Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

The Cleveland amateur baseball association is. made up of 67 nines. * * * Charley Ebbets is, hewing close to Hoover, -as his outfield Is now one-third Wheat * * * Casey Stengel war rated 100 per cent perfect when he was examined by draft board physicians. * * * Washington Is playing on Sunday, and the fans probably would appreciate baseball on week days, too. * * * Wilbert Robertson, chubby manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, appears tohave lost considerable weight since last season. * • • New York A. C. will hold track, baseball and boxing tourneys for the sol-r diers and sailors stationed in the vicinity of the metropolis. * • * Sunday baseball in Washington Is going to prove a financial boon to Clark Griffith. The Senators will probably make money this season. ■* * * St. Louis sport writers are heartless. One of them has said that as amateurs are exempt, Hendricks’ Cardinals need not worry about the work or fight order. * * * Among the amazing features of baseball this year is that the umpire can make a rotten decision against the home team without risking his life as of old. v* * * "Walters batting for Love,” yelled the announcer in the fifth inning at the Polo grounds. “No; he’s batting for money,” insisted one of the wags inj the stand. ' • * • Slowly ! but surely Bob Veach ia climbing to a place among the headliners of swat in the American league. Veach started poorly but Is hitting hard now. •* * ! The Cardinals are now being called the “knotholers” in the Mound City; meaning no doubt they might as well be outside looking through a knothole as on the playing field. * * * Catcher John_ Peters, secured by Cleveland from New Orleans, succeeds Josh Billings, who enlisted in the naval reserves after learning that he would be called in the draft. * • *

Few catchers in major league baseball can boast of the unique record of John Henry of the Braves. He Is entering his ninth year in the big show and has yet to have a finger broken. • * * 9 Pitcher Cliff Hill, property of Philadelphia Athletics, now In the'National army, will be permitted to pitch for the Fort Worth club of the Texas league so long as he does not leave Fort Worth. • • ■ Guy Morton gave evidence the other day that he had completely recovered from the bad arm which kept him out of the game the greater part of last year, when he shut out the Bed Sox with one Mt, winning Ito 0. __ |