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Show Diamond Squibs The Decatur club of the Three-I has Teleased Outfielder Oddie utraln to Okmulgee. The Birmingham club has turned Pitcher Grover Young back to the Oklahoma Ok-lahoma City club. Outfielder Adolph Schlnkle of the Sacramento bunch has been released to Nashville of the Southern league. The Des Moines club, which is being be-ing rebuilt by Mike Kelley, purchased "Infielder Joe Kingman from Wichita Falls. The Minneapolis club has closed the deal with Memphis by which Hugh Critz is obtained to play the Infield for the Millers. John McGraw points with some pride to the list of first basemen he carries, In George Kelly, Jimmy O'Connell and -Jack Bentley. The St. Paul club has released John Jtooney to the Sioux City club. St. Taul got Rooney from Fairbury of the Nebraska State. All freak pitching deliveries the shine ball, emery ball and spit ball, -will be prohibited in the American association this season. Good ball teams could be built from players turned adrift by John McGraw nd Connie Mack, both said to know something about baseball talent." George Kerrigan, young professional golfer, whose playing has attracted attention, at-tention, has signed up with the Virginia Vir-ginia Country club. Long Beach, Cal. Don Flynn," veteran outfielder and pitcher, who jumped the Dallas club in 1919, has been reinstated and sold ty the Dallas club to Oklahoma City. - Catcher Bill Fish, who hopped the nttsfield club and was put on the ineligible in-eligible list, has been reinstated and traded to Albany for Outfielder Joe Leary. Ed Yuna, infielder, who had a trial with Cleveland a year ago, has been dropped again, the Des Moines club Tiaving transferred him to Peoria of the Three-I. Grover Cleveland Alexander In the spring of 1910 was sent away from In-' In-' lianapolis to Syracuse because he was not good enough for the American association. as-sociation. Manager Dan O'Leary of the Flint club, in training at Peoria, 111., has signed Jerry Prendergast, brother of the former Cub pitcher, to bolster his hurling staff. Manager Fisher of " the Muskegon Mint league club, made the first cut of the year when Mau and P.eyer, piri-licrs. and Itnndal and Rathburn, lnlioUlers, were released. Outfielder Chick Shorten, formerly with (lie Detroit club and now owned fcy the Cincinnati National league tciini, has been bought by the Nashville Nash-ville club of the Southern league. Willie Kamm, recruit third baseman purchased for $100,000 from the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league by the Chicago White Sox, has shone so brightly, so A far that lie is expected to be the "find" of the year. What Is left of Walter Malls rejoined re-joined the Oakland team at the start of the season after a session In the hospital, where he had his tonsils taken out, five teeth extracted and a growth in his nose drilled through. |