Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Manager Rowland still thinks hls team will repeat/ Fed Mollwitz has apparently recovered his batting eye. • * * Al Wickland Is the Boston Braves’ leading outfielder and slugger. ♦ *, » After hitting safely in eleven games George Sisler went hitless before Carl Mays. • • * General Crowder slipped a big package of dynamite underneath organized baseball. * • * Sherwood Magee is the most pro--ficient man on the Cincinnati club in the matter of driving In runs. ♦ * ♦ Jack Warhop, the old Yankee pitcher, is now playing shortstop with the Toronto International league club. --♦ * ♦ Catcher John Henry Is making an excellent substitute for Hank Gowdy behind the plate for the Boston Braves. • • • It begins to look as if not enough men have been drafted from the Boston Red Sox for the good of the league. • • « Jack Graney has taken hls place In the regular lineup of the Indians, and Joe Wood Is having a vacation from the outfield. • ♦ » Even though this is the season when they don’t mean anything in particular, the baseball percentages have a nice, summery look. • * • Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, has refused to allow service baseball teams to play on Sunday In Shlbe park, the home of the Athletics. • s • Manager Moran of the Phils declares that hls club has lost more tough close ball games this season than any other team In the National league. « * * Pitcher Hugh Bedlent, of the Toledo American association club, former Boston American, has been purchased by the New York American club. « • * Manager Fielder Jones of the Browns Is greatly disappointed in his pitching staff. Gallia, Lowdermilk and Davenport are all being hit hard. ♦ • • Grover Cleveland Alexander will pitch for the baseball team of soldiers at Camp Funston and has been detailed to take charge of camp athletics. * • * Day by day those Mackmen are making the fans realize that Connie was right when he predicted that his team would make a lot of trouble this season. • • • If George Burns could play at Shlbe Park for the whole season he would probably finish with a batting average of .450. He is a demon In that bailiwick. • ♦ • Jim Scott, former member of the pitching staff of the Whitft Sox, now a captain In the? army, is umpiring games between Pacific coast cantonment teams. • • ♦ Dave Bancroft still plays his sprightly game at shortstop for the Phillies. Time has not impaired hls speed or hls batting eye. Bancroft Is the real star of Moran’s club these days. • * • Claude Davidson, former Brown university star, has ousted “Red” Shannon from Connie Mack’s Infield. In addition to fielding well, Davidson is displaying uncanny ability to hit major league hurling. • ? • • • jDick Rudolph, the Braves’ star pitcher, who has been holding out for a certain salary, says that he IntencM to accept a position at a big shipbuild' Ing yard in the East. Rudolph it ‘ above the draft age limit so that he cannot be charged with avoiding milk tary duty. , <