Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 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 hg.s 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. • • 4 ----- 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. « • * 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 Sox'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 lieague—when he sits down. 4 4 4 ’ Cleveland is baseball mad. The fans of that city are certainly entitled to do some celebrating, for they have waited long enough for the opportunity. 4■' 4 4 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 start. ?> •