Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

The Fort Worth club has purchased First Baseman Kraft • • • They are now applying the word “morale” to baseball teams. • • • Moneymaker is the name of a catcher signed by the Portland P. C. L club. • • • Anybody who can concentrate on baseball this year will be a pretty good concentrator. • ♦ • Philadelphia still has a statue of William Penn and the Liberty Bell in big league territory. • • • The St. Louis Cardinals have sent Pitcher Henry Robinson back to the Little Rock club of the Southern league. * • • Ed Edmondston, who has been holding out on the New Orleans Pelicans, decided to report and resume his place in the outfield.

• • • Pitcher Bob Harmon of the Pirates, during his year’s layoff, is reported as having developed the “dodo” ball until it is a wonder. • • • The Boston Braves have taken on another one of the Worcester Eastern league players. He is Hugh Canavan, left-handed pitcher. The Louisville American association club has bought a former Philadelphia Athletic battery In Pitcher James Parnham and Catcher Bill Meyer. Manager Bill Rodgers of the Sacramento team thinks he has a find in Shortstop Carter Elliott, who was picked up in California without cost • * * Did you ever notice how it ir that the home team always gets way the better of the bargain when there is a trade of ball players made by the managers? • • • Baltimore’s hopes for Sunday baseball were hit a blow when the lower house of the Maryland legislature defeated the bill that would have legalized games. * . Dave Robertson’s mysterious Job with Uncle Sam is disclosed. He has been made manager of one of the navy teams at Hampton Roads naval base, but the report does not make it clear if he has enlisted or is merely a civilian manager hired for the job efl boosting baseball in tbs navy.