Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-01
BASEBALL NOTES.

pay for the last few weeks, has finally
signed his contract for next season.
Although appointed United States
Senator from Arkansas. Judge w. M
Kavanaugh announced that he will not
resign from his position as the pres
ident Of the Southern League.
Harry Sylvester, first baseman of
the Appleton club of the Wisconsin,
Illinois League, who led the batters of
that organization. last season. has
been purchase by the Chicago White
SoX
Tom Bowden. catcher of the Univer-
sity of Georgia, has given George
Stallings, manager OF the Boston
Braves, a promise that he will sign
with his club when he is graduated.
next June
Charles Il. Hightower, Cornells
mainstay on the mound, last year has
been sold by the Buffalo club, of the
International League. To the Wilkes
Barre club of the Tristate League.
r. 5. Young, who played shortstop
for the Harrisburg club of the Tri-
State League, last season, signed a
1Oiltl at Will tlit dhhtCSt
He had a batting average of 30S and
a fielding average of .94l. last year,
Jack Ryan. former pitcher for the
Boston and Cleveland Americans and
the st. Paul team of the American
Association, signed, Thursday, with
the Los Angeles Coast League team.
Ryan broke his leg while playing with
ST. Paul in 1910 and has been out of
the game since.
Bill Lange, famous as an outfielder
with the Chicago Nationals from 1898
to 1899, will put on a base ball uni
form again, next spring and act as
coach for the outfielders of the Chi
cago White Sox. LANCE will accom-
pany the Sox on the training trip
and drill the gardeners on the finer
points OF the game. He is one of the
very few players who retired during
his prime. After the season of 1899
Lange demanded more money from
the Chicago club than was offered
him. The club failed to make good"
and LANCE quit.
Suit for $4,000 damages was filed in
the superior court, at Chicago, yes
tel uGNy ny MIS-. AIlllic IOphin dSdtHSl
the Chicago National League Baseball
Club because of injuries sustained by
being struck by foul ball batted from
the West Side park, during a game.
last summer. Mrs. Dobkin alleges that
the ball sailed over the Park fence
and into a window of her home where
she was seated, The ball, according
to the attorneys for the plaintiff,
struck the woman in the head. knock
ing her off the chair and causing par
tial paralysis, which rendered her help
less for several months.
Thomas j. Lynch, president of the
National League, Thursday, made
public the following contracts and re-
leases, which have been approved:
Contracts-With Boston, Arthur E.
Sehwind probationary. With Brook
lyn: j. C. Smith, Edward j. Phelps
and Mack ID. Wheat. With Chicago:
Bert HUMPHREYS and Thomas w.
Leach. With Cincinnati: Jose Nc
Manus, probationary. With New York:
Josh Devore, William C. jacobson. Al
Demaree. Henry Groh and Frederick
G. Snodgrass. With Pittsburg: Eve
rett l.. Booze. Charles b. Adams, A. w.
Cooper George Gibson, Albert l..
Manaux probationary, J. Henry
Robinson. Stanely Gray and NJ. f..
Simon. elease--By Chicago to Terre
Haute, c. l.. Leonard and j. Madden.
In his latest signed statement
Charles W. Murphy, of the Cubs, phil
osophizes that it is only natural for
baseball fans to howl sometimes,
but he agrees that the club owner
knows best. He reviews various trades
of the past that brought forth storms
of protest which turned out well.
Why" argues Murphy. lit is report
ed over in Detroit that Ty Cobb wants
salary of $4,000. and the chances
are that if it were left to a vote of the
fans they would give him S150,000.
They are for Cobb, reasonable or I'M
reasonable 1t is this feeling which
makes baseball Murphy recalls that
when the newspapers were proclaim
ing the New York Giants the great
est team ever organized after its vic
tory over the Athletics in worlds
series, several years ago.. McGraW
walked into the late John T. BruShs
office and said he was going to get rid
of seven players. He quoted the late
Mr.. Brush as saying: do you mean
to tear apart this great team that has
just won the worlds championship"
McGraw nodded in the affirmative and
asked him to get a proposition for
Mertes, McGann, Dahlen. Bowerman.
Brown, Ferguson and another player
Eddie Phelps of the Brooklyn catching
staff sent in his signed contract, Thurs
day. Phelps had the best batting aver
age, last season, of any of the trio that
supports Nap Rucker, having record of
2SS His fielding average, too, was right
up to snuff, being a point ahead or Otto
Miller, with .976, while Tex Erwin turned
in a 949 Phelps did the least work of
any of the three, catching in only "
games.
Charles Victory Faust has by no means
forgotten the Giants in their adversely.
Even though they did not win the world 8
championship, last fall. Charlie thinks
Just as much of them as ever and is quite
willing to smile on them again-for con-
sideration, the breadth of his smile being
contingent upon the amount of the con-
Sideration. Charles is Wintering in Pas