Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1913 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Otis Clymer, the ex-Cub, has a regular job with the Braves. * * • Springfield has secured First Baseman Tom Stankard from Holyoke. • • * Balks are getting to be rather frequent occurrences at the Senators’ park. • • • "Joe Boehling of the Washington club is the find of the season/' says the New York World. / •• • ■ Pitcher Doc Ayers, on whom Clark Griffith holds a string, is pitching great ball in the .Virginia league. e • • Fans are wondering how many of those now making up the Philadelphia regulars will drop out after this season. A • • • John Dodge, the new third sacker of the Rede, is a strenuous player and is making good for the TinJcerites. • • • The veteran Chariey Hickman is off on a scouting trip to the Pacific coast and intermediate points for the Cleveland Naps. • • • This year the Athletics are said to be the greatest drawing card on the American league circuit, supplanting the Tigers and Tyrus Cobb In that respect. • • • Whenever the Nap wrecking crew, comprised of Jajoie and Jackson, fails to connect, the team Is of seconddivision calibre, according to a Cleveland critic. Nick Altrock gets credit for most of the success of the sensational young Joe Boehling, and now he has taken the boy southpaw, Harry Harper, under his tutelage. • • • One mascot is not enough for Joe Jackson. He has two. One is a fighting bulldog. The. other is a bulldog, too, but according to Joe, -lhe'a more for looks than fighting."