Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1913 — Among the Baseball Players [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Among the Baseball Players

i * Christy Mathewson, the star of the Giants’ pitching staff, claims that he never pitched Sunday ball tor any baseball team. • .♦ * ’ Now we get word from James McAleer of the World’s Cham-" pions that he denies the report that he has given up hope of again winning the pennant • * * ... Pitcher Falkenberg of the Naps in of opinion that ball players, especially pitchers, should not smoke. This prohibition includes pipes ahd cigars aa well as cigarettes. • * * Exhibition games for the Cincinnati Reds, so dear to the heart ot Business Manager Bancroft, have passed off the Cincinnati list this season, owing to Manager Tinker’s objections. • • • Hotel proprietors all over the country have noticed that a lot of people are registering from Brooklyn, N. Y. Formerly they put themselves down from New "York.—New Globe. • 0 . 0Olaf Henrlksen, the little outfielder who has been subbing for Duffy Lewis of the Red Sox, is justifying the faith Jake Stahl has had in him. .He Is batting right up there with the best of them. * S' * Jack Barry, formerly of the New York Giants’ outfield, has purchased an orange grove near Redlands, Cal. He will remove his family from Buffalo to what he calls the beauty spoil of the world. ‘ . e • • The good pitching Mains has given Buffalo is the big reason the Olsons are at the top. . Mains was with Jersey City and lost his only start there, but it seems impossible to beat him now that he is with Buffalo. a. • • Washington scribes write that Dan Moeller is playing a better game tor the Senators than his fellow outfielder, Milan. ‘Moeller is on his way to win himself a position among the jcrack outfielders of the league thin season," says on* . *