Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

In “Jack” Smith the Cardinals have picked out" a real ball player. • • • McGraw has three wicked right field batters in Doyle, Kauff and. Robertson. • • « No ballplayer ever improved his daily average by batting around at night. * • • Oh, yes, the quick Witt of Connie Mack often helps him out in tight places. • * • George Stallings has no doubt that Elmer Knetzer will make good under Herzog. •_ • • ■ -• Ball players who try to bait Hank O’Day these days are certain to get the hook. • * • An echo from the past. Marty O’Toole, of $22,500 fame, was sold to Omaha, Neb. • • • In one respect pennants and the Red Sox are alike. It takes an operation to cure them. • • • Inside baseball is a great thing providing the other fellows don’t take the inside outside. • • • Dave Altlzer is going back. Yes, running back, and robbing speed boys on impossible plays. • • • Klepfer, one-time Yankee pitcher, is one of the main props of the rehabilitated Cleveland club. • • • The baseball shark who picked the Giants to finish one-two neglected to specify in which season, i ♦ • • It appears that Tyrus Cobb has a brother who resembles him in some respects, but not as a baseball player. • * * If Pongo Cantillon wins five American association flags in a row maybe he will get credit for having a ball club. * * * We hate to think what would happen to National league batsmen if Alexander’s “dead arm” ever came to life again. • • • Shorten, the Red Sax’s new outfielder, has cut some nifty capers since opening day. He is especially long on hitting. * * * Miller Huggins, manager of the Cardinals, expects Lee Meadows to pitch more games than any other Card pitcher this year. A leaky bucket, a punctured tire, and a pitcher without support are about the same in that they get about the same results. • * * Hugh Jennings still has faith in “Bill” James and believes the big pitcher will come through and prove a big help to the Tigers. • * • Wilbert Robinson hasn’t played actively for more’n a decade, but he’s the greatest ground coverer in the National league—when-dhe sits down. • *- • Cleveland is baseball mad. The fens of that city are certainly entitled to do some celebrating, for they have waited long enough for the opportunity. , \ • • • Connie Mack says that the Athletics did not get good weather on the training trip and that his young pitchers could not get the right kind of a