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Show LITTLE FKH5 OF SPORT - Alaska will revive its twilight baseball base-ball league. Old Bob Messenger goes on forever. He is leading the PIttsfleld team at bat. Hartford has taken on Outfielder Lester Simmons, released by Springfield. Spring-field. Walter Hammond, who has been coaching Colgate College, has joined PIttsfield. The veteran Eddie Sabrle Is a late addition to the umpire staff of the South Atlantic league. Ray Kennedy, Little Rock catcher, arrived recently from France and is at his home in Pittsburgh. Old Bill Kay is still hitting them. A two-ply hit by the veteran won a game for Springfield the other day. Pitcher Cofiindaffer has been released re-leased from the army and is ready to twirl for Birmingham again. Third Baseman Fred Bralnerd, who quit the Providence team to fight the Germans, is back from France. Jimmy Cerney has found a new berth for the moment. He is playing the Infield In-field for the Peoria Three I team. Brooklyn has been using Ray Schmandt, a natural born first-baseman, on third and he has been getting away with it, just as he did at second base. Tom Clark Is not depending altogether alto-gether on veterans for his Columbia team. He has two college boys in Dick Burrus and Red Johnson who look good. President Tom Watkins of tl.e Memphis Mem-phis club hns been doing a lot of traveling lately In an effort to get '.oroe ball players to build up his wobbly wob-bly Chicks. Manager Tom Clark of the Columbia Colum-bia team boasts three players besides himself who have big league records. They are Ad Brennan, Lee Gooch and Lynn Scroggins. Zeider has signed up a new in-fielder, in-fielder, Tod Miller, who was given a fry with the Giants. Zeider plans to use him at second and put Knisley back in the outfield. Jimmy Burns, well known in baseball base-ball in past years in the New England section, but who dropped out to become be-come a college coach, is back again, flaying second base for Hartfud. j |
