Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL

No pitcher ever won more than three games in a world series. * * * What is a winter baseball story wlthbut a denial the next day? V* * « Outfielder Nixon led Eastern association batters with a mark of .357. ** * > Eddie Plank, who joined the Athletics in 1901, is thirty-nine years old. * * * World series umpires each drew down SI,OOO for their four days' labors. • • * Eddie Collins and Dick Rudolph played in the old Northern league in Vermont long ago. ■* * * * One good thing about losing a world’S series is that it keeps the players off the sfhge. * * • Organized baseball is intensely patriotic. It will permit the use of nothing but American-made baseballs and bats. * * * Chief Bender’s boast, “Get one run for me and we’ll win,” reminds us of what Christy MathOwson had to say about pitching to Frank Baker. • • * Sammy McConnell, former star shortstop and captain of the Girard college baseball team, has been signed for a tryout with Clark Griffiths’ Washington team.