Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-08-19
BASE BALL NOTES.

The team has not beer going so
very good of late and it is about time
Tor change considering all of the
new players that have been secured,
but we must remember that it is
hard to get the kind of players that
are wanted at this late season of the
year. The work of the boys in the
held has not been so poor, but when
we consider the batting we feel that
the lineup in this respect could be
changed to good effect. The batting
OF the players as individuals as well
as the team as a whole has fallen
down big percentage and we think
that the team will not long hold its
present position in third place for
average team batting if the present
hitting continues. There are very
few of Malloy's players, those pro
cured by him, with the team, though
there are few and we think that
Malloy left a good thing with the
Lumberjacks in both Nagel and
Gresel.
Manager Landgraf has lately secured
from the Fond du Lac team a fast in
fielder by the name of Oyerton and
pitcher, Scholl. The Mollys were
overrun with players and the only
reason Wausau happened to get the
two was the fact that Fond du Lac
would be carrying more players than
the league rules allowed if they kept
the two.
Next Friday the boys come here for
the first time in almost six weeks and
as the season is nearly over it is about
time that the Wausau fans get busy
and help the local clubs pocket book
along as it isn't any too heavily bur-
dened and could stand a couple of
thousand dollars even now
Pitcher Pieh, the former Wausau
giant of year ago and who was re-
leased because our manager thought
he was no good, was sold short time
ago, for $1,000 by the Dayton club to
the New York Americans to which
club he will go Immediately and
where he win be under Frank Chance.
That 81, 500 would fit splendidly into
the local hip pocket just now.
The Appleton base ball enthusiasts
worked splendid thought into
good thing when last Friday $500 was
reaped in from gate receipts. The
money was gotten by allowing
every person who entered the grounds
to contribute whatever his pocket
book could afford to pay for admission
to see the national game. The Lum-
berjacks were very sorry to have had
to take boosters day game from the
papermakers, allowing them only two
hits with DeLave on the slab. The
former LumbeFjack was fine and the
local fans can consider themselves
lucky to have him on the roster again.
Besides being in poor financial straits
the papermakers are in poor shape in
regard to players. They are in need
of certain good players to fill the
weak spots as bad as the locals and
are in worse need of them
than Landgraf's crew.
The team stands at present little
ways from the bottom with no chance
of sixth place unless a wonderful, I'M
consecutive winning streak
is struck within a very short time.
We have been watching very closely
the batting and pitching averages of
former Wausau players who have
been promoted to higher leagues.
the former Lumberjack first
baseman and who is now with the
Chicago Federal League club, contin-
ues to set batting pace of well up in
the three hundreds. JUL also has
secured a berth in the Federal League
with the Cleveland club.
Following is the standings of the
clubs in the league: