The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
SPORT NOTES

Charley Deals return to the Cubs doesn't seem to have helped them much They have not been going as we'll as they might and the Giants could make it interesting yet if they had any fight left in them.
 A dispatch from Rock Island states that Mike Sexton. president of the minor leagues organization. is slated for the presidency of the National league. The National might go farther and fare worse, but there is no confirmation.
 Fred Toney says he has lost 15 pounds since he joined the New York Giants and he IS rather rroud of the fact that some pody made him get down to weight, but ne doesn't boast of the games he has lost since becoming a Broadway star.
 Ollie O'Mara of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who held clerical position in the Brook lyn navy yard last winter. will return to that work when the baseball season closes He is married and doesn't have to enter the fighting end of the military service.
 Hugh McQuillan, the young pitcher se- cured by the Boston Braves from the Worcester Eastern league club, has been released Stallings thinks his staff com posed of Nehf, Rudolph, Ragan, George, Northrup and Crandall good enough to carry his team for the rest of the sea- son.
 During the home stay of the Chicago Cubs daily collections for the soldiers tobacco fund have been a feature and several hundred dollars have been raised to provide smokes for the boys in serv- ice.'A Chicago newspaper is in charge of the campaign.
 Johnny Brock, youthful catcher of the Cardinals, who returned from the navy on furlough, was inserted in Cardi- nals-Reds game at St. Louis All he did was to ball up a play at the plate and start stampede that resulted in the Reds scoring five or six runs Under the revised National league schedule the Boston Braves were to have played their opening game in St. Louis pn August 15, but that date was cancelled so double header could be played Sat urday and the Braves stopped over at some town or other on the way to St. Louis and played another exhibition game.
 Lew McCarty catcher for the Giants, did not desert to the Duluth shipyards The busy press agent of the steel league up in Duluth just wanted to get some thing in print, apparently, though it may be some other McCarty or Mccarthy went back on his name and beat it to the shipyards to escape active service.
 
 not waited for September l. but has gone to his home in Amherst, where he will look after his business, wnlch is very essential to himself at least, what ever Uncle Sam may say about 1t later. Henry was suffering from a broken thumb and was of no service to his club.
 Benny Kauff. now soldier in training at Camp sherman. in Ohio. couldn't hold himself when the Giants appeared in Cincinnati so he got a furlough. went down to Cincinnati and presto. got into uniform. Benny says being soldier is one thing, but playing with the Giants is something else again. His old team mates gave him rousing welcome.
 While many of the noted baseball stars are trying their hardest to stay out of the service, Umpire Bill Byron, who is 47 years old, is trying his best to get in Byron has made many applications to get into the ground service of the aviation corps as mechanic, but has always been turned down because of his age He's going to keep on trying, though. and expects to be successful before long.