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Show Baseball Notes Pitching for the Athletics ain't like pitching for other teams. Baseball Is- a red-blooded sport, even though Eppa Rixey trains on candy und golf. It certainly would please a lot of fans to see St. Louis have a "world series" monopoly this year. Ed Rommel and Frank Bruggy, Athletic Ath-letic battery, were once battery mates in the International league. Veterans of the American and British Brit-ish armies now residents of Paris are to meet in baseball and cricket tests. Johnny Moknn of the Pirates is now a Philly by way of the waiver route. He is pinch hitting most of the time. Philadelphia Nationals have obtained ob-tained Infleider Benton from the Charleston South Atlantic league club. George Kelly, while not strong on home runs this season, Is hitting In fine shape and leading the Giants at bat. -r When Cobb went to the Detroit team, when Bill Armour was manager, $700 was paid for him to the Augusta (Ga.) club. The Cleveland club took on for trial a big right-handed pitcher named Andrew An-drew Henderson, who hails from Key-ster, Key-ster, W. Va. All the old-time records are now gone but one. That one Is "Pop" Anson's An-son's feat of hitting .300 and better for 22 consecutive years. They stopped Cobb, who hit consecutively consecu-tively in 10 games. Which is rather encouraging for a baseball player with one foot on the bench. Brooklyn took Maurice Shannon, shortstop, from the Columbus club of the American Association, In exchange for Hal Janvrin, an infielder. The St. Bonis Cardinals nnnounce the signing of Glen Hostetter, semi-professional semi-professional pitcher of the Lead Belt team at Iron Mountain, Mo. Eddie Hart, who has been playing first base for the Torringlon town team, has been signed by the Worcester Worces-ter club of the Eastern league. Charley Deal, who made an awful howl about going to Los Angeles from the Chicago Cutis, hns become so reconciled rec-onciled to his fate that he has signed a contract for 1023. What youngster 1ms done better than Pillette of .the Tigers? He seems to have everything. And back of him the Tigers play great bull, offensively of-fensively nnd defensively. Manager Fagnn Burch of Omaha Is up to his old tricks. In a double header with Denver-recently he pitched six innings of the first game, then went in and caught the second game. George Terhune. a southpaw formerly for-merly with Norfolk in the Virginia and Newark in the International, who seems to have been a free agent, has leen taken on by the Pittsburgh club tor trial. Frank Henry of Mobile nnd George Winn of Nashville, star southpaws, have met twice this season. In each case it was a desperate 1 to 0 battle with Henry on the winning end on both occasions. Jake Miller, recent outfielder from Wichita Falls on trial with Pittsburgh, pulled a classic bone in his first big league game. With Ward on third and one out he made a beautiful catch of Mamaux's foul fly. And Ward walked home with the Tinning run. |