The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-16
Echoes From the Tomb
 of Old Man Baseball

So far as known Gene Paulette of the Cardinals is the only player in the major leagues who ever played in~.every posi- tion on the team in a season. And Paulette did this in spite of the fact that he was out for awhile with a broken finger.
 Walter Johnson, if he returns to Wash ington, is likely to find his social status considerably elevated. His father-in-law. Congressman Roberts, has been nominat- ed for senator in Nevada by the repup- licans and presumably will be elected in November.
 Word comes from a military camp in Georgia, where Leon Cadore is station ed, that the former Brooklyn pitcher has
 been promotes and he's now a first lieutenant. Galore may be bossing a regiment by the time he gets over there if he keeps on advancing.
 When Ray Schalll caught his tooth
 game on August 3l he is said to have
 made a majof league record for catchers
 that of having caught 100 games or
 more for six consecutive seasons. George
 Gibson has held the record with l00
 games or more for five straight years.
 Just before the season closed Pitcher
 Dick Robertson of the Brooklyn club was
 notified by President Ebbets that he
 had been turned back to the New Orl- cans CluD, WHICH -anledHS LildI bTOOhlyn escapes payment due il the pitcher had
 been retained for next year..
 Fred Toney, now that the season is
 over, goes back to Nashville for re-trial Of the case agalnst him for draft evasion and he also faces charges of violating Che Mann law. Toney Will be quite busy during the off season and the work or night regulations don't bother him.
 t the Cincinnati Reds had had a pitch CT like Roy Mitchell all season, well. they might have been in the world s series. Absence of Hal Chase and the
 addition Of Mitchell made the Reds look like real team ill the@@ast two weeks Of the National league season.
 Selling shares" in the worlds series split was q form of speculation indulg- ed iG by the players of some first divl- sion teams. Earl Neale of Cincinnati is said to have bought Adolf Luque s
 share for $175, taking a chance on the
 Reds finishing in thlrd place. Some of the players of the St. Louis Browns | ''speculated" on whether they would get in the first division and those taking that end of it lost.
 Captain Tyrus R. Cobb of the chemi- cal warfare department of the U. $. A.
 has been given leave of absence to ar range his private business until October l, when he reports to Washington to re- eeiye his orders and assignment Cap tain Cobb's family expects to make It's home in Georgia while he is in service His various interests in soft drinks, oil
 properties, etc., etc. will be handled by his business representatives as in the past & slrst1
 The Yankees and the Browns, the clubs that figured in a big trade in which there was much speculation as to which club got the worst of it, tinish- ed even up by each taking ten games of the 20 they played each other, while the Yankees finished few points high CT than the Browns in the club stand- ing But the former Yankee players
 probably had more to do with the Browns wins than Pratt, former Brown had to do with the successes scored by the Tanks.
 Unofficial figures give Zach Wheat the batting championship of the National league had an average of 33496 and Ed Zach had an average of .33496 and Ed die Roush .334S6. There was an excel lent opportunity for either of the men to win the title decisively by remain ing with their clubs until the last game. Wheat was out of the double-header in Philadelphia on the final day in which there was considerable batting, while
 Roush left the Cincinnati lineup on August.Bo.
 i Che of the amusing things of the most
 amusing season was an obituary for ! Iris Speaker, printed by an eastern 1 sporting writer, who expressed his re-
 grets that Iris had passed out under d l cloud, barred from the closing games be- i cause of his attack on Umpire Tom tConnolly. The facts are that Iris "sus- | pension" lasted about 4S hours. They ! didn't treat 'em that way when Sher- and i showing disrespect for umpires. One 1 thing the punishment meted out to Iris
 did do, it spoiled his chance to play in every game of the season with his team