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Show BA5ID3ALL STORIES Ehmke Is the tallest man on the Detroit De-troit club. Mogrldge Is not only left handed but Is also left footed. The Cleveland club has sold Pitcher Jesse Tetty to Indianapolis. I I Pitcher Snyder of the Senators has been dubbed "Catsup" by his mates, i Manager Cravath is making good by running a team entirely on his own lines. i Billy Southworth Is amassing a nice record for stolen bases thus far this season. Aaron Ward of the Yankees hits a ball as hard as any young player in many a day. Manuel Cueto, sold by Cincinnati to Seattle, has joined Joe Harris' team at Franklin, Pa. Heinle Schultz, who pitched for the Toledo club several seasons, is now a member of the Brewers. New York critics are hinting at a reconciliation between John McGraw and Heinie Zimmerman. Big crowds at the Western league openers Indicate the Tearney class A wheel Is In for a good year. The Phils are a neatly uniformed club a symphony In light gray stockings and caps to match. Trls Speaker says Dick Niehaus will do and that he is going to be just the southpaw the Cleveland team needs. Catcher Telle and Inflelder Siglin of the Tigers have been released. Velle goes to Frisco and Siglin to Portland. Port-land. Moyer, the rookie inflelder New Orleans took on from the New York Giants, has been transferred to Chattanooga. Chatta-nooga. Sioux City released Catcher Johnny Carr and Pitchr Paul Brusky to Red-field Red-field of the South Dakota league, under un-der option to recall. Pitcher Tom Hughes, formerly a member of the Boston Nationals, has been signed by the Shreveport club of the Texas league. Dick Wade, the Duluth youngster and former Mint leaguer, has been attracting all sorts of attention in Association circles. The Giants irmy win the flag in the National league, as some of the New York critics predict, but they will have a long way to travel. Ward continues to play a brilliant game at third base and he is stinging the ball hard. Most of his hits smoke their way to the outfield. Every once in a while John McGraw springs a player who is the real goods. Looks as if he has uncovered another worth-while sftir In Frisch. Walter Smallwood, a youthful hurler, lias been turned over to Terre Haute by I he Reds. Moran thinks enough of him to keep a string attached. St. Joseph's new first baseman, Groth, conies from the Chicago Cubs. His experience has been in independent independ-ent baseball around Chicago. Billy Webb, shortstop, secured from the Pirates for the Akron club, is coming through as one of the International Interna-tional league's leading sluggers. Jack Letcher, president of the West-rn West-rn association, who lives in Tulsa, ivas given the honor of pitching (he first bail in the opener at Tulsa. Mike Kelley seems to have dug up a good one in Johnny Overlock, the Chicago setnl-pro, whose debut was a four-hit shutout against Kansas City. Several candidates tried for the third-hase position on the Browns, but the start of the season showed old reliable Jimmy Austin again on the job. The Kansas City club has signed I a pi'eber named Wilfred De Tonnon-! Tonnon-! court, who is just out of the army and I before going into service played semi- ! pro ball. I Sammy Hale, Texas league recruit, j is showing so well with the Tigers ; that Jennings Intends to give him a ' full opportunity to make good. He is 1 an inlielder, and prefers to play at j the hot corner. |