Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1916 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

In “Jack” Smith the Cardinals have picked out a real ball player. McGraw hais 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 WitL 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 $22,600 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 Altizer 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. * * * It appears that Tyrus Cobb has a brother who resembles him in some respects, but not as a baseball player. » • • If Pongo Cantlllon 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 i» especially long on hitting. .-- * 0 * 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 he sits down. • • • Cleveland is baseball mad. The ferns of that city are certainly entitled to do some celebrating, for they have waited long enough for the opportunity. ' Connie Mack' satys that the Athletics did not get-good weather on the training trip and that his young pitchers could not get the right kind at ft start.