Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-13
Baseball Gossip
with Maine Slant

The Portland Council, X. OF c..
baseball team will open it's season
next Saturday playing Bowdoin at
Brunswick. The Knights have re-
ceived several notable additions 10
the roster this year in Ray Carr, for
two years a leading hurler of the
Telegram league. ski Nanier,
catcher, and Buddy" Cady. short
stop. Against the smuggling Houser-
ties, Manager Asali probably will
start either Carr or the veteran
Chick" Embleton. 1t will be Bow
doin's first home game, and the boys
will get big welcome after their
successful southern invasion.
While the collegians will have the
advantage of having played six
games, the Knights have not been
idle. The Purple clad warriors have
worked indoors and outdoors as often
as weather conditions would permit.
The inGeld for Saturday looks un-
usually good with Pat French at
first: either Cressey or DeRice at
second; Cady at short and Billy Bar
ron at third. Bunny Barron and
Dutch Rcardon will be among those
present in the outer works.
The election OF Waterman Trefe-
then as captain of next seasons
South Portland High basketball team
was we'll deserved. Trcfcthen was
one of the most brilliant courtmen
on the Maine school surface this past
season He is an athlete of unusual
versatility, and should be one of the
m, ,>f+ he al 1na
this spring.
Bobby Wheelock, who played in the
outfield and pitched for the Oxford
Bears last summer. is captain of the
Rutgers college baseball team this
spring. Wheelock pitched six innings
of the opening game against Crsinus,
and showed well for SO early in the
/, season, although Rutgers lost by 6
to tally.
Thormahlcn the Boston semi pro
southpaw who while a member Of the
Sherbrooke, Que. club last summer
worked in one game for the Twin
Towns team has been signed by the
Albany club Of the Eastern League,
and has been ordered to report at
once. Bill Tamm the former Portland
shortstop and Chef. Sweat ex-Duff
second sackcr are also with Albany.
The former may be used in the out
field.
Of the dozen or so aspirantS for the
flinging berth on the Colby nine,
there is but one left handler. Tommy
Callaghan, former Brewer High
player, and star of this seasons first
Colby varsity basketball team!
Second and short seem to lie in a
competitive class second only to the
finging job. and there are any num-
Der of men trying out for those posi-
tons on the Colby team. Among them
are Bullet" Hendricks, the football
star. "Shoggy" Niles. Verne. Jack
Berry and Bob Fransen. The last
named contender is smooth playing
boy, having had plenty Of experience
in prep. school at the second sack. He
was captain of the Lynn, Mass. Eng
lish High school diamond men, and
was rated as the best second baseman
in the North Shore league.
BY error it was stated that the Fifth
Regiment ball team played at Fort
Williams last Sunday. 1t was the
Company E team of the Fifth. Several
Of the Regimental players are now on
shipboard en- voyage for Portland.
When these players arrive the boys of
the Fifth declare their regimental
team will whip anything in this neck
Of the woods.
Gautreau the trappv little catcher
who played with. Cambridge Latin in
he inter-sectional game against Port
md High at Bayside last season is
'ead-off man for Holy Cross this year,
but playing third base. The Worces-
ter collegians are now on Southern
trip and play Georgetown tomorrow.
Bill Koran the former kents Hill
star. will work for the Purnle