Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — BALL AND BAT NOTES [ARTICLE]

BALL AND BAT NOTES

A more severe penalty on “beating” might help some of the major leaguers to regain control. Perhaps if there were less farming by the big leaguers the smaller leagues would be healthier also. In architectural design and the way he stands and moves around Ping Bodie is a ringer for Jimmy Williams. One reason why Jimmy Murray did not join the Indianapolis team: Owner Watkins said he did not.want him. The report that Fred Tenney is dickering for Jake Beckley and Amos Rusie to join his Boston team is unfounded.

No outfielder plays batters any better than Harry Wolter. He studies every man closely and never fails to shift accordingly. Frank Chance has been “beaned” so often that he says his eyesight is affected and he may quit the game for good, as a player. The signing of Catcher Lew Me l Alllster by Buffalo means the release of Heinie Beckendorf, who has not been catching good ball. Budy Hulswitt, when he got ready to join Louisville, found that he would have to beat a pretty good ball player out of a job to get on. Catcher Harry Bemis of Columbus Is injured and out of the game. Columbus has had bad luck with its catching department this season. The days of the double header have arrived and the dyed in the wool fanatic sits comparatively back and takes the big run for his money with much joy. Kansas City fans think the veteran 'Dusty Rhoades is entitled to another lease of life in the majors, based on the ball he has been pitching for the Blues. Baseball ought to make a hit in Japan, if for no other reason than that the names of the players give much play for imaginative work on the part of the rooters. lM Hendricks, the Michigan southpaw who was sold to Newark by the Giants, but who refused to report, is pitching for a semi-professional team at BCnton Harbor, a town just across the like from Chicago. Pans along the Pacific coast, who are as keen knockers of umpires as fans anywhere, declare President Lynch, of the National league, has actually found a jewel of as umpire in Ralph FI-ary. Frank Isbell who moved his Wichita team to Pueblo, is not sorry he did so. He is drawing good crowds and wears a big smile because he Bhook the dust of Kansas before the dust got the best of him.