Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Baldermo Acosta is back with the Atlanta Crackers. • * • Bert Gallia is acclaimed as the best hurler on the Browns* staff. • • ,* Charley Risberg keeps right on play ing brilliant ball at third base- r- • • • • Hub Perdue’s batting record of .014 should elect him to Crowder’s Idler • • * Utility Man Chuck Wortman is finding it difficult to break Into the Cub lineup. • • • Earle Neale of the Reds plays closer to the fence than any other left fielder In the National league. J. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher last year for the Boston Americans, baa been signed by Minneapolis. • * • O’Farrell, a colt, is catching regularly for the Cubs, who will lose Kit lefer, Daly and Elliott in the draft. * * * Chet Thomas should strengthen the Indians, for when Steven O’Neill is absent only a rookie is left to catch. • • • Buffalo continues to make changes. Among recent acquisitions are Tom McCabe and Marty Murphy, outfielders. • * • to “Swede" Risberg the White Sox have as clever a utility tnflelder as Is to be found in major league company. * • * President Hempstead of the New York Giants has the major league baseball scores cabled to France every evening. • * ♦ So far Jack Hendricks, the Cardinals’ new boss, has found the piloting of a. big league team a tough proposition. It la estimated that the increased railroad rates will mean an additional expense of $5,000 a year for each major league club. • * • The Joplin management, in an attempt to catch the fans, has decided to try the experiment of starting its games at 4 o’clock. • * • The Giants are as unpopular aa ever in Cincinnati and verbal clashes between the fans and the New York players followed every game. • • • Walter Pipp of the New York Yankees Is the latest diamond performer to talk of taking a shipyard job to get deferred draft classification. • • • Since Rollle Zeider was made the Cubs’ regular second baseman he has batted at a .240 dip, and seemingly is improving all the time in hia batting. • * • BiU Pheion, the Cincinnati scribe, remarks that as a pitcher Joe Wood, now with Cleveland, was never much of a hitter. Wrong, BUl—Wood always could hiL • • • Baseball dose not appear to be sufLarge crowds are turning oiu everywhere as If glad of the chance to forget the war for a few hours. When a team Is playing good ball It is making no complaints at the crowd.