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Show Baseball Notes YVaseda (Japan) university will send its baseball team on a tour next year to the United States. This here Adolph Ttettig is said to be a smart young pitcher, and yet he signed with Connie Hack. Ty Cobb continues to slam the ball with tolling effect. He has passed George Sisler for hatting honors. Maybe Babe ltuth remembers that when he was a little boy be used to hear them talk about an old-time ball player named Ty Cobb. Paddy Shea, former Giant hurler, has been purchased by the San Francisco Fran-cisco club of the Pacific Coast league. Jimmy Caveney is fielding wonderfully wonder-fully for the Cincinnati Ileds, but he is proving a sad failure as a batsman. According to one Detroit scribe "it is common gossip that Howard Klnnke Is not trying to do his best for the Tigers." Ben Koehler, having played ball for '10 years or more and done it well, lias quit the playing end and taken a job on the ilint league umpiring staff. The San Francisco chili lias dug up another possible phenotn, so it is stated, stat-ed, in Dave Kyle, outfielder, Oakland boy, who has been playing independent b.;!l. Buck Freeman, formerly with Connie Con-nie Mack and sent by that master mind to Tom Turner's Portland team, has joined the Decatur team of the Three-I Three-I league. Chick Maynard, the Dartmouth college col-lege shortstop, who was going to burn things up for the Boston Bed Sox and was given columns of bull by Boston scribes, didn't last. Just think, for Instance, where the Chicago White Sox might be in the American leagne race if Dick Kerr was in there, pitching with Faber and the rest of the bunch. Georg Matthews, outfielder, who was given permission to play hide-pendent hide-pendent ball by the Salt Luke City club until needed, has been called in by Manager Duffy Lewis. Veteran Tom Hughes, with Los Angeles, is a booster for Lefty George Burger of SeaHie and thinks th? former for-mer Western league pitcher will be a star in the big show next year. The veteran Byron Houck, who joined the Vernon Tigers In an emergency, coming out of his retirement retire-ment at Hollywood, has decided not to cuOirn to movies for the time being. |