Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1913 — BASEBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NOTES

Bill Carrigan, the new leader of the Boston Red Sox, says he has the poorest pitching staff in the league. • * * Pitcher Martin Walsh, Ed. Walsn’s brother, is twirling sensational ball for a semi-professional team in Stamford, Conn. • • • The Providence club has secured from Detroit Walter Pipp, the young first baseman secured by the Detroit club from Kalamazoo. • * * Gonzalez, the Cuban catcher whom Tinker thinks of trying odt and holding for next season, is as tall as Larry McLean, but very slender. • * * Dave Altlzer is leading off for Joe Cantillon's Minneapolis team. He isn’t hitting so hard, but he’s getting on the bases, and that’s worth a lot. • * * New York fans are picking Art Shafer to do great work with the stick in the coming world’s series. “Another Frank Baker,’’ Ib the way they put it. • • * J. Franklin Baker, the home-run clouter of the Athletics, is getting his batting eye into fine order for the coming series with the Giants in the fall. . •• • • The Philadelphia club sure is strong for mascots. They now have two—a hunchbaek and a comically costumed negro, and the African is touted as one of the surest luck-bringers that ever came up from Alabam’. • * • Christy Mathewson has pitched two games this year in which he neither fanned a batter nor presented one with a base on balls. The Phillies and Reds were his opponents. • * • Fred ' Clarke is pleased with the way his pitchers have responded lately. “Hendrix,’’ Adams, McQuillan, Robinson and Camnitz are all in perfect trim now,” says the Pirate leader. * • • Clark Griffith, who has heard the music of the anvil chorus so often, is enjoying continued prosperity at Washington, wbfere he is given credit for making a former candidate sor 1 the cellar position s, pennant contender.