Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1916 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

As a rule a ballplayer’s popularity fades with his batting average. • * • You can’t expect those Washington Nationals to move very fast without Shanks. • • * Harry Howell and Garnett Bush, umpires, are having trouble In the Northwestern league. • * * Whittaker and Krepps, pitchers on the Tufts college team, will get tryouts with the Athletics. • • • Jack Dalton Is back in the game for San Francisco and the Seals now expect to climb to the top again. ♦ ♦ • Maynard, a pitcher who has made a reputation with the Marshall college team, is now with Lexington. • * * Connie Mack has signed a seventeen-year-old schoolboy pitcher named Crisp. Betcha this kid’s a snappy player. • • • Al Mamaux, Pittsburgh’s young pitcher, stands firmly between the Pirates and the deep, dark waters of the Monongahela. • • o Lee Tannehill, who played third base With Jones’ world champions in 1906, is playing third for South Bend in the Central league. ♦ ♦ •

Ed Walsh attempted a comeback for the Chicago White Sox in a game of the Washington series. He started well, but that was all. • • • The Cardinals have signed a rook pitcher entitled “Mule” Watson. “Mule” Is a promising young pitcher, barring a slight tendency to balk. Those Giants are anything but devils In their own home town. They haven’t won enough games on the Polo grounds this season to save their franchise. • * • If big league teams were given traveling accommodations according to their standing, the Athletics would be sent around the circuit by parcel post. • « • The Mackmen do not seem to be able to stand prosperity. After making a pretty fair spurt a couple of weeks ago they have now subsided, and do not seem to give anyone much of a battle. t , * * • . Same Jones, the pitcher Carrigan got from the Cleveland club as part of the price of Speaker, has not been doing much for the Red Sox. Jones says he is being kept In shape for the world’s aeries nqxt fall.