Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1919 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Bill Bailey continues to pitch worn derful ball for the Beaumont team. * * « The lowly Spartanburg team stopped Charleston after It had won ten straight. * * • Duffy Lewis is playing good ball now. His hits, which are frequent, are also timely—doubly valuable. * * * Turn the American league standing upside down, and the Red Sox would be staging their usual pennant drive. * * * Doc Johnston, of Cleveland is third among American league batters. He is the same Johnston who went back to the minors because he could not hit. * * * The Pirates have a formidable quintet of pitchers to puzzle the opposing batsmen in the National league— Adams, Cooper, Hamilton, Mayer and Miller. ' ■ . According to the dope, any ball club able to stick around the first division until July Fourth with a mark of .500 or better stands a good show of winning the pennant. * * * Ping Bodie is shining these days, and is a near-idol with New York fans. Home runs, triples, doubles and singles are coming in flocks for Ping and he is as well pleased with himself as the Gotham fans are- pleased with him. * * * Dutch Reuther, little counted on when Pat Moran assembled his Red pitching staff, begins to look like the best on the team. He not only is pitching winning ball, but has done stunts in the outfield and as a pinch hitter. • * • Manager Ed Barrow of the Red Sox rises to complain about the report that Jack Barry was the cause of dissension in his club. It is an Injustice to Jack, says the Boston bos& who insists that his team is, and was, one happy family. , * * The Snyder who is playing short stop for Peoria is not one of the family that has provided *a number of players for Three I clubs in the past This Snyder comes from the Pacific coast and Manager Jimmy Hamilton discovered him In a shipyard oul there. -• * • By accepting 12 chances without © slip on Junfe 23, Happy Felsch is believed to have tied the record for outfielders in nine-inning games. Th* White Sox picket came back the next day with nine more, a of 21 chances in two consecutive nine-inning games. • • • The Giants have a great outfield, but their margin over the Pirate outposts is not very wide. Blgbee, Stengel and -Southworth are championship mate rial. When Max Carey is crowded out of the batting order, the quality od the other three speaks for itself.