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Show VDIAMDNDY APICK-L!FSA Catcher Russell Keith was given an outright release hy Omaha. Pessimist: One who has no use for an "If" table in the baseba'll standing. The Athletics say they don't feat the big hats of lint h or Gehrig half as much ay the one of Meusel. The first known and fixed salary ever paid a ball player was S2a a week paid to t he late Alfred J. Ueaeh, who died in 1027. We wish health authorities wouldn't spread their propaganda about taking a nap on hot afternoons where certain ballplayers can see it. The Pittsburgh Pirates are sai ! 'o be after Rabbit Warstler, promi-inu' young shortstop with Indianapolis in the American association. Baseball pools take ?;,(i,(fcK 1,000 from the gullible in this country every year Possibly the suckers feel more al home, though, in a pool than in an oil well. Pitcher Bill Brown of the Cleveland Indians has been named as Ihe hinder who goes to the Omaha Crickets In Ihe deal for Outfielder Bed Marvel, recently purchased from Ban ey Btirch's club. Shrevejiort. In an eiTort to drag in some belated fans, has decided on the experiment of twilight baseball, and games at that stopping-off place lu Ihe ioxas league now are icing started tit live o'clock. Heinle Batch, star shortstop of the Scranton team u! the New York-Pennsylvania league, has been obtained by Ihe Milwaukee Brewers In a trade for Al v i n Keitz, pitcher, nml l-'rank l'.aldy. substitute inliclder. Otis (Doc) Crandall, veteran pitcher and part owner and manager of the Wichita Avialors, announced that he was severing connections wilh the club and returning to California, where lie planned to pilch for the Sacramento Sac-ramento Sacs. Joe Babbitt is slid fast, In any league. He beads Ihe Inlernational In stolen bases, wilh ;!2 to his credit, according ac-cording lo latest averages compiled by Al Monro Flias, and a man who steals .'12 bases lu 1UU games Is going some these days. Buzz Wetzel received an offer from the Toledo Mudhens for three of his Sailors, Briscoe, Hill ami Gockel, hut refused to sell them for Immediate delivery, de-livery, slating (hat he will not weaken the team now under any circutn-stanci-s, as he Is Intent upon grabbing off second half honors. Shotislop Heinle Sand of the Phillies Phil-lies ripped off one for the rccordi when In the liflh Inning of a game Willi the Cardinals, he thought three were out and tossed the ball Into the diamond. Ma fey scored from llrsl base before the alarm clock went off and the Phils woke up lo the sllua-tioti. sllua-tioti. Jack Dunn of Baltimore has come out with tin? policy calling for young, fast and frisky players, according to one Baltimore scribe. No more grizzled griz-zled vets for Hie Oriole leader. With Ihe excepllon of Fihlle Onslow , Ursl, the oldliniers Dunn has corralled this year have not come up to expectr,. lions, wrlles live scribe, anil there will be new life within the ranks of (he Birds from now on. The real worth of Andy liceso ol I ho New York Glanls appears w hen some player Is put out and a substl lute Is needed. liei'se has playe.l every position this season for llm Clanls except lu Ihe box and holilm1 Ihe hal. and he's merely walling his Hu n for I hose iissl'iniiicnls. Bui of all positions, Reese says he likes shorlNlop hi si. lie lillcd In for Travis Jackson there when Jackson's ,i mli'il up nod they had u hard 'line nml, Ing hlia give up Hie Job, |