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Show Baseball Notes Cleveland pitchers appear to be coming com-ing along in better style, especially Coveleskie. Hack Miller, son of Sebastian, the strong man, is thumping the apple right merrily. All Mr. Ruth seems to be leading the league in this year is in getting put out of the lot. They call it the "rabbit ball" because be-cause the pitcher hasn't any more chance than a rabbit. Nobody has yet found a way to induce in-duce umpires to call a game before they get ready to do so. Manager Spencer Abbott of Memphis credits the improvement in bis team to the acquisition of Bill Huber from Toledo. Humor is that Clayton Molesworth resigned management of the Birmingham, Birming-ham, Ala., club so he can be connected with the Pirates. "Charley horses" make II t tie difference differ-ence to man in the ordinary pursuits of life, but they make outfielding and base-running nearly impossible. , The weather has been made to order for Jack Quinn. It's cool every time he pitches ; or else he "gets the breaks" or something, probably something. Discord in the ranks of Seattle players play-ers resulted in Walter McCredie stepping step-ping out as manager, with Jack Adams, Ad-ams, veteran catcher, succeeding him. "Slim" Sallee, the veteran of the major leagues, who has been with the Toledo club of the American association, associa-tion, has been given his unconditional 1 release. I Danny Silvn, second baseman of the I'ittslield team, who was hit in the head by a thrown ball in practice recently, re-cently, was not as badly hurt as thought. Sam Vlck, outfielder, obtained in the spring by the Toronto club from the Boston lied Sox, has quit baseball and gone back to his home in Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Attacks on the Southern association I'nipires hereafter will draw a suspen- sion of at least !!0 days regardless of the previous good record of the offending offend-ing player. .loe 'Ward, the Philadelphia Joe, former manager of the lialeigh team in the Piedmont league, has been signed by the Philadelphia Nationals as a scout. - Bill Pierre, International league catcher, has been secured on an optional op-tional agreement by the Greensboro club of the Piedmont Jeague from the Buffalo club. The movement to stop umpire baiting bait-ing is not only a serious threat at our personal liberty, but it promises to take a good deal of fun out of attendance at-tendance at baseball games. Walter Johnson lost his first game in the American league, falling before the Detroit Tigers, 3 to 2, on August 2, 1007. In that game Ty Cobb hit a timely single and stole two bases. Manager Connie Mack has signed Pitcher "Curley" Ogden of Swarthmore college, and released Walter Wolfe, former Lebanon Valley pitcher, to the Hartford club of the Eastern league. |