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Show IMIMIMIS Kddle Collins continues his hitting streak. Tho clinch In boxing Is no rclntlon to tho squeeze piny of baseball. "You can't tell n pluyer without n scoreboard." Can't tell him whnt? Otto Miller, In bis twelfth year with the Dodgers, Is catching better ball than ever. Mulrcnan seems to be getting better every time out. At least, his control In Improving. Our Iden of nothing at nil: tho honor of batting Into tho first triple play of the season. Clyde Mnnlon, Detroit catcher, lins been loaned to the Toledo American association as-sociation team. When a bnttcr stretches n single Into a double It doesn't mean that a rubber ball wns used. Preliminary work on tho new stndlum for tho New York Americans bus been started. Tho New York Yankees hnvo sent Outfielder Chrlstlnnseii to-JoplIn to ro-pluco ro-pluco Frank Qlclch. Walter ("Dutch") Itucther, former Cincinnati player, Is giving great serv-Ico serv-Ico to tho Dodgers this year. School teachers nro umpiring hull games, In Chicago. Maybe It'll make the kids perk up In their studies. There Is something wrong with the dny during which soveral homers nren't registered In tlie big leagues. Fort Worth beat Wichita Falls In four straight games of their recent series, ench tlmo by a one-run mnrgln. Tho 14th must bo Wnlter Plpp's lucky dny. Ho cracked out ills first homer of the season on April 11, nnd his second on Muy 14. Shortstop Tom Stevenson of tho Minneapolis Min-neapolis team becamo disgusted with his own work Inst week, packed his grip and stnrted homeward. One of the notuhle comebneks of tho season who should not bo overlooked Is tho veteran Hill McKechnle, who Is going great guns for Minneapolis. Wnlter Chrlstcnscn, new outfielder from tho New York Yankees, got away with tho Joplln team. He Is compll-monted compll-monted for his smartness of play ns well ns his hitting nnd fielding ability. Tho Detroit club nlso Is golpg to the Alnbamn colleges for them. Tt has dgned George Johnson, pitcher and captain, nnd Sam Harnes. second baseman base-man of the Alabama Polytechnic Instl-ut. Instl-ut. : |