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Show fcnondNcfcs August.. 1020. the Pirates played to lin.000 for four afternoons. Owner Ball of the St. Louis Browns has bought an airplane to follow the club around the circuit. And we note these emergency pitchers pitch-ers with stuff up their sleeves turn out to have nothing but the lining. Connie Mack has the unusual distinction dis-tinction of having seen his team finish in every position from first to eighth. In a recent game with Columbus, Louisville didn't have a single player from its 1920 championship team on the field. Robbie is beginning think that Plitt is one of the best pitchers he has picked up in years and the fans agree with him. Meinie Manush, champion batsman of the American league last season, has been a distinct disappointment so far this season. Sherry Smith, veteran southpaw of the Cleveland Indians, boasts a peculiar pe-culiar record for his eleven years in the majors 103 wins and 104 defeats. ... Lem Owen, right-handed pitcher of the Memphis Southern association club, has been released to the Bridgeport Bridge-port (Conn.) club of the Eastern league. The Baltimore Orioles admit all boys in short trousers to view games free of charge on certain days, but older youths in golf pants are excluded. ex-cluded. Members of the Cincinnati Umpires' association have formed a baseball team which will compete against local semipro clubs in twilight games this season. Harry O'Boyle, former baseball and football star at Notre Dame, has been acquired by the Muskogee Chiefs on option from Des Moines of the Western West-ern league. James C. Isaminger, one of the leading lead-ing baseball writers of the country, has been appointed editor of the annual an-nual Reach ' Baseball Guide for the next edition. , Acquisition of Buck Freeman, an outfielder from the Boston Red Sox has been announced by President Spiller of the Atlanta Southern association asso-ciation club. What's the next move by Connie Mack' His experiment with Jimmy Dykes on first base just about fills the book. Jimmy now has covered the four Infield positions for the Athletics. Stanley O. Robinson, Tuft's star left-handed pitcher, was given a try-out try-out hv Manager David Bancroft of the Boston Braves. His prospects of mak-ing mak-ing a major league team are very bright. t t , Jimmv Toole, first baseman has been sent to Baltimore of the In er-aHonal er-aHonal league, by the Athlet.cs. This probably means that J.mjny PvU I.ms nailed the first sack for himself permanently. S-n-mv Strang NU'klin, owner of te .utanooga club for the past -s his passed out of the lo-CT. lo-CT. ' it P cture. He has sold the frwl 'iso and Payors to the Chat-m,,,l;i Chat-m,,,l;i Baseball comply. , ,1,m,.u-o baseball scribe who ought , l:is onions, says Catcher ar- v Vfurdv tot his niekr-amo of H ,,,'ls leCardy" from his hah.t of )m,. hcMl m-stto abasc start.ngln, ' e 15 fvet or so from the base. |