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Show Diamond Squibs Erve Scott has acquired the hitting habit since going to New York. The deflation process seems to have hit nobody any harder than it has Babe Ruth. Pitcher Hasty of the Athletics consumes con-sumes just as much time in pitching as do other big league twirlers. Bunny Hearne, veteran pitcher, has been made manager of the Wilson team of the Virginia Ieagu, succeeding' succeed-ing' Tom Clarke. Max Flack, outfielder for the Chicago Chi-cago Nationals, on Tuesday was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for Cliff Heathcote, also an outfielder. Trustees of Cramton Bowl have received re-ceived a telegram from Connie Mack accepting Montgomery's invitation for the Athletics to train there next spring. Pitcher Roy Appleton, transferred by Fort Worth to Paris of the Texas-Oklahoma Texas-Oklahoma league, has been shipped on to Stamford of the West Texas circuit. cir-cuit. Frank Keck, sold by the Springfield Western Association club to the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati National for $10,000 or thereabouts, there-abouts, joined Springfield as a free agent. Joe Mathes of the Beaumont club, who already seems to have everything, added a little bit more when he got Pitcher Slim Love from the Vernon Coast League club. Wichita Falls' sale of Pitcher Clarence Clar-ence Darrough to Omaha caused some surprise in Texas league circles, as he was about the best looking pitcher on the Spudders' staff. Hubert ("Dutch") Leonard of the Detroit American league club will pitch for the Fresno club of the San Joaquin Valley league during the remainder re-mainder of the baseball season. Seven former Manhattan battery men were in the points on the same day in the American association recently, re-cently, namely : Cullop, Jonard, Krue-ger, Krue-ger, Kocher, Gonzales. Rogers and Gossett. |