Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Fielder Jones says Sisler is as great as Cobb ever was. ♦ * * George Davis, once manager of the Giants and White Sox, is with the Browns as head coach and scout. * ♦ ♦ The veteran Terry Turner gets into the game occasionally for Cleveland, and he still is a high-class fielder. . Uncle Robbie is longing to get his fading champions into the first division. It shouldn’t be a difficult task. * * ♦ Jim Corbett has again picked the Giants to win. Which caused the bookies to lay bigger odds on the Reds. * ♦ * Maybe Connie Mack would lend his white elephant to the Siamese army. But it would be an awful blow to the allies. * ♦ ’*

More and more people are becoming more deeply concerned about the price of eggs than about Ty Cobb’s batting average. Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, is elated over the acquisition of'Goodwin, the pitcher obtained from Milwaukee. The Browns made seven errors in a ball game the other day. Fielder Jones would have been a pleasant guy to talk to after’ the game. ♦ • • Jawn McGraw probably couldn’t see the joke if Matty, Rousch, Groh and a few more Giant cast-offs should beat him out of the flag. • Eddie Lafitte, who was with the Brooklyn Feds and who has hurled for the Paterson Silk Sox of late, has quit baseball to enlist in the army. ♦ ♦ • President Wilson has announced that he wants baseball to be continued for the rest of the season at least, which assures a world series this fall. * * * Johnny Brock is the name of a young catcher who will soon join? the Cardinals. He hails from the Muskogee team of the Western association. If the war is responsible for introduclng basehall as the international pastime, it will atone for much by adding vastly to the gayety of nations. * • • Nobody ever believed that Frank Baker tampered with Pitcher Sothoron of the Browns. It looked like a case of sour grapes on the part of the disappointed Fielder Jones. z. . Philadelphia osteopath tells Guy Morton thkt the troubles with his pitching are mostly imaginary. That’s been the trouble with his winning average this year, too.