Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1917 — BASLBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASLBALL NOTES

Umpires go South to take the ragged edges off their decisions. * • * Bert Gallia will likely be a scientific farmer when his baseball days are over. * * ♦ Price of shoes has gone up, so the Pirates are trying to fill Hans Wagner’s. * • * Harry Harper served four years as a Boy &-out and is a great advocate of the movement. * • ♦ . The White Sox have been picked by a majority of the critics of the country to win the pennant. St. Louis turns out more ball players and wins fewer pennants than any city in the country: • ♦ • Manager Griffith is a “shark” at playing bridge, but John Henry runs hhn a close second. And when the ball players are put in the ranks they should be even more careful about hits and errors. ♦ ♦ * Christy Mathewson says “the Giants will be.hard to beat," which is more than he could say of the Reds.

Ballplayers object to military trainIng in the spring because it breaks into their poker games so terribly. « • * Slim Love is the generous pitcher of the Yankees. He passes batsmen so the fielders need not chase the ball. • • • With war and the baseball season starting almost simultaneously this looks like an interesting summer. The fans of Cleveland are more confident that the Indians will be in the race than they have ever been before. .-♦ ♦ * “Too many race track tips are spoiling Brooklyn’s ball players,” says a dispatch. Also emptying their pockets. Roll call shows four McGraws in sport. If the other three are like John J. sport will be better for their com--Rig. ; ? * ♦ .* —— — \ ' A young man named Ward is play,ing shortstop for the Pirates, but he does not expect to fill Hans Wagner’s shoes. ♦ • • Funny thing, but who ever heard of an office boy staying away from work on account of' the death of a grandfather? Tris Speaker is the youngest member of a family of eight. He has six sisters and one brother, but he is the big end of the family. ' i- , -