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Show BA5D3ALL STORIES Harry Hooper will be captain of the Red Sox this year. The San Antonio club has secured Infielder Clyde Defate from St. Paul. Like Ebert, the president of new Germany, Bob Shawkey wears a pearl stickpin. Capt. Ed Lafitte, the former big league pitcher, arrived home the other day from France. The management of the St. Louis Browns announces that the club will lie without a scout this year. And in another six months the big news items will be the world series, just as if there never had been a war. President and Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Nationals expects ex-pects much from Outfielder Shotteu this summer. Charley Schmidt, for nine years a member of the Detroit catching staff, is the new manager of the Sioux City Western league team. i 'Mr. McGillicuddy has signed a ball player who went over the top eight ! times. It's a stupid umpire who won't ponder that information. Ward Miller, veteran outfielder, will play with the Kansas City club next season. He was- obtained by the Kaws from the Salt Lake City club. Among those who would just as soon see Grover Alexander remain indefinitely in-definitely along the Rhine are the seven other National league clubs. St. Louis war correspondents have nominated Josh Billings for the job of I lii'st-string catcher with the Browns. That will last until Hank Severeid gets moving. Lee Meadows, the spectacled twirler of the St. Louis Cardinals, has had his tonsils removed since last season and expects to have better health as" a result. Two young catchers are to receive big league trials this year because of what they did on army teams last summer. sum-mer. Be.nny Kanff has got a trial for Frank Poland, who caught for his team at Camp Sherman, and Bill James has done the same for Murphy, his army backstop. |