Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1916 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Connie Mack still insists on using recruits on the mound. * * * Nell Brady, former Yank pitcher, is now with the Columbus team. * • • Fort Worth has released Gust. He was told to blow to other parts. • « • The new Cleveland Indians threaten to be a scrappy bunch this year. • • • Reb Russell is fooling a lot of fans who think he won’t show much this season. • * * Right now is the time for each city to announce that it has a baseball pennant winner. • • • Every big leaguer has a dual personality. He is a hero one day, a boob the next. .. Yes, Montague, if Eddie Plank had been pitching in ’6l he would have gone to the front. * • • With Tris Speaker again safe in the fold, the Red Sox are banking on the American league flag. ♦ • • Baseball teams just now are all looking hopefully at the upper apartments in the percentage columns. • • • Jimmy Callahan’s Pittsburgh Pirates have been forbidden to smoke cigarettes. The stogie trust getting busy, eh? • * • Buck Herzog is starting early. He made such a scene in an exhibition game at New Orleans that he was put oft the field. • • • Connie Mack has cautioned his Athletics against overeating at their next appearance at the world’s champions’ banquet table. • • ♦ Clayton Perry, recently released by the Mobile Southern league club, has caught on with the St Joseph Western league club. * * ♦ Massey, the young shortstop of the Pelicans, is a pretty nifty looking youngster. He is just out of the University of Texas. • • • We learn that George Sisler comes from a Good Swiss family. We thought there was something familiar about George’s windup. * ♦ •

Pitchers Von Steinberg and Outfielders Koroly and Swaney are no longer Pirates. Jimmy Callahan turned them over to the Wheeling team. • * * "Texas Ed" Appleton, the young pitcher of the Robins, is developing a knuckle ball. Robbie already claims that “Texas Ed” can break the ball either in or out. * • • Hans Lobert is having a lot of trouble with his throwing arm, but otherwise he is in shape, according to a Gotham baseball scribe. Otherwise, Ed Walsh still would be spitball king. • • • ing as a battery for Connie Mack the other day, Adams and Adams were in the points for the Phillies. Some troubles ahead for Philadelphia scorers tai right. ’ "" '