Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1910 — ABOUND THE BASES [ARTICLE]

ABOUND THE BASES

Meloan and Zwilling, the new White* Sox outfielders, are each 22 years oldl Ed Walsh is a good imitator and is said to have the best vaudeville talent of any baseball player in the major leagues. The attendance for the recent Chi-cago-New York series was close to 90,000, which is going some for a fourday session. Umpire Johnstone of the National league says that the Cubs should win over the Athletics because of the better catching of Kllng and Archer. Unless OVerall shows improvement he wHI be picked to open tbtr world’s aeries this year. It will prohably be Mordecai Brown against Plank. Owen Bush, the smallest player in the American league, is batting .262, Ho has made ten doulles, four triples, three homers and twenty-three sacrt flee hits. Elmer Flick, who was released by the Cleveland Naps to the Kansas City Blues and refused to go, has settled himself on his farm for a long life of it Manager Chance could substitute “Toots” Hofman for Artie any time and no one would be the wiser. The brothers look enough alike on the diamond to be twins. A leading umpire lias asked the question why left-handed batters can’t hit Bouthpaws when right-hand hitters can hit right-hand pitchers. This i» a fair question, but difficult to answer