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Show More than 100 college men are playing play-ing baseball this season in the major ma-jor leagues. Brooklyn has two of the greatest pitchers in the major leagues in Jess I'etty and Dazzy Vance. A European swimmer outswam a sea lion, and if Chet Thomas, the old Cleveland coach, is around, he can cut-bark cut-bark It. Urban Shocker, who has just signed to pitch for the Yanks, is said to have perfectei. a new delivery .he calls the radio ball. Pitcher Earl Collaid has been sold to the Seattle club of the Pacific Const league, officials of the Cleveland Indians In-dians announce. Bob Lennox, infielder, has been sol-d outright by the Fort Worth baseball club to Charlotte, N. C, of the South Atlantic association. Vie Hansen, former three-sport captain cap-tain at Syracuse university, will join the Syracuse stars of the New York-Pennsylvanin York-Pennsylvanin league. Lou Gehrig of the Yankees and Joe Sewell of Cleveland were the only two American league players to take part in every game last season. The Athletics are missing Al Sim-monds. Sim-monds. who batted an even .392 last year. Yet Cobb, Speaker and Miller the three vets, are going good enough. The White Sox have released a couple of rookie pitchers. Al Williamson William-son goes to Shreveport. He is a righthander. right-hander. Southpaw Hoy Wilson Is sent to San Antonio. Pitching offerings of Horace Lisen bee, Washington hurler. seem to please Iiabe Kuth. Three of Ruth's home runs this season have been made with Lisenbee pitching. We don't know what it moans, except ex-cept that the Red Sox must he doing better: A Cleveland writer snys they "came back strong in the first half of the first." Manager Hendricks1 of the Reds has two first basemen that are both good enough to be In there every day George Kelly and Walter Pipp. The former Is considered the regular. . Ping Hodie. veteran of 22 years in baseball and one of the best known Pacific Coast league stars for two decades, was given his unconditional release by the San Francisco Seals. Malcolm Moss, just a youngster off the Vanderbilt Campus. Is regarded as i one of the best pitchers with Louisville Louis-ville 'his year. He recently blanked 1 Kansas City. Allowing only five hits. Harry Heilmann. Petroit's slugging outfielder, has won the American league batting championship in odd years during the past eight seans. He expects to "break" h!s "jinx" this ; year. J President Claude Iav;don of the i New F.ngland h!i-l;i!l leaie announces an-nounces the selection of Patsy Omio van r.s manager of the AtlV.T.ro team. Donovan was formerly with 1 Trovldence and Jersey City. |