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Show Diamond Squibs France ranks second among the baseball playing nations of the world. First Baseman Herman of the Atlanta At-lanta club litis been bought by Memphis. Mem-phis. G. H. Ruth Is fast creeping up on F. C. Williams of the Philadelphia Nationals. Na-tionals. University of Arizona baseball nine, located at Tucson, may book eastern games next season. In the major leagues, base-stealing has fallen off more than OU per cent In the last 15 years. The Syracuse franchise In the International In-ternational league will be shifted to Providence, R. I., next year. Now that William Plercy has started start-ed winning he has taken a plnce beside be-side Howard J. Ehmke as a Red Sox reliable. Howard Freigau, of whom so much was written early In the spring, seems to have llivvered with the St. Louis Cardinals. Harry Smythe and Rufus Clarke of the Augusta club's pitching staff have been sold to Detroit for a lump sum of $11,000. Eddie Roush of the Reds has been hitting in great form of late and has been crawling to the top in the National Na-tional league. Horace Milan, younger brother of the 1922 Washington manager, is now playing left field for Evansville In the Three-I league. If the Giants don't win the pennant, pen-nant, one alibi will be the Reds. Some teams seem to have the Indian sign on the other teams. The Little Rock club added to Its offense considerably when it got Frank Philbin from Mobile and Dewitt Le-bourveau Le-bourveau from Nashville. Eucal Clanton, first baseman, turned back to the Cleveland Indians by Little Lit-tle Rock, was shipped on to Water-bury Water-bury In the Eastern league. The Detroit club announces that It has purchased from Augusta of the South Atlantic league Pitchers Ru- ius luia. ttiiu jiuiiy ouiuu, Newton Fisher, veteran of years ago, decided to come back as an umpire um-pire in the Appalachian league this season, but he did not last long.. President McCormick G. Moore of the Reading International league ball club announces the sale of Bill Barrett, outfielder, to the Chicago White Sox. Goldie Rapp, captain and third baseman of the Philadelphia Nationals, Nation-als, was released to the Fort Worth club of the Texas league under option. op-tion. Carl Schnell, right-handed pitcher with the Cincinnati Nationals for a couple of seasons, has been signed by the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast league. Wise observers say that Connie Mack's team needs experienced players play-ers more than anything else if they are to give the Yankees a battle down the line. Irving Kantlehner, former pitcher with Pittsburgh and later with San Francisco, is taking a summer course In athletic coaching at the University of California. Southpaw Hippo Hodges, sent by Wichita Falls to Paris, busted only a few brief days In that company, and when returned by the Paris management man-agement he was sent on to Bloomlng- ton of the Three-I league. |