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Show BASEBALL JH NOTES MJ The New York American baseball club spent $9,053.50 for baseballs last season. Winning Texas league pennants seems to have become a habit with the Fort Worth team. The veteran Tris Speaker has just rounded out his fifth year as manager of the Cleveland Indians. As to firmness and rockbound strength Gibraltar is a bowl of j el I y when compared with a big league umpire. um-pire. As a feature of class day exercise.-, at Vassar, girl students defeated their fathers in a baseball game. The score was 13 to 10. ''I The Boston Nationals, disrupted by Illness and Injuries, took over Marty S Shay of the Worcester Eastern league team to play shortstop. May 10. 1S71. the Chicago baseball team defeated the Olympics of Washington. Wash-ington. 9 to 0. scoring all of their nine runs in the ninth inning. Ernie Qulgley. who has been nm-piring nm-piring In the National league, for ten years, Is a first-class basketball referee and an excellent footbnll official. A baseball manager must have a clear and penetrating voice. Otherwise Other-wise how can he wake up bis athletes from leaden feet to concrete dome? The oldest pitcher in the New York State league seems the best, judging by the performance of Lefty George, who turned In three straight shutouts for York. New Orleans reports that the Yankees. Ilodgers and White Sox would like to have Johnny Hollin.'s-worth. Hollin.'s-worth. star member of the Pelican pitching staff. Charley Schmidt, catcher with t.' e Detroit Tigers for many years and manager of the Springfield Western association club, has signed a contract to umpire in the Western association. Schmidt began his career in the Western association 22 years ago. |