Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10
BASEBALL NOTES.

| Chairman Hermann of the National
| Commission announces that the new po-
| sition of assistant to himself has been
| offered 10 Secretary Joseph Flanner of
| President Johnson's staff in Chicago.
This position will pay s2eoo a year and
travelling expenses
The baseball situation in ST Louis
continues in state of uncertainty rs
well as lethargy. There has been no
particular aggressiveness on the hori-
ION in the way of taking over the club
or appointing a manager. save that
Presidents Johnson and Comiskey have
communicated at different intervals
with Messrs Hodgman and Ewing.
Manager Clark Griffith of the Cincinnati
/ Nationals announces that he will send
his pitchers and catchers to Hot Springs
Ark, March !. He will work there with
his several pitchers and three catchers
for almost two weeks, when the remain
ing members of the team will go South.
Several exhibition games planned for Gin
einnati for the spring season will make
their stay at Hot Springs short
AL Orth, the old Yankee twirler, who
failed to come back for George Stall
lings in 1903 says he is through with
the game last year he PLAYED for
while in the American Association,
Buck has opened a cigar store III
his native town, Eynchburg. Va. and
is kept so busy ringing the cash reg
lister that any more strenuous exercise
no longer appeals.
With both the Yale News and Alum
nj NacI.I,r icta live
against babel-like chattering in college
baseball coaching. it is very possible
that the practice instituted at Har-
ward year ago may be adopted on on
Yale field. Harvard has taken an ex-
treme position relative to baseball
coaching, but it is far more acceptabl
than continuance of Objectionable
professional methods.
To read the New York and Chicago
papers one would be under the impress
sion that the Pittsburg club is trying
to put through any old sort of a deal
| in reckless. don't care way. when the
truth of the matter is the officials are
not giving any time a all to trades
of any kind. Everything is quiet in
Pittsburg baseball circles and will
likely remain so for the next week or
10 dsys-Pittsburg Press.
The first week in New York didn't
prove very busy one for the Boston
ball clubs. Dope on the training trips
to be taken by the teams and a few
contracts received was all that mate
rialiZed to break the monotony of the
winter leagues session. Contracts are
coming in rather slowly, but when
they do get started there is flood.
Just now ball players haven't caught
the fever. They are too busy with 9TH
er personal affairs to even read let
tiers referring to salary demands. Wait
until the blood begins to Jingle as they
listen to the call of the diamond, and
then yon will see the scramble to get
ABOARD the band wagon begin.
A japanese baseball team may be
seen in Ithaca next spring if negotia-
tions now under way are successful.
| The Cornell Athletic Association has re
ceived a communication from the man.
ager of the baseball team of the Uni
versity of keio. Japan relative to
scheduling a game with the Cornell
baseball team some time in MAY. This
Jap team is contemplating tour of
| tAlt 'iiiltb SidttS ilfAt SIlI iilS DlditHlHS
| a series of games with various Amer
| icon colleges from coast to coast. The
Geio team. according to the manager,
| is one of the strongest teams, amateur
| or professional. in Japan.
The last lingering echoes of the
worlds championship series died away
sometime ago, and Yet a fellow can't
| help thinking that this latest install
ment of figures lends weight to the
assertion of the Cubs supporters that
| t,vers' absence from the worlds series
meant more than even first appeared
| that afternoon in Cincinnati. when lie
| broke his ankle. There Were two or
| three times in two or three of the
| worlds series contests when 81 base
on balls might have been the turning
| point. And with Jack CoombS not al
ways correctly guaging the plate who
| can say but that had Evers been fac
ing the Maine lad the needed free
| passage would have been secured But
after all we don't need this contribu-
ton to baseball statistics to be aware
of the fact that EVers is one great
ball player. They merely confirm it.