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Show Baseball , Notes Father Connie Mack is helping Son Earl out at Moline by sending him Pitcher Frank Loftus. Tommy Magrahn, of the Durham Bulls, has developed into about the best shortstop in the league they say. With the reporting of Jim Kernan, the catcher from Yale, the Reading club had a backstop to spare and released re-leased Carl Johnson. The Saginaw club, seeking pitchers, made arrangements for the return of Clarence Gillenwater from the San Francisco club. The Rochester club of the International Interna-tional has taken on another collegian. He is Bill Tiemey, star pitcher of the Lafayette College team. There is a pitcher in the Western association by the name of Custard, who ought to make a fine battery partner for Catcher Lemon. The Dallas club, failing to get a rise out of Houston in its bid for Ray Blades, bought Mike Massey from the Oklahoma City Western League club. The Fort Worth club has sent Frank Haley, third baseman, to Clovis in the West Texas league, where he will work out and see if he lias a chance to come back. One of Babe Ruth's newspaper articles says that St. Louis is using Urban Shocker too often in the game. Urban Shocker has not criticized New York for doing that to Babe Ruth. Wichita arranged with Des Moines for the "loan" of Don Grant for use as utility man. but the proposition was spoiled when Grant, taking a highly "ethical" view of it. refused to be a party to such a transfer. Those who are batting against him in the International league claim that Chief Pender is about as good as he ever was. They declare, anyhow, that 'ie is better than about 75 per cent of ' the boxnien now drawing salaries in the majors. The records show that Grover Alexander, star right-hander of the Chicago Cubs, lias blanked National league clubs eighty times in a jieriou of eleven years. "Babe" Adams is next with forty-three shutouts in thirteen thir-teen years. Jimmy (Dike) Brannigan, playing second base for Moline, is not to blame for the poor showing of Earl Mack's team this year. Here is a sample of his work: In the game of June 21 against Danville he handled 12 chances without a btmble and iiit a homer with two on. |