Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-09
At PITTS RTRG.
BASEBALL NOTES.

The Eastern teams will &c into tie
West Tuesday and il is one safe bet
that Jennings crowd viii not win -
out of the next y games. That has
been its record up-to-date.
ore day last week-on Wednesday,
to be exaet-Fred Tenney, the erstwhile
first baseman of the Giants and now
manager OF the Boston team, made five
hits in five times at bat. Some baseball
players can .'come back
Yale has a pitcher in Freeman WHO is
bound to make his mark. John j. Nc
Graw set the stamp Of approval on him
after the game with the Giants. ana
McGraw knows a good pitcher when
he sees che.
This winning streak of the Tigers
certainly is no joke, They viii have
to nave a lot Of beating before they
can be pulled back with the bunch
and beating them is not going to be
a mere pastme.
Johnny E'vers. second baseman of
the Chicago Cubs. did not go Mon
day with the team to New York ON
account Of sickness. He is suffering
from nervous prostration. nd it is
said that he will not IT, 1a3- to take
part in the series WITH %ew York
which will begin Tuests.y
1t is doubtful if there another in
stance on record cf d major league
team winning 20 ri tEi FIRST % games
PLAYED m a season. There have been
some winning streabs et longer dura-
ton, but il is doubtful if any team
ever GOT 50 good a start in a race
az tbc Tigers nave this year.
When two teams hit the ball all over
tine field for an aggregate Of &c hits
with n grand total of &c and yet play
the ame inside of two hours, there
tUpst nave been some snappy baseball
missed in. That's what the Red SoX
ana Highlanders did in that batting
matinee over in New York on Friday.
The double-headels are piling up in
the major leagues. Something like 20
are on the list, and bargain dag at
fractions Will be plentiful before long
Some day the owners will listen to rea-
son and not begin the season with win
ter hanging about in defiance Of the
season.
Connie Mack has been i'll for several
days ami Davis has been handling the
team. The Athletics viii Try to ser
that their manager has the best kind
of medicine number of Victories by
the teams. 1t is hoped taat Mack
viii he able to 20 West with the team,
Davis is competent lieutenant. how
ever, and the worry over Connie is
confined more to him personally than
it is the effect his absence on the
team.
Ping Bodie, now with the White
SoX, thinks he was rudely treated the
other day BY Umpire Bill Dneep Tho
fence luster" took occasion to crit
icize in harsh terms the calling Of y
strike on him, whcrcupou Bill grabbed
the Californian by HE shoulders. turn
ed him around and gave Ism a de-
cidcd shaking, al the same time toll
ing him in about half a dozen words
how games are umpired in the big
| league Ping had no answer. Then
| he struck out
Tim Tags En- Turks" was the head
| IA a Boston paper last week. referring
to further christening of the Boston
club Of the National League by Tim
Murnane, the well known baseball
writer and critic. The former Doves
have been ehristened so often that ono
! Is almost At a loss to know what 70
cali Fred Tenney and his men, They
have been dubbed the Rustlers, the
Terriers. the Hustlcrs ana now the
Turks. Wen might the poet say.
What's in a name" To paraphrase.
the Turks or Terriers or what not by
any other name would play the some.
The time is approaching when the