Evening journal., 1912-08-15
LET'S
Get
Together
It is to Taught

II is to Taught
Allentown handed the raw stuff in
the eighth, to have it returned in the
eleventh.
The pitchers stuck in only sixteen
hits, and the boys went the distance
without a slip-up. Some ball game.
Stutz was a very silent young man
toward the last Its a cinch; my
turn next" he piped while the going
seemed good, but Kid fouled out.
Iron Man Taylor gave a good ac-
count OF himself on the first day out.
He famed the bunch in the seventh.
Marhefka, Groh and Coughlin made
bunch Of beaut stops. Tony's shoot
on Stutz at third in the first inning
was a lightning play.
The wandering Jahns get in to-
morrow for two games
The Highlanders picked UP and
dropped a game from the Tigers and
exchanged lineup positions with St..
Louis.
The Browns contributed two games
to the championship collection which
the Red Sox are rapidly piling up.
The Athletics edged the Senators
out OF second place by humping
Cleveland twice The Champs had
last years form and drubbed their
opponents mercilessly.
The White Sox took their second
game from the Senators, to 0. Ci-
cote had the stuff with him all the
time, allowing only one Senator to
touch the third sack
Pittsburgh took double bill from
Philadelphia, winning each by sem
sational tenth inning rallies, when
two men we're down.
II the Senators, by accident, should
lose that pennant, would Cockill the
umpires? There has been some talk
about the sale of pitchers, but what
could Maisel. Back of that grand
stand; it's a bum joke. Apologies.
The Appalachian league has sold a
half-dozen players to clubs of higher
classification already and is negotiat-
ing for the disposal OF others. Knox
vile got $4,000 for Pitcher Davis
which is almost more than the salary
Of all the players on the team for all
the season.
Pitcher Dixie Walker. kicked out
by Washington. has slumped from
Baltimore to Wilkesbarre Pitcher
Martin has also been sent to that
club.
Vernon, recently picked up by
Washington, is the Amherst college
star signed originally by the Cubs.
If Washington should happen 10
beat the Red Sox, Jim, NcAleer would
feel that he had been whipsawed.
Armando Marsans is said to be the
one best bet Of the Red team this
year. Next year the Reds will have
two Cubans playing with them re-
gularly.
Inc pllitcl cup lOi ~ LAY " euAb
down is the thought that, but for
those fifteen straight games that his
Reds handed McGraw, the New York
team wouldn't have an absolutely
commanding lead in the National.
The extremely high price paid for
modern pitchers is said to be due 10
the lively ball II is a lot harder to
get away with it now than it used to
be
Thorpe the all-round athletic cham
pion of the world, will probably begin
pitching for the Pirates at the end
of the 1913 college season. Thorpe
is said to be a Sac tor Sauks) Indian,
with some considerable white blood
in his veins.
Lee Tannehill lasted a long time in
the big leagues-and all he had was
fielding ability, He couldn't hit and
he was slow on bases.
Hank ODay admits that enough is
plenty. He has passed on the news
that he is through as a manager and
that he will ask for his old job of UNI
pire back again.
Harry Stahlhoefer, Of Evansville, is
a candidate for the $4,000 job Of pres
ident of the Central League Unfor-
tunately for Harry they offered him
the Wheeling franchise last year and
he tactfully remarked. Give $4,000
for the Wheeling franchise? Why
wouldn't give $4,000 for the whole
league," And now they're holding
that bright remark against him and
somebody else will get the $4,000 job
Ed. Reulbach is proving a success
in the role of finisher. In previous
years he had to have help oftener
than he finished for other slabmen.
When a ball game goes more than
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