Sport: A Rumor

If Town Talk, a journal of Alexandria, La., is to be believed, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg and Buck Weaver (who were ousted from organized baseball in (1919) have been earning an honest wage as members of the Bastrop, La., semiprofessional nine. "The team has been cleaning up in Morehouse Parish and has walloped almost every club it has met in north Louisiana and south Arkansas. . . . Members of the Alexandria club say that Jackson and Cicotte are still with the Bastrop team, but Risberg and Weaver have gone elsewhere. ....

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