Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30
BASEBALL NOTES.

recruit, mas reported To hartford.
Practically every factory in New
London will be closed Tuesday af-,
ternoon, when the season will open
there with Pittsfield.
Brooklyn will play at Bridgeport to-
morrow. Manager Boultes says he will
have a couple of new men from a
faster league before Tuesday
Mayor Wilson will toss out the first
ball at the opening game in Bridge
port Tuesday. Bridgeport and Spring
field players will be taken around the
town in automobiles. with brass band
in front. Bridgeport looks for one of
the biggest opening day crowds in
years.
President Jim ORourke of the
Eastern Association was never so I'M
popular at the start of season as he
is now. Most of the directors are sore
| at the turns of recent league meet
ings. Jim is batting for about .00s
in the popularity league just now.
When Jack" Zeller becomes huffy
at him he will not have that three in
his batting average.
Harvey Russell, the former Bridge
port catcher, who jumped to the Bal
timore Feds, says the outlaws will
flourish and that he is we'll pleased
with his job. He has written Bobby
Stow of Bridgeport that organized
ball has offered several of the Bal
timore players salaries for merely
quitting the Feds and playing no
more baseball for the rest OF the sea-
son. He thinks this is a scheme to
blow up the outlaws.
Mike Mccormack, the old Holyoke
infielder, has been taken on by New
Haven. Manager Connell intends to
use him at second base. Jerry isn't
satisfied with his outfielders and is
trying out a couple of youths in place
of the fellows who have been seeking
jobs early in the week. His pitching
STAFF also needs attention. New Haven
will play a local nine this afternoon.
Jimmy" Curry, the fellow who
spiked Genest of the Ponies, does not
want to return to the International
League, and if he does come back it
will be against his own will Curry Is
not wanted and should not be encour-
aged back again, and all this he feels
force him to return or have him sus-
| pended, for it takes view natural,
but selfish. Curry is a fine ball play
er, but that statement does not wipe
out the memory of that spiking rack
ct year ago last July. He wants to
buy his release from Hartford, but
the latter refuses. Hartford has shown
all along in the Curry case that it
does not care a rap about anything
but the dollar. Picture the situation
Curry, the spiker, being threatened If
he does not play in this league, and
Genest, the victim, struggling, with
the chances against him of being able
to play baseball in any league. Own
er Jam" Clarkin does not believe in
| Sunday baseball, but he believes in
| having Curry on his team.
Runt Walsh and Duke Duncan of
the Baltimore Feds have received no.
tice from President Sam Lichtenhein
of the Montreal club telling them that
they will be suspended and fined 500
if they do not report In time to play
in the opening game of the Interna-
tional League season in Jersey City
Tuesday. They merely smiled when
they read the letters. They say they
have not the slightest intention of
paying any further attention to the
| Royals.
Joe Sugden says he never met man
with with sounder baseball theories
than Manager Branch Hickey of the
st. Louis Browns.
No gambling will be allowed on the
st. Louis Americans grounds this
year. Who'd bet on the Browns. any
way?
One of the directors of the Baltimore
Federals offers gold-headed canes to
players who make two hits off GER
tain pitchers. Already Swacina has
him booked for a cane, as a result of
the two bingles he made in the Open
ing contest. Runt Walsh has been as
signed to make two safeties off Tom
Seaton. Knabe. Meyer and Doolan did
not come to definite agreement with
the director, but all declare they will
win a walking stick, no matter who
is picked for them.
Frank (Ping) Bodie ,of the White
Sox is being sued In Chicago for $500
damages by the Alhambra Hippodrome