Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18
BASEBALL NOTES.

Billy PhOenlX, the Lawrence Netcr-
an second sacker, who Manager Pei
per announced was sold to Lewiston
several days ago. felded for .935 last
season and batted for .261. Last year,
for the first time in his career, Phoe-
nix lost his head when the fans got
after him while in a slump and told
one Ito go to the hot place The re-
suit was that the bleacherites got"
him and PEPPER thought 1t best to
part with him.
Jim Swetonick, the lad who held
Portland hitless for eight innings in
his first appearance with the Law
renee team last season. will again
play for Lawrence this year and he
league season. Such was the an
nouneement made by Manager Pei
per upon his return last night from
Pittsburg, where he went Friday. to
get the pitcher. The latter's father
has been opposed to the boy leaving
home this summer to play ball ano
has repeatedly insisted that he was
determined in this matter. But aftef
talking with him, Sunday, Manager
PEPPER finally secured his permission
to allow his son to play.
Manager Gray of Lowell, is expecting
big things this year of Catcher Thorn
as who will wear his right name,
Greenhalge, through the 1914 season
Greenhalge showed himself live wire
in the post season series between Low
ell and the Hartford champs of the
Eastern Association last fall. Indeed
he was too eager. being so anxious
to make catches that he repeatedly
ran out into the diamond and inter
fered with the other players.
shorty Dee. infielder for the Low
ellis, reported Thursday. DeGroff is
the only player who has net yet re-
ported.
Some one representing himself as
Walter Clarkson of Lowell has been
in Toledo endeavoring to secure po-
sition as pitcher. Mr.. Clarkson is at
tending to his shoe business in Low
ell and was surprised at the telegram
from Toledo.
The Chicago Americans Thursday
released two of their pitchers, c
Rogge and E. W. Johnson, to the
Montreal club of the international
League.
Dr. NJ. II. Castle. the Cleveland
clubs physician, said Thursday that
Outfielder Leiboid, in whose place Bir-
mingham has been playing. will re-
turn to the game in week. Leibole
has been in a Chicago hospital with
water on his kneecap. Shortstop Chap
man may return to the game later
in June.
MoeIler and Foster, the first two mer
in the Washington batting order, make
a very nice exhibition of the hit-and-
run play when things break right fol
them. With Moelier on first and Fos-
ter at bat. it will be good plan tc
conceal as long as possible which OF
the infielders is going to cover second
for the midget. given any sort of 8
chance, pokes or pulls them to either
side of the bag with equal facility.
Those Chicago White Sox seem to
be going pretty good, but the form
shown a month or six weeks hence will
be better as a basis for judgment as
to how they look and what their pros
poets are.
Thomas Daniel DAILY, the player
whom the Red Sox thought they had
landed from the Lowell club last fall
has been helping out the White Sox
quite a bit this spring. He did not dc
much Thursday, but Callahans boys
won just the same.
President Gilmore of the Federal
League is reported to have said that
three or four of the New York Giants
have sought positions with the Fed
eral League, and that they had given
their solemn pledge for something OF
other. OF what good is the pledge
or their bond, either, of contract jump
ers?
An International League club man.
ager says he had chance to wreck
the Baltimore Federal club by taking
four of its star players last week. He
had been badly stung in the raid OF
the Feds on his players and wanted
to retaliate, but the president Of his
club would not allow him to deal with
the men.
Friends of Fred Tenney, the grea1
ball player OF few years back and
manager for several years of the Bos-
ton Nationals. will be glad to learn
that Fred is prospecting. He has made
big success of the shoe business
with which he has been identified nov
for almost three years. He embarked