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MAJORS GREEDY FOR NEW STARS k' Vi !>ile Indianapolis Si-cms Have Whole liuncli of lli. iii Owners Vre Noi l)i>|xwd to Give 1 Iii-iii I |>. l?y JOHN It. KOSTKlt Coe?it9nl. i)24. fcr Th* ? NYw V uk. May i:\ ? Beth Cin ki:-.!k;i:i and Brooklyn art In (he ? r .- i.. ; i I ,k \ i - It. i?.?th ? ; t:u ..i '? :?i. : Indianapolis is koi willing lo haw tIn- u-.tm disturbed until ii h.i- won ill- |v xm.int it scorns hcaiie?l for. \ - r; :i;ai:or ??f Cincinnati a::.'. Brooklyn ar. not the nt'.ly b:g cSibs that w^uld lik- lo pick the haul p!ay;:>g H ? ??-r-., Several other learn* h:ivo an t ye"' <m them. Indeed. somebody want,*' al:no?t t very play or ! n ? 1 ?: -napoU* lia* pot. There are so many c *od: on?"* ili:.t th" club would he riddled if the big league sharpshooters had their way. Even Donie Bush. manager of the Indianapolis team might have bceni as good a shortstop for St. Louis as! any other player that Branch Rickey I has tried. Campbell. Drown, Fiiz-| slmmons and Schmandt have their l admirers. Schmandt was with I Brooklyn, but ho is a better ball j player now than ho was then. He! has filled out. and is stronger. if the Indianapolis owners were' willing to take high prices for their I players, they might get rid of them! in a hurry. But they show no dis-J position to smash their combination ? for the sake of a quick delivery.1 Of course they risk hanging on. be-1 cause failure of the players to keep on will knock their value down. Indianapolis is in much the same condition that Kansas City was; when it was developing Wright, 'the shortstop now with Pittsburgh.; There wasn't a inajlr Scout who did | not get on Wright's trail at some! time. Most of them, finding that. Pittsburg had the inside, began to i pound with their hammers. It I turns out that Wright is playing as well for Pittsburgh as ho did fori Kansas City, and he seems to be j playing better than some other less maligned Pittsburgh players, who don't seem able to get their feet on the ground. All the scouts who have turned t^eir attention to the Indianapolis players will lenve their prey when they discover that other clubs have the inside, and then it will develop that those players have everything ?excepting baseball talent ? from whooping cough to hoof and mouth disease. Meantime they look pretty good to everybody. Here's another kid in the Middle] West that Die scouts might do worse than to keep an eye on. Ralph Mc-J Collister, second baseman of the | Decatur. III?., Club in thf> Three-1 Kye Lear ie, recently accepted 15 I chances r.gainst Terre Haute without] ah error. II; pivoted on throe' double p-ays. He Is 19 years old ' and if lv can bat Dscatur won't, keep him much longer than this ] season. He 'II move up. In a game between the schools of Everett, Mass. and Somervllle. McFayden who pitched for Somer ville. lost in 17 innings, 2 to 1. A squeeze play defeated him. < Mc- I Fay den struck out 32 batters in the I 17 innings. It was a great feat, wh? tlier achieved by a school boy or a big leaguer. Monroe, the Everett \ pitchc-r, was scored on only in the first. ROMERO MADE GAME SHOWING But While Admiring His Wil lingness to Fight Fans Had to Concede That He Had j l.ittle Klse. By FA 111 PliAY Copyright, 1921. by Till Advance New York. May 13 ? Romero'* downfall came after a game showing that brought forth the admiration of fan* while at the name time, much as they wanted to, they could not hftft I bin a great cl? ftl. Hp h;is little if any science. an the critics pointed out after seeing him box. He has very little idea how to take rare of hlmsnlf defen sively. and every time he bores in with deadly Intent he Is a mark for bis opponent. It looks as though Romero was not even worth building up and that Kiel card realising this, throw him In ngal'nst a good second rater to see if by some chance he could pull through. He failed and In failing Floyd Johnson does not get as much credit as he should. Floyd's wallop has improved an n result of the exercise. Including much wood chopping, that he has boon doing in the past six months. He has a right that looks as though It were not to he despised. And he 1s better In every way. No doubt flic *-r-* ?