Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Cobb says Ban Johnson is an egotist and stubborn. Wise diamond sayings: A winning ball team makes its own luck. - The Sacramento ball club will go to Honolulu this fall, and perhaps to Japan. Pitchers* battles are getting rather common. Batting averages are due to shrink. Germany has taken up baseball, and the kaiser Is almost autocratic enough to be an umpire. Red Smith has so far progressed as a third baseman that he Is called a second Jimmy Collins. Jack Coombs and Chief Bender are real “comebacks.” No wonder Connie Mack can smile again. Harry Niles, former Southern leaguer, now with Toledo, has scored an average of one run a game. Connie Mack had a catcher named Kilhullen, but nobody knew it until the Orioles got‘him from the Athletics. Why ip it that the weather man always offers us his finest wares when the baseball team lingers in a far off land? Those Pirates were going fine until they -ran their nose Into Bresnahan’s gang. Rajah is surely heading a scrappy crew. An optimistic fan is one who raves about the winning streak when the home team happens to win two games in succession. Those university professors who named the seven modern wonders overlooked the woman who can score a baseball game. Topsy Hartsei is making good as manager of the Toledo team, and is keeping the Mud Hens well up In the American association rate. The Phillies passed up Kid Gleason, and now the "old man” is giving Jimmy, Callahan’s White Sox the benefit of his baseball knowledge. Do you really think that “Six" Is a sufficiently euphonious term for such a galaxy of manly beauty as the ChiAccording to a physical culture expert there is no better exercise than rooting at a ball game. And most men seem to be strong for it, too. Harry Wolter’s bum leg has proved, under recent X-ray and other sorts of examinations, to be troubled with a Potts* fracture, whatever that is. Jimmy Barrett, last year at the head of the Milwaukee team, is working out at the Detroit ball park and says he means to get into the game again. Nowadays if a major league manager can cop one youngster a season who makes good he considers himself extremely lucky, bat In Rath and .Weaver the White Sox seem to have grabbed two stars in one shuffle.