Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1919 — NOTES of the DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Efforts to revive the old Nebraska State league have failed. • * • Charley Herzog paid ho income tax this year. The Boston Nationals paid it. • • • Herbert Thormahlen can pitch. Also he can sing. He’s the Marty McHale of the Yanks. • • * Joe Schultz, the former Dodger, has been purchased from Kansas City by the St. Louis Nationals. • » • Brazil, a recruit Infielder with the Dodgers, connected for the first home run of the training season in a game at Jacksonville. • * • Outfielder Acosta, formerly with the Washington club, will cavort in the outfield for the Louisville club during the coming season. ♦ ♦ • Johnny Tobin is leading off at bat for the St. Louis Browns. Manager Burke expects to keep him there right through the season, ♦ * • Brooklyn expects so much from Ray Schmandt that it has already forgotten about the scintillating work of Jake Daubert for many seasons. T . , ■ « * • Wa/d Miller, a veteran outfielder, has been secured by the Kansas City American association club from Salt Lake City in exchange for Jimmy Voix. • » * Knight, who has made many moves on baseball’s chess board, will play for Seattle next season. Jack is always poised to baseball kings to check. • • • The defunct Federal Baseball league attorneys contend that ball players are virtual slaves. Well, all right. One thing is sure, though, and that is that slavery is a well-paid profession. Joe Boehling’s efforts to come back with the Cleveland Indians were brief. After a week spent in the camp at New Orleans he concluded his case was a hopeless one and notified Manager Lee Fohl that he’d go back to his home id Virginia and forget about basebalL - ... - ■