Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 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. •• • • 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 mus.t 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 last fall, may stage Ty Cobb in ----- • - 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. • • • T 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 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, Myert and Griffiths don’t hit the Flatbushers fare poorly so far as making runs are concerned. This trio Is seldom handcuffed at the plate. Cari Lundgren, one-time a teammate with Johnny Evers with the Cubs, 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 In the Southern—Cotton and Chick Knaupp, Andy and Charley High, and the Jonriard 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.