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Show Baseball Notes Jim Itlley, Shreveport's first baseman, base-man, has been sold to Washington. With or without Rogers Hornsby, by the way, the Cardinals seem to be losing ball games. I'itcher Manning of the Philadelphia Americans has been obtained by the Uichmond club of tllj Virginia league. Hal Chase, former big leaguer, will manage the Nogales International baseball team of Sonora, Mexico, It Is ;id. Kobert Knode of P.altlmore, former Michigan university star first baseman, base-man, has joined the Cleveland Indians. In-dians. Carman Hill, pitcher for the Indianapolis In-dianapolis club of the American association, as-sociation, wears spectacles on the field. Waterbury of the Eastern league announces an-nounces the purchase of Ramon (Mike) Gonzales from the Toronto Internationals. In-ternationals. Harold F. Gill of Brockton, pitcher for the Holy Cross college baseball 'lub, has signed a contract to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds. In the major league baseball organizations or-ganizations 60 per cent of the gate receipts go to the home team and 40 per cent to the visiting team. Second Baseman Gard Glslason, who has got a poor start with Little Rock this year, has been released to the Syracuse club of the International league. With the pitching staff already crippled the Cincinnati Reds lost another an-other valuable player when Babe Pin-elli Pin-elli was spiked In a game with the Cubs. The Charlotte club has turned Pitcher Jim Manning back to the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Nationals. Last year Manning Man-ning was a winning pitcher in the Virginia Vir-ginia league. One Manush no sooner departs from the Mint league than another comes In. Saginaw sold Harry Manush to Omaha, and now Hamilton has signed Earl Manush. One of the miracles of the base- ball season thus far is the fact that no enthusiastic scribe has referred to Connie Mack and Wilber Robinson as "miracle men." O'Farrell, the Chicago catcher, is out after batting honors In the National Na-tional league. The backstop of the Cubs has been whaling the bail at a furious rate. The Des Moines club has released Outfielder Walter Genln to the Peoria club of the Three-I, which is trying to rebuild its shattered fortunes with Western league discards. John Paul Jones, who was considered consid-ered a major league prospect two or three years ago, Is slipping. The Springfield club let him go and he caught on with Henryetta. WTalter Huptzinger, the star pitcher of Pennsylvania university, wound up his college career gloriously by beating beat-ing Dartmouth, 6 to 2, and then left to join the New York Giants. The Ancient Robby Davis, second baseman, released by Binghamton of the New YorkPennsylvanIa league, has found another refuge, the WI1-liamsport WI1-liamsport club of the same league having hav-ing taken him on. Elmer Bowman, the Eastern league champion swatter, made a new league mark for batting recently when in a New Haven-Albany game he got six hits in as . many times at bat, including in-cluding a homer and a double. A Los Angeles critic says the Angels An-gels got all the best of it when they traded Tom Daly to Portland for Butch Byler, adding that Byler may not hit as well as Daly, but that he Is a smart catcher and cne who knows what Is going on all the time. |