The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-07-27
THE SPORT SPEcTR UNI
CRISP AND LUCID DIGEST OF TIE LATEST
DIAMOND DUST GOSSIP BY OUR
VETERAN FAN

DIAMOND DUST GOSSIP BY OUR
VETERAN FAN
By "Bobbes."
WALLOPING WILLIAM
w. R. Hoeer
Bill Soakem fielder with
No speed and little grace.
He had to knock the pill
To get to second base.
He couldn't play the field, where
His fielding a ight
And when he dug for second all
The fans would YELL good night"
His whip ordinary and
He couldn't ground.
The hit and Vi quite passe
When Bill was hanging round.
They tried double steal
If he IN the
For, if they did, the guy behind
Would spike him in the back.
But though he wasn't graceful in
The field, and wasn't quick
The pitchers round the circuit knew
That William packed a kick
They knew that tho he couldn't beat
A tortoise in his prime,
He cracked the ball SO far, he could
Afford to take his time.
And thus, you see, kind friends, spite
OF Williams withered wing
And lack of speed he made the fans
Go mad when he would swing.
They knew that tho Bill wasn't very
Fast his pins
HEALTHY WALLOP COVERS UP
AMPLITUDE OF SINS.
baseball
Clubs the League Sunday and Mon
day. but the time travelling the conflict of bat
tie shifts that soil until August 11h Brooklyn home
with about the same lead when it left the trip Saturday
last the Robins handed Calahans Pirates adoube trimming while
Phls getting beaten and thus widen
by and oneha the between first and second
place. which had rather The results accomplished by
this club during the three weeks should really determine its
chances for the ST. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh and
Chicago will visit Brooklyn the order named and then
the RObin Sapain
The Giants returned the Polo Grounds with familiar faces
missing tho the contains just before
has consumated with Cincinnati,
whereby Charles Herzog shostop exant and
erstwhe the Reds, the McGaw fold In
the Reds Chry Mathewson the old reliable Big Six
who will the task the team Also
Bill McKechne becomes Red.
playing pretty nifty third for McCraw
suppose he will play third short for the Reds The
Giants also annexed Slim Saee the renegade Gard souhpaw
while the This strictly cash proposition and
thousand dollars for
the elongated twe These acquisitions should greatly
nance McGraws but probably late to
them the coveted this the last week bad
for them and they slipped considerably in the
Boston home good second with the Phi only point
distant had uniform their trip
and look for them fast their home
grounds regards the Evers incident
that had good deal Of provocaton The Sporting News
which has been hostile Eve than Its
week. the leading the out
The aggravaton that Byron umpirng.
Byron known the abe because he announces his
a and this kept from start
the game Byron improvses lot of doggerel stuff
the players and this together with his
warng balls and strikes must become monoonou to the
players going much of figure in next
they will have be and doing right
Manager badly by the fact that Ekne Mayer
Chalmers have failed the firing line With these two
travelling did last the Phls would be riding the
top of the right now.
The League still continues to be close and
with New York holding the lead but when the cubscome