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Show VDIAMONDV APICK-UP5A Clyde Burrow?, concert baritone, Is a former professional ballplayer and basket ball star. ... Only 126 games are played In the Florida State league by each club, according ac-cording to the schedule. ... Bob Gill, veteran utility man, has been transferred to New Haven by Newark of the International league. ... The New York Giants are understood under-stood to be very interested In Howard Burns, Harvard captain and outfielder. ... Alvin Julian, coach of the Schuylkill college team, has been helping out with the catching of the Reading Keys. ... During the season of KM IS Big E.I Walsh, of the Chicago While Sox. pitched to l.G'.'O hatters' a major league record. ... The Philadelphia AtHclles have more postponed games to make up this year so far than any o:her American Amer-ican league team. . . A city :'.."ilKI years old has been uncovered un-covered In Asia Minor, and only n day or two ago a Detroit base runner was retired with the hidden hall trick ... After hitting safely In l.ri straight games. Bill Cissell, the costly young shortstop of the White Sox. was finally final-ly stopped by Owen Carroll of Ivtroit. ... Pitcher Joe Newton, recently released re-leased by Aniarlllo of. the Western league, has been taken on by the Columbia Co-lumbia Comers. Newton won 11 and lest 7 last season. ... Sulphur Dell park, the baseball field of the Nashville club. In the Southern leat:ue. is located on a site where early settlors once built a fort to guard against Indian raids. .... President Toole has received complaint com-plaint of the treatment of umpires at Beading and poller have been stationed sta-tioned In front of the bleachers- as a precautionary measure. ... The Cubs nnnonnee the purchase of Catcher Damiv Murphy from Fort Worth of the Texas league. Murphy Is a veteran receiver and was In (! Const league last sea'on. ... The late llnghey Jennings, who was noted for his "crowding" of borne plate, established n record In 1S9I when he was allowed to go to first base 40 times during the season nfter being hit by pitched balls. |