Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Cy Falkenberg seems to be about due for a trial in the majors. * * * .Pat Moran seems to have good right handers in his club, but is shy of left handers. see We don’t hear so much of the bean ball this year. Players’ heads must be growing harder. ♦ • * Oscar Tuero, the Cuban pitcher, has been recalled from Little Rock by the St. Louis Nationals. ♦ * * Merlto Acosta has been turned over to the Atlanta Crackers in the deal that will send Vai Piclnlch to the Griffs. « * ♦ Tommy Long, once a major leaguer, but better known as a Southern leaguer, has been called in the draft • • • Buck Freeman, one time home-run king of the big leagues, is now earning his daily bread umpiring in the American association. « • * Ruth has played three positions for the Red Sox this season, Schang has played two and Mclnnis has been at third base. and at first « o • For a team that has several of Its sluggers batting right handed the St Louis Cardinals are unusually weak against left-handed pitching. •* * < Whether Mclnnis would have become a great third baseman or not will not be known, as he is back at rfrst base again and quite likely to stay there. • • • The Cincinnati Reds are down to the smallest roster carried by any big league club since 1802. There are but 17 players on Garry Herrmann’s pay rolL • • ♦ The Ontario Baseball Amateur association has succeeded the Ontario baseball commission as the governing body in amateur baseball in the Dominion of Canada. • • • No one talks of Helnle Zimmerman as a veteran of the game, but he is. He Is one of the oldest players In point of service in the National league. He has been In it 13 years. * • * Ollie O’Mara has improved greatly in his all around play since he had his first tryout with the Robins. Lack of confidence hurt him then, but a sojourn in the minors fixed that '• * • With the departure of Barnes for Camp Funston, the Giants ran up a total of five men contributed to the National army this season. The others are Bqird, Kelly, John Paul Jones and Rube Benton. • • • Manager Mitchell of the Cubs contends that Hal Chase is the king of first basemen, and in that he is supported by wTllie Keeler, who says that Chase knows more about playing the bag than any other man he has ever seen.