Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1914 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

N OTES of the DIAMOND

Catcher Snyder of the Cardinals looks like one of the finds of the season. • • • Jack Knight still has to make the rounds of the National and Federal leagues before he retires. « • • Washington is first in war, first in peace and first to make a triple play in the American league this season. • * * George Hughes appears to be making a hit as manager at Grand Rapids, judging from the newspaper comment. * * * Since the clock’s in Cleveland have been moved forward an hour everything’s faster there except the ball team. • • • Outfielder Andy Kyle, who has been knocked about in a good many leagues, has caught on with the Terre Haute team. • * * Pitcher Oscar Graham, recently released by Wichita of the Western league, has been signed by Terre Haute. •*• \ X Notwithstanding the loss of several of their star players the Phillies have been able to stage some pretty classy contests so far. • * • Pitcher Lefty Thomas, formerly of Wichita, has joined the Grand Rapids team. He has been pitching independent ball in Kansas this spring. • ♦ ♦ Manager Larry Schlafly of the Buffalos . attributes the disappointing showing of his team to date to bad “breaks” in the training season. • * * Philadelphia • critics claim that “Stuffy” Mclnnis, the Athletics’ first sacker, can travel farther for a foul fly than any other first baseman in the American league. • • • Walter Johnsofi says he never saw such an improvement in a club as Frank Chance has shown with the New Yorks in the short year that he has been at the helm. • « • While they are changing the landscape to suit the whims of ball players, why not move the pitcher’s slab back to second base when Walter Johnson is on the job? • • • Catcher Chester Thomas of the Red Sox has put his savings into a small farm in the heart of Kansas, where drops of rain are prized like diamonds at certain seasons of the year. • • • After several years of rather medio ere work it is predicted that Marty O’Toole, the $22,500 beauty, will come through this year and pitch the kind of ball that was expected of him. • « • What a handy man Wally Smith is proving himself for Washington. He is not only capable to fill almost any i position on the team, but the long layoffs do not seem to dim his batting > eye - Hughey Jennings has a nephew at Washington and Lee College who is fast acquiring a reputation as a pitcher. The youngster’s name is William Hugh Jennings, and he twirls with his left wing. ■ • • • Diligent statistician has discovered that Christy Mathewson always wins the game he pitches on his birthday. One doesn’t have to be a statistician to assert that Christy also wins a whole lot on other perscW birthday >■