Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — BASEBALL NOTES [ARTICLE]

BASEBALL NOTES

Cuddy Murphy, Dartmouth pitcher, Is looking for a big league job. 4. ' • • * ■ ' — The Phillies are In the market to make trades. They need a whole new ball club. • * * Benny Kauff led the Giants in drlvIng in runs, 1 even if lie slumped a bit; In his hitting. Lee Magee was a failure in the American league, but he seems able to hold his own in the National. • • • Horace Milan, brother of the veteran Washington outfielder, will be in the Western league again this year. • * • Tris Speaker is signing a lot of kid pitchers in the hope that* he will get one able to fill a big league role. • • • Third Baseman Fred Graff, veteran of the Chattanooga team, lets it be known he is done with professional ball. • • * McGraw has signed a right-handed pitcher by the name of James 0. Garten. The youngster hails from Tulsa, Okla. - • • * Gold lapel buttons have been awarded the members at the 1919 Cinclm nati world’s championship basebail team. • • • Herb Hall, member of the Kansas City Blues’ hurling staff since .1917, has announced his retirement from the gaine. • • * Joe Gedeon had a good season with the Browns last year, and expects to have a better one in the coming campaign. • • • Baseball promises to have a Mg boom in the South this year. The leagues there all see signs of prosperity. • Manuel Cueto of the Reds will be purchased, by. Sacramento of the Coast league and will be used as a. third baseman. • • • Seattle is still waiting for the major league batt clubs to conte through with players promised the Puget Sound club manager. Fritz Maisel, back in Baltimore, where he started toward the big league, promises to finish his baseball career there. Baseball bugs in Wichita, Kan., wilt see the "first exhibition game this spring as eagly as March- 30, when the Cards visit the dty on the plains. • • . • ■ Detroit writers are clamoring that the Tigers need added pitching strength if they are to garner the American league, gonfalon this year. • * * Infielder Fred Brainard, who played with Milwaukee a part of last season on « loan from Providence, has now been sold by the latter club to Columbus. ’ ITPat Moran takes Joe Schultz from the St Louis Cardinals It Will be the fourth National league.; dub the blonde infielder-outfielder has played 'r 1 *- . . . George Gray, a southpaw who has madp a fine record with independent twin in northern Illinois, has been signed for a tryout With the Little Rock Southern league dub. -