Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SJODIES DIAMOND

Hans Wagner says they have rung his retirement bell so often that It sounds like the gong that Starts the game. • * • Jack Reilly, who held down third base for Yale last sumofer, has received an offer to join the New York Giants. • • • Among the useful accomplishments of Arthur Fletcher In pursuing his duties at short field is deft skill in touching runners. * * * Dick Rudolph, In the opinion of Manager Stallings, Is the best righthanded pitcher In Governor Tenor’s circuit just now. • • • Danbury in the Atlantic league has a real hitting pitcher In Schwartz. In a recent game against Peterson he made four home runs. » * • Barney Dreyfuss has bought Costella and obtained options on Dugan and Beatty, all three from the Poughkeepsie team of the South Atlantic league. ♦ • ♦ Scout Charley Kelchner of the St. Louis Browns says that Dixie Southern of Haverhill is the best pitcher he has seen along the New England league circuit • • • Counting the day’s gate receipts Is no longer a great indoor sport with the magnate. He can count it all in the time he walks from the gate to the office door. • • • Not an American league catcher Is hitting in the .300 division, while the National league boasts of Gonzales of Cincinnati, Wingo of St Louis and Archer of Chicago, all in the .300 list • * • Joe Lannin is sending a lot of good playing material to the Providence team for next year. Pitcher Ruth, who was secured from the Baltimore Orioles not long ago. has been sent to the Rhode Island capital. • • • The New York Americans have gone to the Atlantic league for another player, the purchase of Third Baseman Angele Aragon from the Long Branch club being announced. As his name Indicates he is, a Cuban. Hal Chase has failed to make the great hit with the Buffalo Feds that was expected and fans who follow the Feds in that city are clamoring that Joe Agler looks better on first bass than does the once famous Child I Harold.