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Show NOTES Twilight baseball is said to be a success suc-cess in Minneapolis. George Stallings is getting back In the papers these days. Walter Itehg of the Braves has decided de-cided to enlist in the navy. . Matty says his team has not been going any too well. That makes it official. of-ficial. . . According to New York scribes, Love has shot his bolt. Probably laughing at locksmiths again. Hoboken, N. J., claims to be the first home of baseball, the game being played there in 1833. The Vancouver club announces that it has sold Outfielder Frank Wilson to the Chicago White Sox. Bert Shotten has tumbled badly at bat. He has not lived up to the form he showed in the spring. The opinion seems to prevail in Detroit De-troit the Culis are going to beat the Giants to the National league flag. The Indianapolis club announces that it has purchased Second Baseman Base-man Press Cruthers from the Memphis club. Dick Robertson of the New Orleans Pelicans quits the Southern season as the league's most sensational pitcher. He holds the record for consecutive victories. The International League clubs are doing better than was expected financially. finan-cially. The league probably will go through the season without a break in the circuit. Both major leagues ought to empower empow-er their umpires to decide whether games should be postponed because of rain or wet grounds.. The home clubs often abuse this privilege. Now that Lee Fold has such a capable capa-ble catcher as Chet Thomas to work at times Steve O'Neill is getting a much-deserved much-deserved rest. O'Neill is one of the hardest working catchers in the game. Unintentional injury was done Casey Stengel when it was stated tLat he ran out on the Pittsburgh club and had secured se-cured a job in a shipyard to avoid the draft. It seems Casey enlisted in the navy. Dutch Iteuther, formerly of the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds, now In service, was "enlisted" to pitch for Vancouver on. June 19 and he beat the Aberdeen Black Cats, holding them to six hits and two runs. Manager Lee Fold put Doc Johnston at the top of his batting order when he reported from Milwaukee and Doc showed that he still had the same old cleverness that he showed for the Indians In-dians before they dumped him for a lot of experiments. j |