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Show DIAMOND NOTES Cinr.ie Yaek stiil insists on using recruits re-cruits on the mound. Neil' Brady, former Yank pitcher, is now with the Columbus team. Fc'rt Worth has released Gust, ila was told to blow to other parts. Tie new Cleveland Indians threaten to bo a scrappy bunch this year. Reb Russell is fooling a lot of fans who think he won't show much this seast-n. RiUht now is the time for each city to announce that it has a baseball pen nant winner. Eviry big leaguer has a dual personality. per-sonality. He ia a hero one day, a boob the next. Yej, Montague, if Eddie Plank had been pitching !n '61 he would have gone to the front. Wfih Tris Speaker again safe in the fold, the Red Sox are banking ou the American league flag. Easeball teams Just now are all looking look-ing hopefully at the upper apartments in the percentage columns. Jimmy Callahan's Pittsburgh Pirat-es have been forbidden to smoke cigarettes. ciga-rettes. The atogie trust getting busy, eh? Buck Herzog is starting early. He made such a scene in an exhibition game at New Orleans that he was put off the field. Connie Mack has cautioned hia Athletics Ath-letics against overeating at their next appearance at the world's champions' banquet table. Clayton Perry, recently released by the Mobile Southern league club, has caught on with the St. Joseph Western West-ern league club. Massey, the young shortstop of the Pelicans, ia a pretty nifty looking youngster. He is just out of the University Uni-versity of Texas. Ve learn that George Sisler comes from a Good Swiss family. We thought there was something familiar about George's windup. Pitchers Von Steinberg and Outfield-era Outfield-era Koroly and Swaney are no longer Pirates. Jimmy Callahan turned them over to the Wheeling team. "Texaa Ed" Appletcn, the young pitcher of the Robins, is developing a knuckle ball. Robbie already claims that "Texas Ed" can break the ball cither in or out. Hans Lobert is having a lot of trouble trou-ble with his throwing arm, but otherwise other-wise he is in shape, according to n Gotham baseball scribe. Otherwise, Ed Walsh still would be spitball king. While Myers and Meyers were working work-ing as a battery for Connie Mack thf other day, Adams and Adams were in the points for the Phillies. Some troubles trou-bles ahead for Philadelphia scorers Is right. |