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Show Diamond Squibs The more home runs Babe Ruth knocks, the sicker he will be when he pays his income tax. The trouble seems to be too many pitchers in the spring and not any along about June. St. Louis has won the soccer championship, cham-pionship, but that won't get the Browns or Cardinals anything. Dick Kerr, holdout pitcher of Chicago Chi-cago Americans, will play with a semi-pro semi-pro team in Chicago this season. Japan has no professional baseball teams, although the game is spreading. spread-ing. Frank Shanahan, former Northwestern Northwest-ern High third baseman, may Be given a tryout by Chicago White Sox in 1923. Charles Deal, former third baseman of Chicago Nationals, has been signed by the City Hall team of the Mid-West Baseball league. Christy Mathewson, xormer National league pitcher, has been unanimously elected president of the newly formed "B club" of Bucknell university. Inflelder Marty Krug of the Seattle Pacific Coast league team has been sold to the Chicago National league club for the sum of $7,500. Looking at a picture of Frank Frisch playing golf, and more specifically using us-ing a midiron, we would infer that his forte is playing baseball. What John McGraw says about members of the Giants who follow the bright lights would make your radio sizzle. Bobby Roth has at one time or another an-other been a member of all the American Amer-ican league teams, except Detroit and St. Louis. Pat Moran expects Pete Donahue, the young college pitcher of the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Reds, to be the sensation of the National league. That eye specialist who says j..een quiets the nerves has never treated a big league manager who was weed--ing out his "bushers." Dick Kerr may be causing Gleason a lot of trouble this spring, but he surely caused some American league hitters some consternation last summer. sum-mer. The alleged best golf plaj'er among the baseball players is said to be Arnold Statz, the Cubs' outfielder, purchased pur-chased from Los Angeles for $120,000 or the equivalent. Catcher Johnny Zlnn, brother of Jimmy Jim-my Zinn, the pitcher, has been signed by the Muskogee Southwestern league club. Last year he hud a brief trial with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Galveston club has sold Pitcher Pitch-er Harry Lee to the Kansas City club. Lee has been with several Texas league clubs in the past two or three years. The Xew York Nationals have acquired ac-quired the services of Arthur Keydlor, nn eUhteen-ypar-old riu'ht-hand pitcher, pitch-er, from a Texas military academy team. The appointment of Derrill Pratt as field captain of the Bed Sox for this season has been announced. He succeeds Everett Scott, who was traded trad-ed to New York. George Hughes, last year with Wichita Wich-ita In the Western league and formerly for-merly manager of the Moline club in the Three-I league, has been signed to pilot rhe Cairo team in the Kitty league. |