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Show Baseball Notes Managing a ball club Is a great Job If you don't weaken. Princeton alone has beaten Holy Cross In baseball this year. Brooklyn today continues the sensation sensa-tion of both major leagues. The Athletics continue to be a dangerous dan-gerous young bunch of athletes. Sam Crawford, former Tiger center-fielder, center-fielder, has Invented an unbreakable bat. The Indianapolis club released Pitcher Lee Bartlett to Terre Haute of the Three-L . Shortstop Ezrey of the Swarthmore college team has signed with the St. Louis Nationals. The first bsseball league In Australia Austra-lia was organized this year. It consists con-sists of eight clubs. Dallas has protested the sale by the Pittsburgh club of Pitcher Harold Carlson to Wichita Falls. Parry O'Brien, outfielder of the Vernon Ver-non club of the Pacific Coast league, has been sold to Grand Rapids. The consistent batting streaks of leading veterans has been a feature of the early season baseball play. To fill In the gap caused by the In-Jury In-Jury to Manager Bert Ntehoff the lo-bile lo-bile club has obtained George Fedor, recruit second baseman. The Pirates have released Clarence Jonnard, reserve catcher, under optional op-tional agreement to the Wichita Falls club of the Texas league. When Kansas City asked waivers on the veteran pitcher, Gus Bono, the desperate Indlnnapolis club put in Its claim and thus gets him. An alumnus gave a pair of shoes for every home run knocked out by a Knox college taeball player In s varsity game this season. Joe McGlnnlty, fifty-two years young and manager of the Dubuque team In the Mississippi Valley league. Is taking tak-ing his regular turn In the box. Marvin Goodwin continues his good work as a pitcher for Houston, Indicating Indi-cating that his sore arm has come back strong In the Texas climate. Ty Cobb began his baseball career with the South Atlantic league. He was a member of the Augusta (Go.) club, and first played April 20, 1004. Fred Merkle, former New York Giant player, now at first for the Rochester International league team, ran his hitting streak through 32 games before he was checked. ' Don't make any rash predictions on the way the clubs line up at the present pres-ent time. Some teams won't hit their stride until the sun Is hot enough to bake a pancake on the home plute. Connie Mark is well pleased by the latest baseball machine he has constructed con-structed after eight years of real effort. ef-fort. The crowds show that the Quaker city will support a winner once more. J. H. (Tarinn) Marsh, University of Oklahoma athlete, star In football, baiketball and baseball and famous li the trai'k, finishes Ills school shortly short-ly and will it" a tryout with the Oklahoma Okla-homa City Western league t |