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Show V sporting splinters! 4 , Joe Judge, first baseman of th. Washington club, r.ays he hasn't yet recovered from the report, that he was! tc, be traded to Philadelphia He lj enthusiastic over th addition of Kog- er I'ecklnpaugh and iriys the Nationals are certain to be a strong pennant 1 contender. . Lnlc3s Cleveland acquires a good ' pit her by medium of trade or purchase, pur-chase, the Indiana are xoing to have h hard time staying up In the pe 1- nant race, so say the experts. Covol-cskle Covol-cskle is regarded as the only consist-tent consist-tent pitcher on the Cleveland staff with Uhle a possibility " Leo Fohl is one of the few major league managers who isn't talking about his chances to win s pennant. Yet Fohl has a club at St. Louis that! has great promise If McMunus c.n' di 11. or at second, th.; Browns nr-. Ing to make a lot of trouble for the seven other clubs in the American league. 1 Every player In the two major leagues is now anxiously awaiting the arris ul of his contract. It Is needlejs to say that nil of them expect a raise. Ph fancy prices paid to minor league lubs for recruit players is the cause. 'If the club owners are paying such prices merely to beat the Income tax, why not Share some of it with tno players, who would be perfectly willing will-ing to Klip a little of it to the government." govern-ment." is the wav one of the stars ut it. Dave Danforth says he Is tickled td death with the chance to go to the-St. the-St. Louis Browns. He also says h feels sure he will have no trouble signing up with that club. However, he Insists th' the Columbus club will have to slip him some real coin before ho will agree to the transfer DaVfl has a oontrat t that calls for some real money If sold to a big league club. Eddie Foster Is slated to play third base for the Boston Red Sox by Manager Man-ager Huffy . Joe Dug m Is being banked bank-ed on to fill the position made 0a Hit by the sale of Shortstop Scott to New York Dugan doesn't like to piny short. In fact doesn't play n very good game nt that position. It Ik possible that Duffy may be compelled to shift his present plans. Dugan Is the greatest great-est young third Backer in the American Ameri-can league. Third base, however, isn t shortstop. tea Almost every club in the two major leagues has several college players on its payroll A number of them like i George Blsler and Frankie Frlsch have cone direct from their college team to the majors L'nless the draft dispute is patched up, tho college field Is certain cer-tain to be more carefully looked over than ever before by the scouts during dur-ing tho coming season. "Red" Faber of the Chicago White Sox. who had such a wonderful year in 1921. believes he will be able to do better work the coming season. Faber Fa-ber who recently, underwent an operation oper-ation for an injured knee, says tho log feels as well as ever again. For several sev-eral years his bad knee has affected his pitching stride Faber says ho feels certain he will be able to get more stuff than ever on the ball. That will be bad news to American league batters. Every club In the American league would welcome tho addition of Bob 1 ' h, del pits the many reports from Detroit that he Is not on the market. Vouch can hit tho old pill, which will cause many n manager to overlook any other faults that ho may have. ! However, to have a real liance to get him, some one must offt r the Tie'- rs i likely looking shortstop in return. .es York, In Johnny Mitchell, h U the only extra player who might fill the bill Stanley Coveleskle will have to again carry the burden f tho pitching for Cleveland. Coveleskle was a bit off form last summer, despite, the fact that he us a big winner He lacked his usual consistency I Is said that I C u ei. -si. it did a lit ; 1 o experimenting I last summer, with a new style delivery de-livery and that It affected his work 'Never again." says Coveleskle. ' I will stick to the old stuff The pitchers In tho two major leagues are saying a prayer for nex' lesson. The prayer Is all about the lively ball. All tho authorities In th-. world couldn't convince the big league pitchers that tho ball used a groator part of last year wasn't tho liveliest ball that any batter ever swatted. If the trouble wan too good quality of material and too excellent workmanship, workman-ship, the pitchers say cut "em down. |