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Show VDIAMDNDV APIDIC-IIPSA Quincy, one of the new teams in the Three-I league, will be known as the Reds. Professional baseball and college football draw the largest crowds in sports. The University of California baseball base-ball team will invade the East this season. .Waterhury has unconditionally' released re-leased Rip Conway, who has failed to come to terms. Bucky Harris is leading a fighting ball club, one never whipped until the last man is out. For the first time in ten years, the Cleveland Indians are without a spit-ball spit-ball pitcher this season. Toronto, of the International, has obtained nineteen-year-old Outfielder Cleo Carlyle from Detroit on option. Jerry Wadsworth, son of United States Senator James Wadsworth, Is a member of the Yale baseball team. Fven a bag of peanuts and an electric elec-tric fan cannot make baseball by radio as thrilling as sitting in the bleachers. The Cincinnati club has Insured Rube Benton for $15,000 and Jack Hendricks for $20,000. Hain't wuth It. Condon, a rookie, has been released by London of the Michigan-Ontario league. A sore arm hastened his departure. de-parture. Joubert Davenport, the Chicago White Sox pitcher who hurt his arm some time ago. has his wing back in good shape again. Homer Jenkins, former star left-handed left-handed pitcher of Georgetown university, univer-sity, has been signed by the Washington Washing-ton Americans. Ernest J. Mann, right-hand pitcher of tiie New York Giants, has been sold to the Indianapolis team of the American association. Each player in the American league has two sets of home and two sets of road uniforms. These uniforms, 100 to the team, cost ?25 each. Mark Humphreys, Jimmy Manning and George Carroll, right-hand pitchers, pitch-ers, have been released to Knoxville of the Sally league by Memphis. The average number of bats used by a major league club Is 25 dozen. These bats average $2 apiece. It costs th clubs about $000 a season for bats. |