The mirror., 1912-05-16
DIAMOND DUST.
A Digest of Recent Base Ball News.
By Corker.

| Ii.
That's going some.
! Minneapolis experts who picked
| st. Paul as weak sister have revis-
ed opinions bit.
Ed. Walsh has already made fair
start towards leading all pitchers in
number of games pitched.
Zimmerman's work at first makes
the Cub fans wonder why manager
Chance didn't think of him before.
The latest comeback of Bugs Ray
mond is with Jack o. Connor's
Cleveland United States League
team.
Ty Cobb and Crum Kahler have
declared a vendetta. Cobb says the
Nap pitcher purposely hit him with
a pitched ball.
Hank Weaver, formerly of the
Chicago Cubs and later traded to the
Boston Nationals, has been secured
by St. Paul.
In spite of auto accidents, rail
road wrecks and defeats, Hugh Jen-
nings seems to be as frisky as ever
on the coaching line.
Manager Davis is repeating Il
love you, | love you not,'' as he con-
siders Jack Graney and Heinie But
cher, his pair of left felders.
A Cincinnati critic says Roger
| Bresnahan is star as leader, but
that he coaches with the intelligence
Of a new-plucked egg plant.
st. Paul has signed pitcher
II am ed Toothhaker. Despite its
painful suggestion, the bleacherites
ought to have a good time toying
with that name.
The Athletics lost 30 games
when Jack Coombs was injured
says a Chicago writer; but coombs.
will be back quicker than he could
nave pitched ~. /
A St. Paul writer has coined new
one to indicate a player who fits in
his position. He says that O. Toole
takes to the pitching box like Is
may to a life boat.
Marty O. Toole is delivering for
the Pirates. Twas a tough one he
dropped to the Reds, still, Marty
has shown that he is in to enjoy sue
cess, and Pm still stringing with the
Pirates to grab the flag.
In ST. Louis they call Ed Honey
pone- head, and yet he sometimes
makes the most brilliant plays. In
IA recent game at Cincinnati he ran |
clear from first to short left field,
took a relay throw and pegged Bob
Bescher out a the plate.
Marty O. Toole has taken out $40, |
900 life insurance and has made his
mother the beneficiary. The Pitts
burg base ball club insured O. Toole
last year for $4,000 to guarantee
it against losses, but Martyrs family
was not in any way protected by |
this policy.
The only reason | traded Camp
bell for Conlin,' says Clark, is that
we needed an actor on our team. I
The Giants and Cubs have an actor,
and we are entitled to one too
Clark handed this to Murphy when I
the Chicago owner began to discuss
the why's and wherefores of the Pitts
burg Boston deal
Eddie Collins says the American
League race is between the Athelt-
les and the Red Sox and that the
Browns are already so dead they
should be mentioned only in whis-
pers. AS for the National League
race, that other newspaper expert,
Christy Mathewson says the Phillies
are already out of it because of in
iuries and that the Cubs have no
chance, now that frank Chance has
taken to the bench.
Big Jeff Overall has moved to Los
Angeles to live and die. He has
tired of the secluded existence at his
Angels camp gold mine and wants
to bask in the land of the perpetual
summer, so he has accepted a posi-
| ton in the city sales department of
| the Maier bravery He still holds !