Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL

No pitcher ever won more' than three games in a world series. J* * * What is a winter baseball story without a denial the next day? • * * 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. •* * 1 Eddie Collins and Dick Rudolph played m the old Northern league in Vermont long ago. * * * One good thing about? losing a world’? series is that it keeps ithe players off the stage. * * * , 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 Mathewson had to day 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.