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Show Mathewson has made much headway with his young pitchers, Regan, King and Eller. The Des Moines club has taken on Pitcher Franklin Johnson from the defunct de-funct Rock Island team. Ruddy Kallio, who is pitching some remarkable ball for Des Moines, soon may be recalled by San Francisco. Howard Holmes, out of a job when the Three-I blew up, has been signed for the American association umpire staff. Fred Falkenberg managed to win his first game after he returned to Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, but not without sweating a good deal. Catcher Harry Smith, formerly with Dallas and Galveston, is now doing the bulk of the work behind the bat for Tulsa. Then? are two Joe Bergers in the Western league now, the one with Wichita and the other the pitcher with Des Moines. John McGraw is said to be after Grover Lowdermilk for the Giants. Big Grover has pitched some great ball for Columbus. Manager George Stovall says the bulk of his pitching for the rest of the season will be done by Jack Quinn, Roy Mitchell and Art Fromme. Tony Boeckel, third baseman for Great; Falls, who was sold to Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, only to have the deal canceled, now goes to the St. Louis Browns. Shortstop Johnny Butler of the Lincoln Lin-coln team has developed tuberculosis, and on advice of his physician will go to Southern California or Arizona. Arnold Sheldon, first baseman of the Waterloo Central association team, has joined the coast artillery, in which he has been given an officer's commission. Clark Dickerson traveled all the way from Texas via St. Louis to Butte to join the team there, just to learn that the league would disband within a week. Several of the Browns are said to have the war fever so bad they can't keep their minds on the game. Something Some-thing new and unique in the way of alibis. Jake Daubert. first baseman of the Brooklyn team, may not play again for some time. He has been suffering with a bad leg on and off for the last three years. Bill Rariden of th Giants, who punched the Cincinnati groundkeepor during the MeGraw-Byror. fracas, has written a letter of apology, saying that he made a mistake. Milton Reed, shortstop of the Mobile team, has enlisted in the army ambulance ambu-lance service, but will not lie called in active service before the close of the Southern league season. |