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Show Baseball Notes Fred Mitchell's crew can certainly sock the well-known horsehide. Rube Benton, left-handed pitcher, has been recalled by the New York Nationals. Mexico has gone in for baseball. No use quibbling, we will have to recognize recog-nize that country. Waterbury has transferred Catcher George Army to the Petersburg club of the Virginia league. The New York Americans have protested pro-tested the use of Pitcher Cliff Harkle by the Cincinnati Reds. Old managers say there is too much silence in the infield of the Yankees to win a championship. It seems to be the general verdict that, while baseball is the national sport, gambling is something else again. Rochester has recalled Catcher Fred Ross from Petersburg of the Virginia league and transferred him to Flint of the Mint league. For the first time In several weeks word comes from Christy Mathewson. It is that he is still at Saranac Lake and still making physical progress. Frank Shaughnessy finally decided to accept the offer of Syracuse to manage man-age the Stars and Tommy Madden was thereupon given his release. The baseball library of the late A. G. Spaulding was recently given to the New York Public Library by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Spalding. Paul Sherman, pitcher for the local American Association league baseball team was traded to the Milwaukee club for Jake Northrop, pitcher. The trade was an even one. Billy Southworth Is captain of the Boston Braves. The former Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh outfielder Is putting plenty of pep into the crowd nnd they displayed dis-played a world of aggressiveness. Prridont Mike fnntillon Is enthusiastic enthusi-astic about the young talent in the Dakota league and predicts thp tongue will graduate more players this fall than any league of Its class. A recent batch of decisions from the office of Commissioner Landis show reinstatement denied to Harvey Sutherland. Suth-erland. John Shovelln, Norman Pitt, Joe Letter and Edward B. Kelley. |