Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1916 — STORIES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

STORIES of the DIAMOND

j, 0 y ■is the emotion you feel when the home team wins • • * Great things are expected of Harry McQuillan, the Bridgeport pitcher. * * * Somewhere the sun is shining and baseball pennant hopes are at high tide. • * • Warring nations, like baseball teams, require a plentiful supply of pinch hitters. • * * Manager Burkett has been successful in landing Lavigne of Lowell for the catching department. * • • Most boys would prefer to be Ty Cobb first, and president after they have become too old for baseball. * * * Those Phillies are dangerous at all times. Every man on the team is able to deliver a winning wallop. * * * Louis Peiper, manager of the Lynn team, announces that he has signed ‘Bobby’’ Conley, the Dorchester boy. * * * If Marty O’Toole continues in his present stride, he ought to eat at least one meal in every league in the country. ' • • * McGraw says the squeeze is a sucker play. Right! It makes suckers of the Giants whenever their opponents try it * • • Hughey Jennings will have to get some pitching help this season or he will not pull up in the race as he expects to do. • * * Some folks call the Braves cultured, but Hank Gowdy still contends that coffee is the best drink ever poured in the saucer.

Larry McLean was detected the other day, catching for the Columbia university nine. Larry always had a fraternal feeling. —— * « * "Jimmy” Sheckard, formerly of the Dodgers, Cubs and Reds, is now managing the Lancaster club in the Pennsylvania State league. * * * One of tho leading reasons for the Giants’ great spurt is the manner in which Bill McKechnie has succeeded in plugging up the hole at third. • *. * Max Flack is the best hunter on the Cub team. The little fellow seldom fails to lay one down and push his man along, when he is ordered to do so. • * • Casey Stengel continues to pound the ball to all corners of the lot. The blond outfielder has played a prominent part in the uplift of the Robins this season. * • • The Cardinals’ young pitchers are not living up to expectations. Very much was expected from Hi Jasper and “Sea Lion” Hall, but neither of these has shown anything to date.