Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — BALL AND BAT NOTES [ARTICLE]

BALL AND BAT NOTES

Mansfield, Ohio, has traded First Baseman Frank Reynolds to Racine, Wis. A. D. Dodson, Jr., is the new president of the reorganized Galveston club. > Frank Rock has been made secretary of the St. Joseph Western league club. Managers McGraw and Bresnahan have five-year contracts with their . clubs. -—- — 1 ' . Spike Shannon, released by Kansas City, would like to land a job as an umpire. All the recruits look good at present, but wait a month and many of them will vanish into the past. John Dovey, formerly of the Boston National league club, will, according to report from Louisville, act as scout for Billy Grayson this season. Buffalo will give Charles Pugh, a shortstop, another trial this year. He is a semi-pro who warmed the Bison bench for a while last summer. Joe Cohn of the Spokane club wants the Northwestern league to take up the plan of numbering players recently adopted by the Pacific Coast league. Hugh Duffy has signed a pitcher named Mathias Zleser. The former Sox leader is a diplomat and is making himself solid with all nationalities of people. The Newark fans are all certain, and they are backed up by Joe McGinnlty, that Bill Louden will be the find of the season. He is to be played at third by Hughie Jennings. Johnny Evers, the brainy member of the Cubs, is angling for the purchase of the Albany (New York State league) club. Johnny is not figuring on quitting the big league, but he wants to be a magnate on the side. Del Howard says that be has no plana for the summer, but if any dub wants the services of a good slugger as well as a political speaker he says that he will consider the proposition. The temperance clause that was Inserted in the contracts of the Pirates last year was of great benefit to the team in the estimation of Barney ‘ Dreyfuss, and he has himself signed

one of the pledges for the coming season. Manager Fred Clarke has just closed a- deal for a half interest in the J. P. Baden Mills at Winfield, Kan. The mills are among the largest in southern Kansas and are expected to add many thousands of dollars to Clarke’s yearly income. Joe Adams, the ’ stout who discovered Otis Crandall, and Arthur Wilson of the Giants, is not connected with the national pastime in any form at present. Adams was manager of the Mattoon (Hl.) team at the time he found'the Giants’ stars. Manager Jack Tighe of the Louisville Colonels is kidding himself that he will get Eddie Lennox back from the Cubs to play third for the Colonels the coming season. If half of the reports about the ability of Lennox are true, Tighe will have to keep on kidding himself.