Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Manager Clark Griffith is hard put for catching material. * ♦ * Urban Faber of the White Sox has passed the physical examination and awaits his call. ♦ * * Dick Ching, Mobile pitcher, is not a Chinaman as his name might indicate, but he has tricks. ♦ * ♦ Jack O’Toole, veteran Southern league umpire, has been laid up with an attack of rheumatism. ♦ * ♦ Ralph Craig, who played the outfield for Peoria last season, has been taken on by the Sioux City club. * >♦ ♦ Chick Gandil, though still somewhat decrepit in the legs, is going good for thq White Sox particularly with the bat ♦ • • The award by the national board of Pitcher Pepper Clark to Des Moines was a life saver to Jack Coffey, who was hard up for pitchers. President Hickey’s rules against freak pitching are clear enough and as the decision is up to the umpires there should be few controversies. * * * Portland fans have taken a great liking to Bill Feuerborn, the first baseman secured from Salt Lake City, and are praising him to the skies. * * * The Minneapolis club has released a number of players to St Joseph of the Western league and those clubs presumably will work together during the season in exchange of players. * * * The St Louis Cardinals seem to have about made the Little Rock pitching staff when they sent Murchison and Tuero to Kid Elberfeld, to say nothing about returning Hank Robinson. * * * Stallings is drawing more salary than any other National league manager except John McGraw. The latter has a whirlwind of a club, and as for the former, well, the least said the better. • * * Having lost George Beall in the army draft, Roger Bresnahan made Hans Wagner an offer to play first base for the Toledo team, but old Hans wired back that he is out of baseball for good. * • * Arrangements have been made by the Brooklyn team to play a game every Sunday at the old Federal league park In Newark, N. J. One of the National league games scheduled to btrplayed in the week will be transferred to Sunday.