Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1916 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Hans Wagner seems tp be the same cld demon of the past. • * * The Athletics continue to prove easy for their opponents. * * * One solid wallop delivered in th« pinch covers a multitude of errors. * * * Joe Jackson is hitting the ball hard these days, but he is not getting many hits. • • • The town that produces a famous baseball ■pitcher can well afford to rest oh its laurels. • * * Is Hans Wagner aged? Watch his . batting every day. He has been getting bingles regularly. * * * The Cleveland Indians, with Trts Speaker acting as field captain, ara much improved over last year. * * * "Fried eggs cause insanity,” says an expert. Ah! Now we know what ails the baseball fans of St. Louis.

. * * • If the managers’ predictions come true this season, the two major league pennant races will furnish an eightpiece tie. * • * Joe Judge, Washington, flrst-sacker, originally toiled in an electric power house. Now we know why he sparkles In fast company. * • * This is the time of the year when great baseball teams throw away games that they bitterly regret in the shank of the season. * * * The Philadelphia Athletics are the most erratic players in the major leagues. One day they lose and the next the other fellows win. ♦ * • Tom Sawyer is holding a Job as assistant funmaker for the Washington Senators. Folks say Tom is a .huckleberry at cutting comical capers. • • * The Oakland club has released Babe Danzig and Frank Hosp, who failed to show signs of coming back, and returned Catcher Dave Griffith to Wichita. • * •

Another Titus breaks into the game this year. His front name is Elmer and he hails from Ph'.ladelphia. He will play with Wheeling in the Central league. • • • ;— *■ .' . : George O’Brien, catcher sold by the St. Louis Browns to the Terre Hautei Central league club, is out with an an-; nouncement that he will retire frbttij baseball. 1 * * * Manager Tinker has always contended, that Max Flack is a wonderful little outfielder and he is bearing outj the manager’s comment by starring ia. the outfield. "Billy" Sullivan to advocating the _ keeping of the young pitchers of the Detroit team for a period of training after the regtilar training season closes next autumn.