Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1912 — BASEBALL NEWS and NOTES UP to DATE GOSSIP [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NEWS and NOTES UP to DATE GOSSIP

The Reds are talking of giving up their spring training grounds at Columbus. Ga. The Giants are. making a Strong bld to Ty Cobb to play with the All-Ameri-cans in the world tour. First Baseman Joe Agler of the Atlanta Southern league club was sold to the Washington Americans. Jack Killilay, late of the Boston Red Sox, is pitching pretty fair ball for the Oakland club of the Coast league this season. ■,, . Peaches Graham, who was a Cub catcher last summer, is now doing scout duty for Joe Kelly of the Toronto club. It’s about time for the minors to start their annual talk of kicking the poor-paying teams out and reorganizing on a more profitable line. That shift from Philadelphia to Boston must have been the right guess for John Titus. The veteran outfielder is producing the regular article for the Braves. Jack Powell of the St. Louis Browns has lost six games this season by a single tally, and four of the eight he has won were decided by the same margin. The poor guys down at St. Louis can’t listen to ill of Bresnahan. After all that has happened, they still refuse to believe Mrs. Britton wants to trade him.

The report is persistent that Bresnahan is through as manager of the Cardinals and that Mrs. Britton will have Huggins as leader of the team next year. We keep hearing all the time that Hank O’Day Is through at Cincinnati, and that Harry Davis is all in at Cleveland. Ohio is a bad place for budding managers. It is said that Manager McGraw of the New York Giants is sweet on Arnold Hauser of the Cardinals, and would like to put over a trade for the clever shortstop. Cincinnati can already hear the 1913 pennant flopping. They know they’re going to have a good team down there next yg£r just because they whipped the Giants twice In a row. Hovllk, who pitched a no-hit game for the Milwaukee Brewers, still belongs to the White Sox, and If he performs many tricks of the kind he will be yanked back in a hurry. Ty Cobb picked up a little side money umpiring a semipro game at New York, and some of the papers around the circuit comment on it as though Ty had stolen the money. Even with four scouts, Sam Kennedy, George Huff, Bobby Gilks and “ Socks ” Seybold, roaming the bushes the Cleveland club has not been able to annex any promising minor leaguers. 4“ ~ -