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Show "Babe Ruth," says a sports writer, "is no longer the entire Yankee team." Wilbur Cooper, left-handed pitcher, was unconditionally released by the Detroit Americans. Ike Kahdot, shortstop of the Ard-more Ard-more (Mass.) team, made nine assists and seven putouts without a miss in a recent game. . While it may be true that Ruth has fallen off. in his home-running, you'll notice the boys aren't passing anybody any-body else to get to him. The St. Louis Cardinal pitchers practice control by lining, up before a j wall at regulation throwing distance and aiming at certain spots. Although Babe Ruth is near the top of the American league batting race and is far ahead of home-run sluggers, he has only five sacrifices credited to him. . . Joe Klugman, second baseman of the Memphis team', hit in 21 successive games before he was finally stopped. Ray Caldwell of Little Rock turned the trick. ' Little Al Nixon once played three j innings each in right, center and left fields for the Boston Braves in a game against Pittsburgh, and had one put-out put-out in each. Washington university, at St. Louis, Mo., is the latest of the prominent colleges col-leges to drop baseball from its list of major sports because of lack of interest inter-est in the game. Baseball's vocabulary is becoming complicated. Stanley Harris struck cut intentionally to get five innings played before a storm broke and was fined for "stalling." Freddie Brickell, sensational nineteen-year-old centerfielder of the Wichita Western League Baseball club, has been sold to the Pittsburgh I'irates for about $15,000. John C. "Red" Oldham, left-handed pitcher of the Pittsburgh National I -leagueHub, and former Detroit Tiger, was released to the Kansas City team of the'American association. The venerable Jacques Fournier tied the modern record for home runs in a single game by clouting three homers j In a wild slugfest in which the Car-I Car-I dlnals beat the Robins, 12 to 10. Heinie Manush, who has supplanted Ty Cobb in center 'field for the Ty-gers, Ty-gers, is slamming tlie ball so hard that the Detroit manager is not worrying about taking him out of the lineup. Jimmy Uchrinsko is a right-handed pitcher of Polish descent. He conies from McKeespOrt, Pa. lie was a semi-pro semi-pro when Washington got him, pitching pitch-ing for the National Tube works team of Pittsburgh. Cy Young's attempt to set a world's - record for consecutive games pitched was shattered in 1S92 after he bad made a run of 15 by a home run by-Mark by-Mark Baldwin of the Pittsburgh club, who was a regular ..'197 bitter. When one of his teammates hits a long fly to the outfield and be is on third bfase, Mack Hillis, inlielder of tlie Hollywood (Calif.) club, goes back !i few yards and takes a running start ! to the plate after the catch. i Fotlinrgill and Manush, Detroit outfielders, out-fielders, hav,? been ttiuking the ball at a greav clip lately. They have sup-ulicd sup-ulicd much of tin club's offensive, i ! Along wil'n Ib-iliiKiiin they form one of ; i he lmnl'st hilling outfields in the ; majors. |