Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-09-21
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Sporting Gossip
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The Giants lead the Cubs by eight
and one-half games and need only
reyen more to cop the pennant.
Saiers deep center swat in the
) ninth enabled the Cubs TO nose out
the Dodgers in the last inning
One out OF four games vas the best
the Giants could do with The Reds
in two days.
ST. Louis broke even with the Phil
lies in q double-header. During the
season each team has won eleven
games from the other
Perdue blew up in the fourth inning
for the Pirates raped out a bunch of
bngles and scored eight runs. put
ting the game on ice.
BY walking four Tigers in the third
Joe Wood paved the way for his
downfall, fixing the limit Of his
straight victories to 16.
The Highlanders dropped their
eighth game in succession when they
succumhed 10 fast work and base run
ming of the Maps.
Four double plays and some nifty
fielding by Cicotte enabled the White
SoX 10 defeat the Senators.
Jim O'Rourke caught the closing
game of the season in the Connecticut
league. thus going upon the records for
his thirty-fifth consecutive season.
O'Rourke is So years old. He caught
an errorless game, but failed to make
hit.
Jtms career with Buffalo and the
New York National league teams and
as manager of Bridgeport for eighteen
years are part Of baseball history.
New Haven cooped the Connecticut
league pennant this season. It Is the
Of Yale has been hOnored with a win
ner.
Says a Nashville scribe: 'Elberfeld
has had experience as manager with
the New York Americans and was any
thing but a success. However, he
should make the Lookouts a good lead
Ell" Fine dope.
Horace Fogel is on the warpath
Wants to tie a can to Knabe, Moore,
Walsh and Magee.
But Horace knows a ball player
when he sees one When with the
Giants he wanted to play Mathewson
on first because he's so tall he can
reach the high ones"
President McLeannan of the St. Paul
club, denies that Barney Dreyfuss is
trying to ship Marty O'Toole back on
him and reclaim the famous S225O0
check.
The Pirates have hung up a new
record this season by pounding out III
triples up to and including Mondays
game. Thirty-five of these are credit
ed to Wilson.
Wilson needs ten more 10 equal the
individual record for three-base welts
as Lajoie registered IS during the 1908
season
First Basemsn Rapps. Of the Port
land club Of the Pacific Coast league,
made triple play unassisted a few
days ago.
Oakland runners we're on first and
second bases. The batsman hit low
liner toward first and the runners
thinking the ball could not be fielded
sprinted ahead. Rapps scooped up the
ball with ono hand before II touched
the ground. He touched first base be-
fore the runners could get back and
then raced TO second in time TO get
the third out.
Ray Caldwell. the Yankees young
hurler. is sure one hard luck kid He
has been pitching pennant hall of late,
but has been nosed out by luck in
nearly all the games he has pitched
the past five weeks.
Mathewson believes Wood won't be
at his best in the worlds series. He
thinks reaction OF his winning streak
will hurt the Boston speed marvel.
Hugh Jennings thinks he has un-
earthed a "fnd" in Outfeder Veacb,
who is pastiming in Dayy Jones old
garden.
The Southern league will have two
graduates in the. worlds series, Yerkes
and Speaker Yerkes was with Chat
tanooga and Speaker with Little Rock. |
Scoops Carey. Of the Pirates. is to |
enter the Lutheran ministry. During
the winter months he will attend the !
Concordia seminary in St. Louis.
Oakland and Los Angeles are having
a great race in the Pacific Coast Lea
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