Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — DIAMOND NOTES [ARTICLE]

DIAMOND NOTES

Atlanta reclaimed Joe Guyon when Little Rock asked waivers on him. * • • Pitcher Roy Sanders has been turned over to Joplin by the St Louis Browns. • * • Once in a while there is such a thing as poetic justice. An umpire has been fined S3OO. ' e\ ♦ - ——— Claude Derrick joined the Toledo Mud Hens last week and was put on second base. * • * Pitcher Red Donovan jumped the • Joplin club to play independent ball in Nebraska. • • • There’s a Babe Ruth in the International league. Same is First Baseman Brower of Reading. • * • The Cincinnati Reds must think it a Cardinal sin the way the St Louis team has treated them. •♦♦ ~ ■ There’s going to be good umpiring on the lots In San Diego this summer. A school has been opened to teach the fine arts. • • • Home runs by Pittsfield players in the Eastern league are worth $lO of dental work through an offer of a Pittsfield dentist • * • Johnny Igoe, who managed Babe Ruth on his exhibition tour of the coast fall, may stage Ty Cobb in a similar role this year. * • ♦ The Jordan who has been playing first base for the Syracuse club is none other than the veteran Tim, in bygone days Brooklyn’s slugger. , • • • The Buffalo club has improved its pennant chances, already bright, by the purchase of Pitcher Pat Martin from the Philadelphia Athletics. • * • Sam Agnew, premier backstop in the Pacific Coast league, tells Charlie Graham that he’d like to catch for the Seals for 40 years if he’s wanted. • • • Elmer Bowman, who has been acting as a utility man for the Millers, fits Into the first base position in good shape when opportunity calls on him. • • • Arthur Fletcher is being boomed as the next manager of the Phillies. His acquisition from the Giants has given the team a new kind of pep and ginger. * • • Frank Frisch was a cross-handed batter, when he joined the Giants. He has changed now. There are no big league players who use this style of grip. •• ♦ • When Wheat, Myers and Griffiths don’t hit the Flatbushers fare poorly so far as making runs are concerned. This trio is seldom handcuffed at the plate. * • * Carl Lundgren, one-time a teammate with Johnny Evers with the Cube, holds a job with the Cards similar to the one Johnny has with the Giants. With Chick Knaupp joining Nashville there now are three sets of brothers tn the Southern—Cotton and Chick Knaupp, Andy and Charley High, and the Jonnard twins. “Runs responsible for" recently compiled for .National league pitchers do not Indicate any less effectiveness on the part of pitchers who really know how to pitch. ■ —