Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Rube Marquard, according to reports, is traveling at a great clip this spring. • * * Three reasons why a ball player likes to go South—Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Ty Cobb’s weakness has at last been rfiscovpred- ___He..has a great admiration for Napoleon. * * * Mai Eason has been released as a National league umpire, but Stallings and Johnny Evers are still left. * * * 4. ball player’s bean is enough to make fans groan—sometimes it’s empty and sometimes it’s solid bone. There's always a something to be thankful for. What if you were a Mexican umpire in the Texas league? ♦ ♦ * Fielder Jones, manager of tlfe St. Louis Americans, believes he has uncovered a star in George Hale, a recruit catcher. * • • George Kelly’s high-class pitching for the Giants has made the veterans of the McGraw squad sit up and take a second look. After announcing his retirement from the game Pitcher George Davis changed his mind and joined his team, the Boston Braves. * * • Manager Norman Elberfeld of the Chattanooga team has stirred a merry storm by referring to Texas league teams as “bashers.’’ .• • • Fred Clarke’s old pirate machine has Just bout gone to the discard, but Bonus Wagner is able to play the rote<rf Ivy on the ruins. _ ...

• • ♦ * Branch Rickey fs quoted as saying that Scrappy Moore, the St. Louis Browns’ collegian third baseman, is a “second Kid Elberfeld.” * * * Bade Myers, who will manage the Richmond team in the Central league, announces that he will get surplus players from the Toledo club. • • • Terrific hitting has made “Baby Doll’’ Jacobson, a recruit outfielder with the St. Louis Americans, a man much to he feared by pitchers. • ♦ » Speaking of strikes, we never enthused over any—"except the third one called on the opposing club’s pinch hit- ' ter when the bases were filled. • ♦ • Clark Griffith is authority for the I statement that Walter Johnson never uses the spitball, although the big tell,w . good <,(, to.