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Show DIAMOND NOTES Bernie Neis looks und acts a lot like Benny KaulT. Mughey Jennings Is to retire at the end of this year. George Whit ted seems to play third base about as good as anybody. I'ete Adams, first baseman, finally decided to report to l.litle Kock. The New Jersey legislature has passed pass-ed a bill permitting Sunday baseball. I'ncle Hobble's pitching staff continues con-tinues to look like the best In tha league. An encouraging part of the Cubs' batting has been the work of Doda Paskert. -4 Next thing Charley Kbhotta knows his workmen will strike for a nine-Inning nine-Inning game. Some of the alleged fence busters are rather slow In getting their war chilis lu action. I.e Iiourvoaue of the Phillies, Is one of the most promising stars of the baseball season. The only things the Giants are hitting hit-ting these days are the smooth spots on the toboggan. Claude Williams of the While Sox has stepped right along since the American Amer-ican league race started. Some day Ruth will try to bunt and the opposing players will be frozen stiff in their tracks with surprise. Baseball makes a big lilt with the Japanese fans, who go to the Polo grounds in large numbers I his season. Heinle Zimmerman Is playing with a senilpro team In the Bronx. He has given up hope of returning to McGraw. "Buck" Freeman, former White Sox pitcher, has been signed by the Saginaw Sag-inaw club In the Michigan-Ontario league. Jack Dunn of Baltimore has raided the colleges again and secured an in-flelder in-flelder named Marlette from Guilford college. A good team may get tlowu to the bottom of the percentage .column through bad luck but It Is hard to keep it there. Austin McIIenry of the Cardinals has been featuring games this season with great throws that have nipped base runners. With the Braves and the Red Sox out of the race, Boston fans might take some Interest In Harvard's swimming swim-ming team. The Atlanta club asked waivers on Pitcher Monte Prleste and the Mobile club took him. He won his first time out for Mobile. The Brooklyn Dodgers have announced an-nounced the release of Catcher Beyers Bey-ers to the Rochester club of the International In-ternational league. If the Reds can keep In front now what will they do when their star sticker, Eddie Roush, starts hitting the bouncing bulb? "Lefty" Odenwald, Hudson, Wis., high school pitcher, will report to the Cleveland Americans at the close of his school year In June. Pitcher Frank Graham, who jumped the Louisville Colonels last season, has come Into camp again and means to be good this year. Nick Altrock of the Washington Nationals Na-tionals Is In shape to play, but they don't need him In the lineup yet. The game looks funny enough as It Is. Joe Letter, the recruit outfielder, twice tried by the Cubs on spring training trips and found waDtlng, has been released to the Kansas City Blues. Al Platts, outfielder, and Peter Manning, Man-ning, pitcher, have been sold to the Omaha club of the Western league by the Kansas City American association associa-tion club. A few of the baseball wiseacres have been saying that -Walter Johnson Is through as a pitcher. Some of the games he has twirled lately would Indicate In-dicate that he has not started as yet. |