Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1915 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Cy Williams is developing into a fast base runner. * • • Fred Clarke seems to have made a fair outfielder of Baird. * * * John Beall is now the leading batter of the American association. * • * i Manager Rowland is called the Beau Brummel of the major league managers. • * * You can’t expect a fellow who hits $175 a month on the pay roll to bat .300 on the field. * • * Buck Herzog believes that it is quite necessary to drive ball players to get work out of them. * * * Pat Moran’s only blunder as a manager has been not to sign players with nonbreakable bones. * * * Pitcher Charley Jackson did not iast long with St. Joseph, though he showed well in the trials he had. * * * Third Baseman McLafferty of the Terre Haute team Is out for the rest of the season, with a broken leg. . • * * Boston’s claims to both pennants in the major leagues, which were strong sometime ago, appear to be weakening. * * * Peckinpaugh, Pipp and Nunamaker, who are helping keep the New York club in the pennant fight in the American league, were castoffs from other big league clubs. • * * The death of Tim Hurst is the seo« ond one within a year of former members of the American league staff of umpires. Jack Sheridan died less than a year ago. * * • The Little Rock team has been going better since President Bob Allen quit trying to manage his team and instead turned that end of the game over to Charley Starr. * * • Ray Caldwell, for some reason, is not equaling his work of last year, although his salary has been almost doubled. —New York Evening Sun. Perhaps that is the reason. • • * Herzog and McGraw are having it out good and plenty this time. The manager of the Reds has it on his former manager, because McGraw does not seem to get his Giants started at all this year. • • • Tommy Connolly, a recruit, is the only Washington player batting above the .300 mark. Griffith’s men can field, but they cannot hit, and that about eliminates them from the pennant fight