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Show This country went into the war admirably ad-mirably prepared for baseball. Li Hung Schang Is the most improved im-proved veteran player on the Athletic team. Several of the Brooklyn players are to get bonuses if they hit up to certain cer-tain marks. Those "bean bail" pitchers would be handy with the hand grenades in the fiont trenches. Barry JJcCormlck, one of the American Ameri-can leagr.e's new" umpires, appears to be a capable official. Ed Lafitte, the former Buffalo P'ed pitcher, is now a full-fledged dentist, and is practicing his profession. Portland is drawing big crows to Its home games, and maybe Hugh Duffy wishes he had stuck on his job. The Cardinals are getting the money in St. Louis. Miller Huggins seems to have a good ball club after all. Cincinnati politicians are griomlng Garry Herrmann, chairman of the national na-tional commission, for mayor of Ited-land. Ited-land. Manager JTcGraw is trying to concert con-cert George Kelly, the nephew of Bill Lange, from an outfielder into a pitcher. Newark's great strength so far has been in its pitching, for which, without a doubt, wise old Tom Needham is responsible. re-sponsible. Fred Mitchell, who is getting fair results re-sults with the disjointed Cubs, has developed a fine all-around player in "Dutch" Reuther. Larry Chappelle would save money if he purchased a mileage book. He makes so many trips between the minors mi-nors and the majors. The White Sox are getting some good pitching and winning quite regularly. reg-ularly. Faber. Scott and Cicotte have all shown winning form. The Three-I league, which voted to adopt the double-umpire system, will have to get along witli one to the game, according to President Tearney. The Boston Braves got inside the player limit by releasing Catcher Arthur Ar-thur Rico to Springfield of the Eastern league under an option of recall. Hal Chase is playing (he same fine brand of ball that he once showed in the American league and displayed for the Cincinnati Reds last season. Twenty-five no-hit games have been played in the American league since 1900. according to one historian, and of this number only five are credited to left banders. |