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Texas League Several minor league CLUBS
are hungry for this battery.
Though neither Chicago team has Won
the white sox or the Cubs 3 the better
team are In vogue. Beth look uncomfort-
ably fast from a New York viewpoint
New York Sun.
Pitching double-headers Il the regular
thing In the Southern League this year
Becker OF Shreveport did the trick Sunday
at Shreveport. landing his first game from
Little Rock to and the second to l..
and but four in the second.
When Detroit offered to trade Pitcher
George Mullin to Cleveland for Addie Joss
the Maps management declared that
neither cash nor talent could lure the grace
full boxman with the Pell street name away.
Manager Fielder A. Jones OF the White
Sox wants eleven games out of the fifteen
hts club will play on this trip. The White
Sox will play thirteen games with eastern
clubs and two in Cleveland before return
ing to Chicago.
Joe birmingham Of Eimira. the feet
footed heavy hitting fielder Of the A. ]. &
G. club, has been sold to the Cleveland
Americans for 81. 800. He win not Join
Cleveland until the close Of the New York
State League season.
Evers and Schultz are the only unmarried
regulars on the Chicago Cubs. Overall
Hoffman,. Gessler and Moran are the other
members Of the bachelor clique. The sue
cess Of the Cubs this season is tribute to
steady habits.
The lowly Boston Americans are now
called the Rathskellers. Under the in
spfration Of this name the team has been
showing more power than at any time this
season.
The 'buzz saw infield'' is a term applied
to the White Sox basemen. The names Of
the players suggest the sound. "Jiggs.."
"Izzy" and Fanny" are prehxes which
have weird kissing noise when linked to-
gether.
Says President Murphy of the Chicago
Nationals: Nothing would please me more
league flags and have all contests for the
championship of the world played right
here in Chicago. 1t certainly looks now
that the club which does win in the Ameri-
beat"
Pat Dougherty has been enjoying life as
a member of the White Sox. In 10-cent
limit game the other day the ex-Yankee
reckoning came Dougherty discovered
twenty-One chips that were not in the game
at the beginning. Nick Altrock says he
never would do such a scurvy trick. SO Pat
has ended his hunt for the guilty one.
If the Chicago Cubs win the pennant,
which is now altogether likely. they will
be entitled to the hOnOrs, as they Will have
won every series from their rivals They
have won ten or more games from every
club except New York, the record with the
Giants being nine out Of fifteen. The
Cubs need. therefore. to win only three out
of the remaining seven games to capture
the series.
Three-fingered Brown has stacked up
against the New Yorks five times this sea-
son and pitched winning game for the
Spuds in four of the five games. He won
both OF the games in which he was pitted
against Mathewson. He also saved a game
for the Chicagos against the champions
when he relieved the ascending Reulbach
in the ninth inning The slickest move the
Chicago club has made was when 1t got