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Show Baseball Notes Tho Boston Red Sor havo released Outfielder Fred McGafTey of Lynn. j Chuck Fonn, n Chlneso ball player, has. been practicing with the Athletics. According to eastern critics there Is ntoro Interest In baseball tbls spring than ever. "Babe," Ruth as a vaudeville nrtlst, has clearly shown that he Is n great baseball player. Tho St Louis Cardinals bdlcvc that they hnvo tho pitching find of the season sea-son In Barfoot. Manoger Slack of tho Athletlcfl Is still having dfllculty getting a good pitching stnlT together. "Speed" Martin, veteran Cub hufler. hits been released to the St. Paul American Association club. Modern Improvements hnvo not made life more enjoyable for the occupant oc-cupant of the baseball ccllur. I!. A. Frlcks, '2-1 , of Swartbmore, Pn.; has been elected captain of the Weslcyan vunlty baseball team. For the first time In years the Athletics nru commencing to net liko a real major league baseball team. Nick Altrock Is going Into the movies mov-ies nil right. Rcenforci'd cameras and double-thickness lens mukq It possible, pos-sible, t, ' ' President W. II. MrCnrthy of the Pacific Const league has forbidden the growth of whlskcm by the inumbers of the Kat-nimento team. Tho baseball being used In the mn Jor leagues this spring Is not ns lively as that of last spring, yet there seems to bo plenty of buavy hitting. Speaker Is reported to have said flint If Dueler Malls reached his old-tlmo old-tlmo form tbls spring tho Indians would be In the pennant fight. Pitcher Irn Pot Townsend has been sent to the Toronto dub. lie was with tho Braves nil Inst season and Is n famous batting practice hurler. A headline tells of the nrrest of o California tblof who "stole home a piece nt a time." The man who tnkes that long to steal homo ought to be sentenced to work In C'onnlo Mack's outfield. Experts who hnvo watched tlio rebuilt re-built Phillies under the leadership of Kaiser WUhelm claim this :eam Is going go-ing to hand out a lot of iiprlaes before be-fore the season Is over. |
