The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-06-17

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The Detroit club has purchased pitcher Bill Steen from
Cleveland It cash deal but the amount is not named
Bobby Wallace formerly of the Browns has been appoint
ed empire in the American League by Pres Johnson
Waaces first assignment Boston where he paired
with Billy Evans
John Evers has become a magnate having interested him.
self financially the Troy club of the York State League
Troy is Evers home town.
Phil Douglass Red pitcher, again reported for duty at
Cincinnati the other day. Douglass recently took leave of
absence without permission from the club officials These
eccentric ptchers
The great Mathewson is game for weeks at
It reported that he suffering affection of shout
der and muscles similar the sustained by Ed
Walsh, of the White Sox.
certain writer has rechrsened the Detroit club the
Tigers which merely changes the spelling little He
T Cobb of value the club this year than before
that will be his banner year. AS of what the
Georgia Peach has done in the past he indeed be going
The Phies have this far had very good western trip and
lead the procession Alexander and Mayer have
been delivering swell pitching Reports from around the
Circuit indicate that the club vastly improved this and
that it will finish WE'LL They five of the games
played at st. Louis and Chicago.
game with the Cardinals Alexander progressed to
the ninth inning with two out not hit having been registered
off his delivery Then Arte Butler cracked single and
Grover missed the hit class In the
with the Cubs he held them he until the seventh inning and
in the eighth struck Zimmerman for the third with the
bases full We would like Alexander worlds SERIES
Last Wednesday big scores up the
games Detroit beat Boston 49, Seen and Dauss oupch
ing Collins and Pennock and the White Sox defeated New York
getting eighteen hits off Mcale Cottre while the
Hghlander assembled but two hits off Ccotte The day
St Louis from the Giants 110 the hits being Is and H.
respectively The Cardinals scored the seventh
inning Six pitchers used in the game Cleveland beat
Minneapolis 12-1 scoring six in the last inning Satu
day the Phies gave the Cubs the short end
The White Sox still lead in the American League with
Detroit right their heels and Boston good third Both
major leagues have developed which the results of
days game shift leaders, The Sox and Tigers
deemed good attractions and draw large crowds the
parks The be said of the Cubs and Giants tho
the latter close to the bottom
The Cardinals this year playing just about up 1914
FORM Figuring in Saturdays contest their percentage
while stood 400 last year the time All the other
clubs the National either above below last years mark
and the same is true of the American League.
Supporters of clubs the cellar position
themselves with the idea that only matter of half
games separates their vores from the leaders True
enough there difference of games after two months
play the end of the would them something like
eighteen behind unless brand of decidedly better base
ball produced Both the Giants and Athletics will from
their present owy positions Glass will tell and both clubs
have it. division clubs in both leagues slowly
ling down to their proper places.
What Pendenns says writes is worth hearing read
ing His arragnment of the crop of standard
ized fiction and their output timely and interesting
Now he says baseball and slang should be dassoced and in
this disagree 1t that the game not identified
good the tre slang hears
at should be elad to the verbal