Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — BALL AND BAT NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BALL AND BAT NOTES

Accidents to the ball players this season are common. Suspensions do not seem popular in the American league this season. Pitcher Cole’s success lies In the wjndup. So does an eight day clock’s. Infielder Arthur Griggs of Cleveland has been released to the Toronto club of the Eastern league. Baseball is a great game, but lots of good citizens confine their Interest to the percentage columns. Take it from the Cubs that if the Philadelphia team Is crippled any more seriously It may win the pennant “Runt” Walsh, who is taking Sherwood Magee’s place In left, is a better player than the fans give him credit for being. Purtell has played in only twentytwo games for the Red Sox of Boston. He started well this year, but his Job was taken by Gardner. Honus Lobert, the gentlemanly third baseman of the Phillies, is still wearing his SIOO Panama that a friend in India sent him, but it needs a cleaning. When a ball player is suspended foi a year for taking a poke at an umpire. we are forced to draw the con elusion that baseball is becoming a mollycsddllsh game. Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pitts burg Pirates, has gained severs.' ounces in weight since he purchased Martin O’Toole for the record price of $22,500. The good luck of the PI rates seems to date from the mtnutt the big check was written.