The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-09-23
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Joe Guyon, Louisville outfielder, was
great back for Georgia Tech few
years ago.
Dick Wade, outfelder, has been
signed by Minneapolis of the Ameri-'
can Association.
Connie Mack blames the heat for
the Athletics slump. If it isn't the
heat it's the stupidity.
A pitcher named Joseph L. Marti-
corneo of Lincoln, Neb., will get a
trial with the Yankees next spring.
Dan Jesse, shortstop on the Salt
Lake Utah-Idaho League club, has
been sold to the Cleveland Americans.
The first no-hit game in the Nation
al league was pitched by Bradley of
st. Louis against Hartford on July 10,
1876.
Archie Campbell, right-handed pitch
err of the Wichita club of the Western
league, has been sold to the New York
Yankees.
Frank Real, pitcher with the Will
son club of the Virginia league, has
been sold to Toronto in the Interna-
tional circuit. ~. .
The Washington Nationals have
purchased the services of First Base
man Eddie Onslow, of the Rochester
Internationalists.
The Giants last six games Of the
season are played against Brooklyn
and Philadelphia, among the weakest
of the league teams.
Just as he takes his place at the
plate, Dell Pratt, second baseman and
manager of the Waco club in the Tex
as league, invariably expectorates on
the end of his bat.
We deduce from the details it might
have been better, all in all, If the Chi
cago lad who got into game in which
a railroad torpedo was used as base
ball had struck out.
William G. Andrews of Newcastle,
Pa, aged fifty-eight, is the oldest
player in the King Tut Baseball
League in which no one under thirty
years Of age is eligible.
Announcement is made of the sale
to the Chicago Cubs of Fred (Doc)
Mcguire, star second baseman of the
league-leading Toledo team of the
American association.
Dreyfuss denies the rumor that
Hazen Cuyler, Johnny Morrison and
Earl Smith were to be traded for
Dazzy Vance, Butch Henline and Ar
mold Statz of Brooklyn.
Times certainly have changed:
When a couple of hurlers stagger
through till the ninth nowadays and
the score is IL to or something, it is
described as pitchers battle.
Ed Taber, bespectacled left-hander
of the Pittsfield team of the Eastern
league, defeated Bridgeport. to
and 8 to O recently and allowed only
a scratch hit in the second game.
Tony Lazzeri of the New York Yam
KEGS holds the Pacific Coast league
home-run record of 62 circuit smashes,
established in 1925 when playing short
stop for, the Salt Lake City team.
Eddie Ainsworth and George Du-
mont, who formed battery for
Washington several years ago, later
being members of the Minneapolis
club, are now together again, play
ing for Little Rock, Ark.
Regis Lehney. southpaw pitcher,
formerly of the Cathedral Chapel and
Homewood club mines of the County
league of Pittsburgh, has exhibited
such great promise in workouts that
he has been signed by the Pirates.
The washington Americans broke
record in 1917, but no one envied them
for it. They made the fewest home
runs of any club in the major league,
getting only four homers. Judge got
two, Morgan one, and Menosky the
other.
After defeating the league-leading
Portland club Of the New England
League, Stanley o. Robinson, OF. of.
Tufts, is well on his way to impress
ing the Boston Braves management
as good prospect to take south with
the team next spring.