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Show II TURNING BACK SPORT PAGES OF YESTERYEAR Bid llcPhee, Cincinnati's second baseman, stll plays without a glove. Baltimore critics say that Third Baseman Hurray McOraw has made rood and will cover the position po-sition regularly. Baseball Is growing. Nearly lfl 000 were at the Polo grounds wnen Amos Ftusle shut out Boston. Bx-tra Bx-tra ticket windows were opened. A critic predicts that Cy Young, the youthful phenom of the Cleveland Cleve-land team, will not last two mora seasons, because he Is curving himself him-self to death. There Is muck wisdom wis-dom In this assertion. Fop Anaon is almost 5 years old, but he can still hit. The btf fellow sapped Bret t ens t el n for two singles, sin-gles, a double and a triple In the recent series. Charles Nichols of the Boston It-am Mr r "-" pitcher. but few fans think he Is worth a season. This Is the salary he notd up Boarbn for. Connie Muck Is catchlnr rerular-ty rerular-ty for the Pittsburg team now. This tHll chap has a good whip, but dees not seem to be much of a general gen-eral behind the plate. Manager Al B uckenberrer Is workl ng hard to make a thinking ball player out of him It 1s reported that the Phillies are going to let out Lave Cross, who, no doubt, will go to th minors. Baltimore is trying out a new rlRht fielder named Keeler. He once played with Brooklyn. He looks too light for fast company. Chicago has offered 14000 for Al Relbach, the star outfielder of the Washington team. This was a tempting offer, but Washington decided de-cided to keep him. Outfielder Billy Sunday says he will open a pool and billiard room when he Is throught with baseball. Tener, the big pitcher of the Chicago Chi-cago team, has quit baseball. Fool-. !sh move, when he ' could have picked up from ll&OO to $200 of easy money for several more years to come. Pitcher Hank O'Day of trie Washington team, complains that he Is getting a raw deal from the umpires. What Hank thinks of umpires would not look well In print. ' Ban Johnson, sporting editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Ga-ette, Ga-ette, writes that the collapse of the breatherhood means that never araln will there be any attempt to eetabllsh a second major league. Johnson la right. First Baseman Charles Comtskey Is said 16 be a sucker for a curve high og the Inside. |