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Show baseball As useless as a home run In batting practice. At sixty-five Connie Mack of the Athletics is dean of the major league managers. Infielder Admiral Martin has been signed by the Albany club of the Eastern league. Charles A. Comiskey, Chicago White Sox magnate, was a train "butcher" in his early career. Some days a fellow hops out of bed feeling like a $70,000 contract with the Yanks and retires feeling like a passed ball In the Piedmont league. Ehvood English, Toledo player, for whom the Chicago Cubs gave up $50,-000 $50,-000 and two good pitchers, Is said to have the largest pair of hands In battball. Official announcement of the transfer trans-fer of Andy Cohen, young Infielder, to the Buffalo club of the International league, was made by the New York Giants. A sport writer eays Bob Fotherglll of Detroit can circle the bases faster than anyone else on the team, but which of the otherg is fastest at circling cir-cling Bob? Albert Hlldebrand, who is to receive re-ceive a tryout with the Mission club of the Pacific Coast league, s a son of George Hlldebrand, famous American Ameri-can league umpire. Babe Ruth Is making progress: First he hired a business manager to get him a raise In salary ; then he got a raise in Balary big enough to pay the business manager. Ab Herman, third baseman, traded by Albany of the Eastern league, to Memphis during the winter, has announced an-nounced that he will not report to the Southern league club. One of the few successful triple Bteals In the record books was engineered engi-neered by the San Francisco Seals In the first Inning of a game against the Seattle club on May 9, 1923. Dan Tipple, former American association asso-ciation pitcher, who later went to the big show, then faded out of the picture, pic-ture, has been resurrected by Joe Cun-tlllon Cun-tlllon for the Little Uock club. Because he failed to observe training train-ing rules. Homer T. L (Tiny) Owens, pitcher, has liven sold outright to the Minneapolis American Association club by the Detroit American leaguers. A professional baseball league Is lo he formed In England. Three high-grade high-grade te-.ims will be imported from the United States and a London team will be formed of students from. Cambridge and Oxford. Columbus Senators have won three pennants and they nailed them In a row, the gala years being 1905, 190(5 and 1907. The Senators set a record for defeats last year. They were whipped 125 times. "Lefty" Krause, one of the frailest looking players ever to break Into the major leagues. Is now facing his twentieth twen-tieth season In baseball. He will try-to try-to help Ihe Oakland (Calif.) team win the flag in the Pacific Coast league. We take no stock in the rumor that Breadon of the Cardinals is trying to force his great players out. We are confident, says the Houston I'ost-DIs-patch. that he will be willing to pay Grover Alexander at least $70 a month. Having only one arm Is no handicap to playing baseball, according to Henry Feldicamp, who Is trying out as a pilcher for the University of Missouri team. He throws left-handed and holds his glove on the stump of his right arm. The Charlotte club of the South Atlantic At-lantic league, has announced the signing sign-ing of a pair of college pitchers, both southpaws. They are Bill Munday, a product of the University of Georgia, and Elmore S. Elliott from Monroe (Ala.) A and IL Both are ISO-pounders. |