Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

“Truck” Hannah looks a regular big league catcher. • • * “Irish” Meusel is making good with Pat Moran’s Phillies in the outfield. • • • Roy Massey is leading off the Braves’ batting order and hitting like a fiend. • • * The St. Paul club finally has turned Pitcher Charley Boardman over to Louisville. • • * The Detroit Tigers took $7,000 wort! of Liberty bonds. Every man on tin team purchased. « * ♦ Manager Barrow of the Red Soj will appear in uniform on the coachlnf lines this season. Eddie Plank is signed up with an eastern semipro team and will pitch two games a week at SIOO a throw. • * * Ban Johnson broke all precedents this year by refusing to make any pre dections on the American league race * • * Milwaukee is trying out a youngster named Dameron on first base who is said to be a worthy successor to Mai. Barry. • • * In case his catching situation gets really desperate, Manager Jones of the Browns can call Pete Johns to go be hind the bat. * ♦ • Fred Walters, a Chicago boy, is putting on some Nick Altrock stuff for the Columbus fans, who have taker him to their hearts.

• ♦ ♦ Gene Paulette, once a Giant, has been hitting the ball on the nose for the Cardinals. Roger Hornsby’s big bat has been quiescent so far. "Robbed by the umpire!” cry the Boston Braves, but Hub fans are nc longer fooled. They demand winning results from Stallings and his crew. * * * Fielder Jones, after looking over Urban Shocker the other day, declared that the former Yankee would be one of the Browns’ best pitchers this year. * • * Bobby Roth hasn’t started to crown the pill yet, but Cleveland fans are not worrying. They know Bobby will be on hand with many swats this summer. • * ♦ Captain Anson, doing his vaudeville turn in Seattle recently, was visited by Amos Rusie. who took a few hours off from his work in a shipbuilding plant. It was the first time the two famous old-timers had seen each other in years. A Quaker city scribe says that before the maple ttirns to crimson and the sassafras to-gold a lot of ball players will be learning the gentle, art of hand grenade throwing for use against Prusslanism. ** * . Some baseball historians claim to have discovered that the first bonus ever given! a pitcher on the basis of games won was in Silver King’s contract with the Browns, when King got a salary of $2,500 and a bonus of S6OO for winning more than 40 games.