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Show Diamond Squibs The veteran Elmer Relger has caught on again, this time with Vernon. Ver-non. e The Salt Lake City club had a surplus sur-plus of outfielders and Bob KInsella was the one to be discarded. The goal of the average college baseball base-ball team should be to make the total hits keep pace with the error column. The St. Joseph club has released Shortstop Bob Brown to Muskogee and Pitcher Molly Mels to Sioux City. e Detroit and New York will fight it out for the American h ague pennant, In the opinion of Ty Cobb, manager of the Tigers. """"Tstot TurttiflEi IrflT the Joplln team the Little Rock club sent down Outfielder Out-fielder Kitty WIckham and Pitcher John Bogart. t Spring estimates of Wie relative merits of the big league ball clubs have at least elght-to-one chances of being accurate. e The Indianapolis club, It Is announced, an-nounced, will abandon' Bogalnsa, La., as a training camp and go to Deland, Fla., next sprlnc. Donnle Bush, Washington's new manaser, Is expected to Instill some of his pep Into his collection of ball players for the coming season. Ty Cobb and Dan Hnwley have put their heads together and arrnnped for a Joint tralnlnc camp for the Detroit and Toronto teams at Augusta, Ga., next spring. . e e The Omaha team this year is the "old man's home" of the Western league, for most of the players are of many years' experience, from Manager Mana-ger Ed Koney down. e Cappy Ricks, colleee first baseman, who had a trial with Atlanta in the early training period, has been signed by the Scranton club of the New York-Pennsylvania York-Pennsylvania league. e A fan explaining why a team would not get anywhere in Its league said that team had a weakness In lis pitchers, pitch-ers, a weakness In Its outfield and weakness In Its Infield. rnnl Osborne, cnptnln of the University Uni-versity of Louisville baseball team, and a big fellow who can do most anything In athletics, will Join the Louisville Colonels when school closes, e Manager Jim Pierce of the Hamilton Hamil-ton Mint team wanted no ex-managers hanging around, so he sold Ernest Calbert, last season's leader of the nams, to the Decntur club of the Three-I lengue. e Pat Flaherty, left-handed pitcher famous fa-mous In the old days for his quick return re-turn delivery, later scout and minor league mannger, hns been appointed assistant conch of athletics at Princeton Prince-ton university. Frank Chance Is the only manager in record in baseball who deliberately picked his own tenm to finish last. Chance Is quoted In Roston newspapers newspa-pers as saying the Red Sox positively will finish In the American league cellar. Tom Ltikannvlc, pitcher, Is back In the Three-I league, the Terre Haute club having obtained him from Tulsa. He was with Peoria In 101S). Another new Terre Haute pitcher Is Paul Stumh, who was with Decutur and Hullai Inst year. I |