Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Car! Mays is the first American league pitcher to score victories over every other club in his league. .♦ ♦ * Eddie Burns is catching splendidly for the Phillies and ranks as one of the cleverest backstops in the league.. • * * Tris Speaker is getting many a hit but his collection is not as large as it generally has been at this stage of the race. • • • Incidentally John McGraw hasn’t had a fight this year. The officials of the National league will soon start an investigation. • • • “Who said Eddie Murphy can’t field well in the garden?” Maybe he CQUldt not once upon a time, but Eddie seems to have reformed. 1 • • ♦ Harry' Hooper is the leading rungetter in the American league and George Burns Is showing the way in the National league. • Sisler of the Browns and Carey of the Pirates should steal close to 70 bases this season unless forced out of of the game by injury. * ♦ * Connie Mack says Merito Acosta can hit big league hurling just as long as he is permitted to hit in his own. style. The Cube’s hitting. • • Now'and then Babe Ruth has to stop at first base after hitting safely, but generally Ruth simply touches his toe to first and hurries along. • * ♦ The departure of Claude Davidson was a bitter blow to Connie Mack, who believed that the former Brown University player would develop into a big league star. < • • • Charles A. Comiskey is rooting hard for Nick Altrock to make a teal conieback. The Old Roman hasn’t f 0T S ot ' ten the fine work Hick did for him a decade and more ago. • • * ♦ The Cleveland Indians now shape up as the best team in the Western section of the American league and should be in the pennant chase down to the finish of the season. * * * Ping Bodie isn’t the fastest person in baseball, but Ping gets there just the same, and, he’s always hustling. This former White Sox player is popular with the Gotham fans. There is not a more graceful outfielder than Joe Wood of the Cleveland Indians. The One-time pitching star handles every ball that comes his way with the greatest ease. t ; • ♦ • Catcher O’Farrell is among the new draft men. He became twenty-one last October. His name is closer to the top than Hollocher’s, and it may develop that he will be called into the army first. I Rube Marquard and Jack Coombs are pitching great ball for the hopeless Dodgers. Both veterans are staging “comebacks” that deserve mention wherever National league 1 fans foregather. e. a ♦ Heathcote is as fast as a bullet bats Iqft-handed and fairly skims over the turf in chasing drives. There apparentiyare untold possibilities in* Heathcote, who Hendricks says is gating better with every game. - • X