Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1919 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Bill Whittaker is having a great season with Fort Worth. * * * Buck Weaver is traveling with some speed this season. * « * The University of Virginia baseball team made a profit of $2,421.07 this year. • * * Bobby Roth Is playing a great game for the Macks and is immensely popular with the fans. * * * Lefty Schorr, a pitcher who started the season with Salt Lake, has been taken on by Seattle. * * * Del Pratt, Yankee second baseman, is playing a greatly improved game since the Yanks returned home. ♦ • • The Pittsburgh Pirates have not been hitting to brag about, but this feature of their play Is improving steadily. • ♦ * Pat Don Carlos Ragan, now a Giant, once was considered quite a Giant tamer. That was when he was with Brooklyn. • « • Pittsfield’s heaviest loss Is in the absence of Catcher Devine, who has been out of the game with an attack of appendicitis. • • • Horace Allen, an infielder who gained fame as a player at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, has been signed by the Dodgers. • • « The playing of the “Stai>Spangled Banner” in ball parks reveals the melancholy fact that Mr. Emslie has more hair than Mr. Klein. • * * Hooks Warner, back from overseas and out of the army, is practicing with the Pirates and hoping something will happen to permit him to stay on the team. »-~z* * Lee Meadows of the Cardinals is still one of the best six or seven inning pitchers in the National league. He has been that tor three or four years. * * * Providence used to think it had a corner on Brown University athletes but New Haven now claims two. One is Claude Davidson and the other Billy Murray. Sam Lewis, claimed by Shreveport and thus rescued from exile to the Three-I league, has shown his appreciation by doing good work for Billy Smith’s team. * * * Voluntary contributions to a fund to erect a memorial to Capt. Eddie Grant, will be received by John B. Foster, traveling secretary of the Giants. Grant was the only officer among ball players killed in France. ♦ * * Ed Pfeffer, who has been going great guns for the Brooklyn club, attributes his fine condition to the ten-day boiling out period he put in at Hot Springs before he Joined the Dodgers in training. * * , The New York American League Baseball club has secured Albert Wickland from the St. Paul club of the American association. St. Paul will receive a New York player in exchange. Wickland is an outfielder and went to St. Paul this spring from the Boston Nationals,