Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1915 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Miller Huggins has the Cardinals advancing. * • • Larry Cheney does not seem to have successfully performed the comeback act as yet. • • • The owner of the Cleveland Indians is in favor of an eighteen-player limit, it is reported. • t * Jim Thorpe, who is playing good ball for Jersey City, is rapidly learning how to hit curve pitching. • • • With indications that the warm weather has tuned up Mathewson, Jawn McGraw is happy again. * * * Those Phillies are demonstrating the fact that the principal parts of baseball are pitch and punch. * • • Hughie Jennings says that Pitcher George Mullin was the hardest man to handle he ever had on his team. ■v• * * * Johnny Evers does not have a word to say to the umpire whom he is told to get off the bench these days. * f * Del Gainer, who is playing a utility infield and outfield role for the Red Sox, has certainly made good with the Boston fans. * • • Frank Baker, the home-run maker, is still playing ball and having a field day almost every time he takes a hand in the game. • • • Pitcher Bently, formerly with the Washington Senators, has been released to the Minneapolis team by Manager Griffith. « • * The fans who predicted the Phillies were traveling beyond their speed in the early weeks of the season have another guess coming. • • * With this year's experience, Harry Smith, the Giants’ young catcher, will develop into one of the best backstops in the big leagues. t * * Lee Meadows, who pitches baseball for Cardinals, canhot go on the mound without his eye-glasses. His specs are unique in the major leagues. • • • Joe Jackson declares shooting develops the batting eye. We defer to him on that point, but are certain that getting shot hurts the batting eye. * • * After ten years of hard service in the major leagues, Rube Oldring doesn't show more wear and tear than Cape Hatteras in the same period of time. x• • • Lefty High is declared to be one of the luckiest players ever in the big leagues. The Highlanders claim that ever since he got back they have been winning just because of his lack.