Evening journal., 1912-08-08
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LET'S
Get
Together

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How are you Lew?
But you ought TO see Rasmussen.
Each twirler had to be relieved
while that slaughter was on.
Jimmy Jackson declares he'll get
'em yet
The Tri-State race is dwindling
down TO an "even money and pick
bet" If the present conditions con
tinue the four leading clubs will be
so badly crowded that It will be
toss up as to which nine will finally
cop the rag.
Trenton looks to be down and out
in the race for the Tri-State bunting.
The tail end teams have taken the
! Tigers into camp in the last few
games and the players are not slam
ming the ball with the same grace
that they did in the early part of the
year
We get ten games on our own back
alley beginning tomorrow. We don't
seem able to beat many of them away
hut watch US go in this next home
SERIES
The automobile will go to some
lucky guy tomorrow.
The old Ohio and Pennsylvania
baseball league is expected to dissolve
before the season closes, owing to the
loss of its best players to the big
leagues. Owners of the sharon. q
club have dropped their franchise
and the playsrs have scattered. manv
into the Central League.
BIZ Douglas, right-hand hurler.
who has been making a name for
himself with the Des Moines club of
the western League, today is the
property Of the White Sox. He will
join the Sox about August 90.
Mecherly sort Of squared matters
by tearing Off three errors. It's dol
lars to doughnuts though, that his
boot nearly lost the game for his
team.
jackson continues to be a home
run hitter
Meyers drew two clean ones got
into a gabfest with Mr.. Keenan,. and
then had to go outside to sit down.
Jimmy Jackson and Pete Cassidy
are still hoping TO secure some addit-
ions to the twirling staff that the
fight TO the end Of the month can be
waged with a new vigor. Cassidy
went to Philadelphia this morning to
confer with Fogel with the hope of
having a new man here by Friday.
Chick individual and team batting
averages are soaring Now for a
: string Of victories that will put the
boys in the first division.
Harrisburg has a clear lead o.
forty-one points over Allentown anc
forty-three over Trenton. Whining
ton Is $50 points to the bad.
outplaying the Giants in all re
| spects, the Pirates landed on Math
ewson and took the third straight from
the leaders
II was anybody's game up to tn
; eighth when Luderus' drive to lef
center bounded out of Miller's reacl
into the bleachers for a home-rul
and the Phillies trimmed Chicago,
} to 1.
All Boston pitchers looked alike /
the Reds They drove Hess and Don
nelly from the box and touched u
Brown for four singles in the ninth
] winning II to g. Four straight
Four straight defeats and the las
2 a shutout was the record of tn
Highlanders at Detroit Jean Dubu
, was a puzzle to the Yanks and join
s ed the home run union by smackin
2 a high one into the bleachers.
e Darkness stopped the final battl
}, Of the Red Sox and the Maps. Clevt
!, land was four TO the good in the fft
+ inning, but the Sox closed strong.
Detroit and Chicago are tied fo
e fourth place.
The Senators got total OF foul
b teen hits, drove two pitchers froi
the slab and trimmed the White So
Il 10 to l.
Baumgartner was wild in the fir,
a inning and the Athletics took III
@ Browns into camp Z TO 2
h Cutshaw and Miller did some. fanc
n batting at the right time and Harmo
n turned loose a wild pitch at III
= wrong time. Result: the Dodgei
beat St. Louis 8 to Z.
you Jim Rainey, some lead-o
man.
i MCGUIRE played a nice game in se
= on Saturday, accepting all that can
= his way.