Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1916 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Seasonable maxim: “A hit in time saves the nine.” ♦ • * Jimmy Johnston is making good with a vengeance for the Dodgers. • • • Joe Jaekson and Jack Ness are the only Sox players hitting over the .300 mark. • * * Dave Robertson of the Giants was the first National league player to get 100 hits. * * • Zwilling should make good for the Indians as soon as he gets used to the high altitude. Manager Griffith of Washington has decided to make an outfielder out of Pitcher. Sam Rice. * ♦ * se When the thermometer is flirting with the 98 mark, ball players are in favor of compulsory bathing. _____• • Roger Peckinpaugh does not hit as often as some of the other Yanks, but his blows are usually timely. ♦ * * The big question in Cincinnati right now is: Will Matty be able to make good where Herzog failed? • • • If Larry Doyle is going to do any leading of the National league swatters this year he will have to get busy pretty soon. Philadelphia still has strong hopes that the next world’s series" will be played at the Bellvue-Stratford and the Waldorf. As it looks so far, the only president in the National league who hasn’t a chance for the pennant Is John K. Tener. •• • ~ Hughie High, according to Bill Donovan, is one of the best defensive outfielders in the major leagues and he’s hitting .280. ** * > It might be said that sometimes a manager makes an addition to his team, and when it is too late finds put it was a subtraction. f « • • Struggling along with a tail-end outfit, Jacobson, the Rochester gardener, is showing the way in International league batting. * • • Manager Jones of the Browns telle us that the Red Sox will not repeat this year, but fails to state in which direction the Browns are headed. «• * « According to a published box score, the line-up of the New London Eastern league team contains such names as M'riiefka, R’drig’z and Wh’ek’se. • * • Manager McGraw of the Giants now admits that the Robins are a dangerous flock of birds, but adds that the admission is made in the hops that it may prove a jinx to the Brook* iya speeders.