Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-09-26
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Bob Groom has struck his stride
again.
Baseball Players fraternity has
nearly $50 members.
Nap Rucker, too. Is planning pill
grlmage to Bonesetter Reese.
Eddie Foster Is playing as good ball
for the Senators as he ever did In his
life.
Hank O'Day says ball player Is at
his best when he Is about thirty years
Old.
Griffith has shipped one Of his
Cubans. Calvo. to Atlanta Of the South
ern league.
Dent. a pitcher sent to Atlanta by
Griffith early in the season. has shown
excellent control.
President Navin OF Detroit has
warned Ty Cobb not to play winter
ball in California.
Walter Tragesser. a newcomer In
the major leagues. has signed with
the Boston Nationals.
A Detroit paper says: Consider the
lily and Roger Bresnahan: they toll
not. neither do they spin"
Connie Mack comes out with the
statement that he will have better
team next season. What for?
Lefty Leifield, who was sent to the
coast by the Cubs, won the first two
games he pitched for the Seals.
Comiskey well can afford to be hap
py II he knows that both Walsh and
Russell will be in tiptop shape next
year.
Jack Fourier, the big Frenchman
OF the White sox, Is wrestling en-.
thusiast and great admirer Of Frank
Gotch.
We can imagine of nothing OF less
consequence than being afraid Of los
ing a lob as manager of the Cincin-
natl Reds.
Manager Mack Is beginning to real
lie that Eddie Plank is getting old
a fact OF which most fans were not
cognizant.
Hughey Jennings remarks that
Ralph Comstock. his recruit hurler,
has more nerve than any youngster
he ever saw.
Joe Berger, who has supplanted
Maurice Rath at second base for the
White Sox. is making big hit with
Chicago fans.
Johnny Beall, the youngster who
went to Milwaukee in part payment
for Chappell. is batting in the clean
up position for the Brewers.
The leading White Sox "slugger" Is
batting .274. Standing answer to in
quiry, Whats the matter with the
Chicago American league club"
Irving Porter, a young outfielder Sc
cured by the Reds, has batting aver
age of over 400 in the New England
league and is faster than Jim Thorpe.
Ben lineup. pitcher. has been
bought by the Phillies. II he can over.
come the handicap his name gives
him, he may make good in the majors.
The Yanks are beginning to behave
like regular ball players. and cartoon.
lists and photographers will soon have
to look for some one else to poke fun
at
Artie Holman is playing a come.
back role with the Nashville Southern
League club and It is probable that he
will be with the New York Yankees In
1914
Tommy Leach to succeed Evers as
manager is the latest program mapped
out by Cub rumor mongers. II Leach
fails then Bresnahan will be tried.
they proclaim.
Miller Higgins Is an ingenious
chap. He has offered Konetchy for
about half of McGraw's ball club. The
Giants leader might accept the gen.
erous offer at that.
Caldwell Is one Of the best hitting
pitchers in the big leagues. He Is
good enough to hold down a regular
berth in the outtield If he were not
needed on the slab.
Heinie Zimmerman has another In
centive for being good" McGraw
has promised him trip around the
world. Ping Bodie has been prom.
lsed the same thing.
Pitcher Kirby, who belongs to To-
ronto, pitched a no-hit game for
Guelph against st. Thomas in the
Canadian league on August 6. He
struck out ten men.
Minor league magnates are hot after
some OF that major league ready
money. Big league magnates have
spent about $4,000 for five players
racant1u. Some of these were cast