Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1916 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

The Browns are creeping up in the list every day. * * * Crowds of 15,000 and 18,000 are common to Cleveland this year. ♦♦ • / BCrt Niehoff, for a player of whom little is heard, is doing pretty well. ♦ • • Tris Speaker, the man, doesn’t emulate his name, but his bat speaks volumes. • * • There are some ball players who incline more to the capital I than to the batting eye. ♦ * * A sprinkling of fans sometimes refers only to those within reach of a boxer’s corner. * • • “Tillie” Walker has come to life with a vengeance and looks like the player he was in 1914. * » * Harold Cable of the Newark Indians still looks like the best prospect in the International league. * ♦ * It requires a great deal of civic pride for a baseball fan to keep on boosting a losing team. ♦ ♦ ♦ Because he had outgrown Pullman berths, Otis Crandall had to be put od the waiver list by Fielder Jones. ♦ ♦ ♦ Scouts are having their troubles finding ball players. The munition factories have copped most of them. * * * “Charley” Pick, Athletic third baseman, is not a youngster. A number of years ago he pastimed for Toledo.

A lot of those college graduates being signed up for the major league will figure in the AB column, at any rate. ♦ * • These be festive days for Father Knickerbocker with the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers up in the front ranks. ... Fielder Jones’ hitless wonders of 1906 will be remembered long after his winless wonders of 1916 are forgotten. • •' • Statesmen decline presidential nominations with the same frequency that Tris Speaker resents an Increase in salary. On hearing that John McGraw was the best in the country on the road, a big neckwear firm offered him SI,OOO a week and expenses to sell their new creations.