Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1916 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

There is an old adage “everything creaks even,” but it doesn’t apply to baseball. ** v ~ The fans in Toledo appreciate a good ball team, whether or not it is in the first division. ~ * * * Connie Mack’s pitcher, named, Johnson, is nicknamed Jing and hails from Ursinus college. * * * Winning his first three games gave Pitcher Marty O’Toole a fine start with the Omaha Western team. * * * Catcher Lee Mills of Davenport has a badly broken leg and will be out of the game for two months at least. * * * * Eddie Hooper is playing great ball for Chambersburg and has his whole team playing real baseball all the time. * * * Having exhausted every other alibi, the New York Giants switched benches at the Polo grounds —and they won. * * * The Indianapolis club announces that it has made a working agreement with the Chicago Cubs for exchange of players. —* —* * — Clyde Russell, the college pitcher signed by Toronto, stipulated in his contract that he would not pitch games on Sunday. • * * The distance between New London and Bridgeport by rail isn’t so great, but in the Eastern league standing it’s some journey. » m ■* A pitcher named Apple allowed one hit in two nine-inning games at Little Rock the other day, but lost both. This lad’s a pippin. * * • If Larry Doyle is going to do any leading of the National league swatters this year, now is the time for the Gotham captain to get busy. * * * Harold Crisp, one of Connie Mack’s pitching recruits, is only seventeen years of age. He made his mark with a high-school team in Boston. * * * Connie Mack says ’he took Rube Oldring at his word when the outfielder announced that he had quit baseball for good, and gave him his release. • * • Manager Rowland of the White Soy, it is said, has advised all his players to have tonsils taken out. But why? They don’t tihnk with their tonsils. * * • The Cubs have only four good pitchers —Lavender, Vaughn, Packard and McConnell. Manager Tinker has lost faith in Hendrix, Seaton, Brown and I’rendergast. * * * Vedder Gard, captain of the University of Indiana ball team, who was given a trial by Terre Haute, failed to show at the bat, though his fielding was high class. * * • Pitcher George Leclair has admitted that his desertion of Little Rock “to work in a munitions factory in Canada” was a bluff and he wants to get back in baseball again. * * • One of the causes for Charley Wagner’s dismissal at Harvard was that he let Waite Hoyt, the schoolboy pitcher secured from the New York Giants go without a trial. • .• v , •... The Denver club announces the ac* qulsitiop of Larry Cockingham, the Michigan Normal school pitcher, who earlier was announced as a youngster who would get a trial with Detroit. • '' •" '. *i