The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-07-26

went to the hospital. Upon his return
| he seemed his old self, turning out
| triples and homers, but the day soon
came when another fast one clipped
| him on the dome. This was his third
| trip to the hospital The manager
was worried. The youngster seemed
| to DC making a habit of it and the
team couldn't afford to lose him SO
often. The kids roommate came to
| the manager with a hunch Go around
| to tie hospital ard have a Look at the
ll1d. Ma:'be he enjoys staying there. =
The manager did and upon entering
the ward saw the yOun@ster sitting
up in bed and gazing in a most en-
raptured way at the nurse attending
him, 1T was tile only way l ever got
u chance to see her says the hid. The
marager fixed it up so that mis- heavy
hitter could call on the young lady in
her home And from that point on
he youngster didn't have to stick his
not in front of a fast ono that he might
see his love.
Ollie Chill. the small uf1p. has been
criticized by a n. Y. scribe. 1t is
pointed out that Chill has more spunk
than knowledge of the rules and that
while it is great stuff for an umpire
to have nerve. he can hardly get by on
that alore. Chill at one time was an
accomplished bantam fighter.
light
weight, has had offer to make trip
70 Australia for the neat sum OF $50
900. And Johnny will probably take it
up. The experience to be gained. not
to mention the sea air, will do the
youngster a world of good. About the
best they have holding forth at pres
ent in Australia is Young Shugrue.
He has nothing in the way of fight
goods that should alarm Griffith. He
IS every bit as hard a hitter as John
ny, but not 50 fast. Griffith would
benefit greatly by the trip and his
go through with it.
Ossie Schreckengost the baseball
star who died the other day, never was
thoroughly himself after losing out in
the big show Many declare that he
was by all means the greatest catcher
the game has ever had. However that
may be, il is the fact that he was one
of the greatest. When Connie Mack
let him go to the White SOX, Schreck
Sox turned him over to American As
ISOLATION he didn't try again. Once
started on the slide he went speeding
and nothing could call him back
OF course it was too bad that Willie
Eltchie lost his title, but just the same
there are others more deserving of pity.
Willie has scraped together enough of
the wherewithal to keep hun to
hale old age. He has been the games
craftiest finanCier. And he's going to
get more yet. He very wisely saw to
it that he gets return date with
Welsh and there'u be a nice piece Of
change in that. Willie Richie would
perhaps be happier if he was still the
champ, but even so there are other
more unfortunate than he.
It has been noticed that the biggest
names among our heavy hitters are
not shining with any particular efful-
gence this season. Running over the
list one finds that very few of the most
prominent sluggers are delivering the
goods. Wagner and Lajoie are notable
Instances. Neither of these two vets
is touching up the ball in his usual
manner Iris Speaker has not been
doing his part by any means. nor has
Joe Jackson or Ty Cobb. The reason
for this is rather hard to find. The
opinion is current that newly devel-
oped pitching talent accounts for it.