Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Fred Clarke has the Pirates going at a dizzy pace. • • • It is noticed that the iron men of baseball go to the scrap heap early. • * • Tris Speaker is going back—going back further than ever and catching drives. * • * John McGraw is following the lead of Connie Mack in picking up college players. • • • Philadelphia surgeons apparently got the better of the swap of Magee for Whitted and Dugey. * * * Ham Hyatt has been helping the Cardinals crawl up in the race with his long drives to right field. • * • Frederick C. Lieb of the New York Press thinks the White Sox and Cubs will play in the next world’s series. • • * Clarence Rowland has ordered all his Sox players to wear rubber heels so they won’t slip out of first place. * • * Manager Rowland doesn’t consider Detroit a pennant factor. Boston is the team the Sox have to beat, he thinks. * • • One by one Ray Schalk is winning over the critics to his side in the controversy over who Is the world’s greatest catcher. • • • As a third-sacker, Blackbume Is developing and Manager Rowland will probably keep him in the game for the rest of the season. « • •

From now on It is going to a battle in the American league among St. Louis, Cleveland and Philadelphia for the cellar poaitidn. * e • Manager McKechnie, who succeeded Bill Phillips as leader of the Newark team, is proving a success and has the club on its toes. • • • Bob Bescher is playing a better game than at any time this year. It is much better than he played last year with the Giants. • • * A discussion between Otto Knabe and Joe Tinker upon the respective merits of Umpires Johnstone and Fyfe would be interesting. • • * The American association clubs are cutting down expenses right and left. Players drawing big money are the first to be shown the door. • • • Branch Rickey, manager of the Browns, has a fondness for college recruits and eventually may lead • whole club composed of ex-collegians. • • • The Cincinnati club is anxious to sesure Pitcher Dan Tipple from Indianapolis of the association and is said to nave offered big money and players m addition. • • • Grover Loudermilk, St Louis pitcher, recently told the umpires he ha® so much stuff they couldn’t see the ball to Judge balls and strikes properly. The amps were surprised to hear if