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Show OTTS of the DIAMOND Pitcher Artie Nehf of the Giants' is showing a big improvement over his early season work and promise:'! to get back into his old winning stride. The Clevelands and the New York Americans are both great hltfing teams, hut for the old tear the cover uff slugging the Yankees seem to have it on the Indians. The veteran, John McCloskey, Is coining into his own .this season. His Memphis team is tearing along at top speed out in front in the Southern league. After the Syracuse International league team bad lost 14 games in a row, the York Staters came back and defeated Baltimore twice in succession. succes-sion. Jack Daubert may not be the most widely advertised player on the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati team, but there are none more valuable than be. Ping Bodie is almost as popular among the New York baseball scribes as Babe Kuth. Aside from Rogers Hornsby the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati players seem to be hogging the batting honors in the National league. The Brooklyn fans are all roused up over the pennant fight and Intend to see to it that the Dodgers do not get the worst of it if they can help It. Bobby O'Farrell continues to shine back of the plate. The Cincinnati club has released Joe Meyer, the young college first baseman base-man to Terre Haute of the Three-I league. St. Louis fans have come out of their long sleep and show signs of much life these days as the result of the great showing of both the Browns and Cardinals. Car-dinals. Casey Stengel and Cy Williams are playing great ball for the Phillies. If somebody does not stop Babe Ituth he is liable to wreck all the fences In the American league ball parks, to say nothing about the houses adjoining adjoin-ing the parks. Manager Mitchell of the Cubs made a ten-strike when he grabbed Zeb Terry Ter-ry from Pittsburgh at the waiver price. Zeb has been going great guns ever since he joined the Chicago team. Clark Griffith says the Indians look to be the best in the American league, with New York, St. Louis and the White Sox all having a strong chance. Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Cubs' famous right-handed pitcher, is not as steady as In pre-war days, an occasional wild pitch being chalked against him. |