The mirror., 1919-08-28
Baseball Chatter
By r. x.
Wednesdax.sA sAneust 20.


been played with Cincinnati coming out on top with
four won and two lost. The series aroused much
interest as any world series ever did as the first
double bill drew $4,000 fans but in the last two the
Polo Grounds were simply swamped with 10000 in
side and least half that many more trying to get
in. Old Slim Sallee worked against his old team
mates in game and beat them 81 and gave but
three hits. He would nave had shut out but for a
long wind-up which allowed Gonzales to steal home
After trimming the Giants the Reds went to Brook
lyn and dropped two in row, but that's not sur
prisng, when you glance at the Dodgers line Such
men as Olson Johnson Griffith z. Wheat, Meyers
and Konetchy, apt to break up almost any game
with their big bats. At that the Reds didn't lose
much ground as the Cubs up to their old trick
again shutting out the Giants.
The PhilIies are out of the collar and still 60
ing strong. They pulled off trade with Pittsburg
whereby George Whitted goes to the Pirates in ex-
change for Casey Stengle. Ii the trade was even
up the Pirates got the best of it, That doesn't
that Stengle isn't for he is corking outelder
and hitter but Whitted do these things too, and
play first second base if needed. The Pirates
do not need man for the outfeld they have
four good men in Carey, Bigbee, Nicholson and
Southworth, so Whitfield was put on first. He has a
big job his hands for jinx has been that job
for years; many first basers having tried it and
failed Look at the poor showing Doc. johnson
made in Pittsburg and now look what he is doing
with Cleveland At any rate the two players who
were dissatisfied have been shipped to different ag-
gragations whether they will like it or not is hard
to say.
The board shows today that Cincinnati
took two from Brooklyn, this evening up the series
while the Giants split with the Cubs.
The race in the Coast League is getting hotter
every day Los Angeles has climbed into first place
again with Vernon second and the Salt Lake Bees
third and going strong Derby Day Bill Clymer
has punched his job manager of the Seattle team
which was hopeless tail-ender. Though Clymer had
a man coming and going almost every train, many
star players among them he failed to/ strike win.
ming combination. The Coast League is about the
nftiest of the class A. A. minors. The moguls have
been trying to arrange three cornered series be-
tween the International, American ASS and Coas,
leagues. If they make it 60 it would be very
interesting and no doubt money maker and the
coasters should come out top.
Barney Dreyfuss has started on another cam
pagn to do away with freak pitching such the
slime ball. spit ball and all other deliveries where
foreign substances used to make the ball dc
tricks. They must have looked over couple oi
trunks full of balls used by Eddie Cco,te but so fal
don't seem to be able to find any thing wrong with
them. Hod Eler is another one they are after while
Sothoron of ST. Louis caught digging his thumb
nail in the cover and stopped. The Amer
ican Association has put the kibosh all freal
stuff and they still have dandy hurlers in thu
league.
The st. Paul Saints again have nice lead afte
swamping Indianapolis who had worked up to til
with the Apostles. The Saints have been on tor
since the second week of the and it's going
take good team to disodge them. The Mpls
Mllers have been playing good brand of ball Of
late. but were far behind have been unable te
crawl out of sixth place. Reb Russell, pitcher &C.
cured from the White Sox. has been playing the out
field and has been doing some good work with the
bat, having driven out number of homers already
Kid Gleason must have told all the White So1
players he'd the strap them if they die
not win the flag The kid is pretty handy With the
strap and number of amusing stories about hin
and the way he used to punish some of his bad be-
having players are being told.
Old Man Rain came near beating us out of
game last Saturday for he opened up the valve
shortly after two o'clock but the pumps must hav
broken down for went out after all and had lot
of fun watching the play slide around in the mud
If Carl Mays is worth the forty thousand dollar
the Yankees paid for him, how much is Babe Rutl
worth?
With iris Speaker at the helm, the CLEVELAND
team isn't setting the league fire. They hav
taken Faeth, winning pitcher, from the tail ent
| Milwaukee team All the other clubs gathering
| new material work into shape for next season
| With the split between the minors and majors, tn
cannot try ME undar ontion