Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-22
BASEBALL NOTES.

The White Sox trimmed the Athlet-
les and New York won from Detroit,
all Of which is to the detriment of the
Red Sox so far as standing goes.
The Western clubs won eight of the
nine major league games Thursday.
The Cubs are crowding the Phiilies
hard for the lead. and the Cardinals
are right on the heels of the Giants.
Thursday was the second time in
his career as a ball player that Byrne
has been put out of the game for kick
ing. The first time was quite recently.
too. Maybe the hot spell got to his
nerves some.
Five hours of baseball is too much.
even for dyed in the wool fans, and
the Boston and Pittsburg players will
undoubtedly agree to this proposition.
Fred Clarke lay off in the second
game, sending young Campbell in to
play the left garden. Campbell, they
say, is one of the fastest runners In
the league.
Steve Flanagan seems to have pick
ed UP a live pitcher in the Newton
High school youngster of 1910. George
four Of the five games he has pitched
for the Brockton New England
Leaguers, and allowed only two hits
in the lost game, in which the team
behind him could not hit the ball hard
enough to win.
Harvards ball players this season
are taking no chances by playing even
legitimate baseball during the sum
mer Now that it is up to the boys to
prove that they do not receive money
for PLAYING, instead of for the college
authorities to prove that they de, it's
hard to get a Cambridge Varsity man
or candidate to engage in anything
more exciting than little game of
pass or scrub"
The baseball situation in Boston is
somewhat of problem. First We hear
of two members of the Helps quitting
the team. Then we hear that the Red
Sex are for sale. Then the owner of
the Helps takes back the two members
who fcrsook the ranks of his team and
the sale of the club is reported. Quite a
string of incidents for the greatest
baseball town in the country in the
middle of the season.
Two more young players have been
weighed in the balance by Hal Chase
and sent back to the minors. Fitzger-
aid, outhelder. has been sold to the
Sioux City club of the Western League,
and Ed Klepfer. a pitcher Will join the
Lincoln, Neb., nine Fitzgerald played
in several games on the hilltop when
the Yankees were home. He appeared
very promising, being exceptionally
fast on the bases and above the aver
age in hitting ability. Klepfer faced the
Athletics twice in the fatal series
around July 4. and was treated as bad
" as the rest of the staff 1t was hard
~ an suspicious time for him to start
his career, but even so, Chase consd-
cred that he did not have the makings
of star twirler.
According to President Charles III.
Murphy of the Chicago Cubs Frank l..
Chance, manager of the team, win new
er don q uniform again, unless he does
SO In order to go on the coaching lines.
Murphy says that Victor Safer here
after will be at first base and that
Chance will do the debating from the
bench. Chance has been struck on the
head nearly 40 times since he took up
the game, and it is said the last blow
caused his retirement.
The league game between st Stephen
and Calais, scheduled for Thursday
afternoon at Calais, was played as an
exhibition game. owing to the with
drawal of the Calais team from the
league as a result of the recent act of
the league executive in taking two
games from Calais ON protests by the
st. John teams F'redetto, formerly of
the Thistles. played shortstop for