Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1915 — CAN'T BE NEUTRAL [ARTICLE]

CAN'T BE NEUTRAL

Otto Knabe has sprung a new one on the umpires. The rules of the Federal league require that the managers of teams shall furnish the batting order and batteries of their teams five minutes before game time. The managers usually strive to outthink each other and conceal the identity of their pitchers up to the last minute, and Knabe writes his batting order out in German, so as to give the umpires pause in reading it. Bill Corrigan ought to write his in Gaelic.