Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1915 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

The Fed league will not enter Boston next year, • • • Hank O’Day denies that he was a Jinx to the Cubs. • • * Babe Adams is pitching winning ball for the Pirates. ♦ ♦ • Frank Schulte is walloping the ball with real vigor these days. ♦ * ♦ The return to form of King Cole has given Bill Donovan a lot of real joy. ♦ ♦ • “Barring accidents, the Washington club is going to be hard to stop,” said J. Ed Grillo. Larry Chappell is not going to jump to the Feds, in spite of the big money offered him. * a—• —-— ; Anyhow, Johnny Evers has solved the problem of how to get the fans out to the ball park. » ♦ • The Athletics are making plenty of hits these days, but they aren’t much of a scoring organization. • • * It looks as if the Pirates are going to play a bigger part than a bowl of mush in the pennant competition this season. • • * Manager Rowland thinks he has the best utility outfielder in the American league in the person of Little Nemo Leibold. • * * Dave Robertson” of the Giants has developed into a corking good hitter. He is as fast as Ty Cobb between home and first. * * • We wonder what has become of the lucky penny that Capt. Cushnflm Rice gave to George Stallings last season. Is it still on the job? • • *

Left Fielder Wheat of the Brooklyn team is credited with knowing as much about playing for batters as any man in the big league. • ♦ ♦ John Hummel probably is one of the oldest players in the National league in point of service, but he has not outlived his usefulness. Frank Chance, Jawn Evers and Hank O’Day, former Cub managers, ought to hold a consolation party > and entertain Rog Bresnahan. • * • Ralph (“Cy”) Perkins of Gloucester, Mass., who is a catcher with the Raleigh team, in the North Carolina league, has been sold to Connie Mack. The players of the National league are complaining of the gag rule the league has put on them this year. Every time one of them opens his mouth he is fined. • • • Connie Mack" says that he will not sell his stock in the Athletics. He has his mind set upon developing another winner, and the chances are good for his doing so.