Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-05
BASEBALL NOTES.

Walter Norton IS coming in for
much praise for the splendid showing
| of the Bowdoin nine this season. The
old Dartmouth captain has displayed
| high-eiass talent fer coaching.
West Point has some prominence in
baseball this year. Besides beating An
ne polls and the 7th Regiment team.
the Cadets have scored Victories over
Brown. Manhattan. Syracuse and
Tufts
Outtielder Clarence Walker of the
| spartansburg, s e, team Of the Caro-
| lima Baseball Association, was sold
| Friday To The Washington Americans.
| The price Was $3.50, the highest ever
| paid for Carolina Association player
| lie Will report June Is.
Har4ard's athletic committee has de
cided not to let the game Freshman
nine &c to New Haven to play off tire
tie game with the Yale Youngsters
There was no objection other than
that II was not a good time for tie
boys to be absent from their studies.
Connie" Mack admits that he was
stang when he paid S12 400 to the Bal
timore club for Lefty Russell, not
say ing tint RUSSELL Is failure. MACK
saws that in the future he will not be
among the bidders when minor league
managers are trying to set up new
records on the purchase price OF play
ers.
Arthur Wilson. the Giants catcher
had an unusual experience in the morn
ing game on Memorial day For the
first three innings he scored all the
putouts against Brooklyn. He caught
foul in each inning. tagged two men
at the plate and got the other putouts
on strikeouts.
Camden High Won its seventh con-
seeutive game Saturday at Camden.
winning to l from Rockiand ami
placing itself beyond the possibility of
losing in the Knox and Lincoln pen
nant. StoVer had Is strike-outs The
collapse Of the first base bleaehers
luckily failed to injure any Of the 200
persons seated there.
1t was announced Saturday at GIN
einnat that a decision VIII he handed
down Monday by the National Baseball
Commission on the application of
Michael Donlin of the New York Ma
tsenal League team for reinstatement
No advance information as to the ma
ture Of the decision can be secured.
The annual baseball game between
Pomtret and Taft schools Saturday at
Pomfret, CT, was won by Pomfret by
the score of to O. Charley Taft, the
Presidents son, accompanied the Taft
school team as official scorer He
started the season as waterboy. but
has won promotion by strict attention
to duty and is III line for the manage
ment of the Taft team
Edward Little High was defeated
by Morse High of Bath at the Auburn
A. A. park Saturday afternoon, to +,
and took last place in the Bowdoin
League race. Edward Little had seor-
ed two runs, having the bases fun and
one out in the ninth, but Solomon and
Chesley fell on easy grounders.
Milo has the baseball feaver. At a
| meeting Friday night it was voted to
organize the Milo A a. of leading bus
mess and professional men, to lay out
new baseball diamond, get together
q team and open the season with
game with the Lake View team on
une 10. 1t was also voted to consider
going into Piseataquis county
! league now under consideration The
organization was completed with the
| election of officers as follows: Hon.
Pres, William S. owen; vice Pres, Dr..
Harry a. Snow, Edwin NJ. Hamlin and
G. w. w. Wentworth; Sec, Leon q.
c. Brown: Treas, Leroy +. Shaw; d.
rectors, Carl II. Peakes, Charles o.
Purdy, W. +. Dutch. Chester w. Geteh-
ELL r. M. Ingalls, and the other officers
ex-offcio.