The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-05-25
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Pitcher Jim Jolley of Wichita has
been released to the Denver Bears.


Pitcher Jim Jolley of Wichita has
been released to the Denver Bears.
Apparently Xxi Cuyler has no in
tentiOn of occupying perch on the
bench this season.
Cliff FusOn of Saguache, Colo, has
been appointed an umpire by President
Fred Nye of the Utah-Idaho league.
Jack Smith, sub first sacker of the
Toledo Mud Hens last year, has been
sent to Hartford of the Eastern league.
Chicago Cubs of 1924 were the wOrs>
base stealers of all time They were
caught trying to steal 149 bases that
year.
Pitchers can go to the we'll once to-
often-Jack Quinn as he starts his sec
Ond half century, shows signs of
cracks.
University of Oregon baseball nine
has given up the idea of invading
Hawaii for a series of games during
July and August.
Clarence Griffin, left-hand pitcher
drafted by Washington last year, has
been returned to Memphis of the
Southern association.
Johnny Morrison, veteran pitcher,
has been released outright 'by Pitts
burgh Pirates TO the Kansas City club
of the American association.
John McGraw, manager of the
Giants, has sent Jake Levy, Jewish
pitcher, to the Hartford club of the
Eastern league under option.
A lot of ball players look good when
their club is leading, or trailing By
five or six runs, but the real stars are
the fellows who stand out in to
battle.
Vance GRADER, Outhelder with the
Milwaukee club of the American as
ISOLATION, has been purchased by the
Springfield club of the Western aSSo-
citation.
Syracuse university has an unusual
baseball schedule this year in that IS
of its % games are away from home.
1t opened the season April and
closes May 20.
Paul Mccullough, pitcher for Toledo
club of the American association, has
been sent to the Minneapolis team of
the association for the balance of the
1923 campaign.
Ed Crowley, captain of the Georgia
Tech eleven last year, and baseball
star, has quit school and is expected
to report to the Washingtons soon. He
plays third base.
Outfelder Clyde Barnhart of the
Pirates stole two bases in the first five
games of the season, which was the
exact number that he purloined all last
season in 10S games.
Sy Rosenthal, for whom the Louis
vile Colonies paid the Boston Red
Sox $500 one year ago, has been
sold to the Chattanooga club of the
Southern association.
The st. Louis Cards have signed
Kelly .'Swede" Swenson, pitcher and
captain of Kansas this year, to con-
tract and he will report when he
graduates in June. Several big league
clubs were after Swenson.
st. Paul has shipped Pitcher Jess
Bream to York of NYP league He
was with harrisburg last year and
joins his old manager, VIM Clark,
who switched from Harrisburg to York
during the winter.
President Barnard of the American
league has followed in the wake of
Ban Johnson and is going to be a
patron of the Blue Ridge league. He
has promised TO visit the circuit and
witness some games this summer.
DOME Bush has selected Johnny
Gooch to handle the spitball pitching
of Burleigh Grimes and Johnny seems
to be getting away with it in good
style. This was new worry for Bush,
as Barney Dreyfus had not had a spit
ter on his team since they were ruled
out, at least those who were not al
ready using it at the time of the leg
islatiOn.
Notwithstanding the fact that a
couple of National league managers
have picked the New York Giants for
a second division berth, Clark Crit.
fifth, president of the Washington Sen.
ators, favors McGraw's team to win
the pennant..
Oscar Felsch, the former White Soa
star who was barred in the 1919 scan.
dial house cleaning. is still out of luck.
He had signed with club in an in.
dependent league in Wisconsin, only tc
have the president of the loop rule
that he was not eligible to play.