Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1911 — BASEBALL NEWS and NOIES UP 10 DATE GOSSIP [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NEWS and NOIES UP 10 DATE GOSSIP

Hans Wagner is some first baseman. Too many leagues in the country? Minor leagues seem to be having their troubles this year. Every club manager is hoping to discover another Ty Cobb. Better a pennant-winner in a minor league than & tail-ender in a major. Detroit believes Connie Mack has the right Idea in signing up the collegians. Detroit is doubtless glad that it put away so many victories while the winning was good. "Noisy” John Kling is said to have received a bonus mounting into four figures for joining the Doves. Eddie Cicotte and his famous knuckle ball would go well with Ed Walsh and his spitball and Bill Lange with his terrific speed. There is some ground for the belief that a man who has experienced tfie discipline of college training will be amenable to that in tbe big leagues. Secretary Bill Locke of the Pirates says his team has been holding back so they could get their second wind and give the leaders a real battle from now until the end. In the case of a baseball team, noth-

ing is so conductive of freedom from emotional excitement as a safe, assured position at the bottom of the percentage column. Billy Evans' Suggestion that night club leagues have two or four towns in reserve to which they may tarn in case of falling off in attendance at the regular cities seems good. Hoblitzel, the first baseman of the Reds, is now a real dentist. He received his diploma a few days ago and will start practice next winter. He is not going to give up baseball in the summer, however. Kling has shown more life since he joined the Doves than he has for the last two years with the Cubs. The Doves are beginning to show the effect of the work that Kling is putting them through. “Old Cy Young” intends to change his style of delivery after twenty-two years of pitching. He has always depended on his speed, but now he is going to put more dependence in his curves and drops. . Efforts of three Central league clubs—South Bend, Terre Haute and Wheeling—to secure Shortstop McCarthy from Pittsburg have proved unsuccessful and that player will continue to sit on' the Pittsburg bench.