Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-23
In or, Set
Being Little Stories
OF Sporting Folks
Gathered Every
,Uhere.
BY E. 6. D.

kewanee catcher, who are now with
Birmingham, are known as the Mutt
and jeff battery Of the Southern
league.
Clyde Curtis, who went to Nash.
vile, Tenn, from the Central associa-
ton. has been sold to Clarksville In
the Kitty league Curt will manage the
club. He formerly operated for OF.
tumwa in the old Iowa league.
Jake Weimer, the former Ottumwa
athlete, who served the Chicago Cubs
and the Cincinnati Reds in the high
brow circuit. is not playing ball any
more. Weimer was one OF the best
pitchers In the National league.
Captain Harry Ostdiek OF the Spo-
kane. Wash, club, has released Jake
Bauer, formerly of the Ottumwa club,
and for time proprietor OF solid
ivory parfor in South Ottumwa. Bauer
played ball with st. Joe last year, but
he suffered an injury last winter by
being burned.
Hank SEVERED breaks into the cur
rent issue of the Sporting News as fol. &
lows:
Henry SEVERED OF Cincinnati has q
brother In the Observation-Disclosures
league, an infielder. Henry asserts that
II Will be but few years before the
NorWegians will flood into baseball
and corner all the star salaries. They
have the ability says Henry and they
have the brains--the only reason they
haven't invaded baseball before is be-
cause they didn't happen to think
about it,
There's a geek down in the Texas
league with good name, as the fol-
lowing from the Sporting News will
testify:
Emmett Cain, our lightning little
shortstop. accepted 90 chances out OF
81 offered, in the first Is games played
and he has been hitting for an average
of .2Ss. He is only a little past 10 years
OF age. Hardly game goes by without
his pulling off play OF the Lajoie
type. Watch him, you class "A fellows.
LATTE, Detroit's pitching ind, and
his backstopping relative, who Is with
the Chattanooga team of the Southern
league, are descendants of the famous
pirate Laf1tte. who hourished on the
gulf coast when buccaneering was a
legitimate and profitable calling for
man with the nerve. The name is pro.
nounced Lah-feet. Being OF pirate
blood 1t Is strange that Pittsburg over
looked the Lafitte boys.
What Mardecai Brown is to the Cubs
Harry Gaspar is to the Reds when, II
comes to throwing out the life line to
some pitcher In distress. Gaspar has
been performing this first-aid-to-the.
walloped stunt with some degree OF
regularity OF late and in every In.
stance he has delivered the goods. And
when he hasn't been rescuing other
twirlers, Gaspar has been winning for
himself. Some artist on the slab, that
Iowa photographer
Rev. ]. w. Kramer. pastor Of tho
First BaDtist church of Spokane, and
one of the most ardent baseball fans
in the CITY, has offered to marry free
of charge all bachelor members of the
team who bat a home run during the
season. He also offers to present a
bible to each member Of the team who
cuts out the use Of LIQUOR for the sea-
son, and in case the team keeps away
from the alluring liquid suficientlv not
to interfere with the playing OF the
members. and brings home the pen.
nant again. he will provide big ban
Ouet for all the men who play with
the Indians this season.
Shortstop Louis Webb has came
and went" at Cincinnati This young.
ster reported to Grifiith minus uniform,
shoes and glove, and, after accepting
donations. went to the field. After
making six or seven fumbles of easy
rollers, hitting Long Larry on his bum
knee with wild heave and making a
half dozen more wild throws. he re-.
tired. Manager Grifith advised him
to return to that dear Snyder, Colo.
and assume the role of large toad In
a small puddle. Some poor, misguided
fan paid all OF his expenses coming
and going, too.
During the past winter Tom Clarke
OF Cincinnati was witness In a
small case at the little court in his
home in Corona case where some
Coronite accused another one OF as.
sault and battery. Mr.. Clarke was on
the stand, and was asked to describe
the trouble.
Near as can remember" said Mr..
Clarke, "this little guy here, bounced
a rock off the bean OF this mutt In the
brown suit"
"The court fails to comprehend"
interposed the magistrate "Will you
please make your statements more def.
mite. Mr.. Clarke?''
We'll, your honor. as near az can
tell 1t, this sawed-off gazab with the
checked benny caressed this sum
kissed blonde in the brown. rags on
the dome with cobble."
you must correct your language.
Mr.. Clarke" the court objected. do
you mean that the defendant struck
the plaintiff upon the occiput with
stone?"
That's about 1t, your honor, though
don't talk that kind OF slang. The lit
tie gick, your honor, plinked the other