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Show feiojidNofes Even under Mr. Carrlgan the Red Sox seem not to have mastered the old habit of scoring in round numbers. Relieved of the worry of a tall-ender team, Manager Renin Pratt of Waco, has made a wonderful comeback as a player. y A sport writer relates that Rhino Fotherglll once played end on a football foot-ball team In Masslllon, Ohio, or maybe may-be he said it was both ends. The visit of the Fresno (Calif.) Japanese Jap-anese club to the Orient will be the first time a Japanese team has ever invaded Japan on a baseball tour. Every man on the Boston college baseball nine this season, with the exception of "Lefty" Shea, a pitcher, was a member of the football squad last full. The superstition that the press prints only bad news seems to flourish flour-ish most the day ofter the home team's pitching ace is bombed out of the box. Pittsfleld has turned over to the Lewiston club of the New England league Vic Conger and Joe Brogan, outfielders, and Catcher Maurice Howe. Outfielder John Menzel, who was a holdout, litis been sold by Spartanburg Spartan-burg to Asheville of the same league. The consideration was said to have been $1,000. Jess Doyle. Detroit pitcher, slipped away from his teammates when the team was In St. Louis, went lo Belleville, Belle-ville, 111., and was married to Miss Inez Goepfert. O. E. Gallndo star second baseman base-man on the University of Southern California baseball team, has been elected to captain the 1!)S varsity by his teammates. Fred Bralnarcl, outfielder of the Dallas Steers In the Texas league. Is now a full-fledged oil magnate, a .100-barrel .100-barrel pusher having. beeu brought out on land owned by lilm. The fat catcher waddled out to the box. "Who dya tlenk you are?" he asked the wild recruit who had pitched 17 balls In succession, "a promiiivnl official on opening day?" DufTy Lewis, left Holder of the Boston Bos-ton lied Sox when Harry Hooper and Trls Speaker were bis mates, has been signed as manager of the Portland club of the New England league, Since joining the Baltimore Orioles In l!i-0 Jack Ogden has pitched 170 victories, an average of better than !! games each season, yet I lie major league scouts have passed him by (or some reason or other. Bertha K. Lamllu, woman mayor of Seattle. Wash., officiated at the opening open-ing game of the Paclllc Const baseball It-ague this season. Sixteen thousand fans watched her serve as umpire In the preliminaries. The American pulley of tnodeial Ion In China has set nn example thai the other powers have decided in fellow, showing that this country does iml havp to join the I .eairiio of Nations In play big league baseball |