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Show WHITE SOX LOSE JIM SCOTT Chicago Pitcher Applies for Place in Officers' Reserve Training Camp at Leon Springs. Jim Scott, pitcher for the Chicago Americans, has applied for a place in the officers' reserve training camp at Leon Springs, Tex., it was made known the other day. Charles A. Comiskey, president of the Chicago Americans, and B. B. Johnson, president of the league, indorsed the application, so it is felt that Scott's days as a major leaguer are numbered. Scott is playing his ninth year with the Chicago Americans. He came from the Wichita team of the Western Jim Scott. league, and is thirty-one years old, more than six feet tall, and weighs about 1S5 pounds. He has been a star pitcher for several seasons, having failed his team only in 1916, when he was suspended late in the season for failure to obey club rules. His "come-back" from that episode this year has been notable in baseball circles. Latest figures show he has been in fifteen games, winning five and losing four, and giving only 1.03 earned runs a game. He ranks fourth in the league in effectiveness. |