Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-16
BASEBALL NOTES.

The Sherman team of the Texas Ok
lahoma League has sold Ben lineup, a
pitcher, To the Philadelphia Nationals
fer sl5e0. lineup. who is an Indian,
will report to the Philadelphia club.
Aug. 20.
William Byers and Irving J. Carson,
pitchers, who signed with the Red Sox.
Thursday, will leave, Sunday, and join
the team at Chicago. Byers is a left
handler and Carson a right handed
twirler. The latter is but 10 years old
and played with the Milton High
school team, in 1910. 1911 and 1912. Last
summer, he pitched for the Brantree
A A. semi professional team, and
pitched a no-hit. no-run game.
Harry Coveleskie. who played the
role of the Giant Killer" so success
fully several years ago, although he
filed the part in a very brief engage
ment, will join the Great Show" again,
this time as one of Hughey Jennings
Tigers. Even John McGIaw may wish
him well. 50 long as he is with his
friend Jennings and not back with the
Phillies.
A change of base seems to have done
wonders for Ed Reulbach. His last
two games have been Of a kind To make
Charles Webb Murphy and Johnny E,v
ers do a heap of thinking.
What if Walter Regh, the latest Red
Sox acquisition, is as fresh as they
make them? Those fellows are so fun
of assurance and pepper" that they
often make good Fred Clarke tells the
story on himself that he was consid-
cred at the time of his big league de-
but the limit of freshness, and Sher-
wood Magee was a blue ribbon winner
in that line when he first joined the
Phillies. There are plenty of other cas-
es. The freshness wears off gradually.
but the pepper" often sticks for
hong time.
Portland people must be we'll salts
fed that they had Hugh Duffy pitch
his tent in their town. He is a good
man to bank on"
It isn't every ball player when he
has His day" can make two hits in
an inning. Joe Connolly.
The late William H. Locke was a rep
resentative type of the best men in
game sustains a great loss. He had
most attractive personality and a high
standard of craftsmanship that made
his influence strong for clean baseball.
That the Western clubs of the Amer
lean League in their tour of the East
jrst closed should have split even in
games won and lost and that the
Eastern teams of the National League
should have done the same in the West,
is indeed an odd coincidence. The
Cleveland club in the American
League and New York and Philadel-
phia in the National alone made ex-
ceptionai trips. Cleveland won IL and
lost 6. The Giants too. won 10 and lost
6, while the Philiies won II and lost 4.
One thing is sure. and that is that the
fans of Boston would never have plac- 5
ed q player of Honus Wagners repute
in the fiery skillet, as has been done in
Pittsburg of late. Cy Young was fad
ing fast; but the great old veteran al
ways garnered applause, no matter
what happened. Some difference be-
tween Boston and Pittsburg In addi
ton to the smoke.
one OF otff WiSeSt paSeDalI fTllicS
AYERS that the worst major league
baseball player knows vastly more
than any layman about the game and
it's finer points. Such being the case,
there must be many times when the
players have extreme difficulty from
laughing aloud at remarks. Either the
umps are growing more splenetic or
the players are becoming more sensa-
tive Impeachment of an arbitrator for
careless employment of unsanitary re-
marks would give an old timer like
Patsy Tebean or Tim Hurst what is
known as a rude shock. 1t was not like
this in the olden DAYS