Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — NOTES OF THE DIAMOND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTES OF THE DIAMOND

First home run of the year for Schulte. A ‘‘ragtime drop” has been discovered. By the Giants, as usual. New York fans are putting in a claim for two pennants this year. Japanese, baseball players are more successful on American soil than in their own country. Vaughn of New York has fully retained everything that made him a phenom last season. ' The cheapest way of getting free advertising seems to be to make presents to baseball players. Germany Schaefer is going to open a real estate office in Chicago when he gets through as a ball player. In order not to violate all precedent we should say something concerning the mortality among grandmothers. Baseball players must like the feeling of being bought and sold before they have time to see their new owner*. Rube Marquard seems to be doing hip beet to make good in his last chance and to prove he Is not * “lemon.” “Doc” Gessler, the Washington outfielder, is showing better this spring than be has at any time since he joined that team. Johnson, who is shortstopping for the Highlanders, seems to be a useful person v He fields everything nicely and can hit once In a while. . Heine Zimmerman .'s not worrying much about a few poor plays at the beginning of the season. He is getting them out of his system. A report filed by the administrator of the late Dan McGann, who committed Buicide, shows that the dead hall player left an estate valued at $35,000. Kid Elberfeld and Hal Chase, who were enemies when they were together on the Highbinders, have now made up and are boosting for each other. With a woman In charge of the Bt. Louis ball club the standard, ugly colors of uniforms may give way. Roger Bresnahan would look particularly well In cerise. f Those who fancy the ball players oppressed by the magnates do not consider that without iron-bound rules there would be no profitable professionalism in baseball. Right Fielder Murray of the 81. Louis Browns was famous in Minnesota last year as the champion home run getter of the St. Paul club in the American association. Bgp Plank o< the Bpringl!eld. Mass , dnb, brother of Eddie Plank of the Athletics, has not seen hi* brother pitch * game in six years. The younger Plank la also a pitcher.