Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-14

the extent of some 300 odd. Three
hundred hitters being scarce Cater
son ought to make good next summer,
although it may be some question
where Duffy will play him. Henry
Merrill will of course look out for left
section and Dowell, the Southern as
ISOLATION man whom Duffy drafted is
booked for center lot.
The following from the Honolulu
Star Bulletin, although it contains
strange names, reads like something
we have seen before: Baseball. Ath-
letic Park. Monday, February 20,
Asahi VS.. Maui; Saturday, February
2S, Punahou VS.. Asahi. Reserved seats
on sale in Sporting Goods Department.
E. o. Hall & Son. Ltd
The Chicago National League Base
bail Club will not be sold this year. in
my belief" said John r. Thompson
Wednesday night at Chicago, after re-
ceiving the report of his emissary, who
had long conference Tuesday in Gin
cinnati with Charles p. Taft. Mr..
Taft would not set price for the
stock he holds in the club said Mr..
Thompson, and as far as my agent
could determine he has not seriously
considered selling his interest. He has
scores of Geographic and mail offers
which he has not even answered, and
he as much as said to Sidney B. Cold
ent.erg, my representative, that he
had as much property interest in Chi
cage as any resident. He felt that he
could be regarded as Chicagoan."
Charles H. Ebbets plans to make
Wilbert Robinson just as famous as
Columbus. He has found a new hoH-
day and named it after the rotund
manager of the Superpas. The Yankees
will meet the Brooklyn team at Eb-
bets field on April 2, snow or ice not
intervening. The date will be known as
Robinson day, and has already been
marked in red letters on the office cal
endar of the Brooklyn club. 1t will be
Robinson's first appearance in Brook
Ign as a major league manager.
Arthur Shafer, who complains that
his hair turned gray while he played
with the Giants is not the first ball
player to have suffered from the in
roads Of silvery locks. iris Speaker is
already iron gray and getting whittier.
Larry Doyle has a fair supply of gray
hairs and Honus Wagner is quite
snowbird. Baseball gray hairs do not
come from worry, as Shafer supposes.
but from the practice of wearing tight
caps
Jeff Tesreau is the latest of the
Giants to take up golf. Jeff still refers
to his clubs as sticks" and calls the
shaft handle" In golf, as in pitching,
he possesses plenty of speed, but lacks
control.
James ]. Morton, the monologist who
is an ardent rooter for the Giants, be-
came involved in baseball argument
the other day with an actor from st.
Louis. Mortons opponent spoke so bit
ingly of the Giants that the vaudevil-
Ian became thoroughly aroused.
There. lust for that" cried Morton,
II bore the Cardinals lose the worlds
series"
Tom Griffith. Whaler. made
outup Of himself again Wednesday
with the stick. At Macon. Ga. in a
game between two mines Of the Boston
Braves the old New Bedford reliable
Wheeled the boil over the right field
fierce TIC fret PLAYER to do So this
voa~ Toms lit would have cleared
tn r.rtt fc'7 fence at the Walpole
Stree 'at in Boston.
rotA ives Hcmrstea 4 and Manager
TChn etegraw Of tn Giants plan %
gun over - Los fneeles from Merlin
S-rin~s and trv to persuade Artie
Stafrr n rr-urn To the New York
rents. saafers contract has two
mere wears TO run.
Another redueilo ion has heen made in
tho uwofts Of he worlds tour. In
Chicage II developed that 10000 was
the srrn nefted by the trip. Previous
estimates kave been between $4,000
ard s1na coo.
Miller Fuggins saws his Cardinals
will not Re crippled by TIE loss Of out
fiel7cr Evans to the Federals, as he
had planned TO dispose of that PLAYER
anyway. Possibly, however, Miller
found the grapes sour.
Young Sheehan from LINN. and Jack
Talstein from Lowell, have been max
'rg a good impression with the White
Cox colts.
Callahan will not have the services
Of Ped" t,uhn for at least another
n onth, Kuhn was hit ON his throwing
hand BY a foul tip AZ Paso Robes,
end the hand was badly split in three
places.
The other day when the Tigers beat
New Orleans in garrison finish first
baseman Burns made three hits and
Kavanaugh. Heiman and Fitzsimmons
made two apiece. Kavanaugh is the
youngster who remained at York
Penn, last year in preference to join
ing the Newark International Lea
guers.
OF the Il hits that the Braves made
in their first three skirmishes at Ma
con, Bill Sweeney made six, five
singles and double.
Jack Dunn of the Baltimore Orioles
has been so much impressed with his
new first baseman. Gleichman, who
played with Wilmington last year, that
he has sold Ben Houser to the Buffalo
International Leaguers.
Ty Cobb's team at Augusta, Ga, was
unable to play its game with the
Superbas because the Building Com
missioners declared the stands I'M
safe.
Springfield Misunderstanding to a
Lynn paper, Manager Hamilton Just
missed being in Hank O'Days shoes
today. Had plans gone right, the