Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1915 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Jack Barry is playing fine ball at second base for the Red Sox. • • • Runt Walsh is playing a great game for Otto Knabe at the far corner. * • • Manager Tinker says he will undergo an operation as soon as the season ends. • • • Shades of the past: Evers to Tinker to Chance and Barry to Collins to Mclnnis. • • • The Athletics seem to have picked up a yeal star in Pitcher Crowell of Brown university. • • * President Gilmore says he has eight umpires and will make no more changes this season. • • • Those Athletics have something on Russians. The Mackmen can’t be pushed back any more. * • • Jack Coombs seems to have a return ticket in his pocket every time, and he comes right back. • • • Connie Mack has scouts scouring the East for "peaches” in the bushes. Mack is hunting some more like Eddie Collins. • • • Sandford Burk, former Cardinal pitcher, who was sold to the Indianapolis A A. team, jumped to the Pittsburg Feds. • * • The Salt Lake club of the Pacific Coast league has released Pitcher “Cy” Morgan to make room for Schmutx of Brooklyn. • • • Ivey Wingo is now doing the bulk of the catching for the Cincinnati team, but it 1b reported that Manager Herzog may recall Catcher Gharrity from Minneapolis. • • • The Des Moines (dub of the Western league has sold Pitcher George Mogridge, s left-hander pitcher, whose home is in Rochester, N. Y.. to the New York Americans for delivery in September. • * * St Louis flans say the name of Staler should be Sizsler. He has played first base, all the outfield positions and pitched since he joined the Browns, and he has looked like a big jeagner •very day.