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Show Diamond Squibs Weather is never postponed on account ac-count of baseball. Lowrence, with Independence, Kan., In the Southwestern stole 98 bases last year. For sheer ability, no southpaw was as good as Itube Waddell, and none so Irresponsible. Edward Hughes of Windber, Pa., has been elected captain of the Lafayette La-fayette college freshman baseball team. New York Nationals have released a young battery, Percy Malone, pitcher, pitch-er, and Frank Samide, catcher, to the Waterbury club of the Eastern league. With a baseball league operating in Paris, France, this summer, it should not be long before the American national na-tional game is played all over the world. Joe Mattes, a pitcher who came to the Boston Red Sox from the Hamilton Hamil-ton team of the Mint league, has been released to Albany of the Eastern league. Misgivings concerning Joe Dunn's Denver trm seem to have been warranted, war-ranted, for the new Grizzlies have not looked good in the early games of the season. The home run by Bob Veach In the opener at Cleveland was one of the longest hits ever made in the Cleveland Cleve-land park. It cleared the right field screen. Elliott Jimerson, the young Indian pitcher who was taken south by the Reading club, has been given his unconditional un-conditional release. He lacked experience. expe-rience. William H. Luden of Reading, Pa., will donate a silver bat and baseball to the first Reading International player play-er who hits home run over fence on Reading field. The Columbus club made a deal by which It traded Outfielder Jimmy Tag-gart Tag-gart and Infielder Fred Bralnerd to Newark of the International for Infielder In-fielder Maurice Shannon. The Minneapolis club hns released Shortstop Elmer O'Shaughnessy to the Shreveport club of the Texas league. He Is still the property of the Washington Wash-ington Americans under a string. The Boston Red Rox have turned Pitcher Tom ("Zip") Sloan back to the Hartford club, Eastern league. Henry Fine, another recruit pitcher released by Manager Duffy, has joined the Bay City club of the Mint league. From Iny 20 to June 1.1, 1021, the Baltimore club, champions of the International In-ternational league, won 27 straight games, tying the world's record for consecutive victories, held by the Cor-sicana Cor-sicana club of the Texas league, made in 1002. While the Yankees were training In New Orleans Everett Scott, shortstop of the New York club, had one of the busiest days of his career, when he handled 17 chances cleanly. In a major ma-jor league battle this would have been a record. |