Evening journal., 1912-02-23
Let's Get
Together


Indoor ball game is as popular as
that which Kid Reeves put up last
year.
only 293 days until the next world
series ticket scandal is whitewashed
by the national commish
Dear Dave: DO you think Doc Nor
gan can make my left leg as long as
my right one? Have Just returned
from a sporting visit with some
friends to Philadelphia.
Pill Haze.
The best reason yet advanced why
the Browns will not finish last ia:
Five out of six experts say they will.
History does not tell us Of baseball
forecast that ever came true"
Bill Raymond viii do the Nut Faust
act on the Imperial side lines
A Street for one Knight. Some can
make more than that in less time, but
Manager Wolverton says he Is salts
fed with this record and predicts that
the Street he takes will any time be
WOTlu lut Wnolc hniEut
Otto Miller will substitute for Lynch
as water carrier for our Yanigans
We hear a great deal about "swell'
third basemen, but the only swell
third haseman we ever saw was big
Ed Gromminger. once with Boston,
whose waist line approxmated sixty
inches.
Paul Miller will again he seen on
the mound for the Yanigans.
In spite Of the talk that Detroit is
not baseball town they can at least
show that they paid more TO visiting
baseball clubs last season than any
city outside of Chicago. On the road
The Tigers drew more people than. any
club in the league. with the possible
exception OF the champion Athletics,
They outdrew Macks team TO ?
You certainly have 30 hand 10 to.
President Carpenter for tho optimism.
lie sees through with a clear white
light among the encircliug gloom.
The revised call in the betting ring
at Juarcz: "All bets Off Twenty min
utes for an insurrectionl
Here's a stickler-"S Since 1900 has
any combination of three players who
follow in batting order had as high a
batting average as Cobb. Crawford
and Delehanty had in 1911; has any
such combination scored as many
runs as Bush, Cobb and Crawford in
1912" Just think II over.
Ed. Tucker. the worlds champion
Dart thrower. has been challenged by
Joe Burns. the fighting Tinsmith, for
a series Of five games.
George Lewis. known to American
league fans as Duffy" Lewis. smuggling
left fielder of the Boston Red Sox, has
turned scout.
Furman Cole will be seen in right
field, as his sensational fielding is
well remembered. Twenty yard run
and fence, etc.
II is an odd thing sometimes how
athletic talent is discovered A man
takes up one specially and some one
comes along and says, you ought 10
be good at this or that; you are built
lust right for IT," and, sure enough. at
ter a trial. he finds he has a new tai
ent that he had never thought was
in him.
Shelly Fairchid, the heavyweight
champion will be given n chance on
the Imperial Yanigans He is doubt
ful proposition just now.
Fate certainly plays some queei
. freaks at times. Gus Ruhlin the old
|, time fighter, was reading book en-
r titled ~The Art of Longevity wheI
: he dropped dead from a stroke Of apo
pleXy
y We have II now. Tony Marhefka per
j. sists in going through the notions q
+ not having TO play here merely to kee
4 himself supplied with explanations.
r II Parkside intends 70 throw dow
is Tommy Dougherty, ct al, why not Il
's Prince Mousley in on the game g
oncel
Do Don't call the owners OF the Chick
Ie or any other fellow who owns a slic
m in a ball team a magnate. Leave I'll
N word magnate for a man who col
" trolls several railroads, three or fol
4 steel plants or half a dozen eNprel
companies. J. Piermont Morgan is
e magnate. Thomas NJ Brown. Pete Ca
n sidy, Alex Abrahams and Tom Dougl
A. erty aren't magnates at all.
N
II Knowing what we do. what do v
IS then come 70 realize? Read the answ'
h next week.