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Show jom a The Pirates do not have any foolish notions of winning a pennant this summer. Matty says the spit ball is hard on the arm, and that he rarely used it. It is hard on the batting eye, too. Wonder who is going to he the first to hang the title of "Pop" on that young veteran, Christy Mathewson? Shoots from the young idea sometimes some-times aim just as high as shoots from the mound when the pitcher blows up. ' The White Sox are suffering more from the lack of hitting right now than any other team in the American league, In addition to being some pitcher, Cadore, the youthful star of the Dodgers' Dodg-ers' staff, is considerable of a hitter. Many a good pennant chance is spoiled by too much work with the jawbone and too little work with the stick. Uncle Sam is going to tax baseball receipts. Now watch the high cost of being a fan go up and up and then some. If professional baseball players ara drafted the small boy will be inclined to agree with General Sherman about war. Matty promises faithfully to trj some of his advice on the Reds. Ciu: cinnati fans please sit up and taks notice. Judging from the claims made by the managers every team has already got the pennant cinched. So all bets are off. Maranville is stopping everything that comes along these days. It almost takes a 42-centimeter gun to get a ball by him. The Pittsburgh Pirates wdll travel a greater distance this year than any other team in the major leagues. Up or down? The Pittsburgh Pirates will travel a greater distance this year than any other team in the major leagues. Up or down? , Many a pitcher has lost his game because be-cause he happened to spy a woman among the spectators who looked like his mother-in-law. The baseball rules for this season have no mention of capital punishment for the boob who tries to steal second with the bases full. The first .time Germany Schnefer wallops one over the fence, the fans will forget the "Germany." A wallop's a wallop for a' that. Still, there's nothing like losing a game now and then to prevent the fans from suffering from a severe attack at-tack of ingrowing overconSdence. Merito Acosta, the wee Cuban outfielder, out-fielder, released by Washington to Baltimore, Bal-timore, is expected to get going in good shape with a little practice. Speaking of college pitchers, there's George Smith, formerly of Columbus university, and now one of the bright young youthfuls of Jawn McGraw's Giants. The baseball press agents have evidently evi-dently overlooked the possibility of putting put-ting the outfield in potatoes in order to reduce the high cost of second-string players. Rabbit Maranville and Nemo I.eibold are said to be the shortest players in the big leagues this year, but wait until un-til some of the speedy speeders get to going good. Manager Jennings of the Detroit Americans says that major-league clubs w-usro $.-.0,000 a year. That's nothing compared with what the fans waste paying to see some of the games. Kid (lleason. the new second baseman base-man of the Pirates. is a little fellow who resembles the White Sox eo;,,-i, in Sio ;is Well IIS ill Ilittne. If the tlow Kid is half as good a man n tie- oM Kid l;o will be a welcome addition ,, the game. j |