Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — Sporting Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Sporting Gossip.

As long as Mathewson and Raymond are in shape the New York Giants are not going to slide down any in the National league race. Ingerton is doing so much heavy artillery work with the Boston team that Chance is beginning to think that it was a mistake to let the youngster go. In a recent game with Boston the Yankees scored four runs on four hits, and made four errors and eleven assists, winning the game 4 to 3, 4-11-44. Cunningham, the young second sacker with the Senators, Is doing good work at the keystone bag and MoAleer believes that his worries are over for some time to come about that position. Jack O’Connor, former manager of the Browns, has just returned to St. Louis from Arizona where he has been for bls health since last February. He is much better, but refuses to talk baseball. A Philadelphia habit that Manhattan fans never acquired is that of giving automobiles to players and managers. Within a year Horace Fogel, “Red” Dooin, “Connie” Mack and “Eddie!’ Collins have been given automobiles. Pitcher Mullin has a growth in his nose and has been told that an operation will be necessary. He doesn’t want to go under the knife lest his winning streak be broken. That’s better than having his breathing streak broken. Japanese ball players show that the subjects of the: mikado will be formidable opponents for Americans within a few years. With fewer advantages than the American high school boy, they put up a surprisingly good atttcle of ball. ' The Washington team does not think much of the pitching of Lefty Russell, the $12,000 pitcher Connie Mack has added to his staff this year. He was trounced easily by McAleer’s men even though they were almost disrupted by injuries.