The mirror., 1919-07-10
Baseball Chatter
By Mr.. F. K.

and while the Bees made 10, total of 40. Under
the line-ups find this: Two base ehits-Kenworthy
Killifer, Crawford 8. Muvey, Krug 2, Sheely, Mag
CERT. Three base hits-Rumer, Spencer. Home
runs-Fournier 8, Boles. Kenworthy, Spencer. If
that isn't slugging, what is it?
The race in the American leagae is sure battle
royal. with Cleveland. New York and Chicago all
fighting for the lead and Detroit coming fast If the
White Sox stay in they will have to bolster up their
pitching staff, for the team isn't hitting like they
were the first month of the Joe Jackson
who going awful clip at the start, has let up
so has Hap Fesch. Cicotte and Lefty Williams are
keeping the Sox up. Faber is not going very good
while Schellenback, Kerr, Danforth and Loudermk
used mostly as relief pitchers Kid Gleason needs
at least one good hurer and will no doubt get
him if such can be found and bought.
The Cubs going along fairly WE'LL with two
of their best players the injured list. Hoocker
has broken thumb and Bill Killifer has been
spiked below the knee. OFarrel has been doing the
catching while McCabe. Kilduff and Deal have been
filling in at short In effort to plug the nied
hole, Mitchell has swapped Pete Kilduff to Brooklyn
for Lee Magey, who will be used in the Cub out.
field when Hollocker gets back in the game If the
swap even-up l believe the Dodgers got the
best of the deal and it would not be surprising if
McGraw made some kind of deal to get Pete back
with the Giants; that u.s. if Brooklyn would part with
him.
With Pittsburg playing great ball, Cincinnati
holding their and Chicago likely to break loose
anytime, the Giants will have to keep their heads up
and play ball if they want to win the flag. A hat
ting slump, much confidence injuries to play
ers would soon pull down their lead and they would
find three other good teams pressing them hard.
Mack is still signing them. Lefty Huhlinham
is the latest addition and comes from Middleboro.Vt
Connie fluids two other claiming Burrus,
young first sacker recently taken One club SAYS
1t has him on it's list and has put it before
the national committee. If Connie snare couple
of good pitchers we'll wager he would make it but
for the rest Of the League. In the last series with
Detroit the Athletics took three out of four games
and then Detroit took three straight from Cleveland
lose the tail enders and beat team the top.
Can you beat 1t? BY the way. Burns has been hit
ting, Burrus is going TO have hard time getting in
to the Athletic lineup.
Fatty Arbuckle's Vernon Tigers are looked
upon as the team to give the Los Angeles team
fight for the pennant Fatty says he has always
made fun for other people but is going to have
1
ball uniform playing the part of pitcher and is
whispering some deep laid plot into the of his
catcher, Molie Malone. Some battery.
The Phillies have finally hit the chute-the chutes
for keeps having taken but one game in fourteen,
and that taken from Cincinnati. It's hard
to say who is to blame. but the fans pretty peev
ed at the punk showing, while pat Moran, the best
manager the Phlllies ever had and who their
only pennant, is doing great things with the Cncin
natl team If the Phillies keep going down they'll
give awful battle to the Boston Braves for last
place.
Why the Boston Red Sox keep losing is mys-
terry. They have practically the same team with
which they the world series last year, but
now foundering down in sixth position.
The Seattle team started the season known as
the Purple Sox, which changed to
"Purps," because they lost many games Now that
they have perked up bit it has been changed to
"Rainiers," the name coming, doubt, from the
many rainy days they have out there
The game played against Fort Smelling was a
hummer. The M. S. P. lineup looked pretty
classy not alone in the uniforms but in the way
it played. 1t the best game have for
some time and the inmate fans fully demonstrated
that they appreciate good. hot game by the way
they lined up against the rope, which couldn't hold
them back and broke about dozen times, and by
the tremendous roofing heard in the park this
summer The outsiders took it hard as they were
out to get revenge for previously lost game. Both
sides were fighting for everything and while the
score tied twice by the visitors, the M. s. P's
were never behind. Our second baseman Brad who
poked out the hit that the game a week ago,