Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1913 — NOTES of SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES of SPORTDOM

Stagg as usual stood the endurance test. The Cincinnati papers are complaining that the Reds do not bat heavy enough. Sixteen players have been killed on the gridion this year against fourteen last year. It’s getting so a man has to win a pennant or get a new job. Especially in the big leagues. Pitcher Carl Cashion of the Washington Senators says he is learning a new throw to first. Jimmy O’Rourke and Charles Hemp, hill of Columbus have been sold to Bill Friel of St. Paul. Ty Cobb has batted better than .300 in all the seven years that he has spent in fast company. The New York Giants copped 319 bases last season, against 248 for Cincinnati, the next highest. Jimmy Burke has been mentioned as a possibility to manage the Grand Rapids team next season. » Walter Johnson and Henry, says Clark Griffith, are the greatest battery that ever went/into a ball game. Yale thought she could knock the "Brick” out of Brickley, but Harvard took the “Pump” out of Pumpelly. Captain Larry Doyle of the Giants has been engaged to coach the Seton Hall baseball team of New Jersey. National league fans in Boston are looking to George Stallings to give them their first good ball club since 1901. McGraw would like to know who put the “grass” in Snodgrass, and who is responsible for the “merk” in Merkle. Heinie Zimmerman, according to the figures, leads the National league with the war club, closely followed by an Indian. 1 ’ • , Outfielder Connoly, who was caught in the draft by the Washington Senators from Montreal, batted for .316 last season. Bat Nelson’s manager the Hegewlsch man Is in the prime of life. “Dr.” Phelon and “Doc” Osler to the contrary. Nobody has any sympathy for Miller Huggins since he accepted a job as Cardinal manager. They say it was his own fault. Jack Ryder says the Athletics and the Red Sox will be contenders in the east, and the White Sox and the Tigers In the west.