Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — AROUND THE BASES [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE BASES

Baseball started after the golfers, anyway. Count that day lost when * Fred Clarke does not get a hit. What’s the use of having boxing so long as we are allowed baseball? They call Pitcher Cries of the St. Louis Browns “King Dodo” in the Mound City. Horace Fogel thinks himself sate in offering Dooin a $15,000 contract if he wins a pennant. Silk O’Loughlin says a player must have brains as well as an umpire to get along in baseball. Ted Easterly, the Nap right fielder must hit .300 in order to hold his job on Jim McGuire’s team. George Davis has one place he never will lose—a warm place In the hearts of Chicago baseball fans. New York fans will not be satisfied with anything less than two pennants this year. Neither will those in Chicago. A triple play was made by the Springfield Three-I league team the other day, but the Springfield team lost the game. v If all the Pittsburg players were Fred Clarkes, it would he easy tc guess where the Pirates would be at the end of the season. The release of Horahorst by the Cleveland club was a surprise, as he was touted very strongly last fall as the successor of George Stovall. Larry Schlaffly, the former Washington player who is nows part owner of the Troy (N. Y.) club, has bloafeomed ont as a magazine writer. Hal Chase unites plays billiards ldft-handed, bat* rightbanded, throws left-handed and can butter his bread with either hand. Fred Tenney, head of the Boston Nationals, says be is going to have a ball-team that will be good enough to beat out the Cardinals and the Su perbas after all. Ed Pfeifer, the big pitcher being tried out with the St. Louis Browns Is a brother of Frank Pfeifer, the former Cob pltchsr, who ia now with the Boston Nationals. Pitcher Red Nelson, who was expected to be the leading pitcher of the St. Louis Browns this year, is hopelessly out of the game for some time. He contracted rheumatism while working as a brakeman last winter in ylfhfaan