Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-09
BASEBALL NOTES.

BASEBALL kClES.
The Maps have eight baekstops signed
up for next summer. Hub Hart, the old
White Sox catcher is the latest man II
be put on the list by Manager Mcclure.
Connie Mack seems sweet on college
pitchers Harry Marun, the Tufts col
lege man. is said to be another coming
star. and Coombs has hin. safely hooked.
Charlie Jones led the felders of the
American Association last summer. II.
| is the old Washington and 81, Louis
/ player but he is with the st. Paul team
at present.
The University of Notre Dame contrib
uted Murray of the Giants. Beecher of
the Cincinnati Reds. Burke Of the Doves,
Reulbach of the Cubs and Daniels OF the
Highlanders.
Nearly ali the white ball players, it is
| said, have given up the game in Cuba,
and the teams are now made up almost
wholly of blacks. They stand the heat
better than the Castilian hidalgos.
AS a method of increasing batting, Il
Cincinnati party suggests a fiat bat. He
says that a fiat bat. catching the ball
| full on the equator would produce a liner
/ SO hot that Satan himself would duck the
! burning drive.
/ There is CONSERVATION among the fans
( in Washington who work for the govern
nfent The Presidents cabinet has been
! talking of changing the time of quitting
/ in all departments from 40 To > O'Clock
| So the baseball fans will not he able to
go to the games next summer.
Hugh Duffy does not believe in babying
the ball players too much. The expert
ence he had with Mclean when he WIS
hit on the head last fall turned the SoX
manager against the habit of giving
player lay-off after a slight injury by
a pitched ball.
In regard to the statistics which show
that since 1872, when baseball records
| were first kept, iDoo batsmen have faced
/ league pitchers with only $50 of them
! batting 800 or more, we merely wish to
state that the pitchers always have been
pretty wise guys. anyway.
| Manager McGraw of the New York Ma
tionals announced Saturday that all
members of the club would be at the
training camp in Marlin, Tex, by March
/. The young players are due there Feb.
90 and the veterans a week later. Play
ers who live in the West will assemble in
St. Louis, while those of the East will
mobilize in New York. One player, In
fielder Forsythe, is already in Marlin.
Up in st. Paul they are giving Mike
Kelley Il whole lot of credit for selling
Josh Clark to the Boston Nationals and
Jack Ryan to Brooklyn. 1t is intimated in
the Northwest that IT was Kelcy's plan
to either sell or trade both men. and that
he was dumfounded when he received Of
fers from the ma jors Concealing his
surprise, he pulled off good deal for the
athletes, getting nice wad of coin for
both and also obtaining options on play
ers these teams are to let out.
Now that the baseball authorities at
Cambridge have finally decided upon
DIR. +. j. Sexton as the coach Of this
years Harvard team, he and Captain
Chick" Mclaughlin win get together
at once and lay out the plans for the
coming season on the diamond. Eight
veterans from last years aggregation
are back in college. BESIDES these are
two pitchers who. although not II
men, give prospects of being couple
of the best that the college has had In
years. 1t is therefore safe tn predict
that the poor record of the 1910 team
will not be repeated.
"The race for the National League
pennant in 1911 will be Il hotter. closer
race than that OF the season Just clos
ed" says Christy MatheWson. "A great
many sporting writers have picked
New York to win next year. OF course
/ personally believe it is Il little too
far in advance to say with any degree
of certainty. or tn hazard even an ap-
proxma tely good guess as to which
club viii win. | do believe, however
that New York win make Il better
showing in 1911 than we made in 1910;
not purely because New York will be
stronger in 1911 than it was in 1910
but more especially because ! believe
Chicago will be weaker.
When Manager Mcclure started on his
training trip in 1910 he had his mind
made up as to the formation of the two
divisions of the Maps for the exhibition
games throughout the South This year
he will not decide which men will be on
the first team and which Oh the second
until the entire squad has been at work
, at Alexandria for a week or so. OF
course such men as Lajoie, Turner, Gra-
ney, Jackson and Easterly are assured
u places on the first team and probably
Olson, but the choice of first baseman
and batteries will be left until almost
the last moment.