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Show Baseball Notes Few baseball pennants have been won by suggestions from fans. Herman, playing third base for the Braves, Is a Colgate university lad. Dan Flynn, out of the game for sev-. eral years, Is hitting 359 In the Texas league. Pat Ilardgrove, Evansvllle third baseman, continues his spasms of hard hitting. Pete Ritchie, catcher, released by Seattle was taken on by the San Francisco Fran-cisco cluD. a So as to cut down to the player-limit, player-limit, Fort Worth released Pitcher Sam Grny to Beaumont. George Murchlo, former University of California pitcher now wltn Oakland, Oak-land, seems to be coming fast. Bill Leard, veteran released as manager of the Winston-Salem team, was taken on by the Danville club. Joe Lopez, Cuban third baseman, who has been with the Columbus Association As-sociation team, is now with London in the Mint league. Bob Connery, business agent of the New York Americans, is said to have reopened negotiations for Pitcher Jake May of the Vernon team. William Gardner, a southpaw pitcher, added to the roster of the Cleveland Indians, making two Gara-ners Gara-ners on the team, halls from Hazel-wood, Hazel-wood, Pa. While pitchers with major league reputations are coming Into the Southern South-ern league only to fall, old BUI Whit-taker Whit-taker continues to be an ace, as Is Joe Martina. The New York Giants, winners of the world's baseball championship the last two years, finished In the cellar position three times in 1900, 1902, and 1915. Third Baseman Herman Loepp of Muskegon, who broke a leg In a recent re-cent game, will be out for the rest of the season, according to reports from the doctors. Rumors circulated that Fred Clarke had visited California with the Idea of looking Into Oakland affairs with an Idea of purchase of the Oaks' franchise fran-chise were denied by Mr. Clarke. The veteran Grover Land changed his mind about retiring from baseball and last week signed to play under that other veteran catcher, Dan O'Leary, with Flint In the Mint league. Arnold Statz, the Cubs' outfielder, Is known to his pals as "Jigger," owing ow-ing to his success with that Implement Imple-ment on the golf links. Statz is easily the best golfer playing major league baseball. The Three-I does not seem too fast for recruits from the South Dakota league. Danville took on three players from this defunct circuit Hart, Griffith and Lee and all seem to be making good. a a a Stuffy Mclnnis rises to remark that he is not thirty-five years old, the age gleaned from the official statistics issued by the Cleveland club. "I began be-gan playing when seventeen," he said, "and am only thirty-two." a a a Bill Speas, the Cedar Rapids manager, mana-ger, may not have his team showing the way to a pennant this year as it did last, but Bill himself has maintained main-tained his position as the Mississippi Valley league's premier pitcher, a a a The Raleigh club of the Piedmont has been sued for $25,000 damages by the estate of a man named John T. Pope, who fell from the top of the grand stand to his death when a railing rail-ing gave way as he leaned on it. a a a Ernie Krueger, catcher of the Indianapolis In-dianapolis team, has turned coach and will teach students at McAllister college col-lege the fine points of basketball next fall. Bunny Brief has accepted an , offer from the same Institution as baseball coach. |