Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-10-10
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Ray Caldwell is developing into
regular slabman.
Manager Chance believes he has a
real find in Pitcher MctIale.
The Pirates have played only one
double bill at home this season.
Fred Falkenberg will manage bowl
Ing alleys in Cleveland this winter.
Chance says he feels that the
dark days for the Highlanders are
over.
Houston Is a repeater In the Texas
league. having won both the 1912 and
1913 pennants.
Jimmy Isaminger of Philadelphia
says that Ping Bodie Is Connie
Mack's Nemesis.
Jake Stahl cannot play baseball
because the arch Of his foot has
broken down.
Burns. the Montreal catcher with
the Phillies, is a little fellow, but
looks like find.
Both Lefty Leifield and Orvie Over
all are doing fine work for the San
Francisco Seals.
Chief Meyers of the Giants has
made more errors than any other
backstop in the league.
The reports from Boston that Nc
Aleer and Mercy will have to sell
their holdings refuse to down.
Miller Higgins, the leader Of the
lowly Cards, has hopes of having
great pitching staff next season.
The Detroit club is said to be
angling for the services Of George
Stovall to replace Del Gamer on first.
The Boston Red Sox believe that
Terry Turner Of the Maps is the best
third baseman in the Business today.
The chances are that there will be
no changes in the managerial roster
Of the National league for next year.
Many baseball scribes believe that
Jack Barry is the most important cog
that the Connie Mack machine owns.
The Toronto club of the Information
al league will train with the New
York Giants next spring, at Marlin,
Tex.
In a recent game against the Yam
KEGS at Washington, Walter Johnson
retired the side on four pitched
balls.
Manager Chance Of the Yankees has
practically made up his mind to train
his squad at Houston Tex. next
spring.
A st. Louis scribe says the Browns
are going to rise next year. So are
the Cardinals. Next year is like to-
morrow.
Manager Carlton Wordsworth Of the
birmingham club Of the Southern
league has signed to manage the team
in 1914.
barney Dreyfuss, Pirate owner. will
not permit any of his players to &C
company the Giants and Sox on their
worlds tour.
Billy Grayson, who started in a
short time ago to rip some Of the
magnates up the back. has quit all
of a sudden.
Even with a weak team behind him,
Pitcher Ray Caldwell OF the High
landers has done remarkable hurting
this season.
Manager Mack is still purchasing
young talent. He has bought Pitch
er Waring OF the Saratoga team of
Troy, N. Y.
McGraw believes that Jack Murray,
his right-fielder, has as good throw
ing arm as any gardener in the Ma
tional league.
Larry Lajoie has been a bean ball
target" this season. Larry has had
the misfortune to get in the way of
IL pitched balls while standing at
bat.
The Mackmen, in Struck and Danny
and Eddie Murphy, have the only 800
outfielG in the country. McInnis,
Collins and Baker make one shy of
q 800 infield.
George Davis, at one time one of
the best infielders in the big leagues,
considers Walter Johnson about the
umoothest piece of baseball machinery
be has ever seen.
Ned Egan is making quite a repu-
tation as a minor league manager.
Three successive times has Egan and
his Ottumwa team copied the PEN
nant In the Central association.
George Davis, at one time one of