Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1917 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

We note that the Yankees have a left-hander in Love. * * * Another thing to worry about —filling the shoes of Honus Wagner. • * * . Smoky Joe Woods’ arm is all right, according to accounts from Cleveland. ♦ ♦ • Some clubs strike a jinx and go to pieces, and others strike the jinx on the snoot. ♦ * * Walter Johnson is going to rely largely on a slow ball and a spitter this season, it is said. -—-+—> * Claude Hendrix would rather win in PittsburglFthan any other city of the National league circuit. * * * Some players start the season laboring under a handicap, but mostly it’s their heads that all ’em. pz «—* , * ~ About 32 ex-Feds are on the big league pay rolls this year. They’re the ivy on the ruins of the lost cause. * * * Victor Aldridge, the Hoosier schoolmaster, hak gained a new nickname since joining the Cubs. Its Blossom. Should Chuck Ward continue his sensational fielding he will be the wonder of the National league in a fielding line. * * ♦ Risberg handles himself like a sta at short. His throw to first lacks nothing in speed, but it might be a little more accurate.

Wilbert Robinson seems to have a clever shortstop in The French-Canuck hits the ball hard and is a beautiful fielder. ~ ♦- • Hans Wagner’s career again proves that baseball is a precarious business. One year a fejlow is a hero and. the next he is a has-been. * *. • Newark club of the International league has adopted the name of Bears. It remains to be seen whether they are wild or tame bruins. •' .■ « » » Manager Bresnahan bejleves the Iron Men will have a big year. A fan rises to remark: “But not as big as 1916, which was leap year.” • ♦ ♦ Jack Barry believes the Red Sox will win the pennant again this year. He will have to win it or be consid* ered a failure as a manager. Steve Yerkes will make the Inalhnapolls team a contender in the American association this year if he gets a., little help from the rest of the club. Rabbit Maranvllle and Nemo Leibold are said to be the shortest players in the big leagues this year, but wait until some of the speedy spenders get to going good.