Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — Diamond Yarns [ARTICLE]

Diamond Yarns

The ball players’ name for Babe Ruth is “the big baboon.” * ♦ ♦ The Boston officials pick the White Sox as the best team in the league. * * • The Indianapolis club has returned Outfielder Herb Hunter to the Boston Red Sox. \ r* • * Pipp Is beginning to slap the ball as he did in the days when he first joined' the Yanks. * • ♦ McNally plays a remarkable defensive game'at second base for the Boston club. Art Butler, playing second base for Milwaukee, went'l22 innings without making an error. / Babe Ruth may fence a,little, but he plays no favorites when it comes to breaking records. A recent jumper from, the Southern to the Delta outlaws is •Pitcher Hugh Canavan of the Memplils Chicks. * The Chickasha team has a new manager, Catcher Drap Hayes hav,lng succeeded Ned Pettigrew in charge. / । The Boston Red Sox people plan to keep Schang in center field and hunt another catcher to help young Walters out 1 Boston’s ball clubs aren’t sending up any skyrockets this year, but most everyone in the Bay city has a baseball bean. ee e ' From now on to the end of the season Babe Ruth may be expected to break the world’s home-run record almost evefy day. The Sioux City club has ’ secured Pitcher Frank Wells from the Cedar Rapids Three-I League club, giving Outfielder Relchle in exchange. '* * * The Enid club recently sold Outfielder Felix Jacubic to Chickasha. He Is regarded qs a good player, but • he had a run' of ill luck with Enid.

First Baseman-Catcher Kohls, released by Evansville, was taken on by Terre Haute to fill in while Catcher Tom Casey was out with a broken finger. - ■ • • • / Doc Johnston is the safety ,first baseman' of the American, league. When Ruth cbmes to bat Doc takes a position In right field and. fears for the worst. • ' St. Louis, represented 32i years in the National league baseball race, has managed to finish in the first division five times. Third place the best they finished. . Staler covers not only first base, he also covers the space 10 feet gbove it and the territory 2 feet under it. to say nothing of the 10 feet on all sides of the pillow. \ * One of the first acts of Norman Glockson after becoming manager of the Rock 'island' team was to add his brother Willard, an outfielder, to the Rock Island payroll. • • • Bob Meusel may be all right nt third and a great first base possibility, but mus an outfielder it has been voted he is no Tris Speaker. Nor can he hit A curve ball like Ty Cobb.