OCR Text |
Show BASEBALL Jl NOTES Boston college baseball squad Includes In-cludes 17 football players of 1928. Eleven members of the Ashevllle team in the Sally league are collegians. The four opening day games In the Pacific Coast league drew a total of 40,000 admissions. , Bob Weiland, southpaw rookie with the White Sox, is one of the biggest pitchers in the majors. The Blue Ridge league this year will play 120 games instead of J00, with double headers every Saturday. . Louis Martin, an outfielder, has been added to the Bakersfield tQam. He looked good in the early games. Alex Gaston, catcher with the Red Sox, caught in 136 games at St Paul last year, which Is a lot of work. Walter Murphy and Lefty Hollings-worth Hollings-worth have been released by Nashville to the Canton farm of the Central league. Outfielder O'Bannion has joined the Wilmington club of the Eastern Carolina Caro-lina loop, coming from Augusta of the Sally circuit. Belve Bean, youthful right-hander, has been sold by the Kansas City Blues to the New Orleans club of the Southern South-ern association. After looking over the big leaguers, in the South, Buck Herzog, a star of other years, declared himself for the Yanks Jo repeat. George Nicholson, southpaw, is a soldier from Fort Snelling, on a three months' furlough to get a trial with the Minneapolis club. Roger Peckinpaugh is not worrying about the throwing arms of his outfielders. out-fielders. He says no quartette can throw better than Porter, Averill, Falk and Jamleson. There are three women owners In baseball Miss Florence Killilea at Milwaukee, Jack Dunn's widow at Baltimore and Mrs. Anna Belle Sen scnbach of High Point, N. C. Jimmy Walsh, one of the most feared batters In the International league, starts his twenty-third season In organized baseball this year as a member of the Jersey City club. Bobby Reeves with Washington, Is an erratic player. He always makes astonishing plays In a game, but also comes through with most astonishing and cosily errors at other moments. Johnny Dohbs, manager of the P.lr-mingham P.lr-mingham team, not only has the tallest pitcher In the minors In Jim Weaver, turned over by the Washington club, but also a rookie named Stouten borough. With the bases loaded In a recent Sun Francisco-Portland game the batter bat-ter singled, hut no seure was made heeiiu.se the hull hit the runner on third and he was called out. One was mil at the time. Johnny Hawkins, former Southern Cijlifoniia grid star, who Is servlnc a prison term In San Qtient in now is devoiiim must of his spare tlrn I here to development" of prison ath Iciics. especially baseball. |