Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-12
BASEBALL NOTES.


contract calling for $1,000 a year.
The Red Sox want to have at least
eight dependable pitchers this sea-
son. Manager carrigan says he will
keep from three to five of the recruits.
George wiltse, one of the globe-trot-
tiers, wants an fntermission after the
sixth inning. During the quiet spell
there is tea for the fans. There are
lots of things the color of tea.
Joe Wood has written Bill Carrigan
he will report the Goth at Hot Springs
His operation for appendicitis was
complete success. Carrigan does not
want him to report before May 1.
Herbert Murphy. whom the Phillies
drafted for $500 from the Thomasville
(Ga.l club, stands a fine chance of
landing Mike Dooian's place. Man.
ager Doom says Murphy is superior to
Doo!an on the bases, in the field and
at the bat.
New York Globe: Had Buck" gone
to the Columbia Yale basketball game
on Saturday night instead Of the feed
given to world-touring baseball play
ers. he might have rooted hard enough
to have had his team returned win
ner and tied up with Cornell and
Columbia for the championship. Never
mind, Buck" Yale has had some
champions in the past, and you will
probably live to see the time when
they will have others. as well as the
time when you will land 1.-THE largest
truck order"
Leach Cross certifies to an income
of $4,000 in the past eight months for
income tax purposes. And there is no
mention of what he earned for ex-
tracing molars and building bridges.
Danny Murphy is said to be going
to Baltimore, which is a place from
which Connie Mack rescued e. Murphy
and J. Walsh and to which he con-
demned Dave Danforth and Briscoe
Lord. Danny doesn't believe the land
of the Oriole exists on his map.
When Bill Killifer was 19-year-old
kid catching for Billy Disch at st.
Eds and later assisting Brooks Cor
don IN the happy job of catching for
Joy club at Austin, he didn't look
forward into the future six years and
figure that he'd be earning money for
baseball lawyers. Which reminds us
that you'd have had quite a few
thoughts for your pennies If you could
have uncovered in 1906 the day dreams
of Iris Speaker, George Whiteman,
Arbogast, RUDE Peters and others of
their Tx.
Frank Chance may delight the Yant
fans with his appearance on first when
the season opens. His family doc. after
recently giving him thorough once
over declared that Frank win in all
probability be able to gather with the
rest of them and do a little active
basehalling Not only would this
strengthen the team lot, not to men
ton the results at the box office, but
It has been seen that the peerless
leader has done his best managing in
uniform For reference. look to his
record With the Cubs.
Regarding the prevalent query as to
whether or not the Federal league is
a major league you may o@erhear this
conversation between Dave Fult2. bait
PLAYERS attorney. ard Toe Tinker
TO YOU consider that the Feds are n
Rig league" asked Dave Of Jae. We
nav big leaspe salaries "a bic league
PLAYERS N BIZ League towns, '' replied
ice. prc1urtlv .Dont vou caJ tl'at
rather hie League lsh % do you thtn'z
ynr have my clubs "a Ftreng as the
Athletics or the CiaHts7n a~afa asked
= rnltz "z=s 's9t we've ret en- a gee1
+ bit stronger than the Browne Peds or
Cardinals, was Joe's prompt rejoind-
er.
From the various training camps in
the South. snort scribes are busy gath
ering material for little stories of the
star players. The general run Of these
stories generally date back to the sand
lot days. and despite the fact that
the veterans have been interviewed
many times before. they are always on
the job with tale of their kid days
when the best batter always had first
choice in selecting his team.
From the training grounds of the
Chicago Americans in the South comes
the intimation that Tommy DAILY CAL
| lahan's recruit baclSstop from the Low
ell New England club, is a first base
possibility on the White Sox this sea-
son. He was used there in some of
the games played on the world tour
and showed up so promisingly that he
will be permitted to fight it out with
the great Hal Chase, so the report
goes, for the regular job at the first
sack.
The finale of the main attraction Of
the boxing exhibition OF the Collar City
A. c. at Bolton hall Albany, N. Y,
Monday night was brimful of surpris-
es. The 1000 or more fans who attend
ed the entertainment saw Dan "Porky"
Flynn, of Boston, hand Tom Mcmahon,
the Pittsburg Bearcat, a most scientific
beating for seven out OF ten rounds,
apparently in distress in the early part
of the tenth, and then recover about
80 seconds previous to the sounding
of the final gong and go after his man
hammer and tongs. If Flynn was
stalling he should be an actor instead
of fighter.
The freaks of batting form offer
some lines of queer study. Take Dau-
bert's hit $40 with Nashville, and
when he went to Cleveland he couldn't
hit the Pacific ocean from a steamer
deck. Cleveland sent him to Toledo
and he dropped to .160. This left Tole-
do a trifie sour and unappreciative as
to his ability. and so Jake was crat-
ed TO Memphis. There he batted .314
Memphis sent him to Brooklyn and he
still stuck in the 800 class.