Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1919 — SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE]

SPORTING WORLD

Louisville finally gave Southpaw Ad Thomas his unconditional release. Bill Brennan has consented to stay on as an umpire in the Southern league. ' . * * ♦ Caruso Fred Beck, lately back from France, has signed to play with the Peoria club. • • Freshwater Is the name of an umpire who has been calling them in the Three I league. * * * Art Ewoldt, former Des Moines third baseman, has arrived from overseas, and the management plans to use him in the outfield. * * * Lefty Bill James, as a pitcher for Galveston, shows signs of coming back to something like his old form. * * * C. E. Stevens, former Coast, Western, Northwestern and Texas backstop, has been signed by Evansville. ♦ • * Pete Adams, the Fort Smith first baseman, is playing great ball for Oklahoma City and seems to be a real find. • • • The western league is not the batters’ paradise this season it used to be. There are frequent games with low scores. The Oakland club has taken on Pitcher Harry Weaver from the Chicago Cubs on the recommendation of, Rowdy Elliott. * • • Danny Murphy, who is handling the Hartford team this year, says that the Eastern league is going to play faster ball than ever before.* Jimmy Cooney, returning to Providence, is making a great hit, and Cooney himself shows no disappointment that he failed to stick with the Red Sox or catch on with the De troit Tigers. • • • Los Angeles is elated over the acquisition of Ray Bates, for he was a ■star when with Vernon before he went to the Philadelphia Athletics, and it is figured he has not gone back any.