Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-04-12
WORLD OF SPORTS
Baseball Notes

Beaumont started at the middle OF the
Nasionai League circuit jumped 10 one
extreme and then 10 the other-r i,'H-
burg to Boston TO Chicago.
A magazine writer thinks that lhe
players on college teams are peihs
apoi!t by the introduction of professional
methods Such as playing the game
intellisently. for instance?
Baseball claimed it's victim OF the
1910 season at New York in the death
TODAY Of l5-year-old Rudolph Ruhling,
who was struck on the head Sunday
with a pitched ball.
Fred Clarke says the New York Ma
,ionals nave bought one of his patent
diamond covers. If had the time TO
ievota TO pushing this contrivance |
| could clean up SlOO,ooo III four years,
adds the Pirate chief
Roy Green, the crack Boston English h
High school and All-interscholasti
pitcher last year. has joined the Provi-
dence team and is likely to play against
| the Boston Nationals today at least part
of the game.
The Kansas City Journal says: A base
should treat both teams alike and a fan
cannot do that because he IS prejudieed
in favor of the home club. If a visiting
team wins it is liable to be as good a
game as when the home club wins.
President Lynch has not made himself
popular oy barring photographers from
the play ing field The camera men are
as a rule possessed of wisdom enough
to keep away from the play. And the
National League executive cannot afford
to rob the fans" OF the pictures of the
| thrilling plays.
Aftc.' a third anti-toxin treatment E.
J. Reulbach. pitcher for the Chicago
Nationals. who is seriously i'll with
diphtheria at his home at st. Louis.
vas said Monday to be resting, more
comfortably The crisis is expected to-
day. His physician says it will be at
| least a month. if Reulbach recovers
before he will be able to don a uniform.
Detroit friends Of Johnny Cocash
Will he pleased to hear that he is III
better condition this spring than he has
ever been before. lie is fully 10 pounds
lighter and on his best behavior. Coke"
as he is called by his Kansas City team
mates, is playing fine ball. He is also
beginning to realize that baseball is a
business proposition strictly nowadays.
ana it is mp 10 player to take the
game seriously AT all times. He has
buckled down to hard work and expects
to make a fine record in the American
Association this year.
Barring accidents. Charley Street will
Ill the real warm weather sets in, when
he will be given Il few lays rest occa-
sionallY Street is not in perfect trim.
and as he has trained for the purpose
OF taking on weight, he will he able to
stand n grueling campaign better than
last season, when he was rather light
after the season was about half over.
Street is one of the few catchers who
likes to work every day that he is we'll
Nothing is moro tedious to him than to
have to sit on the bench while a game
is in progress.
The spring training trip of the Bos-
ton Americans is over and the team has
now but few days before it faces the
music Of the season of 1910. The period
of workouts has been marked with the
the men, with one or two minor ailments
are ready and fit for the long battle.
There isn't the slightest doubt that the
month at Hot Springs. Ark, has been
OF great benefit 10 the men. There isn't
the fdintest Indication of soreness or
lamenesS in the bunch, with the excep-
tion of the slight injury to Niles Sun
daV, and but for two men, who still are
a little over weight, the squad looks tit.
Tho Boston Journal says: The Har-
ward Varsity nine can surely do as we'll
against the REQ Sox tomorrow as Yale
did against the Giants Saturday The
Ellis were fairly swamped by the Giants,
and while it is to be expected that the
Speed BoyS will administer a sound
thrashing to tho Crimson team, it
shouldn't be by an such score as II to
o. There is a vast difference in the uual-
ity of baseball PLAYED by Major League
pennant possibilities ana a college team.
although n number Of the Red Sox were
former college players and have played
against Harvard teams. iris Speaker
should have the time of his life at tho
bat and On the bases