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Show BASEBALL BQ NOTES Cleveland has released Pitcher Watson Wat-son Clark to New Orleans of the Southern league. Wade T. Childress of St. Louis will manuge the Princeton varsity baseball team next season. Francis MacDougull, star Colorado college baseball pluyer, has Joined the New York Yankees. Seattle has released Harvey Sutherland, Suther-land, the veteran pitcher, to Wichita Falls of the Texas leugue. "Lefty" Groves, the $100,600 hurler of the Athletics, is doing better pitching pitch-ing than outside appeurances indicate. indi-cate. Vaehe of the Boston Red Sox Is a terrific hitter and has the promise of being a big star at bat In another season. Maternal affection undergoes Its supreme su-preme test when little Willie wears the new baseball spikes across a highly waxed hall. "You are what you read," declares a commentator on the crime-news question. Then why isn't the world full of wonderful shortstops? The 24-inning game In which the Athletics beat Boston 4 to 1 on September Sep-tember 1, 1900, was the longest game ever played In the Amerlcun league. Burrus, who got his baseball training train-ing In the American and the Southern associations, Is playing better than an acceptable gume at first for the Braves. Elmer Duggan, southpaw hurler and property of tlie New York Yankees, who was with Rochester until recently, re-cently, has been turned over to Provl- dence. Manager Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics tried out 000 baij players in the last 11 years and spent $375,000 to rebuild the team now lead- Ing the race. Pitcher Roy Chesterfield, Brazil, Ind., of the Danville Three-Eyes club, has been sold to the New York Yankees. Yan-kees. He will report at the end of the present' season. Chuck Odom, a collegiate star of 1924, formerly with the New York Yankees, has joined the St. Paul American association club, to fill in the gap at third base. I Cobb, -veteran player of the Detroit Tlgt" s and leading batter of the American Amer-ican lengue for 12 seasons, beginning back ;is far as 1907, Is again leading the American league In hitting. Fr'dy Myers, former Springfield High star and "rookie" Inflelder for the Springfield Senators, was sold to the Washington Senators of the American Amer-ican league at a reported price of $1.0';' . Brooklyn needs pitchers if the team Is to be considered a pennant contender con-tender this year. Consequently, fans may expect to see some new talent added to the ranks of the Superbas before be-fore long. j |