Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-18
BASEBALL BRIEFS

Either Hans Wagner, the veteran
shortstop or Jack Hendrick, manager
OF the indianapolis Club of the Amer
lean Association, will be named next
month as the successor OF Fred Clarke,
who resigned just before the season
ended as the manager of the Pittsburgh
Club. Wagner will likely obtain the
position, for he has been valuable
member of the team for many years.
is popular with the fans all over the
country. and is we'll liked by the
members OF the team. Many OF the
players are pulling hard for him to
land the job.
Another raid is threatened on the
Central League guarantee fund. but
that is just what the fund Is for, APP
parently. The Grand Rapids Club has
filed a friendly suit against the Central
League, attaching the portion of the
fund put up by Wheeling, on a claim
that Wheeling has failed to pay Grand
Rapids for four players sold. The
players are Third Baseman Reilly, Out
fielder ODay. Pitcher Wetzel. and
Shortstop Umlauf. who were obtained
from the defunct Springfield Club and
then turned over to Wheeling
The amateur" champions of Cleve-
land recently played an exhibition game
with the New York Giants. and when
the Giants came to face the simon
pure. who did they find in the pitchers
box? Why, old Tommy Atkins. who
pitched professional ball for ten years
They pulled one OF those put him in
JAIL jokes on Hans Wagner ut Marion,
ina, recently, when the Pirates were
there for an exhibition game. The plot
was the same-somehow or other when
they want to play prank on Wagner
they always frame up a fishing trip
and then have him arrested for vio-
lating the laws against seining or
something. This time they gave Hans
n mock trial and fined him 500 or
thirty days in Jail. Then Fred Clarke
appeared, stood sponsor for the Flying
Dutchman's character and all that and
they gradually let Hans into the joke.
Babe" Ruth. the young portside
ringer of the worlds champion Red
Sox: barely missed duplicating Joe
Jackson's wonderful feat of driving
the ball over the upper tier Of the Polo
Grounds recently. Ruth, who can hit
a Dali as hard as any player in tho
Dig leagues, caught one of Allen Rus
seiis spitters on the seam and the ball
travelled high and far in the air.
For moment or two IL looked as IL
the cork -center would find n resting
place on the outside OF the Brush sta
dunn. but the wind carried the ball
over to one side and it landed on the
top of fiagpole on foul territory
If the wind had been blowing in the
other direction the ball would havo
easily cleared the upper tier and Ruth
would have shared the honors with
Jackson in being the only player to
knock the ball over the upper tier of
the right field grand stand FOR home
run.
Jamie Janvrin. tho Red Sox utility
inncldcr, was Il champion athlete be-
fore he became n member of the Amer
lean League champion ball club. He
was track athlete and the champion
interscholastic hurdlcr
The Red SoX picked the youngster
farmed him out for a season. then
brought him back and used him in
every inicld position. including first
base. IIo can fill In anywhere around
tho diamond.
Organized baseball politics and not
prospects of peace has brought un-
founded reports of the Federal
Leagues immediate ambitions before
the fans, according to a statement
yesterday by James 4. Gilmore. The
president Of tho Independent circuit de-
clared that no move, direct or other
wise, had been made by the Federal
League or its authorized representa-
tives along peace lines.