Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1916 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

If Lee Fohl is Cleveland’s idol, Tris Speaker must be the governor of Ohio » ♦ ♦ Sixteen major league managers are struggling to get to the front —in the pennant race. • « • They are talking of making Otis Crandall an outfielder and managei of the Oakland, Cal., team. ♦ * * Joe Mathes, who was with the St. Louis Feds in 1914, has been released by Syracuse and is with Terre Haute. ♦ • * Sherwood Magee’s return to the game immediately braced the Braves, and Stallings expects the team to climb rapidly. * • * Detroit asked waivers on George Burns last spring, Burns is now second to Speaker among American league batters. ♦ * * O’Mara of the Robins, is a better hitter than Olson, for which reason he is needed on the Brooklyn team as much as possible. * • 1 McGraw refuses to believe in hoodooes and jinxes. He says ball games are lost through errors, weak pitching or light batting. « * ♦ Charley Herzog would rather beat the Giants than any other team in the National league. The old feud with McGraw is still on. • • * Jack Bliss, former well-known Coast leaguer, lauds the Vernon pitching staff as one of the greatest in the history gs minor leagues. Miracle Man Stallings, it is said, is dickering with the Los Angeles club, of the Pacific Coast league, for the services of Swede Risberg. * * ♦ Prough, who was a recruit of Jack O’Connor’s Browns in 1910, held Oakland hitless for 11 innings recently. About time to bring him back. ♦ ♦ • The poor showing of the New York Giants at home is blamed to autos. Most of the players have machines and are kept out joy riding at night * ♦ ♦ Every time Lee Magee makes a hit or two in a game he is accused of finding his batting eye. If they'd let Lee alone long enough to find it he’d find it Baseball scribes develop wonderful versatility in New York. When they grow tired’ of buying Heinie Zimmerman for the Giants they swing deals for Slim Sallee.