Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Dode Paskert is getting to be a whirlwind on the bases. * * * Joe Benz is fast becoming one of the surprises of this season of upsets. * ♦ '• Pitcher Thomas (Turkey) Boman, sold by Little Rock to Cincinnati, won’t join the Reds. * * * Otto Jacobs, the Sox recruit catcher, has made a hit with everybody op the world’s champion team. Walter Cruise conferred with his draft board In Alabama and was allowed deferred classification. Jim Thorpe may not be a giant with the bat, but he certainly knows hoW to utilize his speed in the outfield. » « * The Cardinals and Reds are asking sanction to move up games at home so as -to play double-headers; ■every Sunday. • • • Clark Griffith now has nine boxmen —Johnson, Harper, Ayers, Shaw, Brennan, Hansen, Reese, Altrock and Buckeye. ♦ • • Frank Schulte is taking his shots at the right field wall at Washington and. has come close to hitting it several times. ♦ ♦ ♦ Capt. “Jim” Scott won the medal for being the crack shot of his class of officers in training recently at Camp Perry. •r • * Joe Gedeon continues to thrill St Louis fans by his fine work at second base. Griffith tried to get him last winter and failed.

* * * .»■ I ' Benny Kauff ranked third in longdistance hitting and third in run getting when he left the National league for the bigger game. • ♦ • The Robins always play their hardest against the Giants, because they’d rather beat McGraw’s men than any other club in the league. ***** Claude Cooper of the Pirates, whose bad luck had become a proverb, broke It all at once by winning two games in one series from the Cardinals. • o • Charley Hollocher, the Cubs’ sensational shortstop, was a failure at golf, but he made good on the diamond. This should encourage a million links failures. Merlto Acosta, erstwhile Griffman. is stinging the old pill for Connie Mack. Acosta has gotten in some deadly work with-the flail since he joined with Mack.* *

Umpire Charlie Moran has a voice like a steam calliope, but there never is any doubt about what he is saying, which is more than can be said for some of his colleagues. Dodo Paskert deserves praise for the brilliant playing he Is supplying the Cubs. Not only is he shilling in the outfield, but he is also behaving like a youngster on the bases. • • • Claude Davidson recently resigned from the Athletics because “baseball held no future for him.” He has found his future, however, and is now playing shortstop for the Chester shipbuilding team.