Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1913 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Leonard, the new Red Sox hurler, appears to be the genuine article. Joe Tinker has ordered all his Reds to desist from smoking until the end of the 1913 season. Joe Tinker has reiterated his statement the Reds are going to beat out the Cubs In the coming race. The Cincinnati Reds have released Pitcher Jack Frost to the Montreal club of the International league,. A doctor who has made a physical examination of every Detroit player says the Tigers are in fine shape. Charlie Carr’s Kansas City Blues look very much like a winning combination in the American association. In the six years that Walter Johnson has been with the Senators he has fanned 1,163 batters and issued 360 free passes. Peter Wood, younger brother of Smoky Joe, has signed up to pitch for the Brockton club, of the New England league. An examination of the bats used by the Hilltoppers disclosed the fact that Chance’s was the heaviest and Daniel’s the lightest Southpaw Cottrell, Connie Mack’s recruit twlrler, seems to be a real find and possesses everything needed by a big league pitcher. Harry Niles, who is playing left field for the Indianapolis team, is the same man who once burned up the paths In the American league. The tour of Japan by the Stanford baseball team this summer will be the first oriental invasion ever made by a college team west of the Mississippi. Although Jennings had on his own team the champion batter in the person of Ty Cobb, he holds up Hans Wagner to his recruits as a batting model, not. Cobb. Chance day is going to be the biggest thing that has ever been pulled off in Chicago baseball history, judging from the way the fans are lining up for that event