Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1917 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Slim Caldwell is the leading Yankee pitcher at the losing end. , ♦ * • White Sox, long overdue, are winning the price paid for them. • • • The Washington Senators are showing very little fight this year. • * * Dillhoefer will make Tinker’s team look almost like a championship outfit. ♦ • • It is up to the champion Brooklyns to pull themselves together and play hard. • * * The release of George Davis by the braves came as a real surprise in baseball. ‘ . • * * “Bean Ball” is stirring lead pencils to protest its use. but who’s going to be its judge? • • * Philadelphians accuse the Braves of making more noise on the bench than with their bats. * • * Fred Merkle’s bat is landing harder and more effectively than the club of any of the Giants. — •—*—• '■ Jinx is accused of pursuing Ray Caldwell. Perhaps last summer’s vacation hasn’t worn off. * * * The Reds do not miss Bill Mo Kechnie with Groh at third base and Dave Shean covering the middle bag. • • • Jack Barry, the new manager of . the Red Sox, is as uncommunicative as his predecessor, and that is going some. • » » Cactus Cravath, the veteran slugger of the Phillies, Is doing some excellent work with his stick again this year. The kaiser’s promises to democratize Germany after the war listens like Clark Griffith’s winter pennant promises. * * * Some well-known pitchers would make excellent material for the aviation corps. Going up in the air is their specialty. • * • One Brooklyn report has it that the Chicago Cubs paid $13,000 cash for Fred Merkle. « • • The Cardinals are getting first-class pitching, and also are batting heavily. These qualities combined win ball gdmes. • ♦ • • Ty Cobb would make a good fighter in the army. He trled’to whip a whole grandstand full of spectators at a ball game once. Bob Bescher of the Cardinals is one of the stockholders in the St. Louis Cardinals “community" of 700 stockholders... ♦ • • The baseball rules for this season have no mention of capital punishment for the boob who tries to steal second with the bases full. Dave Davenport, the Brewers’ star pitcher, is able to work again. A gunshot wound in his breast kept him idle for many weeks. * ♦ » Stallings opines that when Tom Hughes and Dick ftwhrtph begin to pitch in their best form nothing can stop the Boston Braves. * * » . Grover Cleveland Alexander, to spite of the mauling he has received lately, says that nothing is the matter with his $12,500 wing. The Athletics are climbing so high in the percentage column this year that some„M Connie Mack’s athletes are showing symptoms of getting dizzy. • ♦ • President Dickerson of the Central league has Instructed his umpires to introduce each player as he comes to the bat in every game during the season. Fabrique, the Robins’ shortstop, has two faults— inability to make rapid returns to the plate to kill a double steal and a pronounced weakness to batting. • • • The Braves are again managing to keep the other National league teams scared. This thing has become a habit with the Boston players, and they have usually justified it,