Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-08-28
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The Columbus club has secured
Shortstop Milton Reed from the Phil.
adelphia National club.
Muskegon has signed Guy Hodges,
who led the Kitty league In batting
last year with an average Of .419.
Manager Jackson of Wilmington,
has signed Bill Harkins, pitcher for
the Troy club Of the New York State
league.
The Utica club has sold Outflelder
Joe Peploski, the Seton Hall star, to
the Lawrence club OF New England
league.
Traverse City has released Catcher
Siner and Pitcher Buttle, both Of
WHOM have given good service to the
Res1lters.
In the 20inning game at Seattle on
July 10 Mig Perrine, playing second
base for Seattle, handled Is chances
without skip.
New Haven has signed Pitcher Fred
Clauss, brother of Bert Clauss, for
merly with Detroit and now with Lin.
coin, in the Western league.
Pitcher Danny Miller, the college
youth who recently jumped the Quincy
team and was fined 500, has been re-
instated and sold to Springfield.
The Michigan State league contin-
ues to live up to It's reputation OF
playing more close score games than
any other league in the country.
| Owen Quinn, the first baseman
farmed to New London by the New
York Americans, broke his wrist In a
recent game and is out for the season.
Pitcher Flanagan, sold to the Mus
catine club of the Central Association
by Manager Plass of Dubuque, has re-
fused to report, and has been suspend
ed.
The Detroit club is said to have an
option on Carleton, the smuggling out
fielder of the Kalamazoo club. This
is his first year in the South Michigan
league.
Pitcher Fred Rawley. who has beer
with Syracuse in the New York State
league has been signed by Jesse Burk
EFT for his Worcester New England
league team.
The Grand Forks Ball club stands
to realize.a bit of cash by the sale o.
players this season, with Catcher Pc
tiers and Outfelder Altman as likely
men for market.
The Keokuk club has given Manager
Spencer Abbott his release. Economy
was given as the reason, but the re
ports are that Abbott could not ge
along with his players.
Pitcher Lefty James, erstwhil'
Nap, and now with the CLEVELAND
American Association team, has ad
mitted he is flirting with the Fedora
league A four-season contract hal
been offered the southpaw, he said.
The Evansville club has signet
Southpaw Pitcher Carl Schultz, fol
mer left-handed pitcher for indiana
university, who recently was released
by the indianapolis American Associa
tion club.
Dolly" Stark's injury gave Jacl
Clothier a chance to break into tn
game for Memphis, and he certainl!
has taken advantage of it and has Gov
cred the shortstop position in fln'
style.
Jack Keliher, the former Brooklin'
High boy, who was given a trial b!
the st. Louis Cardinals, Is playing
shortstop for Indianapolis. Ills worl
In the field has been good, but at tn
bat he is weak.
First Baseman Steve Brewer has de
cided to finish the season with an In
dependent team at Mason City, ia
Steve played some very fair ball TO
Grand Rapids, but his hitting was no
quite strong enough for first base
man. ,'..
President Lennon Of st. Paul ha
taken the bull by the horns and ha
cut his team to IA men. But Nv
pitchers are carried on the club, fou
infielders, three outfielders and tw'
catchers. That's enough for even
major league club.
Pitcher Dave Roth, who was drafte'
from Jack Dunn's Orioles last yea
BY the Chicago American league c]ul
and whose salary whip went back o,
him, il trying to stage comeback .
present with the Birmingham team
The Hartford club has signed Pitch
or D. H. Henry. tho Brown star. VIII
kept tho Providence college on tn
baseball map the past spring, and tn
man who twirled such great gam
against the crack Yale college team
on Yale Field this past season.
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Jack Pappalau, veteran pitcher o
many leagues, has been released b!
Albany. It 10 conceded that Papa