Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1915 — BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL

Honus Wagner la going to teach baseball at the University of 'Pittsburgh. •• • . Does that twenty-one-player limit for the National league clubs bar an owner from buying a kennel of bird dogs for trading purposes? • • • Another managerial possibility is Germany Schaefer as leader of the Peoria club of the Three-I league. Clarence Rowland had this club last year . • e The last time that Sherry Magee played in Boston, he was hissed by the left field bleachers. Now they are giving him the glad hand and ths Royal Rooter root •• • % The New York Sun says that it was Wild Bill Donovan who cajoled Caldwell back to the Highlanders. More probably it was the lucrative terms of that |9,000 contract. It was Robert’s speed as much as his batting ability that attracted McGraw. The fleet Phil holds the base circling record, and McGraw was always keen on speed, speed, and then more speed. • * • And one need not pause to wonder that the only chirps over the proposed slice in umpire salaries, major and minor, comes from the unhappy arbiters themselves. There never was a closed season on the unips.