The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-07-31

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better than early in the season.
Augusta rates Sonthpaw Masters
acquired from Little Rock, as find.
Newell, outfelder, recently with
Chattanooga and New Orleans, is now
with the Augusta team.
Catcher Harry Lake is back in the
Virginia league, Newport News having
secured him to replace NOonan.
In the Chicag0-Washington game Of
June 10 the White Sox had but three
assists and all of these went to Eddie
Collins.
Seattle, 1t seems, had its choice Of
Frank Woodward or Oscar Tuer0 from
the St. Louis Cardinals. 1t selected
Woodward.
Hugh Miller, eX-marine, has resigned
from the Texas staff Of umpires. His
injured leg went back on him and he
had to quit.
I In a recent game the Houston BTffa-
7 l0eS cot 10 men TO first base on hits.
walks and errors-and yet did not
score a run.
Outfelder Gl0cksOn, suspended By
Moline and then released. has Joined
Rock Island under a promise to be-
have himself.
Cravath has placed Rawlings at sec
ond base and benched John Miller, who
started the season Ike a riot and then
slowed down.
Bob Riggs, who has come back tc
baseball in Texas as a member Of the
Galveston team, was the demon slug
ger of the league in 1911.
Charley Schmidt, the veteran man
ager of the Fort Smith team, has now
caught more than 1900 games since he
entered professional ball.
Sacramento fans were rather SORE
over the deal Manager Bill Rodger;
made with Seattle by which he tradet
Middleton and Stumpf for Kopp.
Bob Higgins, veteran catcher anC
former field leader Of the Atlant;
Crackers, has been engaged to manag,
an independent team In Northern Geor
gla.
New York is not the only town tina
is broken out with a bad case of Ruth
tits. The fans caught 1t in Detroi
and Cleveland and are pretty sic
folks.
Kalamazoo has a brother battery il
Ben and Alex Schauffle. Alex. tn
catcher, formerly was with Baltimore
Ben, the pitcher, had a tryout wit
Connie Mack.
The Vernon chroniclers of event
say Manager Bill Essick must oh
tain another catcher Immediately" A
Devormer isn't strong enough for tn
first string job.
Bill Coughlin. former Detroit infleld
er, who coached the Lafayette colleg
: nine to a series of successes, was civ
: en- gold watch from the students a
, a mark of appreciation.
Notre Dame forfeited its baseba
game with Indiana university recent
: because three members of the Notr
: Dame team were eating luncheon whe
, their train left and missed it.
Mig Clarke finds Sally league pitcl
ing to his liking. In a recent gam
the veteran big Lacquer. now catchin
for Greenville, hit a triple and fou
singles in five trips to the plate.
9 Of course, John McGraw likes theI
e already seasoned, but don't fail to not
+ that he has made first string catche
t out of young Earl Smith, and thu
q George Kelly also is developing undo
the Little Napoleon's tutelage.
1t seems that the indianapolis clu
had received an offer from maiC
: league club for Ollie O'Mara just abol
the time he jumped the team.
A story had it that Cincinnati ha
made Oakland a proposal to send tn
infelders, pitcher and cash in e.
change for 0utfelder Hack Mile
The deal, however, was called off.
n Mordecai Brown, supposed to ha'
l. ended his pitching days because of
l. dislocated elbow, went back into Il
box for his Terre Haute team the OF
er day and pitched four-hit gan
against Rock Island.
Judging from the way Dick Burr
= swatted the ball when given chan,
y to play first base for the Mackmen
e cause of Grifin's injury, the AS we
Il not materially weakened by the sc
dent to their regular first Sacker.
Pete Johns, who quit the St Lou