Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-07-18
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George Moriarity Of the Tigers ranks

Hans Wagner Is slowly crawling up
in the batting figures.
Slim Sallee. the lanky hurler Of the
Cardinals. Is back in form.
THE worlds series money will go to
the Athletics" says McGraw.
Snodgrass has been killing the ball
since restored to regular berth.
Connie Mack has the highest av'
eraged pitching staff in the American
league.
Billy Lathrop, the Notre Dame fling
er who was signed up by the Giants,
is only nineteen years old.
Pitcher Bob Whitney, former cap
tain OF the Penn State nine, Is said to
have lot Of speed and some good
curves.
In Rebel Cakes the st. Louis Car
dinals have q corking outfielder and
hitter. Reb Ks especially dangerous in
a pinch.
washington has no license to think
1t is a better club than Cleveland"
says Manager Birmingham Of the
Maps.
Hal Chase has demonstrated in fact
and figures every day he is about as
big bargain as Callahan ever
plucked.
Harold Partenheimer, captain and
third baseman of the Amherst college
baseball team, has been signed by the
Detroit Tigers.
The Boston Red Sox appear to be
moving up. The team is playing bet
ter grade of ball now than 1t has previ-
ously this season.
Pat Moran, who is assisting Doom,
says he does not know OF a team in
the National league that looks as
strong as the Phillies.
The Maps have the Understanding
outfield in the country. Jackson, Ryan
and Graney are all cloutlng consistent
ly in the 800 rank.
Bobby Bescher and Josh Devore are
Cincinnati team, with Cuba Marsans
very close to them in speed.
Somebody asked Joe Wood II he con-
sidered speed his best asset. Eyes"
replied Smoky Joe. Il think it's best
to throw the ball past them"
Connie Mack says that Washington
Is the only club he expects any contest
from. He believes the Cleveland Maps
are playing beyond their speed.
George Baumgardner, the big right
handler Of the St. Louis Browns, is eaid
to be the successor of Rube Waddell
and Bugs Raymond for eccentricity.
"Wanted-Somebody who can wear
Pirate uniform and not forget he Is
alive" reads an advertisement insert
ed by a jokesmith In q Pittsburgh pa
per.
In st. Louis they have baseball
team called the Fats" And they
sure are fat. The total weight Of the
team consisting of ten men is 2.193
pounds.
Pitcher Rudolph OF the Boston
Braves looks good to Manager Fred
Clarke Of the Pirates. Il wish I had
a couple OF hurlew like him." said
Fred.
Eddie Collins is making a great rec
ord for himself this season. He leads
the American league In run getting. is
second In base stealing and fourth in
batting.
Manager Chance IL now pleased with
the fighting spirit displayed by the
Highlanders. The Yankees have be-
gun to hit and are playing a much i'm
proved game.
The latest definition OF baseball
would seem to include the fact that
as a sport it is obsolescent, but as a
business enterprise is fiourishing in
New York.
If, as has been stated by eminent au-
thorities, beating the Pirates means
winning the pennant, then there is
likely to be cluster of clubs finish
ing first.
Baseball scribes believe that Detroit
will have great pitching staff before
the close Of the season. The young
sters have rounded into form and are
pitching wonderful ball.
Chief Wilson, of the Pittsburgh Pr
rates, has recovered his batting eye
and Is banging the ball now as he did
last year, when his run of three-bag-
gers formed one of the seasons big
sensations.
Is it not strange that Chris Won der
Abe should have been the only St..
Louis magnate to have produced a
winner? Was Chris lucky or base
ball genius unrecognized as such In
his day?
President Britton of the Cardinals
says that anybody on the St. Louis