Arizona republican., 1917-07-21
Big League Dope
AMERICAN LEAGUE

The Athletics have releaed Out fielder Lee Gooch to Springfield of the Eastern League. Gooch was a good dead of hitter, but too slow for major league company.
 The injury to Witt has given Con- nie Mack a chance to try out some of his new material. Most any kind of a team wearing the uniform of the Athletics can win these days. An unusual play in the, eleventh inning on July 13 gave New York a | 6 to victory over Chicago. After one man was out Peckinbaugh singled and took second on 9 sacrifice. Pipp then singled to center and Peckin- baugh started home, F'elschs throw to the plate was perfect and as Peckinbaugh slid Schalk dropped upon him and also dropped the ball Schalk. while sitting on the New Yorker. recovered the ball and touched Peck | inbaugh out. Peckinbaugh was | trapped a foot from the base but Umpire Evans ruled him safe claim ing that Schalk held him while he was recovering the ball.
 Jim Bagby and Stan Coveleskie are | running a race for the shutout honors 1 in the American League Covaleskie
 tied Bagoy's record for six on July | 10. so Bagby came right back the
 next day and blanked Washington in
 order to keep in front. 1t was his l third successive shutout, too, and
 gave him record of B innings with
 out run scored on his delivery. He
 also helped undo Walter Johnson l by making two doubles off the Washington star.
 1 There will be no more bohtail games
 played in the American League so
 that one team or another can catch an early train President Ban John son has issued sharp call down
 to the managers and umpires for lconsenting to call the Chicago CIeve-
 land game of July before nine in-
 nings were played, pointing out that there is rule of the league against the practice. The game, which went
 seven innings. the Sox winning to ,, presumably will stand however. Howard Shanks of Washington had hit safely in 16 consecutive games
 when he was stopped at Detroit on
 " 10. His run of hits had netted
 him batting average of 1885 for the
 IS games.
 Manager Clark Griffith communed
 with Jack Dunn of Baltimore regard
 in% an exchange of players that
 might return Lamar or Barber to
 A
 'oilars and Walter Johnson to boot
 for each player. so Griff stoppeo
 negotiations. Griff also would have
 taken on Pitcher Thormahlen from
 Baltimore but he found he would
 have to float a bond issue to land
 him from Dunn.
 The St. Louis Browns have sent
 two sick pitchers home for the sea
 son. They are Tim McCabe still
 weak from an onoration for appeno,-
 citis. and Carl Weilman. just out of
 hospital after an operation for re- moval of a kidney It was planned [ to send McCahe to Salt Lake City. ; where he could regain his strength, mt as several cluhs refused to waive the plan of giving him a vacation was } determined npon.
 Howard Ehmke of the Tigers has it on the Red Sox. Tn 3n innings that l they have faced him this season he } mas allowed one run. His victory q Of July F was his second successive l shutout over the champions. l. A Chicago woman. Mrs. Joseph Mri- y rcorev. has sued President Comiske, D or the White Sox for s10 0O0 She ,. says she was hit by foul ball anG
 Nadiv damaged. She forgot who hit X the hall that hurt her, but is sure she l w2s hurt
 7 The St Louis Browns sent one t Moore. an jnfielder to Oma ha. and t he was shipped back, so tho manage l n'ert of the Browns immndiatelv sent r on more Moore. The second addition IS 2 pitcher. Pnte Moore who used l to he in the Ohio State T.cag'1o. hut
 was picked up hv a scout for the s Browns as a college plaver." ? It's dull day when one doesn', ~"'d that the Detroit club has signed |, new scout The latest is Rillv SuI [ livan. old White Sox catcher. who is : to look them over for Navin in the Northwest. A few days before this
 ""n"nnc"'nent came it was stated that
 Harry Wolverton would finish the ] soason in scouting capacity for tn. 1 Tigers.