Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-09-14
FROM THE BRIDGE
Of THE SP0RT|C
Watching the Doings From
the Most Popular Ship
Ahoat.
(By Benz

AS provokers of the merry laugh,
these Duluth scribes are going at a
800 clip. If they keep up their work,
John McGraw will rush in some day
and kidnap their team in a wild en-
deavor to cop his fourth national
league pennant. If John does this.
it's a. cinch he'll grab the big end of
the world series dough.
This Arthur L. Wilhelm, chief
dopester for The News-Tribune.
Vhistled in with a clever one recently.
Here it is:
Here is our pick of the Nor
thern league for the all-star bat
terry: Pitchers-Dougan of Win
nipeg; Cunningham of Duluth;
Rlancke of Duluth; Ezell of Du-
luth: Bel Of Winona.
Catchers-Murphy of Fargo
and Edmunds of Duluth.
Second string: Pitchers-Lar-
son Grand Forks; Toraason, WI
mona: Cummings, Superior;
Withers. Duluth, Hawkins, Fort
William.
Catchers-Rachant of Winni-
peg and Sweeley Of Duluth.
Ever overlooking the fact that any
one who perpetrates an "all-star'
outfit is more or less off, this Is good
enough to add to Bob U~nglaub's rep
ertory.
Anyone who will put Jerry Ed
munds as a hrst-string all-star catch
er and, then, slap in Sweeley as a sec
ond ought to be ENGAGED and placed
siders that a blind cripple could steal
the whole circuit on Edmunds and
that Sweeley was even a second
string man to him. tits no wonder that
Kaiser Wilhelm up-eets our JOY pot.
Wonder what this Wilhelm person
thinks of Meyer or of Kurke. neither
n of whom is mentioned. Meyer Is
undoubtedly the class of the league.
n Kurke did as much as anybody
on the team to keep the Peggers out
in front. He is not as fast nor as
good a pegger as Meyer, but he uses
his head-a thing which Edmunds
and Sweeley v learned to do.
Wilhelm did show a flicker Of good
judgment, however. He refused to
go farther tina select an all-star bat
terry. no doubt because he realized
that he couldn't name a Duluth play
or. For this, he should get credit.
Worlds Champion Docks.
But this is not all. T his Wilhelm
gave US another laugh. Giggle
through this one:
If Larson can beat Kansas City.
Darby O'Brien can steal a base
off Jimmy Archer.
Asain-If Nifnecker can show
up the Louisville team and make
them look like a lot of buns. the
Docks. as a whole, ought to be
able to lick the Athletics and the
Braves, the latter thrown in for
good measure.
Larson. Grand Forks pitcher.
did whip the Kaws at st. Paul
Friday and Nifnecker. playing
against the Colonies recently. got
three hits and a walk. a stolen
base and accepted eight fielding
chance without a mishap-three
OF them were dingers at that.
Earring the fact that Darby O'Brien
couldn't steal second on Tim Nell
raith and hat the Duluth team. with
out its quartet of star hurlers,
couldn't defeat a team of s~uffragettes,
his dope is fairly good.
Tesreau Travelling Nicely.
If the Giants don't get a chance to
cut the worlds series cash, it will be
no faul Of Charles Tesreau's. During
the hot campaign Of the past few
weeks, he has been performing ber-
ter than any of the McGraw hurlers.
Just at present, he is the most de-
pendable finger Muggsy has.
After Tesreau defeated the Dodgers
the other day, Damon Runyon. The
New York Americans humorist, said:
"A ~horrendous hurler these Sep
TENDER days is Charles Magnificent.
The Giants may lose the %pennant, but
the one time bear snarer Of the Ozark
ridges will finish at the top Of the
National league slabbers or bust a
Rallus. If John ]. McGraw had two
Iesreaus-Charles Magnificent and
his brother-or even Charles Magnif-
sents cousin, assuming that they were
IKE Charles. all the rest Of the base
a clubs would have to get right out