Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — Win m [ARTICLE]

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A mascot shouldn’t hold his job long with those Cleveland Naps. • • • About the only man who doesn’t go up in the air at a ball game is the groundkeeper. t • • • The Cardinals are called the hitless wonders, but the Pirates are the runless wonders. • * • It is reported that Chance wants Lajole to play first base and help draw crowds in New York. Otjs Clymer, veteran of many seasons, has given away his fielder’s glove and has quit baseball. * • * Buck Freeman, former major leagueplayer and home-ruif swatter, is umpiring in the Canadian league. ♦ « • Nick Altrock is performing better in his acts before and during the game this year than ever before. * * * After watching the baseball strife of the season of 1914 one Is inclined to remodel the name to "base bull.” • * • The Baltimore Feds may be nicknamed Terrapins, but they haven’t been soup for the other teams, as yet. « • « Most ball players are against war— 4 that is, any kind of a war excepting a baseball war where the salaries are all raised. • • • It’s so easy to mobilize armies in Europe it’s a wonder some of our baseball magnates don’t try to mobilize an army—of fans. ♦ • • First Baseman Hoblitzel’s bunting and base-runnihg have been a big factor in the sensational climb of the Boston Red Sox up the pennant ladder. • • • Clarke Griffith puts only qne member of his own team on his greatest baseball team of all time, thereby violating a maxim of Walter Camp in selecting his All-American football team - <