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Show DIAMOND NOTES Hans Wagner seems to be the same eld demon of the past. The Athletics continue to prove easy for their opponents. One solid wallop delivered In the pinch covers a multitude of errors. Joe Jackson is hitting the ball hard these days, but he is not getting many hits. The town that produces a famous baseball pitcher can well afford to rest on Its laurels. Is Hans Wagner aged? Watch his batting every day. He has been getting get-ting bingles regularly. The Cleveland Indians, with Tris Speaker acting as field captain, are much improved over last year. "Fried eggs cuse Insanity," says an expert. Ah! Now we know what ails the baseball fans of St. Louifl. If the managers' predictions come true this season, the two major league pennant races will furnish an eight-piece eight-piece tie. Joe Judge, Washington flrst-sacker, originally tolled in an electric power house. Now we know why he Bparkles in fast company. This is the time of the year when great baseball teams throw away games that they bitterly regret in the shank of the season. The Philadelphia Athletics are the most erratic players in tho major leagues. One day they lose and the next the other fellows win. Tom Sawyer is holding a Job as assistant as-sistant funmaker for the Washington Senators. Folks say Tom is a huckleberry huckle-berry at cutting comical capers. The Oakland club has released Babe Danzig and Frank Hosp, who failed to show signs of coming back, and returned re-turned Catcher Dave Gridith to Wichita. Wich-ita. Another Titus breaks into the game this year. His front name is Elmer and he hails from Philadelphia. IIo will play with Wheeling in the Central league. George O'Brien, catcher sold by the St. Louis Browns to the Terra Haute Central league club, is out wilh an announcement an-nouncement that he will retire from ljaKeball. Mnnaper Tinker has always contended con-tended that Max Flack is a wonderful little outfielder and he is bearing out the manager's comment Ly starring in the out.'ield. "Billy" Sullivan is advocating the keeping of the young pitcher3 of the Detroit team for a period of training after the regular training season cIoecs r.ext autumn. |