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Show WITS of the DIAMOND Reb Russell continues to hit homers for Minneapolis like a regular Babe Ruth. Fewster and Vick continue to slap the ball better than some of the old timers. The New Orleans club has sold Pitcher Jim Roberts to the Detroit Americans. First Baseman Pete Shields has been discharged from army service and rejoins re-joins the Binghainton team. There is no truth in the report that Grover Alexander lost his arm in the war. The ohl soup bone was just on a furlough. The Shreveport club announced that the deal by which Shortstop Jimmy O'Neill is to go to Washington for a trial has been completed. . If all boxers can be developed into such accomplished boxmen as little Dick Kerr, some club should go out and sign up Jack Denipsey. Hal Chase has Eddie Collins' superstition super-stition of placing his gum on the button but-ton of his cap and then taking it oft when the pitcher gets two strikes on him. A Milwaukee critic says that Roy Hansen, the young pitcher secured by Rowland from the Chicago White Sox, is the best relief hurler in the association. associa-tion. Pitcher Gene Packard "handed in his resignation" to the I'hilly management manage-ment with the statement that he intended in-tended to take a job in a Pennsylvania steel plant. Connie Mack lias dug up a lot of talent, tal-ent, he imagines, in the Southern league. The tall tutor of the A's has been down south for several weeks hunting ivory. Cox of the marines has secured a contract for $"r0 to pitch for the Detroit Tigers and will join them as soon as he draws the blue envelope from the government. Sam Crawford is hitting well above ,n()0 in the Pacific Coast league this season. It is a wonder one of the major outfits hasn't recalled the veteran vet-eran from the bushes. The New Orleans club is reported to have sold Outfielder Johnny Sullivan to the Cincinnati Reds. Sullivan seems to have found himself In the Southern league this year anil has been going fine. |
