Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1917 — STORIES [ARTICLE]

STORIES

Christy Mathewson still is going big in Cincinnati. - - • • • Cosey Dolan is playing second base for Indianapolis. ... • • • Risberg, who plays the short field for Chicago, looks like a handy ballplayer. Alex McCarthy is in grand form thia year. He is hustling every minute of the time. • * • Manager Mathewson of the Reds is looking for a hard-hitting right-handed outfielder. w • * ■ ' Dallas is baseball mad, according to Doc White, who is one of the owners of the club. Leslie Mann is to have his tonsils removed next fall as soon as the season is over. ♦ • • After all, McGraw may deserve that $50,000 salary. He has to boss Heinle Zimmerman. • • • Many pitchers will breathe easier now that Honus Wagner has quit the game for good. • f - • Even the Philadelphia scribes cannot see much ifi the way of pennant hopes for the Athletics. ———- • * « Now that Heine Zimmerman is a Giant Chicago fans can find time to write about the game. • • • Branch Rickey is now president of the Qjrdinals, but he still has court strings tied to his work. • • ♦ ~ Basebait has been jolted a trifle by the world war. but the sporting pages are as expansive as ever. ♦ Some baseball clubs play so mechanically that they ought to be operated on the nickel-in-tbe-slot basis. is a quiet sort of cuss and doesfm ftiss much. But he surely does play the old baseball game. If those German submarines should attack the Southern league, Mobile would probably be the first to be sunk. Of all managers with troubles, save your sympathy for Miller Huggins. He has the Card players and a score of bosses. * * • It took some of ’em a long time to inentajjy assimilated the information, but most hall players are now wise to the fact that the Federal league is a corpse. . , - ' “Some of the Southern and Western league parks,” says a baseball statistician, “will accommodate close to 15 per cent of the surrounding population." Maybe they will, bnt the magnates would like to know when.