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Show Diamond Squibs Bloomington released the veteran Frank Routine and Danville took him on. Ball players of the big leagues are said to be planning the organization of another brotherhood. , The last will be first, but it may take years if it is the Red Sox you happen to be thinking about. So hit that when you become thirty-seven thirty-seven years old like Ty Cobb, you will have the title of "grand old man." With Manager Joe Berger again able to return to the game the Wichita club has releafJd Infielder Carl Manda. Is the old-time medical theory of like curing like exploded by the fact that an umpire became ill from eating poison? They pay money for a ball player named Nick Dumovicb, which shows that scouts don't pick them for their names. Instead of New Orleans sending Pitcher John Miljus to Beaumont of the Texas league, he was released to Nashville. The major leagues have a rule that a player drafted cannot be sold or traded to a nondraft league for a year after he is drafted. Second Baseman Gorman of Des Moines is out of the game as a result of being hit in the eye with a foul tip during batting practice. Golf fascinates, that's why so many ball players are taking to it, but taking tak-ing lo it as recreation. Baseball, for the professional, becomes work. - If the Pirates keep up their wild work, some one will discover that Bill S McKecbiiie is a manager that lie has : the divine touch of the baseball leader. ' Chamber of commerce officials at Lakeland. 1 "la., have announced that Ihe Cleveland American league baseball base-ball club will train there next spring. A deal is on, it is stated, for a group of Newark citizens, headed by several city officials and politicians, to purchase pur-chase the Newark International lvague f ranchise. Chick Galloway's transformation into a good baiter is one of the season's sea-son's bavl.i, sensations. In a recent series at Cleveland he made ten hits out of twenty times at bit. |