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Show BASEBALL Jf MOTES 4m . Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan'! famous fa-mous athlete, batted .4C9 for the Ann Arbor collegians this year. Greater love hath no man than that he continue to refer to a home town tall-end ball team as Our 'Jort. Elton Langford of Des Moines last year continues in his batting slump and has been benched by the Indians. Mel Harder, eighteen-year-old recruit re-cruit of the Cleveland club, Is flie youngest pitcher in the major league. The F.oston Red Sox released Pitcher Pitch-er Cliff Garrison, on option, to the Portland club of the New England league. Harry Selbold, pitcher, with the Reading Internationals, lost only one game while winning fourteen up to mid-July. Roy Carlyle, Birmingham Southern association outfielder, got seven hits in nine recent trips to the plate as pinch hitter. Fred Helmnch, former major league burler, had won sixteen sanies while losing six up to mid-July In the American association. Dixie's big league club I The Washington Wash-ington team of the A.hericnu league, has 12 of 25 players on ttie roster hailing from the Southland. Nick Boreili, Muhlenberg stnr, who Joined the Athletics recently, compiled com-piled a .COS batting average for his undefeated college team this year. Lofty Jatnerson, released by Uart-ford Uart-ford was taken ou by Wnterbury and annexed a victory as relief burler on his first day in a Brassco uniform. "Luke" ' Johnsos, captain and star shortstop of the IOL'8 Northwestern university . istball team, will Join the roster of the Cincinnati Reds next season. One Cleveland sports writer thinks tliis will be the last season fur Joe Sewell us regular shortstop for the lu dians. lie says old age has claimed Sewell. e The Frederick club of the nine Ridge league at a meeting of the board of directors authorized sale of its friinclii.se to Cleveland of the American league. e e A New Yolk Giant catcher ran head-on into a concrete dugout with out Injuring himself or the dugout. JuHt another example of the wonders of modern achltecture. e Dale Alexander of Toronto and Hick I'orter of Raltlmore are waging a hot duel for butting honors in the International Interna-tional league this year, with the fur mer having tho edue to date. e His Injured knee failing to respond to treatment, Hilly Mullen, wtio several sev-eral jears ago was one of the greatest great-est third basemen in t lie Texas league, has decided to quit baseball. George Moriarty, poet-uinplre-base-ball manager, has found that kind ness to his pluyert doesn't pay He tried poems on the lads, bit found them too empty even for blank verse e Speaking of rubber watches, which are now the rage on the beaches, who remembers the first quarter of the Michigan-Marine football game some years back, that . stretched out to 50 minutes. - Farmer in Idaho was saved from death by lightning when a hoe lie was using formed a ground contact Many persons will gain some satisfaction from the fact that a golf club might do the same thing. t |