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Show LITTLE PICKUPS - 0F 5P(M The war tax will advance the price of tennis balls 25 per cent. Connie Mack's outfit promises to move I11 higher society this year. Fritz Malsel of the Browns, is undecided unde-cided about playing baseball this season. sea-son. Wilbur Cooper is not on the market, according to Manager Bezdek of the Pirates. Harry Harper will fool lots of folks if he doesn't have his best year this season. The has-beens and the would-bes don't waste any time signing baseball contracts. Frank Schulte may give Mordecai Brown, his old Cubmate, a trial i.i Binghamton. Salt Lake City, It is said, would be glad to stage a championship heavyweight heavy-weight battle. Chief Bender promises to be right on deck again when the big league season opens. The two Toronto tracks, Dufferin Fark and Hillcrest, will resume harness har-ness racing this spring. Johnny Ertle is all set to make another attempt to get to the front in the bantamweight class. Columbia's football schedule will consist of no more than seven games, according to announcement. Cornell wants to resume Its annual Thangsgiving day football game with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Hank Gowdy can't see this theatrical theatri-cal turn at all, at all. Some athletes might pattern after the backstop. Bill Fowler, Nationals' secretary, says Walter Johnson will pitch vin-ning vin-ning .haseball for several years yet. Bill Sonthworth, the sensational young outfielder of the Pirates, lias agreed to work for Hugo Bezdek again. Hal Chase ought to have a big year under the management of John McGraw. Mc-Graw. The first baseman will know who is boss for the first time in hfs baseball career. Earl J. Thomas of Dartmouth, will iry for the pentathlon crown in the University of Pennsylvania relays in April. Al McCoy counts on becoming middleweight mid-dleweight champion again. Boxers never seem to know when they are through. Penn will open its indoor track season sea-son Saturday at Buffalo, when it will engage Syracuse in a one-mile relay race in the Seventy-fourth regiment armory games. |