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Show MM1I Neis, Brooklyn right fielder, la a Chicufo product. liiirber looks as if he mlylit develo; Into a pretty good first baseman. Long John Scott of the Braves is u funny bird and has a stride like one. Zeb Terry continues to get on base almost every time he steps to the plate. Jakie Atz, former White Sox, Is In a Fort Worth hospital recovering from an operation. Cub fans are pulling for Zeb Terry to continue his good work on the keystone -comer. Pete Kiklulf and Rowdy Elliott, ex-Culis, ex-Culis, members of the Dodgers, are playing good ball. The Browns have released Infielder Shepner to the Louisville lub of the American association. Owner Frank Navin of the Tigers has hung up a trophy for the best high-school team In Detroit. The Oakland club, havlog landed Billy Hamilton to play the Tnfield, let both Ginglardi and Mitchell- go. Rabbit ilaranville is a much harder hitter near the bottom of the hatting hat-ting order than he was In the leadoff berth. i Al Slattern, former pitcher of the Boston Braves, is acting as coach of the Rochester university baseball squad. The Cincinnati team doesn't seem to mind what the experts said about their not being in condition to start the race. Ames college has a hnrler named Plagge who hasn't lost a game in three years. Big league scouts are already on his trail. Every critic on the coast seems to agree that Holllng of the Oaks will be a finished pitcher and ready for the majors after this year. Manager Hugh Duffy of Toronto seems to have used good Judgment -when he decided to retain Lefty Qulnn, the Mint league pitcher. The cheers that New Tork fans give Ping Bodie are backhanded slaps at Manager Miller Huggins, in the opinion of some New York critics. President Grant of the Braves says they are winning because there are no anarchists on the team and no club house speech makers. Cleveland is no dark horse In the American league race, but they've entered en-tered the classic with a Charley horse, which Doc Johnston rides. It is fast approaching the time In baseball when a ball player will have to bring a letter from his pastor before be-fore he can speak to an umpire. Everett Scott's father, L. I. Scott, is manager of. the independent team at Auburn, Intl., this season. Two other Scotts, William and Walter, are on the team. Joe Engel, the Washington boy well known as a Boston, Washington, Buffalo Buff-alo and Minneapolis pitcher, is doing a good job of scouting for Clark Griffith Grif-fith now. The Optimists' club Is the name of a rooting organization behind the St. Louis Cardinals. They will have to oe something like that to stick through the season. One of the redeeming features of the Yankees' work is the hatting of Plpp. This energetic young man has his lamps on the ball and is pasting It for keeps. |