* will "i Mm ?ip with some good match for outdoors. Flrpo must be sinlllng. Tho one thing that would have sent him scurrying to this country would have been a Romero victory over John PHONE 114 Standard Pharmacy THEY WILL SEND IT. Hard to Hit J .EFT. WALTER JOHNSON. RIGHT. TOMMY GXCX30XS. A:.y latter in th<? American I.eacue will tell you It Is toush to hi, Vi1-?*t* hnson. the tire -hull kins of pitcher*. Ar.>1 any ft Kh tor?no. *?\ ?*[ " v "?lr. D^inji-soy himself?will tell you <t Is no cinch to hit Toinnt. Oibl>on!*, Lost defensive tighter In the rim:. This picture was lalr?n th. other ilay nt the W.i-OilM^tuii i>a:k when the lighter went Jcwn 10 tlio dugout to greet ti.e r.otcJ pitchcr. son. r him to come bore just to muss the' Chilean up. but now there is no necessity for this at all. As to Firpo.'s relations with Rickanl, Hughey Gartlanil points' out that Kickard offered him 500.000 to meet Wills aud Dempscy., And, says Hughey, what would be-i come of Rickard's promise wen* Wills to heat Flrpo in the first! bout? It's a clncli he would not pay him any real money to go on against the champion. Firpo Is no fool nnd when Ilickard 'realizes this ho will have better fortune in his dialings with the wild bull. Itickard's real chance of pulling out of what looks to be an un promising position is to induce Firpo to come hero and pay him good money to boat the beat con tender for Dempsey's title. Then he could go ahead, were Firpo t" win, and make all sorts of grand arrangements for a second fight be tween the champion and the Arg n tiiiian. Romero's bust, of course compli cates Itickard's outdoor outlook. If the Chilean Is wise he will get out of New York and with some wise manager tour the country meet ing third raters and thus gaining experience while he picks up a nice fistful of money. Almost any dub who has had the advertising Romero has received can pick up twenty or thirty thousand a year. BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball? Write to John It. Foster, the tn.ill who helped make the m!? * under which the game Is played today. If you want a n*?r?mnl reply enclose a stamped. self-ad dressed en v? lope. Otherwise your ques j tien will be answered in tt'ji J A John 11. Fo-tor. ? ri ?' correspondent ' ' T* ? 1> \ .Ml 1 r:.: NV.v WfV. iCotr'ijht. 1924, By T ft* Question? Pitched ball tippei : i: -r'. u*??\e and wa- lucked ur . il* <i ' r - ;u.\at:ce on play or 'ut.-l- I ? Am a. r?No. Tlie ball is deail *!? it ii i< touched by a pla>vr of th* " ?:??. It' such were not thf . >? the players of the team at bat bo interfering all the tiqie. tjor:-- A b::!ter w...* hit by ht b:i!l which he batted aud hit ??t ~ir ground after he hit the ball, "he ball remained in fair territory. * h?- entitled to first base? Answ? r?The batter i< nut as nn> wise runner is out who is hit by s lit tied ball. Major League Baseball WriONAl, I.KACil'K MoihIu>'?* Scores. *li!c:?co !t ? llrooklyn "incinnrti 4 ? l*lt iln?l**1 f?lii:i 1 :t. I.ouis r.?New York ' AMKIIMAN i.i:\t.ti: All panics raln? d nut. roi.i.i <; \mi:s C. State ...-,...7?Carolina : I lie Ap??lhe?:ary Stioji I'lUtMi 4*?0 A Good Druy Store 1 OA practical standard of Gasoline There is a very simple, convenient and practi cal standard oi gasoline just as there are stand ards of time, of weight, and of distance. 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