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Show BASEBALL BE HOTES M The veteran Cy Williams of the rhlllies still swings a wicked bat. Tickets to the Army-Navy football game at Chicago on November 27 will cost $10 each. The University of Minnesota has just completed its fourth full-sized gridiron for use next fall. Three former Tigers are now playing play-ing with the Red Sox. They are Flag-stead, Flag-stead, Rigney and Haney. Ruth may be just as great a home-run home-run hitter as he ever was, but he is just as efficient at striking out also. Pitching, In the opinion of most baseball experts, constitutes from 50 to 75 per cent of a club's effectiveness. Ted .Tourdan, first baseman for the Minneapolis association team, was sold recently to Birmingham of the Southern South-ern association. The Philadelphia Athletics used to have a little hunchbacked mascot and each pitcher would rub his hump for good luck before each game. Manager Joe McCarthy of the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs is the only one of the present pres-ent major pilots who never had experience ex-perience as a big league player. ' Clara Belle King, playing third base for her grammar school team In Greenville, S. C, made a triple play unassisted on a hot line drive. The Clarksburg team of the Middle Atlantic Baseball league experienced a shake-up when directors released Harry "Pop" Shriver as manager. James M. Foley, captain of the 1925 Syracuse university football eleven, has signed to play in the backfield of the Hartford Blues, a member of the National league. Philadelphia Athletics' have obtained Joe Hassler, kid third baseman, from BIytheville of the defunct Tri-State league. Hassler is from the amateur lots of Fort Smith, Ark. Babe Ruth claims ailing legs are handicapping him in his batting these days. But the pitchers won't believe It until they see him hobble to the plate with two crutches. In a game at Columbus the otheV day, Pitcher Zinn of Kansas City-made City-made six hits, which, strangely enough, was also the number made by Old Jack Quinn In the season of 1925. Christensen, young Red outfielder. Is devoting much of his time to clowning. clown-ing. Didn't take him long to catch onto the way Nick Altrock hangs on while outfielders drop all around him. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics is one of the most superstitious supersti-tious men iu baseball. Sometimes to break a losing streak he will wear odd shoes, one tan and one black, or two left shoes. .Now and then a bright mind conceives con-ceives a startling variation of an old wheeze. I.oii'lon Punch, tell:? of an ollice boy who asked the afternoon oil' so that he could take his grandmother grand-mother to the ball game. The Yanks put in a claim for Catcher Catch-er MK'urdy of the White Sox but withdrew ii when they learned that they would have to make a payment of i?2(Uii to tlie Houston (Texas) club, as part of his purchase price. Nat Dolman is ton busy with professional pro-fessional basket ball anTI his business I on Long Island to devole so much time to other athletics unci for that reason he has resigned his job as baseball couch at C'tv college of New York. |