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Show BASEBALL STORIES The Browns are creeping up in the list every day. Crowds of 15,000 and 1S.000 are common com-mon to Cleveland this year. Bert Niehoff, for a player of whom little is heard, is doing pretty well. Tris Speaker, the man, doesn't emulate emu-late his name, but his bat speaks volumes. vol-umes. There are some ball players who incline in-cline more to the capital I than to the batting eye. A sprinkling of fans sometimes refers re-fers only to those within reach of a boxer's corner. "Tillie" Walker has come to lite with a vengeance and looks like the player he was in 1914. Harold Cable of the Newark Indians still looks like the best prospect in the International league. It requires a great deal of civic pride for a baseball fan to keep on boosting a losing team. Because he had outgrown Pullman berths, Otis Crandall had to be put on the waiver list by Fielder Jones. Scouts are having their troubles finding ball players. The munition factories fac-tories have copped most of them. "Charley" Pick, Athletic third baseman, base-man, is not a youngster. A number of years ago he pastimed for Toledo. A lot of those college grannates being be-ing signed up for the major lengue will figure in the AB column, at any rate These be festive days for Fathei Knickerbocker with the Giants, Yankees Yan-kees and Dodgers up In the front ranks. Fielder Jones' hitless wonders ol 1!XHj will be remembered long after his winless wonders of 1910 are forgotten. for-gotten. Sratesmen decline presidential nominations nomi-nations with the same frequency that Tris Speaker resents an increase in salary. On hearing that John McOraw was the best in the country on the road, 8 big neckwear firm ofi'ered hiio ?1,(XX a week and expenses to sell tleir nen creation. |