Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-22
Plan Strong Semi
Pro. Baseball Team
to Represent Portland

With the baseball hungry fans OF
Portland and vicinity clamoring for Q
strong club to represent the city ana
with no league team available, FREQ
". Ostergren, the Portland High attn
letie director, and former Holy Cross,
Red Sox and New England league
first baseman has decided to put IN
the fastest semi professional club ne
can muster this season, with Bayside
Park as the home grounds.
1t will be Ostergren's idea to run
team that will be capable of handling
Sanford, Augusta, p. c. F., and all
the strongest Maine clubs as well as
Marblehead, the Comets of Lynn, and
the cream of the Bay State aggrega-
tions. Necessarily before the colleges
close he will be without the services
of some stars, that he hopes to sign
later when the collegiate season ends.
In the meantime he will try out some
of the strongest of the local players,
and there's no doubt that some OF
them will stick, as the last two or
three years of amateur and semi pro
ball in this vicinity have developed
as clever a cluster of diamond stars
DIS cali ne lOuHu iN any City VI IAiN
size.
Bowdoin First Opponents
The first game of the season is
scheduled for Saturday of this week
with the hard hitting Bowdoin Cole
gians as opponents of the local club.
The Bowdoin team will give OSter-
gren's men the acid test, and VIII
have the edge, as the Brunswickians
already have played four games
against Princeton, Pennsylvania
Bates and Fort williams. But Fred
inspires a lot of fight in his men,
most of whom he has picked for their
batting ability.
Ostergrens team will represent
Portland, and will be called Portland,
and he hopes to make it such a
crackerjack organization that 1t VIII
be a big advertisement for Portland
wherever it appears. Fred has had
plenty of experience in managing
teams of this type.
! Way back in his college days, he pi-
loted the Keene. N. H., team OF the
Tri-State League He has several
times been acting field manager of
the Lawrence New England League
club, and last season he guided the
General Tires team of the Akron,
Ohio Industrial League through a
successful season. Ostergfen always
has been connected with winners, as
his record at Portland High shows,
and he is satisfied with nothing but a
winner and if the local fans want
good baseball this season they will
get it.
In the opening game with BoWdein
on Saturday, Ostergren will give a
cluster of local players a thorough
| try-out. Danny Norton, the Thomp-
son Point lefty, who won the big ma
jority of his games, and the veteran
Frank Woodbury. are booked for hurl-
! ers. Fred will cover the first sack;
Buddy Cady, second base; Freddy
noull, third and probably Pete Tetre-
ault will gambol in the short field.
, Remind the bat will be either Harry
! Todd of South Portland or Linscott
of the Westbrook American Legion
! team, who has one of the best whips
! in southern Maine.
! A hard hitting outfield is in pros
poet with Pat French the Dcaring
I High coach, perhaps Bunny Barron
! of the Knights, and either Todd or
i WOODBURY.. This is easily a 300 ash
welding combination.
! BY the first of June, Ostergren will
be ready for some infusions of new
stars if they are needed and is already
! in communication with several of the
! best college players in the East. 1t is
! likely that two games a week will be
played. Wednesday dates will be ar
ranged in order to give the business
folks and clerks who close on the mid
week afternoon a chance to see the
games which is denied them Satur-
! day.