tie game which marked
the opening of the American Leagu
season in New York last Thursday vii
be talked of for many a long day. Boti
men were new TO Major League baseball
but neither WaVerod under the terribl
strain. Wood, u youthful looking fel
low, not only faced a trying situation
but a hostile crowd OF rabid fans bu
his cool nerve never deserted him
Vaughn was rs reSourccful ana self
Possessed as if pitching on some bacl
lot, and more than justified the Suprem
confidence of George StallmSS, who sen
him out for the opening game with NOR
cXper ienced men at his command. PITTS
burg may l,ave Il Babe Adams, but NeV
York mas y Vaughn and Boston Wood
of whom to be justly proud in the wa
of new pitching stars.