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Al Bridwell's Rocky Mount pitchers
are not going well.
Pitcher Ray Richmond was sent to
Tulsa by the St Louis Browns under
option.
The Joplin club has sold First Base
man Bill Brown to Nashville of the
Southern league.
Late Texas league averages show
lot more hitting than is usual in the
Lone Star circuit.
Al Platte has found the Western
league about his class and is going
good with Omaha.
Pitcher Joe Willis has jumped the
Columbus club. Manager Clymer says
he doesn't know why.
Pitcher Newkirk has been pur-
chased by the Columbus \. A. team
from the Chicago Nationals.
George Cutshaw vies with Iris
Speaker. as they are the only players
TO tally four runs in a game.
American association club owners
Will make a finish fight against players
who jump to Independent clubs.
Buffalo. after several years of in
difference to International baseball,
seems to be coming back strong.
Pitcher Eddie Foster has jumped
the ST Paul Saints to play with an in
dependent team at Virginia, MINI.
The veteran Jack Warner, after less
than a month of it. chucked his job as
an umpire in the International league.
Wheeler Dell says he gets $500
month for pitching and working for
an electric company in Richmond,
Utah.
Cleveland Americans have released
Frank Grabfelder, sandlot recruit out
fielder, to Cedar Rapids Of the Three-I
league.
Tulsa released Infelder Bob Lar
more to the Cedar Rapids club Of the
Three-I league, where he has started
off big.
Abilene calls its team In the West
Texas league the Eagles, so If they go
up in the air now and then they should
not be blamed.
Leo Mangum, after his no-hit game
for Albany. hasn't done much. An
allbi for him is that he has been IN
der the weather.
clares he offered the Chicago White
Sox 5000 for Grover Lowdermilk and
was turned down.
Beals Becker, outfielder of the Kan
sas City club of the American asso-
citation, has been purchased by the
Seattle Pacific club.
The Syracuse club has released Out
fielder Dan Costello and Pitcher Cuddy
Murphy. They have Joined a steel
team in Pennsylvania.
Tacoma, which has been the grave
yard Of many q ball club, shows some
signs this year of giving its P. 1.
league team real support.
Pitcher Cassaza. secured by Jersey
City from the Boston Braves, got the
razzaza from Bill Donovan. He
couldn't pitch according to Bills ideas.
Some ragged scores at Akron have
been blamed on the new grounds.
Pitchers say the sand of the diamond
roughens the ball so they can't handle
ii.
The Kansas City club sent Fred Pip
kin and Walter Foster. two recruits
who have been warming the bench, to
Enid of the Western association I'M
der option Of recall.
Cincinnati in the National. Cleve-
land in the American, Columbus or
Toledo in the Association and Akron
in the International-that' the way
Ohio fans expect them to put the
Buckeye state on the map this year in
baseball. Some state is Ohio
Fred Hager. young catcher recent
ly out of the army, has been taken on
by the New York Yankees.
Johnny Brock, Kansas City pitcher.
who has been kept down because of
lack of hitting ability, is coming strong
this year as a heavy swatter.
The Grand Rapids team of the Cen