Show Short Snits Suits of Sporting Brew Pitcher Ed Hd Killian of Detroit has bought a house houe Harry Lord has been appointed field i captain o of the Boston to Red box succeed Ing ng Gessler Eddie Cicotte says sas his name nama should be ba pronounced as If It were wera spelled See AI Al Mattern tho the Boston Dove DOe twirler has las made four tour balks this season Mason Ills pe peculiar peculiar peculiar pe- pe culiar delivery Is said to be the cause Pitcher Bugs Raymond's Raymonds hair Is falling failing out O Someone urged Bugs to try to antiseptic but he said he was afraid of ot mixed drinks Manager a r I says all his fast runners runners run run- el ft aJ tl J ners nr are laid l up with bruises S and sprains I Catcher Bill Carrigan of the Red fled Sox Sex Is s laid up with blood poisoning Eddie Lennox Is tho the hardest player layor on the Brooklyn team and ho he hos Is s winning the favor tavor of ot all the fans tans Graham of tho the Boston Nationals Is said saido to o be one of tho the best all around catchers In n the business Tommy McMillan Mc of Brooklyn n crouches so o low at the tho plate that a pitcher has hasard hard ard work ork getting a strike strlla on him Catcher r Larry aro McLean was soaked for or his recent tumble from the water wagon Washington refused to waive aho on onIon Mon Ion gan an of or the Red ned So Sox Sot and has the pitcher Manager of ot tho the Cleveland club has las his hIli eyes ees on Southpaw Clunn of ot the Portsmouth Va team Pitcher t Harry the tho 1 Cardinal ex-Cardinal a ln tei lr n now ow with l the Red hod Sox Sex has twice so far caused aused defeat for tor or Detroit Buch the tho diminutive shortstop of ot the champions is hut 19 years ears old yet Vet et one ot of f the greatest infielders In tho the game toda today oday Hyatt att the PIttsburg recruit from the Northwestern league has been a a. a conspIcuous conspicuous con- con figure In th the recent ral rales lies es of ot the Pirates tes Manager Fred Frei Clarke him one of or the best natural biters hitters hitters hit hit- ers ho ever saw Ho tie also is coming In bandy at first base during the absence ab- ab senco sence of Abstein Pruitt tho the pitcher who was cast adrift i by y Boston and Cleveland Is making good with emphasis for tor tho the New Orleans team The Tho New York club will open n i ons with Ned Currier the catcher captain cap- cap tain of or the tho Harvard team after the Yale serIes erics Outfielder Dann Danny Hofman has stolen bases ases during the last eight years Just Juat now ow Mr Hofman Is playing with a lame ankle If Jr Demmitt of ot tho the Highlanders was with Ith the quite an expletive outfield coul could 1 be made mado up with Goode Lord ord and It looks as If Manager Stalling Stallings l has dl discovered ot another pitcher n g whom h ha he can turn urn loo loose o e now In the person of at tall George Georgo McConnell Manager Hugh Jennings Is making no claims alms for or his Detroit team though he believes he Is better fortified than he has ever ver been Billy Gilbert Is doing the best he can cnn cann canon on n second for tor Bresnahan but hut so far he hp helas has las not shown the old speed either cither on the le bag bar or with the stick Fred Frfd Clarke has been doing the best left ft field work In either league In forty- forty seven oven games James he ho has caught files a flIes a wonderful record to say the tho least The master of or the tho White Sox gives gl himself f t five si sententious kicks Ilif every 4 day ri Cause ause The e firing of Johnny Beall This fellow ellow Is leading tte the Coast league in hItting hIt hIt- ting ng now no The nicknames a ap applied lIed to the teams tell in inc c now Western Canada anada 1 league 6 or e as C lg r. r Op peg Maroons l na no le 1 Brandon Angels Medicine Hat lIat Hatters Hatters Hat i tei s Moose Jaw Robin Hoods Edmonton Ed Ed- monton I Eskimos and Mormons l Rudy nudy is holdIng his own right along and continues to play a better game for tor tho the Cardinals than ho did for tor Cincinnati I Stallings has lias let the college catcher go to Altoona The young youn man manIs manIs manis is said to be good and If tr so BO will have havea a an better chance to show it In the minor company Manager Stallings of New York Tori says says sas Anything lo that t 11 hits B l I In the catchers catcher's b glove loe lono e no matter tt how far ar are he e Ito I has hasto hasto to reach for or it should be registered as a passed ball not a a. wild pitch DeinInger Is la beginning to get et a n few tew hits One trouble with the tho Quakers this season has lias been unexpected batting weakness In center neither Oborn nor DeinInger having pasted the tho pellet up to expectations If It Marquard does not do some lome wholesale wholesale whole hole holee holens sale winning of games e In t the n near fu future fu- fu ture ure the Now New York fans a ns will have ofu a adeep adeep deep impression that tho the team was stung deep when lien was as coughed up for tor forthe forthe the left bander hander Deerfoot t t Harry JI Bey 1103 formerly ot of i CI Cleveland but now In th the Southern rhe league is leading lending that organization In batting Lou You Criger and Jimmy Williams of the Browns say that Tris Speaker is Is In their estimation the greatest outfielder since Jimmy s McAleer's time 1 Outfielder d O Otis Clymers Clymer's e Injured j e Ic leg l will keep him m out I of the game Caine m for or a ft full ft month lIe He will spend his resting tithe time at his home In Lebanon Pa Va Outfielder Hamilton Hyatt th the burg substitute baseman is not a a- aclU clU- clU san Aon Jle Columbia Is Ii therefore a subject O ot h 17 4 Ji J |