Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1912 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

The St. Louis Browns send Pitcher Hawk back to Burlington. Birmingham has released Charles Bell, a recruit, to Chillicothe, O. The veteran Happy Jim Crandle will play the outfield with Oshkosh. Stahl, Davis, Callahan and Griffith, all in new berths, are making good with a rush. St Paul has sold its giant catcher, Hub Dawson, to the Beaumont club of the Texqs league. Joe Raidy, last season manager of the Zanesville team, h’as been given his unconditional release. Charles B. Smith will manage the New Castle team of the.Ohio-Pennsyl-vania league for Owner Leist. Veteran Jack Warner says Amos Rusie had more puzzling curves and better control than Rube Marquard. Manager Wallace of the Browns has' sent a recruit first baseman named Miller to Lowell, along with Wolfgang and Magee. "If you can show me a better outfield than Carey, Donlin and Wilson, ru buy,” says Fred Clarke, the Pirate’s manager. Clark Griffith has his eye on Tal Pendleton, the brilliant football player and speedy shortstop of the Princeton baseball team. “If St. Louis could buy Lajoie for SIO,OOO he would more than earn the purchase price back for them in ten days,” says Hughie Jennings. President Comiskey, of the White Sox, has promised his team a training trip to California in the spring of 1916, the year of the Panama exposition. Big Bill James, the Cleveland pitcher, has the biggest hand of any player in the major league- A baseball look like a pea In the giant’s hand.