Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1917 — BASEBALL STOPIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STOPIES

Now all the baseball players’ strikes will come in threes. * * • The St. Louis club of the National league lost $20,000 last season. . Pitcher Ruge Benton is having a tough job getting weight. Johnny Evers is rounding into fighting form very slowly again this year. • • * Dick rttldolliH, the Bfonx boy, who is Stallings’ leading pitcher, is bothered with a sore arm., ——' ■ .—ui. « • • Young Hoelke, the Giants first-sack-~er, is now hitting the ball as hard as he did last fall. John Ford, president of the Central association, has been re-elected mayor of Fort Dodge, la. * * * Ping Bodie of the Athletics threatens to break all home-run records for Shibe Park this season. ♦ • * The fast and clever work of Milt Risberg, the Pacific Coast infielder, is the sensation.of the White Sox. Pitcher Cliff Harkle of Toronto has notified the club of his retirement from baseball for the season. Pitcher Collamore, who formerly played in Cleveland, is manager of the Rail-Lights team of Toledo. ♦ * * Hans Wagner’s instructions to young hatters are very simple. All you have to do is to hit the ball. *•♦ » _ Chick Gandil may fool the multitude and prove to bq just the man the White Sox have been looking for. ♦ ♦ • The absence of knotholes in concrete fences is a big problem that the future greats are trying to solve. *♦ * I It ball players go to.war for Uncle Sam they’ll be in the federal service, but they won’t " get Fed league salaries. « *. • A ball player who whiffs in a pinch may get your goat, but did you ever back three bullets against a straight flush? ' Little Boby Roth is displaying a brand of baseball in right field for the Indians that is pleasing to Manager Lee Fohl. *. » • • Only difference between semi-profes-sionals and some amateurs is That the latter forget to put “semi” in front of their title. a . - 1 '• • The work of young Baird, the Louisiana state recruit of the Giants, is attracting quite a lot of comment of a favorable nature. • ♦ • At the rate McGraw is paid, we figure that he will get something like 50 cents a word for cussing the umpires. Why be a journalist? • * • Speaking of conservatism, \ve Obthe baseball guides still refer to It as baseball, in spite of the high cost of white paper