Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1915 — BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL

Chicago hopes are said to include a trade of “Kid" Gleason for Frits Maisel of the New Yorks. • * * It Is announced that Patsy Donovan and Tony McCarty will be the Boston club’s scouts this season. • • * It’s a long way to Tipperary, but It’s a longer way to the home plate If you are a Nap standing on third base. * * • “dollins Sold Because He Was a Trouble-maker,” says a headline. He was—for seven American league clubs. • * * If the magnates don’t want to wait for the papers next season to find out the scores they might set up tickers in the courtrooms. * • * The St. Louis Cardinals will train at Hot Wells, near San Antonio, and will play the Cleveland team in exhibitions in the early spring. • * • The passing of Wiltse and Donlin from the Giants opens opportunities for minor leagues that want managers. Both are heady men in the game. * * » •Andrew J. Coakley, the former pitcher of the ex-world’s champion Athletics, and Holy Cross star, will coach the 1915 Columbia university nine. , * • • During the spring and summer Ernest Quigley umpires baseball; during the fall he’s a football umpire and he puts in the winter umpiring basketball. In the other seasons he takes his vacation. * * • If It hadn’t been for the Cincinnati newspapers the Reds would have supplanted Charley Herzog with another manager. Herzog, it seems, had all the scribes with him this year, something unusual in Porkville.