Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1914 — Among the Baseball Player [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Among the Baseball Player

Chance is looking better this year than he has for several seasons. * ♦ * Charles Herzog is succeeding in Cincinnati because he knows bow to handle his directors. • * • Fans will notice that “I'm-not-get-ting-the-breaks” still holds his job as a major league manager. Pitcher Ed Pfeffer of the Brooklyn* is a brother of'Jeff Pfeffer, the former Boston and Cub pitcher. It is said that W-agner will be used as scout by the Red Sox if he does not get into playing condition soon. « • • Griffith’s young heavers are giving Walter Johnson plenty of assistance in keeping the Senators in the limelight. - • * * Hughey Jennings says that if he had the White Sox pitching staff he’d run away with the American league < pennant ’. • » « Outfielder Leslie Mann of the Boston Braves had the honor of hitting the first home run of the season at Forbes field. If John McGraw said, all of the things he is credited with saying he’d be so busy talking that he’d have no time for managing. • • *. uWS A Milwaukee admirer wishes attention called to the pitching of Tom Dougherty, who has performed like a youngster this season. • • « _ President Hugh Jones of the Lincoln club announces that his team will be known/as Tigers from this on, Instead of Antelopes. ♦ • • Bert Maxwell, pitcher for the Brooklyn Feds, is out with a broken arm. Maxwell was hit by a pitched ball in a game with St Louis. see Harry Lord is as rare a species a* a humming-bird that can shoe a horse. Lord has quit baseball because he says he “felt himself slumping as a player.” Mordecai Brown, manager of the St Louis Feds, is said to have found a very capable substitute infielder in John Mlsse, who was in the Class D Union association last season: • • * Tom Seaton said he quit;the Phillies because they worked him too hard. Well, out of the fiijst 26 games played by the Brooklyn Feds Seaton had been pitched in 13 of them. Does he call that rest? ‘♦• • * . A Kansas City writer comments as foHowa: Bunnyßiriefls doing much this year to keep the Blues up in the race. The peppery first sacker is showing much better form this season than he did last, both in folding and at bat. •_.