Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1918 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Carl Mays is the first American league pitcher to scorejrictories over every other club in his”league. ♦ ♦ • Eddie Burns is catching splendidly for the Phillies and tanks 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 soon start an investigation. L “Who said Eddie Murphy can’t field well in the garden?” (Maybe he could not once/upon a time, rout Sidle seems to luyre reformed. \ / Harry. Hooper is the leading rungetter in the Amerieanj league anjL George Bums is wayxln the National league. \ S ** • \ Sisler of the Browns and Careyxif the Pirates should steal close to 70 bases this season unless forced out of of the game« by injury. ♦ * ♦ Connie Mack says Meri'to Acbsta can hit big league hurling just as long as he is permitted to hit in his own style. The Cube’s hitting. x •• • > 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 \Wow to Connie Mack, who believed that the former Brown University playfir would develop into a big league star. '• ♦ ♦ Charles A. Comlskey is rooting hard for Nick Altrock to make a real comeback. The Old Roman hasn’t forgotten the fine work Nick did for him a . decade and more ago. The Cleveland Indians now shape up a$ tße best team Western section of the American league and nhould .be in the pennant chase down to the finish of the season. Ping Bodie isn’t the fastest person in baseban, 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 out‘fielder than Joe Wood of the Cleveland Indians. The one-time pitching star handles every ball'that comes his way with the greatest ease. 4 : • * *

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 Rube Marquard and Jack Coombs, are pitching great ball for the hopeless Dodgers. Both veterans are staging “comebacks” that deserve mention wherever National league fans foregather. ' ... * ♦ • Heathcote Is as fast as a bullet bats left-handed and fairly skims over the turf In charing drives. There apparently are untold possibilities in Heathcote, who Hendricks says Is getting better with every game.