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Show Fielder Jones says he has a star In "Hank" Severeid, catcher. Lee Hobbs, the young shortstop the Reds secured from Dayton, looks like the goods. The batting of Larry Doyle this year is a joke. Last year he topped the National Na-tional league. Speaking of strikes reminds us that the best kind are those you make on a bowling alley. The Pirates nearly signed Harry Wolter, once the Yankee's center fielder, field-er, two weeks ago. Fielder Jones has cut loose from another an-other Brownie player. He sent Pitcher Bill Fincher to Memphis, in the Southern South-ern league. Eddie Plank is a patient bloke, even if he did have to wait until he Was forty-one years old before he became an iron man. Garry Herrmann, president of the Reds, is the proprietor of an open air concert garden in Cincinnati and is making money. Artie Butler, St. Louis Cardinal shortstop, will be sent to Los Angeles next spring in exchange for Pitcher Oscar Os-car Horstman. That Del Howard, Oakland manager, will protest the signing of Ted Easterly, Easter-ly, catcher, by Salt Lake, is expected in Coast league circles. .. Speaking of names, there's Rowdy Elliott's. After looking him over, the Cubs dubbed him Bunny. He is almosi as ferocious as a rabbit. In an effort to bolster up the pitching pitch-ing staf of the Reds, Christy Mathew-son Mathew-son han sounded the recall of Stanley Dougan of Salt Lake City. "JiggS ' Donahue, former Somerville high and Washington and Lee backstop, back-stop, has been signed by the Boston braves as a utility catcher. The Pliates have signed u North Carolina college pitcher named Bill Evans. He is twenty-two years old, six feet tall, and weighs 175 pounds. ' Hughle High is thought a wnoie lot of by Bill Donovan, who says that Hughle Is one of the best defensive outfielders in the big league. Bill Shakespeare once said youth will have its fling. If there's any lurking lurk-ing suspicion as to the truth of this statement just ask Eddie Plank. Eddie Rausch, the outfielder traded to the Reds In the deal that brought Herzog to the Giants, is a real ball player, according to lntesfreports. The Cincinnati Reds haven't gone forward under Christy Mathewson's management as fast as Hatty expected expect-ed and he didn't expect they would. Buck Niehoff, second baseman for the Phillies, has been doing some timely time-ly hitting for Moran this year. Niehoff is particularly reliable when up In a plnclu |