Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Twilight baseball is said to be a kmH cess in Minneapolis. • • • George Stallings is getting back in, the papers these days. • • • - A Walter Rehg of the Braves has decided to enlist in the navy. • • • ' Matty says his team has not been going any too well. That makes it official. , • • • According to New York scribes, Love has shot his bolt Probably laughing at locksmiths again, • • • Hoboken, N. J, claims to be the first home of baseball, the game being played there in 1833. • • • The Vancouver club announces that it has sold Outfielder Frank Wilson to the Chicago White Sox. ? ♦ • Bert Shotten has tumbled badly at bat He has not lived up to-the form he showed in the spring. • • • The opinion seems to prevaU in Detroit the Cubs are going to beat the Giants to the National league flag. The Indianapolis club announces" that it has purchased Second Baseman Press Cruthers from the Memphis club. • • • Dick Robertson of the New Orleans Pelicans quits the Southern season as the league's most sensational pitcher. He holds the record for consecutive victories. The International League clubs are doing better than' was expected financially. The league probably will go through the season Without a break in the circuit. • * * Both major leagues ought to empower their umpires to decide whether games should be postponed because of rain or wet grounds. The home clubs often abuse this privilege. « • * Now that Lee Fohl has such a capable catcher as Chet Thomas to work at times Steve O’Neill is getting a muchdeserved rest. O’Neill is one of the hardest working catchers in the game. Unintentional injury was done Casey Stengel when it was stated that he ran out on the Pittsburgh dub and had secured a job in a shipyard to avoid the draft It seems Casey enlisted in the navy. • • • Dutch Reuther, formerly of the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, now in service, was “enlisted” to pitch for Vancouver on June 19 and he beat the Aberdeen Black Cats, holding them to six hits and two runs. see Manager Lee Fohl put Doc Johnston at the top of his batting order when he reported from Milwaukee and Doe showed that he still had the same old cleverness that he showed for the Indians before they dumped him for a lot of experiments.