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Show SPRING TRAINING GOSSIP I BY BTLJ. BV W - ! The collegian is cutting quite a ' swath in tho b's league training camps i these days. Realizing that tho minor league iield had been greatly curtailed because be-cause of the failure of the draft pi in to go through major league scouts must have turned their eye.s lo the college ranks. Hast yenr the. New York Giants fsrs good enough to win the pennant pen-nant In tho National league, also capture the world'-: scries, yet a lot of college ball players are working out with the Giants. Ralph Shlnners. who cost the Giants 186,000 flrt jumped into popularity as a player with Mar-; quette college. itEcCtravP hopes that shlnners will make him forget about George Burns. ' Eddie Hal, "who starred at football foot-ball last year with tho University of Mississippi team. Is trying out at I third base. While Hale has no . hance of aupplantinj either Groh or Frlsch, still he looks like a comer. Howard B w ry, the former University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania star, is being used at first bav?o In the sprlntc workouts work-outs Evidently McGraw hopea that the former star all around athlete will develop into a worthwhile first sacker. It la the sarrue with every other major league ball club in the south AH of them have from three to six aSrCoUcglana in the lists of recruits. ; The New York Americana arc rlcht bbbbbI after the Giants in the matter-? assssH collegians. As a -ruitter of fa. Tankees in Hlnky Haines and QaiSl Killlnger have two of the ! widely known college athlet?J i, t f ' country. B fellow Killinger. Who ibbbbbbbI such a sensation in football ,n 1 has been nvcoh booked ; iT h player, may suffer from a" publicity this spring. 100 much Tht fans have ),eeri h,ri, i much al.oin rn. prownec, ,,, ,- ' ' iH nier Penn State star that Jh. " U" ' -W I expect too much from tho Ji. y n" I There Is quite iZ ,y0Unj,"r 'brand of blseba.l plaPed" .tn? "V M leges and major leagues " N The Cleveland club u.e , I a half dosen college reuii, them pitchers. The 2.-!?,l?0Bt "f Cleveland club had Sith f that th" I and Rlggs Stephenson t h Owner Dunn a. r. s cauneii of tho Indians?,, gl&I peaXer leglan i.s worth a trial CVe tho co1- As a rule collar. H their greatest trouble S h M Often some of thm are Iki h b"1'- M up to requirement but fi!M M league pitching a trifle flnd blB fl to fathom Hght ottlne reel dlfflCUU College pitchers liir. heavers, auffi? " on !, i(hVst , recrult 1 control or the keen ?yes ofthlaCk nt M- league batsmen. Th.V, h.e mJor MfiM the big leaguern; n flnJ that fl si which the u" many fl ' healthj vinV col,e fl |