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Show National League News. Tinker Is hitting poorly this spring. Jim Dehibanty is Improving In his hitting. Frank Helen ran do wonders with discards and colls. Tommy Corcoran continues to make brilliant plays at short. Johnny F.vcrs niakea one error per day wlih great regularity. Col Dreyfus has hla weather eyo on Pitcher Campli. ll of l.oulnvlllo. Manager Metlraw lias written a little lit-tle book on how to ploy baseball. There Is sold to be boil feeling between be-tween Fred Clarke and Kitty lirnns-fl.'hl. lirnns-fl.'hl. 'annell's weakness la on ground balls. The ex college man Is III need of practice. Iiabb Is llrookln only ami man among the regulars, ami be Is hnrelv over Ihe line. Kwlng. Walker. Htolifchlt and O'Neill are not milking !lie Ivistern trip with the It.ds. The Clm-limitl club has pnhl the ro-msln.'er ro-msln.'er of Hi,- iliad money lor catchers catch-ers O N, 11 mi ,' Selil. I. It Is 1 1111M.1 . t In Plttshnrii Mint Pltclo-r I , i- m arm Is gone, ami that ho wl'l I,,' reV: I shortly. I're.l CI ule hi.s lie witching bin butting older to Klein the ,l,le of ill lurk that I in followed Ms li im. Ontlielil, ,- MrCarthy I as gone to the r.orpltal. lie turre.l lint ,a, ankle again on II .. bao lines 11,0 other day. When J! Ike Ijteh, Ihe Prow II pile- tioim-non. nrmcH. the I'lrale twirling Uff ll certainly he in admirable shots. Manager llui Uenberger soys Unit Tennoy, Wllhelm and Plttlnger will play Sunday hall next year n they are retained by Hoston. Catcher Phil O'Nell, of the Tteds, aaya be would never want to sign again with any club from which ho had once been released. Phil O'Neill, the Reds' catcher, will not be turned over to tho Indianapolis club aa requested by President Grlllo, of tho American Association. Frank Chance does some most clover clov-er hasa running. He can mix up a hostile team urn! get away with a quick dash aa well as any man In the business. In Devlin and MeCormlck Ihe New York club haa picked up a pair of the must likely looking youngsters that that have butted Into National League aocioty In a long time. American League Notes. Frank Owens is Cuiulskcy's winning pitcher. Catcher Huelow of Detroit Is laid up with a split hand. Patten seems to be the whole pitching pitch-ing department for Washington. The Detrolta have a splendid outfield out-field In Mclntyre, Barrett and Craw-ford. Craw-ford. John Chesbro has helped greatly In winning hla own games by his vigorous vigor-ous atlck work. No longer can Washington be miffed eL Since Patsy Donovan Joined the team marked Improvement has been shown. I-Achance has been playing sensational sensa-tional ball for the world's champions. In twenty-seven games he bus mndo but two etrors. Manager Armour has reached Ihe conclusion that Karl Moore needs a lot of work to put his pitching arm In last season's form. The pigmy second haso-short stop combination of I'nrent and Ferris, of Hoston, has a rival In Ol.cury and Hohinson, nf Detroit. Kllllnn. Detroit's winning pitcher, looks like the pitching Iln. I of tbe year, lie Is not yet of age. Manager Hugh Nlcol of Itoekford was his discoverer. dis-coverer. Ono Utile looked for Iho feat or Jack Townsend to prevent Detroit from scoring for II Innlng.i. The first four bntsiuen of the Detroit team got one hit off his delivery. Johnson and Comlskey have lost a $100 suit of clothes to Garry Herrmann, Herr-mann, they wagering that Wyatt l.co would win the first full game he pitched against Cincinnati. Tho Iteda knocked him out on May 2H. American Association Newa. Tho Mluneasills club haa released first hsseinan Dan Lally. "Hug'' Holiday and pitcher Hart are umpiring In good style. Ilar.elton is one of the best hlttera that ever wore a Toledo uniform. Stone. whom Hoston turned back to Milwaukee. Is hitting till. tint ft . Ider Kwiindcr is mulling good with Minneapolis club In batting and fielding. MeCord. Ihe left handed pitcher who was with Ijulsvllle last year, haa signed with (ircenshurg. ''he St. Paul dull bos released outfielder out-fielder John lawler to Sloiu City, ho-ciiihc ho-ciiihc It had more out Hi biers than It could use. Hugh Hill Is batting bard for Kan-sii'i Kan-sii'i City. In one game the mnn whom Cleveland released a year ago madfl four two banners. Ills average up to date la .30.'.. Notwithstanding the fact that Hilly Clvmcr ninl his Columbus team were unlucky In getting away In poor fashion, fash-ion, the enthusiasts of that city have TCM LOFTU3. y . - rK., . -t, ' ' r' . . President of the Washington American League Club. aceordisl tho team and nianagomenl wonderful support. Central League Gossip. If there Is a team In the Central U'ugue that has not a Smith on Us rosier, It baa yet to be heard from. Wheeling haa n-called the rrleaae of first baseman Jim Cox. Pitcher Tom Hnckett, late of SL Ijoils, has Joined the Marlon team. Copt. Pfelffer has been released by Dayton and .Mike Peer la now captain of Ihe team. Kckert, the second baseman, haa signed again with Dayton. He waa released re-leased because of his bad arm. Marlon is greatly handicapped by the luck of Its leader, Jack Grim, who Is suffering from erysipelas. Iowa League Notea. Tbe attendance at Hurlliigton keeps ui despite the weird playing tbn team has been indulging in. John Corbelt, the Hurllngton catcher, catch-er, bus been deH)K. d as captain of the club and llmt lnseuu-in Stovall has been appointed In his place. The Hurllngton club bus released pitcher Alhcrtson and fielder Hlnglo-ton, Hlnglo-ton, and bus signed pitcher Hcliaub, catcher Ilessler and lullelder A. Dot-Bon. Western Winnowlngs. The St. Joseph papers do not boost "Coming KvcntH-" strong enough. lullelder Joe Dolan Is now captain of the Omabu team. Hit lu playing the gome of his life and hitting over Aim. In tbe first few games ot Colorado Springs I'mplrc Cuuck misinterpreted the balk rule and made tho pitchera k"i p both feet on the slab while delivering de-livering the ball. Manager Jimmy Ryan of Colorudo Springs In on tbe lookout for a catch. it, us T mi Messlt, bis team's reliance, l badly hurt from being spiked and mav Ioimo bis throwing arm because, of blood poisoning |