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Show Diamond Squibs Wagner hit ,100 home runs during his major league catter. Cravath hit 119. . "Hap" Lenahan, a big outfielder with Marshalltown, Iowa, last year, has been sold to Omaha. ' The Cubs bought Hollocher from Portland, Ore., July 3, 1917, for a reported re-ported price of $3,.r)00. Omaha announces the trading of Dick O'Connor to the Lincoln team for Outfielder Joe Ilohlnson. Pitt def.-uted Archdeacon for the hatting hat-ting honors of the International league lust season by .0002 point. Mike Konnlck has been reinstated and will catch for the Beading club of the International league. Frank Sullivan, famous catcher of the Boston college team has been signed to a Detroit contract. Frank W. Delaney has signed for another an-other year with the Wlnston-Sulem club of the Piedmont league. At a meeting of the Michigan-Ontario league, Grand Itapids decided to retain Its franchise for another year. Jack Flavin, former star athlete of Georgetown university, has signed a contract with Jack Dunn of the Baltimore Bal-timore Orioles. The Augusta club of the South Atlantic At-lantic league has signed Guy Tulweller, who was with Columbia In the same league last year. Roy Massey, for many years an outfielder out-fielder for the Louisville Colonels, has quit baseball to go Into the grocery business In Atlanta. The Bridgeport club has purchased Shortstop Phil Neher from the New Haven team. "Lnst season Neher played with Hartford. Edward Petschow, a St. Louis youth, has signed with the Decatur Three-F.ye Three-F.ye league club. He Is a pitcher who can play the outfield. Adolfo Arguljo, the Mexican pitcher, has lived In Texas almost all his life. His home Is In Brownsville, and he was born In New Orleans. Purchase of Billy McCarrnn, third baseman from the Brooklyn Nationals, Is announced by the Little Rock club of the Southern association. William Mlnnlck. first baseman of tho Waxahatchle (Tex.) high school feain, will be given a tryotit by the Albany club of the Eastern league. The Simmons club of the Midwest (outlaw) league has announced that Walter Hammond, en Inflelder of the Kansas City club of the American as-S'lclatinn, as-S'lclatinn, had signed a contract. |