Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1919 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

American soldiers abroad participate in 5,000 baseball games dally. ♦ * * Right Fielder" Miller of Worcester is out of the game with a cracked ankle. * • ♦ Ping Bodie is a natural hitter. Never took a lesson in his life. He hits by ear. . ? : \ ~7’’V''7?"Fewster doesn’t feel well unless he is chased from the bench once or twice a week. • • « Terre Haute has signed- Guy Geiger to play first bas# He is just out of the army. • • • Kitty Bransfield is being complimented for good work as an umpire in the Eastern, league. * ♦ ♦ Jim Scott lost his first out as a pitcher with the San Francisco team, Oakland beating him 7 to 6. *• ♦ | Pitcher Pete Shields, who has been with Bridgeport, has been released to Evansville of the Three I league. Joe Birmingham has found it anything but a picnic handling the Pittsfield team, with shortage of players, etc. • • • The Cincinnati club is reported to have offered Little Rock $5,000 for Charley Grimm for immediate delivery. * • • The Salt Lake City club announces that it has purchased Infielder Eddie Fitzpatrick from the Boston Nationals. Red Sox signed Lamar from the Yankees after he had been two years with New York. He was secured from Baltimore. • * • With the purchase of Bunny Fabrique from Seattle to play short the Los Angeles club gave Freddy,Driscoll his release. • • • First Baseman'Kelliher of Peoria hit safely in 24 consecutive games. He made 45 hits and scored 25 runs in that stretch. > • ♦ I* Ray Rates has been getting a slow start with the Angels. He hasn’t done any ball playing to speak of since 1917, and needs considerable limber* ing up.