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Show JporfingSottibs Gigli. famous tenor, admits that he is very fond of all alhlefic sports. "Edison is hunting for rubber in weeds." Literary Digest. So he, too. has taken jip L'olf. England cannot boast of a single fighter who is recognized as th" champion cham-pion of his division. England has her dukes, but it appears ap-pears that her heavyweights don't know how to use I hem. The Preakness. historic feature of the Maryland racing season, will he run May 11 at Pimlico. Nick Cullop, outfielder of the Cleveland Cleve-land Indians, was. sold to the Buffalo club of the International. Fire recently destroyed valuable treasures and . prizes of a lifetime owned by Jimmy De Forest. Jimmy Londos. idol of all Greek wrestling fans, is very proud of his chest expansion, which measures 11 inches. There's to he no war this year between be-tween the majors and the minors. There goes another venerable habit into the discard. Somebody ought to inform Babe Ruth that he's trifling with his immense im-mense popularity. He's learning to play the saxophone. If a good start means a good ending, end-ing, watcli Henri Cochet in tennis this year. He won the first tournament of the new year in France. Miss Fumiko Terao, a yomic girl in Japan, can run KIO meters in 1(1 4 "i seconds, unless her parents ask her to trot down to the corner grocery. Much activity is seen around base- ball s auction block, and many a player is wondering what his regular address will be after the season opens Bernie Deviveros. utility inliehler ot the -Detroit Americans, has been notified noti-fied thai he has been turned over to Minneapolis of Ihe American association. associa-tion. Monte Carlo's effort to places team in the Davis cup tennis mutches fell Hat because it was impossible to find font natives who played ttnnis well enough. It is one of the great paradoxes of the boxing business, as distinguished from others, that if you are unmistakably unmis-takably superior you don't get as much business. "Irish" Meut-el, former New York-Giant, York-Giant, outfielder and last season wilh the Toledo American association club, lias been signed by (he Oakland Pacific Pa-cific ('cast league team. Joseph Kelly of St. Joseph. Mo., will manage ihe Columbia club of ihe Soulh Atlantic association this year. He succeeds Charles (Gabby) Street, veteran big league catcher. "Busty" Crawford, the "sly old fox" of hockey, now playing for the Minneapolis Min-neapolis team, is one of the real old-timers old-timers of the sport despite the fact that he never has weigiied more than loll pounds. P. A. Revolt, a veteran Detroit howler, recently returned to his favorite favor-ite sport after a live-year absence from the lenpin game and was rewarded re-warded by ihe lirst perfect 300 score of his career. |