Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-18
BASEBALL NOTES.

THE best thing about the South"
says Joe Birmingham, lis train
back NORTH Joe says he's going to
slip one over on the weather man
next year and train in Greenland.
A baseball statistician has taken the
trouble to find ont how much iris
Speaker will make in an hour as Red
Sox player. He says Speaker will get
1854 an hour, or s116.ss per game.
Johnny Williams, the young Ha-
waiian pitcher with the Tigers, can
dc almost as many things with his
feet as most people can with their
hands. But thus far he hasn't been
able to row boat, shave himself or
pitch with his toes.
Vean Gregg, the Maps southpaw,
says no offer from the Feds, no matter
how tempting. can lure him away from
Mr.. Somers. He was given a three
year contract at an increased salary.
No league is complete without a
clown, spoke President Gilmore of the
Feds, and had some of his men get
after Steve Evans of the Cardinals.
NJ. r. Evans, the Salt Lake million
ARE, has engaged Erwin Jensen to
manage his Boise team in the Union
association.
\ Toledo scribe says: Wouldn't 1t
be a joke IL the Browns, Cards and
st. Louis Feds all won pennants this
year. Jokei | should say not. It
would be a tragedy.
1t is said that the ball that Gabby
Street caught from the Washington
monument travelled at the speed of
2Ss miles Fer minute.
Manager Jesse C. Burkett of Wor-
cester has sent a contract to Erwin
Heise of Baltimore, a. youngster who
looks pretty good, in the records. Heise
plays shortstop, which is a position
Burkett wants to fill with n good play
Ell tn replace Jim Cooney. the Red Sox
recruit. Heise played short and cap
tanned the st. Johns College team of
Baltimore last season until the end
of the college year. He then played
a similar position for St Michaelis
team of the Maryland State League.
He batted and fielded well. his bat
ting average for the State League
team being $50
Outficlder Claude Cooper of the New
York Giants announced Monday at
Fort Worth. Tex, he had signed a
three-year contract with the Brooklyn
Federals. His salary was said to be
$4,000 year. of which he received one
years pay in advance Monday.
Oscar Witt has reported to the De-
troit Tigers nearly 20 pounds heavier
than when he was sent home late last
season. Whom the team first secured
him he was a high-class hitter, and
Jennings expects him to return to
form.
Marty O'Teole has formed an appen-
dixless club of members of the team
at Hot Springs, Ark. On the train
coming over from Dawson Springs he
organized his club from among the
members of the Pirate crew who have
submitted to an operation for the re-
moval of the appendix. For fellow club
members he has Mccarthy, Cooper,
Hyatt, and is still looking for others
on the team who have had their verm-
form appendix removed.
Capt. Tommy Leach will get back
his old place at third base and Heinie
Zimmerman will play shortstop when
the Chicago Nationals take the field
next month. according to an announce
ment of the teams makeup, telegraph
ed by Manager O'Day from Jackson
ville Fla. Good, Schultz and Johnston
Across the street from the hotel at
Dawson Springs. KY. where the Pr
rates are stopping worlSmen are en-
gagged in digging foundation for a
new business building. Alongside of
the excavation is nearly dismantled
bowling alley-a wreck of shed-like
affair. Monday Manager Clarke and
Business Manager Daley We're looking
over the bowling alley place. Clarke,
seeing a small -four sack on the floor.
picked it up and was about to toss it
into a corner. when Daley suggested
that they look inside. They looked in,
then they turned pale. Inside the in
nocent appearing flour sack was
enough dynamite to blow a dozen base
ball clubs, managers, business man
ayers and all from Dawson Springs to
Pittsburg.
Hal Chase has been bothered with
a sty on his eye, and has not been able
to do much work for the White Sox.
Fournier has been taking his place at
first base.
Owing to the heavy schedule for the
Braves on their way north from Ma
con, Sec. Nickerson will remain with
the players and will not return to Bos-
ton until the league opening, April %,
at Boston.
Johnny Bates has left the Red Birds
camp for his home at Steubenville, o.
His wife is seriously sick and Bates
may not be able to join the team for
several weeks.
Outfielder Chapel Of the White Sox
has made four hits in each OF several
games on the Coast so far this Spring.
"Rube" Marquard started out by al
lowing the Waco team only one hit in
five innings. He passed two men and
famed four.
Next Thursday and Grand Rapids,
Mich, are the date and place for the
Federals' injunction case against
catcher Killifer of the Quakers.
Manager Pieper of the Lawrence
New England league baseball team
announced Monday that Catcher Har-
ry Breymaier has been sold to the
Haverhill team. 'The price is not CIV
en- out. Two pitchers have been sign
ed for the Lawrence team, Eddie
Smith of Bridgton, Me-, and John
Tilman of Bridgeport. Conn. Both
have done good work in the semi
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