Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-15
BASEBALL NOTES..

Cincinnati expects to pull off its an
nual Field day. on Sept. IS. on whiel
day the Chicago Cubs play in Red
land If the Cubs and the Reds are
the only entries, no new records may
be expected
The New York Yankees will not sene
Pitcher George Mcconnell to Montreal in
payment for Gihooley, because the st
Louis Browns refuse to waive on him
Mcconnell is now out of the game witt
| a broken finger and will not be of much
use to the Browns this season, but next
year he may be of some assistance-as a
| first baseman is not as a pitcher.
They may joke about Ted Suli-
vans purchase of Dennis Willis from
Beaumont for the Chicago White Sox,
but just the same Dennis is leading
| the Texas League i'll hitting and he
would not be the first player to come
back after Roger Bresnahan had said
he was worthless. There are Burns,
Giihooley, Hearne, Red and a few
others.
Four of the strongest town base
ball mines of the Central MiddteseN
county district are proposing, next
year. to form a league, and play Il
number of games during the summer,
The league will be made up of teams
from Bedford. Concord, Concord juno
ton and Maynard, and as already
great rivalry exists between them,
hard fight for the championship would
be almost certain.
Linn Scroggins the young pitcher
secured by the White Sox from Hugo
of the Texas Oklahoma League, pitch
ed few innings for Callahan and was
shunted off to Lincoln in the Western
League. Ted Sullivan was the scout
who grabbed Scroggins and he re-
marked at the time that he couldn't
understand why other scouts had
overlooked him.
First Baseman Ed Honey of the
Cardinals spoiled his record as con-
tinuous performer when forced to
keep out of the second game of the
double header with the Pirates at
Pittsburg. on September 4. 1t had
been so long since Honey had missed
a game. or even an inning, that he
| had come to be looked upon as man
| who could not be hurt An injured
arm was his undoing.
| In the superior court at Taunton, Fri
| day, a jury brought in verdict of S2l05 II
| for the plaintiff in the ease of Thomas j
| Dowd of Holyoke against the New Bed
| ford Baseball Association the full amount
sued for, with interest. DoWd was UNI
der contract to manager the New Bedford
club in 1911 and was deposed in August
of that year. He sued for s5063l salary
| $l662. 50 for commission on sales Of play
ers and s252. 10 for expenses.
| Charley DOOM manager of the Phil.
| delphia team, strenuously denied tn,
| statement that he was to be released "A
the close of the season. He said that tn,
| matter was first brought to his attention
| by telegram from IA newspaper man
| Doom went to William T. Baker, one o
| the owners of the club. and the latter
Immediately informed him that there wa.
nothing in the rumor. Mr. Baker de.
clared Doom. is greatly pleased with the
manner in which the team is going ant
can see no reason for getting u new
leader
The race for highest batting honors il
the American League it a tie at SO be
tween Cobb of Detroit and Jackson o
Cleveland, according to the latest com
plation of averages. Speaker of Bostol
comes next only 10 points behind th'
leaders. Others in the first 10 are Hen
rikson, .35l; Lajoie, Cleveland ,3H: L
Collins, Athletics. .33s5: Mclnnes, Athlet
les, .335: Gandill, Washington, .327; Baker
Athletics, .325 Sehaefer, Washington
.3l9. Mcdonald, Boston, leads the Ma
tional League batsmen with .S59; Walsh
Philadelphia, is two points behind, bu
he has played in only 25 games, Cravatl
has batted $50 for Philadelphia in III
games and ranks third Others rank a.
| follows: Daubert, Brooklyn, .3iS; Ying
| ling, Brooklyn. .3i7; Hyatt, Pittsburg
,S3s; r. Miller, Philadelphia, .335 Zinn
| Boston, .333: Hess. Boston. 1924, Niox
| Pttsburg, 322