Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1910 — DIAMOND GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIAMOND GOSSIP

f L L Vi “ gstone of the Athletics says that Rube Marquard is as good p tcher 1B the game at the present time. Evidently Johnny McGraw does not think so, as he uses him very wh t ';A PUrkS> . a veteran guard at the white house is the champion rooter of the Senators. Purks has rooted at every game except' two of the American league schedule played Jn Washington. The Philadelphia club is said to have lost $20,000 on its hippodrome venture. The club has no money to spend for buying new players and there is no chance to strengthen much for next season. Pitcher Covaleski and Outfielder Messenger, two ex-major leaguers, engaged in a fist fight in Birmingham the other day. A little more of that kind of spirit in the game would have kept them in the big leagues. Ted Anderson, first baseman of the Flint, Mich, team, but tyho belonged to the Quincy, 111., team, Has been purchased by the Chicago American league club. He will report at the close of the Southern Michigan season. Some of the critics are advocating a change in the rules of baseball so that a batter who is hit by a pitched ball can have two bases instead of one. Paul Meleon really deserved a. home run for that “beaning” he got the other day. Christy Mathewson, the veteran star of the Giants, and Rmsell Ford, the new find of the Highlanders, will have a chance to show each other up when the two New York tean'3 get together this tall In the post-sefSon championship of Gotham. ' Manager Fred Clarke of the world’s champion Pirates established a new record in having four assists from the outfield. The record -?f three assists has been made several times, but never four by one man from the outfield In a single game. The Springfield club of the Three I league got Meloan from the St. Pan! club of the American association for S3OO. Two years ago Meloan played with the Jacksonville," ill., team, and he was drafted from there by the Springfield club and later went to St. Paul for a trial. He did not look good enough for Mike Kelly and then went back to Springfield. He need not worry about going back to the minors any more, for a while at least. V-- '.. . -Ji... y. .0.2: , . t ' A