Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-26
BASEBALL NOTES.


New York Tribune: Although
the hitters have been slow in start
ing, the pitchers of both New
York teams in the South are bowling
along in great style. Mathewson, Mar
guard, Tesreau, Demaree and Fromme,
of the Giants, are ready to take up the
big burden, while Cole, Caldwell, Keat-
ing, Schulz and WARRIOR. of the Yanks,
are set for hard campaign. With the
twirlers right, half the battle is won.
The prospects of McGraWs team
brighten as Marquard rounds into
form. Tesreau is a late starter ana
Matty likes few warm days before
cutting loose, so it is UP to the south
raw t. do the cold weather work. On
the condition of the Rube depends the
flying getaway which the Little Napo-
leon prizes so highly. Just now Rich
ard appears to be further advanced
than any of the twirlers Brooklyn and
Boston will be compelled to step along
brskly to keep the pace. The Phillies
are likely to be far more interested in
keeping out of the cellar than in Sc
riousiy disputing the march of the
champions.
Charles A. Comiskey returned Mon
day to Chicago from Camp Jerome,
Wis, much improved in health, after
his sojourn in the woods. He had re-
covered, he said, from the effects of
the illness which he suffered on the
worlds tour President Thomas of the
Chicago Cubs announced that he would
restore Ladies Day" az the West
Side grounds and would start the
games at o'clock every day, instead
OF at 2.3e.
The University of Vermont baseball
team arrived in Washington, .. G.. az
1.3o tuesday afternoon and vas taken
at once TO The Washington League
Grounds, where the players had their
first outdoor practice Of the season.
Manager Griffith OF The Senators
watched the practice and thought well
Of the way ia hief the batters met
The bali and die pep shown by the
team during the infeld practice. The
team left at night for Durham, n. G.,
where it win open the season with
Trinity College.
Manager Gray Of the LoNeIs has
been trying to secure Pitcher Wood
man, Nhe has been engaged FOR HaV-
erhnt this season, but the Hayerhill
mana ger refuses to release aim Man
ager Gray viii try to get Pitcher Ward
of the Columbus team al the south
Atlantic Baseball League of last sea-
son.
The Amherst baseball team will
leave Thursday at 7.30 A. M. for Char
lottesville, Va, to play the first game
Mro neypr
Shaw and Cutler in charge.
Forest Cady, the Boston American
League catcher, announced Tuesday
night at Hot Springs, Ark, that he had
refused a Federal League offer of S12,-
500 a year and bonus of $4,000 to sign
with the Pittsburg Club of the new
league Cady already had signed
Boston contract. No announcement
was made Tuesday as to whether the
temporary injunction obtained Monday
by the Pittsburg National Club man
agement against S. H. Cannitz and an
other Federal League agent, described
as John Doe" will be contested. The
order issued in Chancery court re-
strained Cannitz and John Doe" from
communicating with any member of
the Pittsburg Club. 1t is said that
several Federal League representatives
are in Hot Springs.
The Boston College baseball sched-
ule includes: April II, u. of Me-, at
Boston; April 81, Bates at Boston;
May 8, Colby at Boston.
Clark Griffith can't get Bob Groom
to sign a Washington contract. no
matter how he tries. Bob is said to
ba booLad nm with the ST ouiS Feds
Mrs. George H. Smith, wife of the
manager of the Erie, Pa, team of
the Canadian League. has not missed
a game in which Erie has taken part
in three years.
Fans may learn something of the
value of Tinker in relation to john
ny Evers by watching the work of
Meanwhile with Fighting John" in
Boston this year.
The old Western Association League
class C organization, has been re-
vived Six towns complete the cir
cuit-Joplin. Mo-; Fort Smith, Ark:
Muskogee, oklahoma City and Tulsa,
Okla, and Pittsburg, Kas.
Manager Herzog of the Reds is will
ing to send Mike Gonzales, the Cuban
catcher, to school and have him take
a course of English at the expense
of the Red Club. if such is all that
keeps the Cuban from developing in
to a great backstop.
The Washington hurlers are working
overtime. Even Walt Johnson has
been putting on a bit of extra steam,
and finds sore muscles a vacancy at
every workout. Shaw, Gallia and Will
Jams have been buzzing them through