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

velop into one of Gria7s regulars for
1914.
Joe Oeschger, college pitcher, hail
ing from Oakland Cal, has signed
three-y year contract to play with the
Phillies. and will put in his appear
ance at once. He has been success
full in college baseball for two years
and throws with his right hand.
1t is getting to be customary that
brothers should play on the same team.
Manager Stallings will try out Fred
Tyler, catcher, who is a brother of
Lefty" Tyler, the Braves southpaw
hurler. Boston will have the only bat
terry in the league composed of bro
theirs, should he make good
Charles Thomas appointment by Mr.
Taft as president of the Chicago Ma
tional League team will scarcely be
acceptable to the club owners or di-
rectors, and 1 doubt if he will be al
lowed to fill the Office" stated Pres.
Barney Dreyfus of the Pittsburg Club
Monday at Hot Springs, Ark.
After heated debate, during which
baseball in general and the prowess
of noted players in particular were
discussed, the Mississippi House of
Representatives Monday voted, so to
A. to recess Thursday afternoon to
see Detroit play local team at jack
son.
The entire student body of the Uni
versity of Vermont marched to the
train at Burlington, Monday, headed
by the college band to give rousing
send-off to the baseball team which
left for New York on it's early South
ern schedules which includes a game.
with Washington of the America
| League.
Claude Hendrix, the former Pitts
burg pitcher, has already tired of his
Federal League berth, Says owner
! Dreyfuss of the Pirate, who stated
Monday night at Hot Springs, Ark,
that Hendrix called up Manager Fred
Clarke over the long distance tele-
phone and said that he wanted to
| come back into the fold and that he
would gladly accept a salary of $4,000.
| Clyde Milan, who had some trouble
handling bounding balls in the outfield
! last summer, has been practicing lot
at shortstop, but only to help improve
his eye for the "hoppers.'
Pres. Navin naively asks What will
become of the fellows who have jump
/ fail to make good?"
! The Baltimore Federals have been
going well for Manager Otto Knabe
and now are lined up as follows: Mey-
er, If; Knabe, 2b; Kim, cf; Simmons,
rf; Swacina, Id; Walsh, 3b; Doolan.
SIS; Jacklitseh, C; Quinn. Suggs and
Smith, p.
Clark Griffith took time enough
! cid mi
Va. to explain to the citizens in the
Town hall that he is eligible for mem
bership in the Sons of the American
Revolution.
John McGraw, as manager of the
Giants won his 1000th game May Is
! last. Pop Arson, Chicago, Frank
| Selee Boston, and Connie Mack, Attn
/ letics, also have reached this marx.
Frank Chance did not get to his looOth
win with the Cubs, but was close to II
when he went to New York.
4 statistician with the Giants mas
| figured that McGraws scrub team
| has made almost three times as many
hits in a week as the Regulars. For
instance, Mike Donlin, keeping up MS
| worlds tour batting, has hit for near
Nv 700 at the Giants various Texas
camps.
The best thing that possibly can be
said abs ut Judge, Wilson and Cooney,
three Youngsters with the Red Sox, is
that they can hit This seems to be
the universal verdict of the baseball
writer's With the team
Nowfey and Konetchy have Dol
stereI no the Pittsburg infield and 1t
noV5 looks as good as any in the Ma
tional League.
June for Joe Wood still appears
10 30 Bin Cardigan verdict. If Joe
is right then Bill thinks he will be
au right ia the race for the pennant.
Pres John Tener Of the National
League pitched fer Chicago back IN
4 ISIS and 1883 and for Pittsburs In 1880.
In the three years, he won "A games
aud lost IS.
President Thomas says that former
president Murphy is no longer con-
recfed in any way with the Chicago
/ tql.b. This statement is corroeoraJed
bv former President Murphy ana
owner Taft Now, fans, viii goa be-
lere it,
tfnDire Billy Evans says that the
+ suit baHs IS passing. and the Harvard
/ CRIMSON has forbidden the use OF base
ban slang in it's classic columns. TINS
here National Pastime is getting 100