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Show Baseball Notes It might happen that both New York-clubs York-clubs would run a close second all of the year. The Pacific International hopes to pull through the year, but its prospects pros-pects are not the brightest. Pitcher Geary of the Seattle club goes to the Cincinnati lteds in exchange ex-change for three players and $10,000. Pitcher Carl Williams, who was sold to Albany by Waterbury, has been suspended for not reporting to the club. Frank Baker, the veteran third baseman, is getting to be the big boy with the flail for the Yanks aside from Ruth. The Pacific Coast filled up too freely free-ly with players sent on from the East and wishes that it hadn't. New blood Is needed. Joe Gleason, whom Billy Smith tried to be rid of earlier 111 the season, has been pitching some remarkable ball for Shreveport. The Internationa league, formerly the Eastern league, is thirty years old, and has developed many crack baseball players. Jack Perrin, outfielder and a varsity football man of the University of 1 Michigan, has joined the Boston Red Sox for a tryout. The veteran Doc Jay Andrews has resigned as manager of the Huron team of the Dakola league and Itoy Brown succeeds him. What has become of all those finds j of the year, whose monikers were paraded in type lust April? Have they been lost again? Dode I'askert. playit ir with Kansas City under a fat bonus, does not find the going so easy and has begun to crab at umpires as an alibi. Charleston, since Larry Cheney took the management, has continued to go great guns. It ran up 14 straight wins before a halt was called. j Pitcher Friday, who started in the Virginia league with Wilson, but was sent to the Piedmont league, has joined the Petersburg Tn;n!:n:akers. The Brooklyn National league club Is in the peculiar position of working with both Memphis and New Orleans, rivals for the Southern league pennant. pen-nant. The Detroit club, always on the ' look for Infielders. has purchased Jack Taveuer. the midget shortstop of the Columbia club of the South Atlantic league. I T'm Hughes, pitching for Los Angeles An-geles the other day, got special mention men-tion in the papers for shutting out the bard-hitting Oakland team, allowing hut six hits. Doc Barrett, who formerly served as scout and trainer for the New Y'ork Yankees and Giants, has been engaged en-gaged by Connie Mack to dig up some talent for the Athletics. a In Outfielders Trefry and Ramsey, who top Augusta's batting order, the Tigers claim the two fastest runners In the league. They are also among the best base runners In the Sally league. |