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Show RAN FF Pec. 11. Charley Pick, third baseman of the pennant-win- 1 nint? Scyls. has been offered a. good job1 with a local tobacco firm, provided he quits baseball. Pick is s:iid to have given the offer much consideration. And. as he is not very hopeful of next season sea-son being- a successful one for him in a financial way, in said to be willing to accept. ac-cept. Pick, if he joins hands with the smoke house. will become -a traveling salesman. sales-man. Carl East, a pit-'he.r. and ."lolinnv Butler, But-ler, a shortstop, last yenr wii'n Lincoln, have been turned over to the Waco club In the Texas league by Ducky Holmes of Ihe Lincoln team. Ducky says these boys did not show proper loyalty to the Lincoln Lin-coln club last season. Butler is well known, in this league. SAX FRANCISCO, Dc. 11. Justin Fitzgerald and Sammy Bohne. well-known baseball stars, both plan to enlist in the quartermaster corps of the army, it was reported today. Paddy Driscoll. the infkrlder obtained by the Angels from the Cubs, came near being a member of the Seraphs last spring. Powers had a talk with Driscoll during the 191fi football season and he practically agreed to sign. When Powers made his next trip east he found tha t the Cubs had Driscoll's name to a contract. con-tract. l.yle Big-bee. a youth husky enough I o bu.-k a bull off a bridge, has been rejected re-jected by the marine corps at Seattle. Lvie was quite an athlete at the University Uni-versity of Oregon, for he took part in football, baseball and basketball, and last vear he was with the Portland club in spring traininpr. He looks the part of nn athlete and it seemed a cinch that he would be accepted, but he was turned down because he has a slight impediment in bis speech. Lyle could jab the dummy with the bayonet all righr, but he got a bit tangled up In saying "Raup mit 'em" when he made his thrust, so if he wants to go to war he will have to try some other branch of the service. t Walter Doan, former Portland outfielder out-fielder and with the Vernon club the last season, is to be traded to a club In the east. At present D'-ane ir on his farm in Pennsylvania . and Tom Darmody, owner of the' Vernon club, is planning to make the trade. "I am after two more outfielders and I believe T will not ned Doane." said T'armody. "I will try to trade him to a club In the east. i "Doane still is a good player, but T believe be-lieve a change will do him good." Lon Angeles Herald. Dutch Rnnther. who rould be a regular on a big league club if lie would only take baehall seriously, was mixed up in a peculiar play at Si. Louis one day last summer. The piny puzzled Christy Mnth-ewson. Mnth-ewson. boss r,f the Cincinnati tenni, with which Reuther played, and ir is admitted rlint Matty knows snnv'thing about baseball. base-ball. Dutch w as pitching anil t wo St. Louis runners so t nn by reason of a hit ami a pass. Tiie n--xt mun tried to sacrifice, sacri-fice, but popped the ball in the air between be-tween the pitcher's box and the plai Jjutch . tried to reach it. but failed and the bankrolled off the tip of his glove, thus filling ihe sacks. Malty wanted the batsman railed out on the infield fly rule. Umpire Rigler could not see it that way and the play was scored as a hit. That play cost a run and tiie afame. An infield fly is defined as a ball that can be handled by an inl'ielder-. Dutch did his best to handle that one and failed, o Rigler decided it was not' an infield ny. |