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Show I3A5D3ALL 5TOI2IE5 Clark Griffith thinks that Howard Shanks will make a great shortstop. Ty Cobb, Detroit outfielder, has on two occasions made five hits in a game. Joe Woods says he will not draw a cent of salary until he pitches for the Indians. Beals Becker had hit safely in 22 straight games when Jake Northrup stopped his run. Hans Lobert is doing a lot of complaining com-plaining af present because of his tough luck as pinch hitter. Old Doc Crandall has been pitching some great ball for Los Angeles, as his string of victories testifies. The Louisville club has ended its search for an outfielder by landing Claude Cooper from the Phillies. President Phil Ball of the Browns has given checks of $100 each to Ernie Koob and Bob Groom, his no-hit pitchers. pitch-ers. Second Baseman Pitler of the Pirates Pi-rates has made a hit with Smokeville fans. He Is batting and fielding cleverly. clev-erly. Many persons have been named to succeed Clarence Rowland as manager of the White Sox, but he still saws wood. Lee Magee is back in the game after one of the worst cases of batting slump that has affected an athlete in many a long day. The fact that Ty Cobb has quit playing play-ing golf for the summer may have something to do with his remarkable winning streak. ' Matty McIntjTre, former Detroit star and late manager of the Mobile team, is now playing ball with a team in a Detroit factory league. Happy Felsch, who is playing center field for the White Sox, has developed into a high-class player. He is one of Rowland's best hitters. Third Baseman Baird is making good with the Cardinals. He couldn't hit when he played with the Pirates, but now he is killing the ball. . Pitcher Earl Hamilton of the Browns got away to a poor start this season. He has failed to come home a winner in fourteen starts. Miller Huggins has been cleaning house and trimming his sails to make room for a lot of new players who are to be taken on t.iis fall. Chick Gandil is playing first base so cleverly for the White Sox that the sharps still wonder why the Washing-tons Washing-tons and Clevelands let him go. a Pretty soon it will become popular to introduce Harry Coveleskie as a brother broth-er of Stanley Coveleskie. The Cleveland Cleve-land slabster has all the better of his southpaw brother on records to date, and is the big figure of the family fam-ily on present rating. I |