Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1914 — BASEBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NOTES

“Matheweon and Wagner will never go to a minor league,” reads an exchange. Well, who said they would? * • * Tom McCarthy, with the old St. Louis Browns, has signed with Manager Stallings and will act as scout for the Braves. * * * Perhaps one of the greatest boons of the southern training trip Is that It sends the club owners into retirement for seven months. * • * One of the things the Federal league has done is to keep marfhgers in organized baseball from winning so many winter pennaiits. * • * Scott, Benz and Weaver of the Sox can boast of one thing that no other players have yet done. They -signed their 1914 contracts near Mount SlnaL • * • John McGraw and Jimmy Callahan have figured it out that there Mil be a stretch of about ten days next November in which they won’t be on a train or steamship. • * • Detroit has tripled Its force of scouts and ordered them to look at nothing except outfielders. Ty Cobb has announced his retirement a: the close ol the season of 191*7.