Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1914 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Stallings rales the Braves, but there’s no stalling in that gang these days. • • • We have read but few stories lately entitled “Twenty thousand fans saw the game.” • • • Muggsy McGraw calls Ray Schalk, Whjte Sox catcher, the greatest little backstop in the world. • • • Bresnahan is being offered the Job of Cub manager for next year by many of the eastern writers again. # • * * They Bay Nap Lajoie will finish right in the American league. Others say he is already finished. • • * The Cleveland Naps have bought Pitcher Harstaad from the Vancouver club of the Northwestern league. • • • Max Carey of the Pittsburgh outfield is so fast getting down to first that few players even try to double him up. * • • The Dodgers have a good third sacker in Getz. The youngster Is a brilliant fielder and can wallop the pUL • • • Rumor has It that when the Brooklyn Federals make their next trip West they will be found playing Sunday ball. • • • Emporia, a new member of the Kansas State league this season, was successful In winning the championship pennant * • • Scott the young shortstop of the Red Sox, has developed so fast this year that Heine Wagner is nothing but a sub now. • • • Dave Fultz, president of the Baseball Players’ Fraternity, has succeeded in organizing the players of the Western league. • • • It Is reported on good authority the Feds have no desire to steal Trank Chance from the Yankees and assume that. 325,000 contracL ,• • • Grover Loudermilk, the tall pitcher the Brpwns secured from the Louisville Colonels, is the same hurler the Cubs had two seasons ago. • • • O’Mara, Brooklyn's yonng infielder, is playing a corking good game for the Superhas. He is a classy performer in the field and le hitting at a .260 dip. • • • The ecout who dug_np Pezold and Wambsganss must have had a difficult time getting his courage up to the point of signing the men, because the names do not look like those of ball players. • * • Capt George Mcßride of the Washington team has signed one of the new contracts with no ten day clause, just to prove to the world that he is not one of the 11 major league players that Gilmore says will jump to the Feds next spring.