The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-22
HERzOG BUYS MEN
TO BOLSTER team
Red Leader and Owner to
Give Fans Strong Aggrega-
ton in Cincinnati.
BY c. n. ZUBER.

CINCINNATI. July 22.-Never In
The history of baseball has there been
such activity shown in the middle OF
the season to build up team as Is
being displayed at present by the Gin
cinnati club. No limit is being placed
on Manager Herzog in his expendi-
ture for the right sort of talent to
make the Reds a first division pos
sibility, and as a result of this liberal
policy scouts are everywhere trying to
uncover promising talent that will I'M
prove on the present lineup OF the
team.
The purchase Of Outfielder Twom-
bly, and Infielder MollwitZ last week
Is but the forerunner of several other
transactions which will bring new tai
emit into the local fold. President
Herman and Manager Herzog are de-
termined that there shall be nothing
but live talent on the team, and to that
end are having the minor leagues
gone through with a fine-toothed comb
to get the right sort of material for
building up the Reds.
Only Two Left.
Some idea OF the changes that have
taken place on the team since the be-
ginning of the season of 1915, when
Joe Tinker was in command, may be
gained from the fact that Tom Clarke
and RUDE Benton are the only play
ers now with the Reds who were on
the team when Tinker took hold.
The race in the National league is
Tightening up daily, due to the fact
that the New Yorks have not been
winning one.half of their games Of
late, while the Bostons, tail-enders in
the struggle for half the season, are
gradually moving away from the eel
LAR and are beginning to threaten the
teams in the first division. On Sun
day the entirely unexpected happen
ed, when the Pittsburgs, picked as
possible pennant winners before the
season opened, and leaders in the race
by large margin in the early weeks
of the fight, were forced into last
place through the victory of the Bos-
tons over the Reds.
Chicago is but a short distance be-
hind New York, with st. Louis in
close pursuit Of Chicago. Cincinnati,
Philadelphia and brooklyn are fight
ing hard in the next three positions,
with Boston and Pittsburg further
can't overtake the three teams ahead
of them in a few days. Taken all in
all, 1t is the most interesting race the
National league has had in years,
with no certainty 'as yet as to which
team will win out.
Reds Go East.
Before the end of this week the
Reds will be away on their second
eastern trip and it is expected that
they will do better than on the oc-
casion of their first invasion of the
Atlantic Coast cities. The new men
that have been added to the team
lately are rapidly being worked into
the effective machine which Manager
Herzog is building up and may be
counted on to give good account of
themselves in the very near future.
On their present trip the Reds will
play four games each in Brooklyn,
Boston and Philadelphia, five in New
York and two in Pittsburg, returning
home on Sunday, August 16, to open
the final local battles with the Brook
lyns. Other Sunday games to be play
ed during this series will be with
New York on August % and with
Philadelphia on August 80, these
marking the final appearances of the
eastern teams on the local diamond.