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Show BASIL !dLL Young men who can play baseball are wanted in the marines. Bill Killefer continues to turn back the would-be base stealers. Manager George Stallings shipped Outfielder Dixie Carroll back to Memphis. Mem-phis. Call players no longer jump to outlaw out-law leagues. They jump into overalls at S1.2U an hour. Young Dick I.oftus, released by Cincinnati Cin-cinnati to Evansville, says he will be back in the big show. Boston has Invited Sunday ball games to 0 p. m., probably as a protection pro-tection for Sunday night beans. Young Ben Allen, the Mint league recruit, seems to be doing pretty well as a third baseman for Mobile. John Dobbs has a versatile team of Pelicans. No less than six of them can play more than one position. Portland holds the record for opening open-ing day crowds in the Const league with a paid attendance of 16,120. Wliitey Hensling will be field manager man-ager and captain of the Okmulgee team of the Western association. Jimmy MeAuley and Bonis. Becker are in partnership in running a billiard bil-liard and pool room at Lemoore, Cnl. Manager ltoliinson of the Brooklyn team has sent Pitcher Paul Schreiber to Lakeland of the Florida league. Little Charley Fulton is a valuable pitcher to have around, lie pitched a shutout for Mobile the opening day. Manuel Cueto Is in bad with the Seattle management through his refusal re-fusal to answer letters or telegrams. Johnny McCarthy, purchased from Columbus, has given the Birmingham club final notice Ilia t he will not report. re-port. Arthur Devlin, coaching Fordhntn college, Is said to have a wonderful young pitcher in a lad named Cul-loton. Cul-loton. Bert Coy has come back to baseball and signed to piny the out field for the 'Wichita club of the Weslern league. The veteran William (Ducky) Holmes will own and manage an independent in-dependent team at Brownville, Neb., this season. Gleason is more confident than ever that the club that beats out the White Sox will win the American league pennant. Pitcher Winn Noyes, late of the Athletics and White Sox, has cast his lot with one of the clubs in tbp Idaho outlaw league. Charley Deal lakes things so en si no matter how hard the chance, it looks as though Ik; never makes any difficult fielding plays. Pittsburgh Is supposed fo be the dark horse in the National league race. Quile natural. Look at the town they conic from. Connie Mack Is described as deeply thought fill, but not disconsolate. His youngsters have not, it is admitted, come as fast as he hoped for. Ot'o Kocpping, second baseman of the Moline Three I league team, has Hi It organized ball and Joined an Independent In-dependent crew In Sterling, Neb. Bill 1 1 i 1 1 -1 1 1 1 1 ; i n find Manager Gibson occupy the spotlight when the pirate are at but. They station themselves .-it first and third base respectively. The veteran Neal Ball "ill play with the New Haven Eastern league team this nea son and net as assistant am, field captain for Manager Chief Bender. Ben-der. Hunter Hill as manager of (he Galveston Gal-veston team will make the umpire'! grieve, says one critic, but. it will mean more life in baseball for Galveston. Gal-veston. After seeing Carlisle Smith perform at third base for Vernon in the serie . at San Francisco, a Frisco baseball scribe says M ousel will soon be forgotten. for-gotten. Fred "Bugs" Ilersche, who twirled for the Toronto Internationals for Ihe last two years, is the latest acquisition acquisi-tion to .lake Pitler's pitching sinlT o)' the Oil City (Pa.) Independents. |