Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — BASEBALL STORIES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL STORIES

Eppa Rixey of the Phils is being sought by several clubs. ♦ ♦ ♦ Fred Luderus will be seen at first base with the Phils when the season opens. • • • -7'-—"-—— Tris Speaker declares he’s in the field for any trades, but can’t find anyone to do business with. * • • Latest advices are that the antisedition bill does not make it a felony to call the umpire “robber.” • * * “Give us a good left-hander and we’ll gallop.” is how Cleveland fans figure the coming pennant race. • * * It is reported that Ed Klepfer, leading American league pitcher in 1917, will retire from baseball this year. • « • The Cards beat Chicago, Boston and New York to Pitcher Haines of Kansas City, American association star. Of the 15,000 reserved seats at Redland field, already there are but 1,500 left for the opening day. These are scattered. • • • Ping Bodie may have to go back to the Pacific coast from which he was once before rescued. He’ll go big out there again. * • « George Stallings says he is through selling players. He is in the market to buy but isn’t going good in that direction. 1 • • * Connie Mack will keep both Bur-rus-and Griffin, his first base candidates, regardless of the result of their battles for first base. • • « Carl Shelby, a pitcher, who was given a tryout last fall by Little Rock, has been given his unconditional release by the Travelers. Rudolph Weber, a southpaw pitcher, who has been playing semi-pro ball around Benton Harbor, Mich., has been signed by the Chicago Cubs. • • * A memorial may be placed by the major league clubs at Cooperstown, N. Y., where the first game of base ball is said A have been played, in 1837. • • * Every club in the Pacific Coast league has made a bld to the New York Yankees for Pitcher Bill Piercy, but to all Manager Huggins has turned a deaf ear. • • •* Leaping “Daredevil” Dave Alttzer, veteran baseball player, has decided to give the diamond game another trial. He will join the Millers at Minneapolis this spring. * * • Big time gossip has It that Jimmy Callahan, formerly manager of the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates, is in the market to purchase a major league club. ♦ . • * Gene Robertson, a St. Louis rookie, in signing, his 1920 contract the other day asked that a clause be inserted in the document assuring that he would play at least once per week. • • • Fred Falkenberg Is still in the game. The human string bean, as he was dubbed when he was in the majors, is now the property of the Oakland dub of the Pacific Coast league. With Sherwood Magee on first base and Terry Turner at short, Joe Tinker’s Coimnbuq A. A. team will have two of the oldest players in the business when the season opens, yet they are h°th The MichtgaWntario leaguers no doubt are expecting a large session as they have doubled the salaries of the president and secretary of the league and raised the umpires’ salaries to