Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — AROUND THE BASES [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE BASES

Jack KillUay la pitching fine ball for Oakland In the Pacific Coast league. Brooklyn seems to have j picked up an excellent second baseman in Cutshaw. Fred Clarke has found a valuable man In Warner, tke Brown university twirler. Bill Dahlen will be retained as manager of the Brooklyns next year, Ebbetts announces. Manager George Stovall intends to have an entirely new team in the Mound City next season. Ty Cobb is said to be thinking seriously of buying the Indianapolis club of the American association. Harry Davis has picked up a coming star, he thinks, in Billy Hunter, the Southern Michigan youngster. Otto Knabe of the Phillies Is now said to be the man Garry Hermann wants for manager of the Reds next year. Ed Sweeney, the Yankees’ star backstop, is hitting the ball hard and helping the Yankees climb out of the cellar. Here’s a sure sign. Connie Mack never could win a pennant during a presidential year. He drew blanks in ’A and ’OB. The Senators look like a real ball team and are being treated like a real team for the first time in the history of the game.' / Ray Collins is now one of the /leading left-hand pitchers of the country. Collins is one of the few whe have made good this season. A team that will play ten games without an error is one worth looking over for stars. That’s what the Lincoln (Neb.) team did recently. Griffith thinks Joe Wood of the Re* Sox is due for a slump before long and he has been waiting for it -In order to take his team into first place. _ v 2 President Sol Meyer of the Indianapolis team Is buying players of all kinds and degrees. He is going to make the Indians win If quantity has anything to do with it *■ r