The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-30
Tagging All
The Bases
By ARTHUR ("euos") eAeR.

NofSitSut, iSit, ny tess
ing Co. (The New York Evening
World)
The YankS arc still in the American
league race and Belgium is still IN
Europe. Bin Donovans birds are a
gross Of points behind the leaders. We
don't want to say anything about The
Yanks pennant chances, but they.
aren't very edible. Speaking about
their flag chances would be speaking
i'll Of the departed. Yea no.
Hans Wagner has either reached his
second sprinthood or some rascal
slipped something into Hans choWder.
In the second inning. the patriarch got
To first base. threw away mis- crutch.s.
SWanelea IN the bretZ for IL few See
onds and then broke ant into a veneer
able marathon for second base. The
old boy was a victim Of n young
throw from Gibson. who is no chicken
himself. But Gibson's elbow is slight
~ younger than Hans knees. and
George won the contest. However,
Hans was determined to eyp second
base. and later in the game cheated
old Pop Time very neatly This time
war strength and he certainly made
those ancient hoofs of his beat a gray
whiskered tattoo on the turf. Hans
got to second easily. and unless there
is Il sclawk from Methuselah or any
other of Hans school rivals the event
will be recorded as q swiped base.
| Hans is busy showing up the fatheads
| who claim that a man is old at one
hundred and six. Pirates won the
game. one to nothing.
That mysterious blank in the dra Fl
| lottery must have been meant for tie
! Robins. That's the way their playing
looks anyway. Tho double blank on
4 dominoo is overcrowded compared to
| the BROOKLYN teams recent showing
| The team needs a new set of castors
! At present. they are dessert for the
| league. The Reds again handed Presi-
| dent F.bbets's $4,000 salary list a
trimming. The salary list never had
q chance, as the Reds won. five to two
The American League race is stale
in six cities. You could amputate 4
half dozen towns from the pcnnan,
chase and it wouldn't affect the resul,
any, as the Reds and White Sox are
seven eiraffc's necks ahead Of the
field. Cleveland is only 100 points
south of the leaders. but the rest o
, the league is nOgmeat. We remember
a gent who provoked a duel with an.
other bird and suggested coffee ant
pistols for two. The challenged gen
agreed to battle. When the coffee an,
pistols arrived, he took the pistols ant
let the other gent have the Mocha
The bird who was armed with thu
coffee had just as much chance a.
, Detroit. Yanks. Washington. Browns
and Athletics have to snare the pen
nant. The allies have an equal chanc
of battering down Helgoland witt
charlotte russcs.
The Yanks are home at last from
their western Pullman and pinochl
trip They played a little baseball OIL
the side. Every good drummer carrie
a side line.
Scientists have finally discovere,
that the snail carries germs. The. onl
way to escape snail germs il to inocu
, late your ankle WIN II lltllc spec
serum. No snail germ is going t
biHouac on the Reds, as Matty ha
them vaccinated with the old pepper
The Braves, cubs, Robins and Pirate
aren't immune, however. Wouldn't b.
surprised to hear any inning that
snail germ epidemic had caught up t.
the second division of the Nationa
league. Can't see how snail coul,
| oVertakc the Braves unless he backe,
| up.
Pop Arson says that umpire dustin,
IS getting very common in the leagues
Pop used to flattcn umpircS when i
; WAS still stylish.