Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1914 — Among the Baseball Players [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Among the Baseball Players

Outfielder Duffy Lewis has sighed with the Boston Red Sox for two years. • • • The once great Amos Rusie has a hot job this year. He is working in a Seattle gas plant. * • • Pitcher Faber is the best lifesaveP the White Sox have had since th© palmy dayb of “Big Ed” Walsh. '» » » Rumor has it that Manager of the Athletic club is trying to tie up his players to three-year contracts. • * • Leach is playing as good a game aS he did last year and has been the main spoke in the machine all this summer. * • • Harry Bailey, the Columbus outfielder, who broke a leg while sliding, id still in a St. Paul hospital, and will play no more this season. • • • Mike Mitchell may help the Washing* ton Senators for a time, but the vet* eran is falling so fast that he will not be long in fast company now. • • • Branch Rickey of the Browns is not a bench manager, for he is able to get out on the field in practice and show his men what ha wants them to do. • • • The value of Wilbert Robinson to , the Giants is plainly shown by the way McGraw’s pitchers have been going since Robby left to assume his own burdens in Brooklyn. i• • • Outfielders Emmett Ruh and Jim Conley, the Columbus amateurs who weiyo given a few days* trial by the Columbus club, have been sent back to their respective clubs by Manager Hinchman. • • « Before the present season Howard! Shanks was rated as a weakling With the stick, but this year the Washington outfielder has flagged that sort of a fating by walloping the ball all over the lot. • • • - Umpire Al Orth, who tore a ligament in his leg by a fall in Philadelphia, on June 24, when he slipped on the concrete at the front of the players’ dugout, will be unable to work for several more weeks. * * * Gus Getz, second sacker of the Newark Indians, will probably be the next member of the Redskins to be snapped up by the Brooklyn Superbas, Getz is hitting arofittd .280 and his bingles come at opportune times. /• • • O’Mara of the Brooklyns Is an exceedingly talkative youth on the field, but most of the shortstops are strong on verbal pepper. There may be something in the climate about short field that makes the tongue wag, or else that position has the best strategic ad* vantages for disbursing chin music.