Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — BASEBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NOTES

Bullet Joe Bush suddenly has lost his baffling curve. * * * /N> Ball players will grab rifles and go to war if General Funston puts the umps in front of them. * * * Habit is a bad thing. Now the poor old Reds are making a runaway race of it for last place. * * * St. Louis umpires would be safe from Mound City mobs if they used insect powder shooters. * * * Willie Mitchell, recently of the Indians, has promised to show himself a winner with the Tigers. * * * Fred Toney’s alleged crack about the Reds being an egg team may hatch out a brood of trouble, * * * Drugs have leaped from 100 to 600 per cent in value, yet you see a lot of players who are full of hop. * * * Wilbert Robinson believes he has one of the best utility outfielders in the major league in “Jimmy” Johnston. Derrill Pratt, second baseman of the St. Louis Browns, has swung into his old stride, batting and fielding in top form. ■” * *' * Baseball fans in Philadelphia are thinking of getting up a ninth place in the American league for C. Mack’s Athletics. * * * who opine that if Lee Fohl were in the boxing business he could make a champion out of Carl Morris. * * * John J. McGraw, manager of the Giants, must often be surprised at the views of John J. McGraw, journalist, on the great American pastime. * * * Evidently it doesn’t matter who does the piloting or what class of players makes up the team, the Reds remain the same old pennant winners in the spring. : . * * * Outfielder Jimmy Murray, who dropped from the American league to Class AA, then A and then B, is now playing in the Class D Central Texas league. • * * pig league magnates have added the letter “E” to the scoreboards to signify errors, and “H” to indicate hits. If “B” meant a boper, it would be a busy “B.” —* * — * — “You can’t have it,” said the national commission to the Brooklyn club, referring to $75,293.81 the Dodgers wanted from the Newark Internationals. N * * * There is an eight-club baseball league in England now. It is made up of teams from Canadian regiments and Americans living in London. No stops for tea. • * * There are many things worse than sitting on a jury. Sitting through a ball game, for instance, when the visitors are getting all the breaks and the best of the umpiring. * * * If the other Cincinnati pitcheps could win as regularly as “Fred” Toney, Herzog’s aggregation would be a first division proposition. * * Carroll, the Tufts college catcher taken bn by Connie Mack, will play no more ball this season.' He is suffering from an internal trpu-s< ble that will require a surgical operation.