The mirror., 1919-07-03
Baseball Chatter
Bx Mr.. F. K.

from the majors, are hitting the ball in great
fashion. Sam Crawford for many years sugging
demon with Detroit. is leading the Pacific Coast
league batting averages, with Bill Rumler Of Salt
Lake close second. Hendryx. former Yankee and
then Brown, is hitting 1897 with Louisville while
O'Mara, once with Brooklyn. now with Indianapolis,
/. is clouting $40.
1t is said that the Salt Lake Bees give ton of
coal for every home run hit by it's players. Bill
Rumler should have nearly enough coal for next
winter, while Carl Sheely. the Bees first sacker.
will have almost enough go into the coal business
if he keeps on going like he is now.
After giving the Majestcs a seven-run lead the
locals came from behind and won 10 to l. When
the NJ S. p to bat in their half of the seventh
the lucky seventh-the stood seven to three.
Hits. walks and errors loaded the bases, with one
down. up came Brad with bat that looked like
of the tongues used in Minnesota Binder and may
be that chill wasn't anxious to ht Oh boy! and when
he laid out screaming double the fans went wild,
he then stole third and came home when Jam was
thrown out at first. The visitors seemed all shot to
pieces and two more scored before the
side was retired Kienholtz of the VISITORS hit for
triple and tried to make it homer but even
though he made pretty fade.away slide was tagged
out The visitors were hard losers and the smiles
they durug the first innings vanished after the
seventh. Two M. S. Ps. played with the outsiders
which might be an abi
Many peculiar things happen in baseball, but
very odd one came up recently that doubt set
fans to scratching their heads and thinking deep.
The Washington Club has traded Davis. shortstop
recruit taken from the Western League who failed
make good, to Minneapolis for pitcher Whitehouse.
Here's the peculiar par Whitehouse is given credit
for winning one game in dozen starts; has given
SO hits in II innings and allowed 40 runs, which is
not much of record Shauer another Miller hurl-
who worked for Saltwater last year and with
Connie Mack in 1917 and with the Giants three or
four years, his first nine games, then beaten
by Columbus June 8, and by Indianapolis on
June IA in pitchers battle with Crum, who gave
hits to Shauer's 5. He also 6fteen-inning
game from Louisville against pitcher Dixie Davis.
Shauers record looks pretty good but why
Whitehouse taken by the Senators and Shauer left
behind? There must be some reason
The pitcher, Dixie Davis, mentioned above, is
about the best boxman in the American Association.
On June he beat St. Paul. league leaders. to 0.
and gave but one hit. On June II he beat Milwau-
kee to and gave three hits. He's mighty strong
with his hits most of the time and the Louisville
expect sell him for about $4,000 to some
major team before the summer is over.
Connie Mack of the Athletics is now going
about looking over young players. He has already
picked up first sacker named Burns from Colum-
bia. South Atlantic League. Connie says he has
world of speed and can hit and field, too. Connie
thinks that jinx has hit his and it is rumored
that he may peddle Scot Perry and Burns most
any player on the team, except Bobby Roth, in his
effort to get rid of said jinx The team makes SEN
sationa hits and plays at times. but is conss
tent The Athletics have been drawing good
crowds considering their position, and Mack being
shrewd business we'll as a good manager,
knows that if he get his team going BETTER the
fans will flock to Shbe Park. Harry Davis, for
many years player with the Athletics and who
managed Cleveland in the fore part of 1872 has al
ways been one of Mack's right hand men and is now
plotting the team while Connie scouts
The Cleveland players that have been overseas
have reported one by one, Lee Foil finds he has
about dozen pitchers and will have to let some of
them GO to get inside the player limit With Gov
elskle Morton and Bagby going good, either Mey-
Kepher maybe both, will make good. Foil
has good staff of first string pitchers. The second
stringers are. Petty, Uhle. Enzmann, Jasper Phil
lps Lambeth and Jameson who also is an outfeld-
er. With such array the Indians should make
strong bid for the pennant. The7 leading the
way.
Wonder how the Boston fans feel with both
their teams in the second division? The Red Sox
are losing most of their games and the Braves
| getting nowhere. The Red Sox have bought out
| fielder Lamar from the Yankees. He is youngster
| that Hnprins farmad to Toledo last wear