Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

BASCBALL .STORIES Rumor has It that Ty Cobb Is going into the movies. * * * The Athletic club has signed Catcher Stanley F. Karl of Shamokin, Pa. * * * Herbert Hunter, the Giants’ young third baseman, is ready to jump into the line-up. 0 0 * Bert Daniels, once a Yankee, and now with the Loulsvilles, is laid up with a broken leg. * * * The Boston Red Sox have turned Pitcher Dick McCabe over to Hartford of the Eastern league. * * * Jack Coombs pitches an average of one fast ball to each batsman, or about 35 in an ordinary game. * * * Hughie Jennings has turned reformer. He now insists on putting an end to loud and profane-mouthed fans. •>* * • Rube Schauer, the Giants’ extra pitcher, has. been released to the Louisville club of the American association. • * * George Sisler of the Browns is an i idol in St. Louis, where the critics say that he is a greater ball player than Ty Cobb. * * * The Sioux City club has traded Infielder Callahan to the Vernon Club of the Pacific Coast league for Don Rader and $2,000. * * * Manager Lee Fohl says that the Red Sox are hitting so poorly their great pitching staff cannot win the pennant for them. ♦ * * The St. Louis Cardinals have offered to purchase or. take in trade the great Ping Bodie, now with Harry Wolverton’s San Francisco Coast [leaguers. * * * Lee Fohl, as a cure for wildness, recommends glasses for Laudermilk. Yet many’s the pitcher who has suffered because of too many glasses. \* * * Larry Lajoie is the only member of the tail-end Athletics who looks like a major league ball player, according to some of the ciitics in St. Lo^ls. Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Senators, is chuckling to himself every time he ®iinks of how he was stopped from getting Joe Gedeon last fall. The Yanks’ second basemas Has proved a fizzle as a hitter. 1 \ ‘ >