Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1913 — Scattering Notes of the Diamond [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Scattering Notes of the Diamond

Hughie High, the Tiger youngster, started his baseball career as a pitcher. e\ • • Spitball pitchers should not sit in the draft of a hotel lobby and expect to win. • a • James, who pitches for the Boston Nationals, seems to be some pumpkins as a heaver. • • • George Mullin may prove 1 to be just the man that Clark Griffith needs to brace his pitching staff. • • * Fred Bender, brother of Chief Albert of the Athletics, is to be given a trial by the Cleveland team. a * • Clark Griffith, after seeing all the teams in the league, says he believes his team can land the pennant. • * • Joe Tinker says Bill Dahlen has a well-balanced team. Look how many years William waited for such a team. • a * Owner Ebbetts of the Dodgers has been forced to cut additional entrances in his new park. The fans are going after the baseball stuff hard in Brooklyn. a a a Brooklyn has a new pitcher named Rettinger, who halls from the amateur ranks around Jake Daubert’s Pennsylvania home. Daubert thinks he will be a find. • t ♦ “How in blazes,” queries a New York fan, “does Chance hope to make a ball team out of three Rays, a Roy. a Russell, a Harold, a Claude, an Ezra, a Birdie, and a Bert?” a a a Branch Rickey, former catcher of the New York and St. Louis Ameri-, can league teams, says baseball in the majors is so fast that players don’t have time to think. a a a Hal Chase, according to Frank Chance, is equal in trade to Wood and Speaker or Ty Cobb or Baker and Collins or Walter Johnson or the entire St. Louis ball club. “Germany” Schaefer made a great hit with the St. Louis crowd when he announced to the crowd that the Senators would be in St. Louin in October to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the world series. • • • “Pitchers who jerk their arms when they throw the ball never last long,” says Mordecal Brown. “The pitcher should follow each throw all the way through. I almost wrap my arm around my body at the end of a throw.*