Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Peckinpaugh shows no letup in his stickwork. They are playing scrappy ball in the International. Old Man East has been pitching some great ball for Sioux City. ♦ * ♦ George Johnson has resigned his job as an umpire in the American association. Buffalo’s opening day attendance in the International is said to have been less than 2,00 Q. * « * C. R. Hendrix of the Chicago Cubs is one of the best batting pitchers in the major leagues. -r- ♦ ♦ * Old Pug Cavet, with but one good eye, is proving a winner for Jack Hendricks at Indianapolis. * * * Pat Martin, pitcher, recently returned from overseas, has joined Binghamton in the International. * * * The New York fans are looking for the guy w’ho wrote those immortal lines. ‘‘The Yanks are coming.” * * ♦ The St. Louis Browns are certainly setting a pretty fast pace in the American league race just now.

Tom Lukanovie, - the young pitcher who was destined to set the Coast league by the ears, failed to come across. * • • Lieutenant Colonel Bittie of the fourth division, led 1,261 marksmen in the American army tournament at Lemans, France. * * * A. Schulz, who played with the Brewers during the training season, is going along nicely for the Joplin club of the Western league. The veteran Jack Lewis will be out of the Memphis lineup • indefinitely; His injury is a jaw battered by a foul ball. • * * Roy Patterson, after celebrating his forty-first birthday, went out and pitched.*! neat victory for Minneapolis over Milwaukee. • • • Manager Coleman of Mobile released Pitcher Arthur Johnson, though he had won four and lost but two for a second division club. * ♦ ♦ < When Manager Miller Huggins „of the New York Yankees, was in St. Louis he hada conference with Hugh High, 'his balking outfielder, as a result of which High agreed to report to Vernon of the Coast league. >