Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1915 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Jack Fournier is making good as a pinch hitter. Ban Johnson has pledged the American league clubs to play faster baseball. « • • Ed Walsh, the Big Moose, is "coming back,” according to information from the Pacific coast? • • • Grover Alexander, like his great-great-grandpaw, seems to long lor more worlds to conquer. Lefty Leifield, formerly a Cub pitcher, has joined the St. Paul team of the American association. • • « When one victory is hailed as a “w’inning streak,” one gets a fair idea of the fans' estimate of the club. * * * Ty Cobb favors woman’s suffrage. It’s now up to Mrs. Pankhurst to observe that baseball is glorified rounders. • * * Joe Jackson has been starring all winter with “Joe Jackson’s Winning Girls.” This summer he may star with the Losing Boys. • • • Goro Mikanie, the Jap, who was recently elected captain of the baseball nine at Knox college, is one of the most popular men in the school. • • • ♦ Jawn McGraw evidently realizes at last that while three hunks of Roquefort may beat a brick of Camembert, it takes porterhouse steak to win. • * * * Marty Kavanagh, • who is playing first base for Detroit, holds the championship of the American league for being the homeliest man in the circuit. • • • Pitcher McConnell, now with the Chicago Feds, learned the art of poker while with the Cubs on the spring training trip, and is a regular at the evening sessions. i • Eddie Collins is growing in favor with the fans every day. He pulls a wonderful stunt every afternoon and ofentimes his clever work turns the tide in the right way. • • • The Brooklyns are slow on the bases. If manager Wilbert-Robinson wants his team to occupy a respectable position in the pennant race he will have to develop more speed in his men while on the paths.