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Show BASEBALL MM Toledo has sold First Baseman ltoy Grimes lo Kansas City. Clarence C. Langenbacher has bought the Clarksburg club of the Middle Atlantic league. Being an international pastime, it's funny there is no event in the Olympics Olym-pics for glaring at the umpire. Leo Duroeher, Yankee inficlder. Is the only big leaguer with nerve enough to wear spats and carry a cane. Nolan Richardson, owned by Detroit, and now playing in the Texas league, may get another chance to make the grade in 1929. James Fred Cole, the only nine-letter athlete ever turned out by Louisiana Louisi-ana Poly, has signed with Little Rock, to report at once. Pete Schneider, of Vernon estab lish.ed a world's record when he hit five homers in. a double-header at Salf Lake City, May 10, 1923. Al Nixon, purchased from Titts burgh, has been given his release by Portland after be tried to land a steady berth in the outlield. The Boston Braves are said to be interested in Dick Porter, one of the leading batters in the International league. He's with Baltimore. Shortslop Ben Boyd and First Baseman Base-man Mack Pickett have been added to the roster of the Nashville Vols. They-were They-were found in n Nashville city league. Outfielder Charley Klein, an outstanding out-standing star of the Central league, has joined the Philadelphia Nationals, coming from Fort Wayne champions of the first half. Carl l'owell, who tried for several years to make the grade as a big league pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, In-dians, has retired and will manage a chain of farms in Texas. Earl Combs, star Yankee outfielder, grew up in the mountains of Kentucky and had never seen a Class A or major ma-jor league baseball game until 1921, when he was twenty years old. Late batting averages indicate Ileinie Manush of the St. Louis: Browns continuing bis drive to again lead the American league in hitting, though his team had been in a slump. Greenville, the city that won two successive Sally league pennants and bad hoped for a third this year, is in straits. Frank Walker, owner and manager, has put the franchise up for sale. . William (Larry) Gardner, former third baseman for the Pted Sox and Cleveland Indians, has been named head baseball coach at the University of Vermont, from which he graduated 20 years ago. Outfielder Giles, who was with Savannah Sa-vannah the first half of the race, has been optioned to Tampa by Nashville of the Southern league. Tampa fried to get Jack Kloza from Chattanooga but could not make it. One of the tales of August is to the effect that Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Pirates has in mind a trade with Boston for Rogers Hornsby, with the idea of making Hornsby manager of the Pirates for 1929, to succeed Owen Bush. Although the St. Paul Saints do not appear to have tiie fielding combination combina-tion that set a record by clipping olT 213 double plays last year, one scribe points to the fact that they will reach 200 or close to it if they continue at the present rate. "Sronry" McGlynn. sixty-two, who was 29 ears a shining light as pilcn er for ti e Baltimore Orioles, the Bos ten Braves. St. Louis (ordinals an:! Philadelphia Athletics, is now life ! guard at a Lake Michigan bathing re sort at Manitowoc. Wis. |