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Show Detroit is giving Koydan Shried, a semi-pro pitcher from Norristown, Pa., a trial. The skin of a horse when properly cured and tanned may be cut into 100 baseball covers. Rollie Naylor is still skidding. He has been sold by Seattle to Mobile of the Southern league. Cy Williams, Phillies outfielder, has 179 home runs to his credit in fourteen four-teen years of major league baseball. Johnny Ilodapp, young third baseman base-man of tiie Indianapolis team, is to go to the Cleveland Indians in the spring. Columbia sold Manager Olin Per-rltt Per-rltt to Aslieville, and Outfielder Foster Ganzel has been placed in charge of the Comers. President Herman J. Welsman of the Waterbury club announces the acquisition acquisi-tion of Pitcher Frank (Dutch) Ulrica from the Philadelphia Nationals. Tony Murray, late of Buffalo, of the International league, has been signed by Decatur. He is a right-hand hitting hit-ting outfielder and was with Peoria in the spring. With his pitching staff wobbling a little, Clark Griffith quickly arranged a deal with Chattanooga of the Southern South-ern league whereby the Senators got Pitcher Win Ballou. At the request of officials of the Athletics and Phillies, the public safety department of Philadelphia has assigned 20 city detectives to get a line on all persons who wager on baseball games. Jimmy (Ginger) Carroll purchased by the Chicago White Sox from the Muskogee club of the Western Association, As-sociation, is twenty-one years old and is pitching bis first year In professional profes-sional baseball. Jack Mallonee, former University of Illinois nlhlele. purchased by the Chicago Chi-cago White Sox from Durham of the Piedmont league, is twenty-one years old, a left-hander more than six feet, tall and weighs ISO pounds. He had a hitting mark of .380 with Durham. Fenway Park in Boston is the only one in the American league circuit where they have a roof over the bull pen. Pitchers expecting an emergency call have a special coop under the lee of the right field pavilion, covered from the rays of the sun. whore they can rest between spurts of warming up. |