Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Marty Kavanaugh as a college coach seems to have made good. • • • Eddie Collins has been appointed captain of the Chicago White Sox. .... # ___— It begins to look as if the Braves are going to be much better "than an ordinary team. • * * The Little Rock club of the Southern has purchased Outfielder John Frierson from Houston of the Texas. * * * Pitcher Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns, now bach from overseas,. is held in service at Camp Upton. • • • Gus Getz, sold by Pittsburgh to Toledo, has decided, he says, to stick at his home in Newark and work in a shipyard. • * * ' Mike McNally threatens to oust both Jack Barry and Dave Shean from that second base berth with the world’s champions. „ —* e * In exchange for Pete Compton the Seattle club is supposed to send Pitcher McMoran and Infielder Brown to New Orleans. . • ♦ • • The Pirates are trying out a big semipro pitcher named William Mattingly, who hails from Buffalo. He is a right-hander.

* * * Memphis thinks a lot of its contingent of St. Louis ball players, which includes Joe Slattery, Vincent Walsh and Andy High. * * « Art Kores, Milwaukee boy with the Louisville club, may not be able to play this season due to an injury to his throwing arm. • * • Duffy Lewis is now a race horse magnate. He is reported as having bought a pony called Veteran, said to be a comer on the track. * * * They are going to put Harry Sallee In a baking machine in,a Cincinnati hospital to see If his strained back muscles can’t be cooked into shape. • * * The veteran Jake Boultes, on the veteran now seetns to be making good at third base and Is likely to go even better as the season advances. • • • The big ace of the Des Moines pitching staff. Paul Musser, has just been released from the army, and there is an easier feeling now. in Dess Moines baseball circles. . . o * * * Pitcher Lou North, formerly with the St. Louis Cardinals and later with the St. Paul club, has been signed by Clarence Rowlaud to pitch for his Milwaukee Brewers. , • * No more Waxahachie for Pat Moran, says the manager of the Reds. He declares his team will train in Florida next If he is still on the Job anything to say about it,— Larry Gardner, former member of the Boston Red Sox, who was traded to the Cleveland Indians, says he never felt better and will have the greatest year of his career the coming summer