Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Jim Gilmore says Jake Ruppert is hitched up to a lemon in the New York Yankees. * « • Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Browns is a great advocate of handball. George Stallings, manager of the Braves, is anxious to land a substitute infielder for his club. * * * j The Pirates are congratulating themselves on having signed a youngster by the name of Helus Wagner. • • • Marty O’Toole says he likes Columbus —which explains, perhaps, why he did not succeed in a major league. • * • Little Louis Van Zelt, the hunchback mascot of the Athletics, is dead. He was famous all over the big league circuits. * • • Cleveland is planning a municipal kick bureau. We sincerely hope it does not include a department of professional baseball. ■; •• • > Bob Tebeau, son of President George Tebeau of the Kansas City association club, has succeeded John Savage as secretary of the club. « • « The St. Louis Cards and the Pittsburgh Pirates both have pitchers who wear spectacles. They will need double lenses to see a pennant. The first deal made by the new management of the St. Paul American association club was the sale of Pitcher Dixie Walker to Milwaukee. ** * . Sherwood Magee’s shoulder will not trouble him during the season, according to the Braves' physician. • • • The Cincinnati Reds are certainly well fortified in the matter of catchers. In Ivy Wingo and Charley Dooin they have two first-clash backstops. Napoleon Lajoie who is with the Athletics, is the only player in the American league who entered the ranks in 1901, who is still in harness'. * * • Chicago is the greatest baseball city in the world. It has over six hundred organized clubs. The level ground and the large number of vacant lots make Chicago the paradise of ball players. Charles Mullen is to be given every opportunity to battle for his job with the Highlanders even though Walter Pipp has been signed. If Mullen hits as he did at Lincoln he. would hold on. >• • • Nemo Liebold of the Cleveland Indians denied he intended jumping to the Feds. Birmingham contends that these rumors of a player jumping hurt the player and get him in wrong with the fans.