Evening journal., 1912-12-23
BASEBALL DIAMOND NEWS AND GOSSIP

Red Doom is up against it. He
can't start doing anything until he
finds for sure who owns the Philiies.
The only thing certain is that he will .
not be troubled again by Horace. the .
Bird.
Yes. the Red" Corridor who figured I
IN the Tinker trade is the same one
who handed Larry Lajoie an automo- |
bile. and got fired on the St Louis
Browns in which is a
humiliation, indeed.
The Pittsburgh club may frame a :
deal with the Cardinals that will send
Ed Konetchy to play under Fred
Clarke The consideration will be
players and money.
If the Cub pitchers show anything
J Eyers team may be in the running
this year Safer, Evers, Bridwell or
Corridor and Zimmerman form a fair
inheld. Sheckard. Shuttle and Nit
chell do we'll enough in the Outfield.
And Jeems Archer can catch.
Fred Clarke has managed the same
bali club for fourteen years No,
gentle reader, not the Highlanders,
the Maps or even the St Louis
Browns Merely the Pirates, Captain
t-idd has nothing on this guy
Dumping the bumps, as performed
by j. Evers:
]. Loses $1,000 in shoe business
and becomes nervous wreck.
?. Figures in automobile ACCIDENT
in which a friend loses life and Evers
nerves shaken again.
3. Leg is broken and he goes into
retirement
A. Named manager Of the Cubs.
Washington Park, the home of the
BROOKLYN team since 1898, is being
.dismantled. It's almost like devastat-
ing a graveyard.
Connie Mack managed football
team back in 1902. His star back
stop was named Reuben Waddell.
Rube was unplaced by Walter Camp.
More men faced Rube Benton last
season than faced any pitcher in che
National League Quite few Of em
got hits. too.
After Rube Marquards famous win
ming streak squeezed out last yeai ne
made a miserable record, winning
seven games and losing eleven
After the National League meeting
Garry Herrmann and sam Litchen'
helm, owner Of the Montreal game
played twenty games OF pinochle for
500 a game. Garry was , ceaduy
to the good after the game.
General Coxey. Of Coxey's army
fame is out with a declaration that
Frank Bancroft. business manager OF
the Reds. started with him on the
famous march. but that "Banry'
dropped out at Grafton. Ohio.
Somebody has invented a ticket
selling machine that he is trying ia
sell to the National League. To date
the National hasn't bought.
Umpire JohnstOne who has just re.
signed from the National league be-
cause he couldn't get along will
Lynch started his real career In the
southern ltdEut.
An arbitration committee has beer
appointed to consider whether or no
the estate Of John T. Brush should
he called an to turn over to the Ma
tional league % per cent. of th'
Giants share of the receipts of th'
last worlds series.
The Rochester club will put in p
days at Anniston next spring
James e. Gaffney has the wors
team IN the worst town in the wors
major league i'm the world but jus
the other day he refused to conside
100000 for the Boston Braves Their
is no braver Brave than Gaffney.
The firing of Umpire Jim Johnston
by the National League recalls tn
fact that he was once locked in Lit
tie Rock Jail to protect him from irat
fans
The project of cutting the Souther
League down to six clubs may be aC
vanced soon, if Montgomery persist
I'm baking on playing ball this Yea
Damon kunyOn SAYS that Ping Bod
covers more territory than any Ou
fielder in the American League-sii
ting down
Bill Armour will report in HC
Springs early in January to get I
training for his arduous duties as
scout
Chattanooga considers that il ha
won a great victory in landing II
spring meeting of the Souther
League. and Atlanta is willing to Il
il so at that
The Reds and the Senators will pla
an exhibition game at Cincinna
March 80, The Reds trimmed Gri
fith's team last year in an eXhibitio
tilt at Syracuse and Clarke is yam
mering for gote-preferably Red gor
Garry Hermann is said to be aft,
George Mullen He figures that a
George needs is a change of bacl
ground.
The American league batters four
Russ Ford for more home runs la
season than any other pitcher
The Cubs tried out forty men la
season-almost as many as the Cracl
ers.