Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Edgar Willett is making good in the Western league. * * * Elmer Myers is not only a good pitcher but a lucky one. • * * Naturally all the pitchers look good when Ty Cobb isn’t well. * * * “Hughey” Jennings of the Tigers admits that his team is slowing down. • * • frit's one thing after another for the New York Yankees, yet they keep going. ; _ . • * * Lee Magee of the Yankees announces that he is pulling hard for Benny Kauff to make good. • * * The fan who called him John Tortoise Meyers hasn’t see hiip in pursuit of a foul bail this season. * • * Armando Marsans is rivaling Ernie Johnson as one ex-Fed who is good enough to play major-league ball. • * • When a major league team is supplied with good left-handed pitchers it tlways stands a chance in the race. * • • The Chicago White Sox have a new outfielder. He is Clarence Parker, who hails from a college at Dubuque. • * • Having secured Pitcher Boardman from St. Paul, the Sioux City club disposed of Pitcher Bernie Doyle to Topeka. • * Pitcher Rube Bressler lasted through one game for the Newark Indians, and then Manager Tenney sent him back to Connie Mack. * • * An odd thing about International league double-headers is that they usually manage to make one of the double bills an extra-inning affair. • * * It begins to look as if Paskert and Whitted will have a hard time keeping Claude Cooper, one-time Giant and Brookfed, out of the regular lineup, . # • • It took Charley Herzog Just one inning to discover that he was not an outfielder. Ping Bodie has been at it eight years and still isn’t convinced