Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-22
Baseball Notes

| Iidiiy Ululli, INC DelTOll CiuU
| trainer, is having a specially con.
structed harness made for Ty Cobb to
| protect his legs and thighs when slid
| ing for the bases.
Pugnacious players have bad out
| look in the American Association. Five
| Of the associations eight umpires are
six-foOters, and in addition to that
| President Chivington will take them
| fer weeks trip to West Baden, Ind
to get them into physical condition.
OF the candidates for the Yale Fresh
man baseball team Nun Yin Chung OF
Honolulu is among the best. He sur
prsed the coaches with his ability to
handle the bat Each time the China
man stood up to the plate he landed
hot liner. He is trying for the out
field and is not slow to get under a fly
Manager Rresnahan of the st. Louis
Nationals believes he will make his
team show up better than last year and
from the stunts the men are doing
daily at. Little Rock Bresrahan has
more than a chance. Bresnahan has
- pitchers working out. among them
Vic Willis, the former Pirate, Willis is
Sl-oNItiS St"t 10TH ana SnOulU De q
valuable addition to the Cardinals.
The Amherst College baseball team
will play Is games this season, accord
ing 10 its regular schedule which was
ie#n"d Saturday. OF This mum ber 10
VII ne hor!e games. What is known
as the ante-seaSOn schedule will begin
March p, when the team starts its
Southern tour TO play tho principal
colleges in North Carolina, Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania
An excellent baseball team has been
developed from old Naval AcaAnrn,
players Low attached To The Atlantic
Squadron, which has Eton whitening
at Gu"nlana!no. tuhn. Dahl practice
has been ttld on n Cui,an di3mand and
the players expect To have several
games with college mines along III" Al
lantr states daring the season. as wen
as series with the navy Fine at An
l!aDhlii. Among the players are dam
bach, last years navy captain; Doug
las. the best athlete ever II Anna
polls; Dague. Ingram and others Of
reputation.
The training sQuat OF the New York
Il,
kltnow and Hemphill having arrived
from Hot SDrinss. kieinnw and Hemp
hill remained at the bathing resort for
three weeks, but Criger came away af-
ter d l0-dayS visit. Here he can prac-
tice as much as he pieaseS, Wnile in
Hot Springs the unattached players
nave to snatch odd hours on the lots
when the members OF the big league
Clubs, who control the parks, are not
exercising. Criger hopes to have a
good year in New York
Manager Hugh Duffy is all smiles
as his Chicago Americans are ali feel
ing tine after the games with Fresno
bakersfield and Los Angeles. He has
confidence in getting championship
combination out of his bunch of
youngsters. The work of the new men
is improving each day, as the players
are rounding into form. The intield of
TIE first team looks better every day
and Blackburn and Zieder are maxi
ing great pair around second base
for the coming season. Purtell is show
ing up better than ever this spring and
is hitting the ball and fielding like a
veteran. The outfield of the first team
is not doing as we'll as the infield by a
long ways With Parents Dougherty
and Cole or Hahn making up the out
field the White SoX will be q team to
reckon with in the race without doubt
Out of the many pitching recruits
brought South by the Philadelphia Ma
tionals three youngsters stand out
prominently and are sure of retention
until given chance at the other Ma
tionai League clubs. These men are
Louis Shelter, the former Lancaster
twrler: AddiC Brennan, secured from
Cincinnati, and Jack Maroney, the
Baltimore recruit. Shelter is a right
handler, who has not only speed to
burn, with fine assortment of shoots,
but he possesses an excellent head,
and it was this top piece that landed
the Lancaster club the pennant in the
Tri-State League last summer. Both
the other certainties are sOuthpaWs
Brennan has shown everything in the
spring practice and at that has not
even started to let out Maroncy looks
like the bets bet of the bunch, howev-
er. and he came to the local club with
less recommendations than any of the
numerous phenoms who are about to
be sent back to the bush leagues.