Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-26
BASEBALL NOTES.

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work now is building up team for
next season.
! pitcher Salmon has been hooked in
by the Wilmington club of the Green
Pea League.
Lynn has been greatly strengthened
| by the accession of Sim Murch. who
has put UP an excellent game at third.
| Tie Giants have been shut out but
twice, this season, by Boston, 90, and
| by Chicago by the same score.
In John Carney, Haverhill has a
| first baseman sure to make the major
leagues as hitting first basemen are
scarce.
Mt Jones, the Maine gymnast, is
pla wing a f1ae game at short for the
| Haverhill club. Jones was with the
Braves. this spring.
| Catcher John Henry of the Senators
is ont Of the game with bad leg. The
club still has Ainsmith and Williams
for the heavy work.
| Marquard has got his second wind
and viii now tune up for the big Sc
ries. The Red Sox just love left
| handlers.
| The poor Braves have lost is games,
| this season by one run-six of them
| after extra innings. They won five
| games by one run, one in extra In
nings and landed two other extra in
nings games.
| Hughey Jennings manager of the
Detroit Tigers. picks Washington for
second place in the American League
race. He thinks the battle for the
, pennant will continue between the
Senators and Boston Red Sox with the
chances fayoring the latter.
Charles j. Hemphill, last year with
| the Yankees, and this season manager
| of the Atlanta club of the Southern
| League, has lost his job. Whitley
| Alperman, formerly of Brooklyn, is IN
temporary charge of the team.
The Olympic reception committee
which was appointed on Monday to
arrange plans for the welcome of the
athletes on their return from Stock
holm VIII have a consultation with
Mayor Gaynor at the City Hall, this
/ morning.
| Rube Marquard must have been try
ing to sneak over his fast ball on Mike
| Mitchell in the II to 1 Cincinnati
| game, for Mike connected with three
of the four hits made by the Reds and
one was for three
| Another illustration of the speed at
which the New York Highlanders are
| going took place, Wednesday. at the
| Hill Top grounds when they defeated
! Chicago, with the Apollo Belvidere in
1 the box for the White SOX
| Lawrence has shut out every club
save Lynn and has twice held that
club down to one run There have been
II games in the league won l to and
Lawrence has figured in fie Of them,
dropping one TO Haverhil. Worcester
figured in four. all defeats. Haverhill
] landed three.
| With the exception of an occasional
turn at bat as pinch hitter. Germany
Schaefer is playing the role of Arlie
Latham. but il must be said that
.Schaefers comedy is far superior to
that of the former Giant clown, and
that the players pay more attention
to the coaching of the former Tiger.
Outfelder Frank Schultz, who was
the champion home-run hitter, last
season, breaks on an average of SO
bats a season The Cubs star uses
bats with the smallest handles of any
that are produced. The sticks are of
punches each
/ The signing of Joseph O'Brien as
an umpire by the American Leagae
! Is thought TO presage the departure Of
Westervelt, at present on Ban john
sons staff. A concentrated protest
was made against Westervelt by Cal
lahan, Stovall and Davis, and the sign
ling of oBrien coming three days after
the protest was filed is believed to
sound Westervelt's doom.
A new system of handling the balls
used in a championship game has
been put into effect at Washington by
direction of Ban Johnson Instead of
| having a boy tote the balls around in
a grip, Griffith has a box imbedded ia
the ground behind the home plate and
the umpires can help themselves. This
scheme is used to prevent the doc
toring" of balls and also to avoid
either live" or dead" spheres being
slipped into the game.
Gossip among the Detroit Tigers is
" the eHect tHdt ly tODD, whose
lthree-year contract for 1900 expires
this year, will demand renewal at s45.
coo for the next three years. Cobb IS
mum on the subject for publication
but he has casually told some of his
team mates that he expects TO be we'll
paid for his work in the future The
Georgia Peach is one of the biggest
attractions in baseball. and it is gem
orally believed that he viii get the
top salary for a player.
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