Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Those Cincinnati Retts are keeping up their terrific pace. *, * • Outfielder Wilhoit, the Chicago boy, is now a member of the Giants. * • ♦ Connie Mack is gradually working his team up the percentage ladder. • ♦ • Yanks have signed Pitcher Lifer. Must be tough to be a lifer on that club. Brooklyn has released Wheezer Dell. Taking the wheeze out of wheezer, as -it were. ♦ * * Some of these days Myers of the Athletics will win a pennant for Connie Mack. - ; * * * Picketing the White House seems to be about as successful as arguing with the umps. * * * Cleveland ball club has lost its mascot. Maybe it will begin to win ball games now. «* ■ • It seems that Joe Jackson will come within the “also rans” in the race to catch Ty Cobb. * * * Now that Stallings has signed Ed Walsh’ maybe he can get Johnny Kling to catch him. * * • Perhaps Jack Barry figures it harder to win a flag as manager than to play on a winning team. * * ♦ Forty-three-year-old Eddie Plank is as good as the first day he pitched with Connie, back in 1901.- * • • The way to spell the peppery little Cub catcher’s name is this $ Dlllhoefer, Dutch, not German. * * * Imagine, if you can, the grief of Ping Bodie when Jim Callahan was chased as manager of the Pirates. * • • George Burns got SSO for hitting the bu 11.,, He’s more successful than a lot of guys who try to throw it. No master where the Reds finish, Cincinnati will still love the Mattys for trimming the Giants twice in one afternoon. * « • Charley Dryden of the Chicago Examiner is responsible for the umpires, Byron and Quigley, being labeled the “Cherry Brothers.” ;1 Honus Wagner’s latest pictures make him look like an old mafi. There’s lots of youngsters who would be willing to look like that if they could have Heuns’ batting average.