Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — BASEBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NOTES

Manager Bresnahan says he will make an outfielder out of Red Corriden. • • • Three famous persons on the water wagon are Larry McLean, King George and Nicholas I. * * • They may be baseball slaves, but the chains that bind them are made of gold. >• • • • Glancing over the line-up of the Baltimore Feds we observe that Guy’s Zinn again. . • • ' • . Wally Schang of the Athletics, has a brother, Bobby, who has made a hit with the Pittsburgh Pirates. • ■*-• Chiropodist sues wealthy patient for SIO,OOO. No; he wasn’t Rolla Zleder, owner of the acrobatic bunion. * • • That Qucaracha slide has had a lot of space last winter; now we’ll pay more attention to Ty Cobb’s slide. « • • The Chinese government has hired a team of American-born Chinamen to introduce baseball in the Orient. * 'lf • That 21-player limit is changing America into the land of the free agent and the home of the brave. * * • If there are seven keys to Baldpate, Jack Lapp, the maskman with ~ the naked knob, has six in his possession. An infielder named Neverin has Signed in the New England league. He can’t kick if the umpire calls him out. • • Joe Birmingham Insists that his In. dians*are balltossers and not cannon fd&der for the seven American league teams. • * • * Tim Jordan is thinking of coming back to play first base for the Brooklyn Feds. Why doesn’t some manager give Cap Anson a chance? • • * - There are so many come-backs this year that there is hartlly room for the plain Cobbs, Mclnnises, Speakers, Zimmermans and other never gonebacks. ■ Cy Williams, when told what his batting average was in the 'exhibition games, said: "Tea, and I will hit dose to that mark all summer.” His average is J7O. m • m Outfielder Armando Marsans did not accompany the Terriers to 8L Louis. He will remain in Cuba until the injunction suit, whieh has been pending since last June, is decided. • • • Although third base cm the White Sox is still a more or less open position, the Indications at present are that Jimmy Breton, the University of Illinois man, will he founffat the third corner. - ' » . -