The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-05-30
DIAMOND DUST.
A Digest of Recent Base Ball News.
By Corker.

White Sox look like white hopes.
The Chicago Cubs last week stop
ped the winning streak of Hub Per
due. Somebody had to do it.
Manager Jimmy Callahan, of the
White Sox, says that Ed. Walsh will
be as great pitcher in 1922 as he
is now. i
Joe Tinker says Marty O'Toole
has more puzzling curves and better
control than Lefty Russell, Connie
Macks $4,000 lemon.
Pitcher Ed. Walsh, the lroniest OF
all the iron-men, took part In three
games in succession for the White
Sox week before last.
A Boston report is to the effect
that Cy Young has been suspended
without pay by the Boston Nation
ais until ready to pitch.
Groom is pitching great ball for
Washington and so is Walker. OF
course, there never was anything
wrong with Walter Johnson.
The hammers are out for Manager
! Harry Davis at Cleveland. where
critics believe and say that Davis
misses Mack more than Mack misses
him.
A conspicous feature of the Giants
playing has been their faculty of
scoring runs in big groups. Their
daring and continuous base running
is helping a lot.
Three times this year solitary
base hit has interposed between
some American League pitcher and
no-hit game. Morgan, Hall aud
Bender were the almosts.
The Cubs have been the busiest
movers of the season in the percent
age column. They have been weav-
ing back and forth from third to
sixth like shuttles.
Ball players who go tearing like
mad towards concrete stands will
learn some day that these structures
are Euilt to stand more than the
shock of human being.
Roger Bresnahan's Cardinals are
not Kicking much dust this spring,
but they are taking lot. With
Roger Bresnahan Ill most of the time
the Cardinals are going bad.
Cincinnati critics intimate that
the once mighty Mordecai Brown,
the Giant Killer is headed for the
minors. Reorganization is coming
in the Cub ranks, and coming soon.
Marquard is pitching great ball
for the Giants. Compared to his
previous starts Marquard's break
from the barrier this Spring looms
up like an old master in window
display of water colors at a five and
ten cent store.
Pitcher Bugs Raymond, the
noted thirst quencher, has been re-
instated by the National Commission
at the request of the New Y ork Club,
which will probably turn him over
to some other club.
Vean Gregg, the Cleveland south
paw, is reported to have weak arm.
1t is reported that Gregg needs a
long rest after every game that he
pitches, and that Manager Davis is
nursing him along carefully until the
warm weather sets in.
"Home-run'' Baker, of the Athlet-
les, says: MY recipe for batting is
to look upon the star pitchers as if
they were bush leaguers. If re-
cruit gets the idea that the great
pitchers are going to beat him, he
never will get anywhere. No play
er can afford to be afraid of pitcher.
Hans Wagner didn't play in Chi
cago last week and his absence was
noticed at once by the bugs. This
remark drew from the New York
Sun the following satirical comm
ent: Likewise Chicago would prob
ably miss Lake Michigan were it to
disappear during the night"
The White Sox were guests of
state" dinner at Washington, Ping
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