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Show BIAMONB NOTES Bill Bailey continues to pitch wonderful won-derful ball for the Beaumont team. The lowly Spartanburg team stopped Charleston after it had won ten straight. Duffy Lewis is playing good ball now. His hits, which are frequent, are also timely doubly valuable. Turn the American league standing upside down, and the Red Sox would be staging their usual pennant drive. Doc Johnston of Cleveland Is third among American league batters. He is the same Johnston who went back to the minors because he could not hit. The Pirates have a formidable quintet quin-tet of pitchers to puzzle the opposing batsmen in the National league Adams, Cooper, Hamilton, Mayer and Miller. According to the dope, any ball club able to stick around the first division until July Fourth with a mark of .500 or better stands a good show of winning win-ning the pennant. Ping Bodie is shining these days, and Is a near-idol with New York fans. Home runs, triples, doubles and singles are coming in flocks for Ping and he is as well pleased with himself him-self as the Gotham fans are pleased with him. Dutch Reuther, little counted on when Pat Moran assembled his Red pitching staff, begins to look like the best on the team. He not only Is pitching winning bnll, but has done stunts in the outfield and as a pinch hitter. Manager Ed Barrow of the Red Sox rises to complain about the report re-port (hat Jack Barry was the cause of dissension In his club. It Is an Injustice In-justice to Jack, says the Boston boss, who Insists that his team is, and was, one happy family. The Snyder who Is playing shortstop short-stop for Peoria is not one of the family fam-ily that has provided a number of players for Three I clubs In the past. This Snyder comes from the Pacific const and Manager Jimmy Hamilton ; discovered him In n shipyard out I there. t By accepting 12 chances without a slip on June 23, Happy Felsch Is, believed be-lieved to have tied the record for outfielders out-fielders in nlne-inuing games. The White Sox picket came back ihe next day with nine more, a total of 21 chances In two consecullvo nlne-lnnlng games. The Giants have a great mil field, but their margin over the Pirate outposts lis not very wide. P.ighee, Stengel and I Southworth are championship material. mate-rial. When Max Carey Is crowded out of the baiting order, the quality of the other thrrv speaks for Itself. |