Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — Among the Baseball Players [ARTICLE]

Among the Baseball Players

Manager Dooin has done great work for the Philadelphia club this season. »** * / According to Manager Griffith, Joe Boehling is the most natural hitter on the team. * * * Outfielder Jimmy Sheckard id a tobacco salesman when not careening around the ball field. • * * Tommy Connolly, the Braves’ young outfielder, was a pitcher while in the Central league. * * * Berlin of the Canadian league does not reserve Manager White and will look for ajiew leader next year. * * * Clark Griffith claims that if he had another winning hurler he would have ran away with the pennant this season. • * * Griffith believes that; his team would have a great advantage over any. team it might meet in a world’s series. * * * The veteran George Davis, once a great shortstop, says that Fletcher of the Giants is the best shortstop in the game today. . , * * * Ty Lober of Portland continues the leading hitter of the Coast league, with Walter Doane giving him a chase for the honors. ♦ * • Atlanta broke the record for attendance at a single game on September 6 when 12,140 paid to see the game with Mobile. • • * Bill Carrlgan as manager of the Red Sox will get SB,OOO next year, it is said, with a $2,000 bonus if he wins the American league pennant * * * Pitcher Bill Luhrsen, who to date has made good with the Pittsburgh team, comes from the Albany club in the South Atlantic league. * • * Since his return to the big show, Guy Zinn, the former New YorkRochester player, has done some remarkable work for the Boston Braves. • • * It is said that Larry Schlafly of Jersey City will succeed Bill Clymer as manager of Buffalo next season, the latter taking charge of the Wllkesbarre team. * • • Bill Borton, from back of the cigar counter in St. Joseph, announces that he expects to play ball again next season and that before spring he "expects to reach an agreement with the Jersey City club.” • • • Ned Egan, the peerless leader of the Central association and winner of five pennants or so in that organization, has turned down several offers to manage teams in higher class leagiSßS, including one from New Orleans.