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Show Baseball Notes ntcher Bill Pertica has drifted back to the St. Louis Cardinals. Ray French, the Pacific Coast star, now with Brooklyn, is suffering from a sore arm. Ira Flagstead Is one of the Boston Americans' real assets, both at bat and In the field. , Virgil Barnes, minus one appendix and two tonsils, Is back In uniform for the Giants. The team that escapes a slump Is lucky, but those teams are without the tiling called "class." Manager Bush Intends to use Tltch-ir Tltch-ir Allen Russell as a regular starter of games In the future. , In the Tliree-I they call Umpire Lechlch "Five-foot Lechlch" because of his small stature. ' Rube Benton's pitching seems far better than during his last two years of service at New York. At a meeting of directors of the Nebraska State league, Dick Grotte of Omaha was elected president of the league. Utah State league Is an Independent organization, but It proudly boasts that no outlaw baseball players are allowed In Us ranks. Merlto Acosta, Louisville outfielder, now has broken both legs, in much the same manner, and wonders what will happen to him next. University of Michigan flnlsbed the Western Conference baseball race undefeated. un-defeated. The Ann Arbor stars captured cap-tured 10 games In a row. George Gross, pitching for the Mt. Sterling team of the Blue Grass league, shut out Paris without a hit or run and did not give a base on balls, Sterling Stryker, pitcher bought by Worcester from New Haven for a fancy price, developed a sore arm and has been laid off Indefinitely. The St. Louts Cardinals are playing bout the same kind of ball as marked their work all through last season-winning season-winning and losing In "streaks." The rhillies have a new trainer. He Is John Lockney of Philadelphia, a trainer of pugilists and for a time with the Jersey City team, under BUI Donovan. Tltcher Herman Sehwarrje of the Saginaw club of the Michigan-Ontario league, has been traded to the Rochester club of the International league. George McRrlde, for years the Washington Wash-ington shortstop and manager of the GrlrTmen In 1021, may land the berth as baseball coach at Notre Dame university. uni-versity. It takes St. Louis to keep New York on the baseball map. The P.rowns checked the slump of the Yankees and the Cardinals did a similar good turn for the Giants. a a Sherman Kelfer, pitcher sent to Angusta by the Washington Americans, Amer-icans, has been suspended by the Augusta nmnngetnent for failure to keep In condition. a a a The workmen's compensation bureau of North Dakota has ruled that umpires um-pires as well a ball players come under un-der the provisions of the act nnd club owners of the North Dakota league have to ante up premiums for casualty casual-ty Insurance for the umpires. |