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Show Baseball Notes Pitching for the Athletics ain't like pitching for other teams. Baseball Is s red-blooded sport, even though Eppa Rlxey trains on candy and golf. e ' It certainly would please s lot of fans to see St Louis have s "world series" monopoly this year. Ed Rommel and Frank Bruggy, Athletic Ath-letic battery, were once battery mates in the International league. . Veterans of the American andJJrit-lsh andJJrit-lsh armies now residents of Paris are to meet In baseball and cricket tests. Johnny Mokan of the Pirates Is now s Phllly by way of the waiver route. Jle is pinch hitting most of the time. --. . . ' Philadelphia Nationals have obtained ob-tained Inflelder Benton from the Charleston South Atlantic league club, e. George Kelly, while not strong on home runs this season, Is hitting In fine shape and leading the Giants at bat When Cobb went to the Detroit team, when Bill Armour was manager, $700 was paid for him to the Augusta (Ga.) club. e The Cleveland club took on for trial a big right-banded pitcher named Andrew An-drew Henderson, who halls from Key-ster, Key-ster, W. Vs. All the old-time records are now gone but one. That one Is "Pop" Anson's An-son's feat of hitting .300 and better for 22 consecutive years. They stopped Cobb, who hlt consecutively consecu-tively In 10 games. Which is rather encouraging for a baseball player with one foot on the bench. Brooklyn took Maurice Shannon, shortstop, from the Columbus club of the American. Association, In exchange for Hal Janvrinf an Inflelder. see The St. Louis Cardinals announce the signing of Glen Hoiitetter, semi-professional semi-professional pitcher of the Lead Belt team at Iron Mountain, Mo. Eddie Hart, who has been playing first base for the Torrlngton town team, has been signed by the Worcester Worces-ter club of the Eastern league. Charley Deal, who made an awful howl about going to Los Angeles from the Chicago Cubs, hns become so reconciled rec-onciled to hU fute timt he has figned a contruct for 1023. see What youngster hns done better than Pillette of . the Tigers? He seems to hnve everything. And back of hliu the Tigers pluy great ball, offensively of-fensively and defensively. Manager Fann Burch of Omaha is up to his old tricks. In a doublts header with Denver recently he pitched six Innings of the first game, then went in and caught the second game. s George Terliune, n southpaw formerly for-merly with Norfolk In the Virginia and Newark In the International, who seems to have been a free agent, has leen taken on by the Pittsburgh club for trial. Frank Henry of Mobile and George Winn of Nashville, star snutlmnws, have met twice (bis season. In each case It was a desperate 1 to 0 battle with Henry on tle winning end on both occasions. Jake Miller, recent outfielder from WMiitn Tails on trial with Pittsburgh, pulled a classic bone in his first ln league parne. With Ward on third and one out he ni:nle a beautiful out;h of MuniHUX's foul fly. And Ward walked boms with the winning run. |