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Show Baseball Notes Baseball is watching its step, and remembering its misstep. Pennsylvania recently defeated Williams Wil-liams at baseball solely on good base . running. Harvard's baseball team has made a great hit In the South by gallantry on the field. Joe Connolly, purchased by San Antonio An-tonio from San Francisco, will replace Pete Knisely. So far as the race has run, Chattanooga Chatta-nooga looks like the dark horse of the Southern league. The Cleveland batting order to start the season shows six left-handed batters bat-ters in the lineup. Where are the Bed Sox of yesterday? yester-day? Echo New York, Chicago and other points west. John O'Brien, former major league ball player, has been signed as a scout by Manager Evers. Kay Caldwell of the Cleveland Indians In-dians has quit using the spitter in order or-der to gain control. Clarence Twombly as a pinch hitter for the Chicago Cubs is deserving of a line of commendation. Joe Guyon may be a college star,1 but as an outfielder in the Southern league he has failed again. Bobby Orr, . veteran infielder, has been released unconditionally by the Waterbury Eastern league club. The Cincinnati Reds have signed a new catcher, a collegian, who answers to the name of Astyanax Douglass. Dave Lamb, young catcher,' has been released by Kansas City to Columbia Co-lumbia of the South Atlantic league. N It has been suggested that Mike Finn call his Omaha ball club the St. Michaels. Why not "Huckleberries?" The submarine ball which Carl Mays of the Yanks throws is equipped with a whistle. It whistles by most butlers. Oscar T. Clarke, son of the Prince-ion Prince-ion baseball coach, has been selected captain of Die freshman ball team of that university. Hatting averages in the majors are expected to be proportionally lower this year since managers are stingier with new balls. Lifting the ban on summer ball for college players would help many a youngster earn his way through school and into the majors. Talk about the White Sox being a "shot" ball club listens like old stuff, now that Kid Gleason is getting his share of the averages. Steps to stop betting at the Phillies' ball park are surprising, since nobody has ever been suspected of being rash enough to bet on Ibe cellar boys. Jim Carton, released by the Giants to the New Orleans club of the Southern South-ern league under an optional agreement, agree-ment, is a very promising young pitcher. Waiuby, Lunte, Evans, et al. never will get back on second base for the Cleveland team if Biggs Stephenson continues to play ball the way he has started out. When a game is postponed in the American association this year the home club must within 24 hours select a date for playing it off and so notify the league president. |