Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1917 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Lajoie, unlike the other Napoleon, has shown that he is able to come back more than once. A big league catcher escaped the draft because of an Injured thumb, with nothing said about his cold feet. t Rumors that Ward and Frazee have tired of their venture in baseball persist and are believed to have some foundation. • • * Joe Tinker, -president and manager of the Columbus American association club, continues to fight and wrangle with the umpires. * * * “Casey” Stengel is called “Casey” because his name is Charles, just as “Jeff” Tesreau is called “Jeff” because his name is Charles. Pitcher Slim Love of the Yankees was turned down by the army examiners because he was too light in weight for his height. • * * Kauff and Zlm are doing all the Giant slugging these days. That is, with bats. Fletcher and Herzog take care of the other kind of hitting. *» • • An eastern ball player wants to be exempted on the ground that if he is sent to war his team may lose the pennant. A modest little chap, isn’t he? * * * Jack Warhop, for years a pitcher for the Yankees, has turned his attention to shortstopping and he has done good work in several games for Lajoie’s Toronto club. • * * Zach Wfieat thought his trouble was a sprained ankle, but examination showed that he has a fallen arch that may develop iato a permanent handicap to playing ball. * * ♦ - . .. ■ - '■ Pitcher C. L. Torkelson and Third Baseman Fred Eunick, late of the Marshaltown team of the disbanded Central association, will be given trials by the Cleveland Indians. ♦ ♦ * Jack Hendricks’ Indianapolis club of the American association is out in front by several games and there appears to be little chance of any other team beating out the Indians. * * • Jim Shaw has proved the most effective of Clark Griffith’s boxmen this season. George Dumont started outi as a star, but he, has been having his troubles lately trying to win a game. • * Harry Pifenger, the schoolboy pitcher recently signed up by the Clevelands, is a real cute little thing. Harry is a little bit of a shaver, only six feet seven Inches tall, and tips the beam, when he doesn’t bust it, at 220 pounds. • • * The Pittsburgh club is still grabbing yopngsters here and there. One of the latest signings is Fred Bowman, a pitcher who was 'With Mason City of the Central association until that circuit disbanded. He is a right-hander.