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Show Diamond Squibs California has a college for Instruction Instruc-tion in baseball. Old Sam Agnew is still hitting them for San Francisco. Princeton and Tale have been playing play-ing baseball 55 years. The oldest player in the twilight game Is probably the bat. George Torporcer of the Cardinals continues to be a bad man In the pinch. Dutch Schllebner, the Browns' first gacker, led the Southern association In hitting last year. Tom Quigley, baseball umpire, will referee the Tale vs. Harvard football game next November. Nashville was a lucky club when it got Olln Perrltt, who can play any position po-sition and can hit and run, Mayland K. Kicks of Brooklyn, la., has been elected captain of the Iowa baseball nine for next year. Cincinnati has released Chester j(Boob) Fowler, Inflelder, to Oklahoma City of the Western league. Some of the boys Jump right from the college nine Into the majors. Oth-rs Oth-rs are merely valedictorians. Tony Hess, veteran catcher, Is reported re-ported as recovering In a hospital In Blnghamton, N. T., from nervous prostration. pros-tration. George Frohweln, who was a star athlete at the University of Iowa, Joins the Sioux Falls team of the South Dakota Da-kota league. Bunny Brief, the home-run hitter of the Kansas City Western league team, will try to better last year's record of 40 circuit smashes. Day by day in every way Cobb piakes It more difficult for the present land future generation of players to iequal his batting record. Catcher Doc Neiderkorn, purchased iurlng the winter by Little Rock from Chattanooga, but who broke a leg and lias been laid up, has finally recovered. The eight National league clubs used 37,476 baseballs last season. Figure It up at $2 per. No wonder the club owners are watching closely the stra'y balls. In an lnterclass baseball series in Rochester, N. T., Luffman, a one-armed one-armed pitcher for the winning team, was the Individual star of one of the games. |