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Show Y DIAMOND V APIPC-yPBA In his baseball career John Mil-jus, Mil-jus, Cleveland pitcher, has been with thirteen different clubs. The Boston Braves have shipped Pitcher Pat Simmons to Pittsfield of the Eastern league on option. Hard luck followed Flint Rhem to Minneapolis. He hurled 15 innings before his mates made a run. Catcher John Allen has been turned over to Springfield of the Eastern league by the New York Giants. Of all the classes of athletes at Rutgers university the baseball men rauk the highest in their studies. Amanda Clement of Hudson, S. Dak., has been umpiring baseball games for the past twenty-five years. The new ball park at Baltimore will be so constructed that 25,000 fans can make their exit in two and a half minutes. Pug Allen, for many years a Southern South-ern Association baseball player, is now head professional of the Deland (Fla.) golf course. Among the many New York high school boys who have made good in baseball are Gehrig, Hoyt, Thompson. Thomp-son. Frisch, Judge and Connolly. Baltimore has obtained William H. Clarkson, righthander pitcher, from the Boston Braves on option. He has been a holdout on the big league club. University of California's baseball nine will open a six weeks' schedule in Hawaii by meeting the all-Chinese team of Honolulu in that city July 4. Gordon Kessler, football and baseball base-ball star at Maryland, was elected president of his class as a freshman, fresh-man, and has been re-elected each year that followed. Bruno Burns, star pitcher at Boston Bos-ton university, has only one arm. He Is a former all-around Charleston High athlete and star of the Terriers' freshman baseball team of 1927. Otis Cashion, Shreveport, Texas league, center fielder, tied what is said to be the world's outfield put-out put-out record recently. He made 12 in the Shreveport-San Antonio game. The Pirates may not have to worry about the shortstop position next year for they have first call on Rabbit Wartsler of Indianapolis, who is batting bat-ting the ball at a terrific clip this season. sea-son. Every nickel of profit at a benefit fight show in Cleveland is to go to n fund for the expansion of amateur baseball. No fight fan. fighter, manager, man-ager, politician or writer received a free ticket. Ty Cobb Is taking baseball vacation, vaca-tion, the first in a quarter of a century. cen-tury. You may reach him this summer sum-mer In a chateau .hist outside Paris. He's rented it for the season, and is on bis way. Mobile has uncovered a future big leaguer in Elmer Klumpp. slugging outfielder purchased from the Mississippi Mis-sissippi Valley league. Manager Rudy Ilulswitt is grooming the youngster young-ster for future service with the Cos-ton Cos-ton Red Sox. |