Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL
Newspaper Page Text
Here Are Speaker's Batting Lamps. birds refrain from reading during the off-season, thereby sparing their eyes. It's the eye and not the wallop that counts in the national pastime. Some eyes are more durable than others. Larry Lajoie possesses such a pair; so does Hans Wagner, Terry Turner. Tris Sneaker, Jake Daubert, Home Run Schulte, Larry Doyle, Heine Zimmerman. Tyrus Cobb, Joe Jackson and Bill Hinchman. There's nothing wrong, however, with Jake Daubert's glims as a slant at the latest averages will indicate. The Brooklyn first sacker who led the National league in 1914 is hitting .355 for the first quarter of the cam paign. His heavy cannonading has been a principal factor in the upward climb of the Robins. Few of Jake's drives, however, are heftier than sin gles. For a pair of eyes that have been in use as long as Jake's in the big set they're holding out famously. Heine Zimmerman is another no table example of the batter who pos sesses the keen optics. The eccentric third sacker of the Chicago Cubs, when at neane with thp wnrlrl is nnp of the greatest natural sluggers' of all time. His eyes never have trou I bled him, but his temperament fre ! quently ,has caused him to slump, swinging frantically at every old pitch. Right now Heinie is seeing in ex ceptionally good form as witness his average of .336 for 48 combats. A veteran of the Cubs for 12 cam paigns, Frank Schulte is batting .345. In 1914 and 1915 he was supposed to be through, dropping below .250 each year, but the Peach Grower is again packing the old swat and he never has known a season in his long ca- . Jy Cobb's AM-Seing Optics Close Up