Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1911 — BALL AND BAI NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BALL AND BAI NOTES

Cobb is some run getter on the Tiger team. '’ ’ Frank Schulte is the only .800 hitter on the Cub team. Joe McGinity has released Pitcher Vowinkle unconditionally. Rube Marquard is now the leading pitcher of the National league. The Pirates do not need any assistance from Marty O’Toole to win, it seems. Tinker would lead the National league In batting if he faced Mathewson all the time. Pitcher Akcfrs of the Dubuque club is attracting attention from several of the big league clubs. With all his reputed fence “busting,” Ping Bodie of the White Sox has made only four homers. Fred Clarke is to try out another first baseman. He has bought Keene of the Springfield (O.) club. The Tigers have been a poor road team this year. In 1907 and 1908 they won the pennant on the road. Without Catcher Kelly to help him along, Martin O’Toole is not the pitcher that be is with him, it is said. Some excited fan forgot his wooden leg and left it across the entrance of the New. York Highlander grounds, Yean Gregg won ten straight games before he went down m defeat against the Washington Senators the other day. Since Jlggs Donohue took charge of the Galveston team in the Texas league, that team has been coming right to the front American leaguers are batting at a higher rate than the players in the Natoinal league, but It takes the latter to bring in the long hits. Chicago has four players among that bunch of .300 hitters in the American league. Mplntyre, Lord, Lange and Callahan are the big max