Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1915 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Rollie Zeider seems to have taken a second lease on life. • • • Boone of the Yankees has fallen off in his batting to an alarming degree. * • * While batting only* .237, Bancroft of the Phillies still Is playing a brilliant short field. • * • Most of Mordecai Brown's defeats this year with the Whales have been through errorß. • • * "Bobby” Jones, third baseman of the San Francisco club, has been sold to the Detroit Americans. • * • In the American league just as soon as a team develops a winning streak Walter Johnson comes along. • * * Some day a ball club will score a run against Grover Alexander and he’ll be taken out of the box. • K.* Herzog has laid down a strict rule that none of his players are to take a glass of beer during the season. • • • The pirates have a clever young catcher named Murphy to help out Gibson and Schang behind the bat. • • • Mathewson, under a tropical sun, can pitch as well as ever. He’ll win many a game before the race ends in October. • * * Eddie Collins is playing a wonderful game and furnishing more than his share of the aggressiveness for the White Sox. • • • Since Cobb started swinging three bats instead of two, nine out of ten of those .198 hitters go to the plate with three waSr clubs. • • • • Bresnahan figures that the Cubs will win the pennant because they will play nearly all of their games at home after Labor day. -* • • Tom Seaton is far from being the terror of last season. His main fault seems to be in fighting the umpires and then losing absolute control. % • • Dave Fultz wants ball players to cut out “unnecessary arguments with umpires.” Have you ever seen a necessary argument with an umpire? Or a winning one? •• • _ Eddie Murphy, purchased from Connie Mack by President Charles A. Comiskey, consideration unknown, is one of the fastest players in the world in beating out a bunt.