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Show As a rule a ballplayer's popularitj fades with his batting average. You can't expect those Washington Nationals to move very fast without Shanks. Harry Howell and Garnctt Bush, umpires, um-pires, are having trouble in the Northwestern North-western league. Whittaker and Krepps, pitchers on the Tufts college team, will get try-outs try-outs with the Athletics. Jack Dalton is back in the game for San Francisco and the Seals now expect ex-pect to climb to the top again. Maynard, a pitcher who has made a reputation with the Marshall college col-lege team, is now with Lexington. Connie Mack has signed a seventeen year-old schoolboy pitcher namcc I Crisp. Betcha this kid's a snappj player. Al Mamaux, Pittsburgh's young I pitcher, stands firmly between the Pirates Pi-rates and the deep, dark waters of tin Monongahela. Lee Tannehill, who played third base with Jones' world champions In 1306, is playing third for South Bend in the Central league. Ed Walsh attempted a comeback for the Chicago White Sox in a game of the Washington series. He started well, but that was nil. The Cardinals have signed a rool pitcher entitled "Mule" Watson "Mule" is a promising young pitcher barring a slight tendency to balk. Those Giants are anything but dcvllf In their own home town. Thoy havcn'l won enough games on the Polo ground this season to save their franchise. If big league teams wore given traveling trav-eling accommodations according tr, their standing, the Athletics would be sent around the circuit by parcel post The Miickmon do not seom to be able to stand prosperity. After making mak-ing a pretty fair spurt a couple ot weeks ago they have now subsided, and do not seem to give anyone much of a battle. Same Jones, the pitcher Cnrrlgnn got from the Cleveland club as part of the price of Speaker, has not been doing much f'ir the Itr-d Sox. Jonos says he is being kept in shape for tin , world's s.-ries next full. |
