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Show Looks like Hans Wagner's baseball career has been nipped in the bud. Conscription officers may step in and lift the burden of worry from the magnates. mag-nates. Hank O'Day says this is the worst season he ever had. And he once managed man-aged Cincinnati. The real pessimist is the fan who turns to the sporting page to see which team lost the game. They say Walter Johnson is. having hard luck. Other teams may consider it their good luck. At the present writing, the last half of the baseball season will be played in double-headers. Connie Mack admits that he hasn't a first division ball club. There are no dissenting voices. Let the war department take heed not to get Ty Cobb and Charley Her-zog Her-zog in the same military regiment. You can't get away from the blinding blind-ing sensationalism of a home run. It makes the blood run hot or cold, according ac-cording to ilk. - Just because Cobb has only been hitting hit-ting .315 hasn't caused American league pitchers to pass Burns to get a chance at him. . Someone has suggested Garry Herrmann Herr-mann as a candidate for mayor of Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. Some guys are always looking look-ing for trouble. Exempting baseball players from immediate im-mediate draft isn't going to help the magnates' bank rolls if all of the fans are sent to the front. , The Phillies have something on the Cubs ever since they took seven straight games from them in the wilds of Florida in March, 1916. Limit in the years of conscription from twenty-one to thirty means that Frank Bancroft, aged seventy-one, will not be lost to Garry Hermann. Carlson, the Pirate hurler, Is certainly certain-ly doing his part to get the Pirates started on a winning streak. The youngster promises to be a real sensation. sensa-tion. Fischer is described as the "best catcher in the National league." How now, Gowdy, Kiilifer, Snyder? hut maybe he meant the Pittsburgh league. Barney Dreyfuss sees better baseball base-ball times ahead. He takes the small crowds philosophically, and does not believe the war will hurt the grnnd old game. . And then there's Groh of the Reds. He's doing some star work and don't you forget it. In fact he's running a ! very close second to the great and on- ' ly Heinie Zim. ! ! If worse comes to worse, Walter ! Johnson. Grover Cleveland Alexander, et al, could assist some in pitching ' tents. And some of the outfielders with good logging arms might come 'in j handy throwing gas bom'os. |