Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — DIAMOND NOTTS [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTTS

Those Cardinals are playing a good game of ball. * • * Dilhofer, the new catcher of the Chicago Cubs, seems to be a find. I Barney Dreyfus says he Is not discouraged over the showing the Pirates are making. • • • If some ball players were permitted to filibuster, one ball game would last all summer. * • * Mike Massey, playing second for the Braves in the absence of Evers, is a smooth and tidy workman. • * * The National league twirlers are now restricted to three throws in warming up before innings. * * * Some baseball clubs play so mechanically that they ought to be operated on the nickel-in-the-slot basis. • * * It’s pretty tough on a guy who is both a basebait, and boxing fan. ’ The poor fish never gets a vacation. • * * Pittsburgh fans are pulling strongly for Jimmy Callahan in his efforts tc build up a winner in the Smoky city. * • • The Athletics are moving up in the standing and Manager Mack’s men will certainly bear watching this summer.

Pitcher Fred Herbert, former Giant and Brooklyn Fed twifrler, has announced his retirement from the game. Robert Quinn, efficiency expert of the Browns, so far has confined his efficiency experting to the business office. • . * * H. B. (Happy) Harrison, formerly a welLknown minor league player, has been elected city clerk of LaPorte, Tex. • • ♦ In addition to being a golf caddy, Jack Adams,W the Quakers, once was a chauffeur, although he held the job for only a few days. « * • Dave Bancroft of the Phillies was once a candy butcher; that is, he sold refreshments, fruit, candy and newspapers on a railroad train. * ♦ • Can’t blame the fans if they don’t turn out this season to the games of the tail-end clubs. The submarine peril is something awfuL * ♦ ♦ - Ray Richmond, a pitcher who had a trial with the Bloomington Three-I league club, has quit baseball and joined the army aviation service. *" ♦ • Gary Fortune, the youth frdm North Carolina, is the soldier pitcher of Pat Moran’s squad. He belongs to the National Guard at Asheville, N. C. ♦ ♦ • J • ■ Pitcher Hub Leonard of the Red Sox is making good headway in his argument that he can pitch good ball even if Bill Carrigan is not there to catch him. • • • Ping Bbdie, with the Athletics, is making good his promise to “show up Callahan.” Ping is staging a real comeback and bls hitting is a big figure In what success the Athletics are having.