Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Waiter Plpp may be drawn in th* draft soon. • • • Swede Rlsberg Is showing marked Improvement at the plate. • • • Catcher Harry Glenn of the St Paul Saints has been called by the draft. » » » Harry Weaver has reported to Manager Mitchell that he has joined th* navy. • • • Harry Heitman continues to pitch winning ball for Arthur Irwin’s Rochester club. • • • Rube Parnham seems to find the International league easier than th* American association. • « * It Is estimated that 560 professional baseball players of organized club* have joined the colors. William Finn of Boston has been chosen to head the Fordham college baseball team next season. • • * Most of the heavy hitters in both th* National and American leagues ar* members of Eastern clubs. • ♦ • Pitcher Kester I. June of the University of West Virginia has reported to the Cleveland American league club. • • • Des Moines announces that it ha* secured Adrian Lynch from the Washington club to fill out its pitching staff. • • • Ed Pfeffer of the Robbins is pitchinfl Sunday games in the Chicago City league. He is at the Great Lakes naval training station. - • • • Pittsburgh picked up three player* from the Southern ' association. Outfielder Southworth and Pitchers Cornstock and Slapnlcka. With Byrd Lynn gone into war work the White Sox are using Otto Jacobs, minor leaguer of several years’ experience, as a warm-tip catcher. Guy Morton is on a fair way to establish a real comeback after all th* trouble he has had with his arm. Th* member is showing no effects of th* old Injury. • • • In the Mobile-Chattanooga game of June 20 Johnny Bates, leading off for Mobile, walked five times, every dm* up. which probably is a record or at least a tie. • • • There will be no hundng trips for major leaguers next fall. The hunting season Is open In Europe, though, and they can get all the action they want “over there.” •• • • Grover Lowdermllk, who had been depended on for so much by thee St. Louis club this year, had no sooner begun to get his arm in shape than ho was taken down with stomach trouble. • • • Dutch Leonard of the Boston Red Sox, who married after the passage of the draft law, has been notified by hl* draft board at Fresno. CaL. that h* has been moved from class 2 to class 1. • • • Ernie Koob, former pitcher of th* St. Louis Brow-ns, and Harry Glenn, catcher of the St Pauls, comprise th*' battery of the Overland Aviation school. They expect to sail for Franc® before snow files. • • • Baseball teams representing various government plants. East and West, following out the idea of encouraging competitive sports as a recreation, may meet in the championship serie* between the two leading nines of th* two leagues at the end of the season. Many former major and minor leagu* •players are members of the team*.