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Show Sport Shorts "THE Philadelphia Phillies will x have five scouts touring minor leagues next year . . . Holt Rast. Alabama end. has licenses to fly both land and sea planes, with 60 hours solo flying to his credit . . . Scotland's amateur golf champion, Hamilton Mclnally, is a laborer la a munitions plant ... The Drake Bulldogs will play football games on both coasts within 20 days ... Jack Doyle, Irish heavyweight", plans to appear in grand opera. At least he's taking vocal lessons, and has hnnoa uri nas nopes . . . Walter Wal-ter Hagen is a skilled taxidermist, a crack shot and an expert fisherman . . . Haines Stockton, one of the East's best tennis umpires, is only 23 years old ... It will cost the Athletics $800 per man to take the 1940 squad by boat through the Panama canal to the new 3 ImoI Sports I J'UWords 3 iiinuesWith 3 bers' Win X jBEEI McSIIANE if ...h the recent 15- A weight bout which j .Jpionship pass from I ion to Lou Ambers. )l xltUe more than a mi-' mi-' t in an unholy squabble n Iced managers, contest-U contest-U v tional Boxing associa- .. ,ree Arthur Donovan. " ;;,, disappointment in h Sine. To begin with 2vn managed to spot I Valued by Lir Henry pion. As a result, ' presented with five i .Tfflcial coring. And It Kf rtaerally conceded that Jliuls been called. Arm- have won all these JIcok card read eight flavor of the challeng- that had he failed to 'i!ronf guilty in just one "re fatal rounds he might 4 for a draw or else a , the defender. Fullam, scored the fight ex-4 ex-4 Donovan. Bill Healy, I iudge. scored heavily in t 'favor, giving him 11 6 strong three, and de- 7 se even. l Ambers' manager, and M 4, mentor to Armstrong, j ,t lilUe to the evening's ' Both of them were guilty J , rules for seconds' con- 4 heir continual bickering Walter Hagen training camp at Anaheim, Calif. . . . Roller skate hockey will make its debut in Washington, D. C, on an organized scale for the first time this fall . . . Paavo Nurmi, great Finnish runner, believes the standard stand-ard of international performances is too high. Outstanding success demands de-mands all an athlete's spare time, he says, and amateurism suffers. Endurance Champs CPEED, and plenty of it, was need- ed recently when two Edwards-ville, Edwards-ville, 111., softball teams established a new marathon record by playing 1,601 innings in 21 hours and five minutes. To call the game softball would be sacrilegious in the eyes of thousands thou-sands of players. Though it was a marathon. There's no arguing that 1 point. The pitchers were Instructed to toss the ball in easy, and the batters bat-ters were expected to ground or fly out on the first pitch. Three pitches were usually enough to retire a side. Anything more than that was looked upon as unsportsmanlike. The lack of heavy hitting was evidenced evi-denced by the low 9-all score. Players all ran to and from their positions. It took only 47 seconds to play an inning. The nine runs each side batted in came as the result re-sult of a few accidentally made hits past the outfielders, who played in close. The manager of one team had to quit after 7!i hours of play. He had to get back to work but only after pitching 500 innings. One other hurler was on , the mound for 900 innings. Then a relief re-lief pitcher saved his arm, if not the game. The game was played on four diamonds, dia-monds, with lights available for night play. By shifting from one diamond to another, the players seldom sel-dom had to face the sun. Sandwiches Sand-wiches were furnished during the game, and some startling retrieves were made by players who clutched a ham-on-rye between their teeth and a dill pickle in one hand. The previous record was held by two New Philadelphia, Ohio, teams which played 1,495 innings in 24 hours. All of which means very little. x , a I II IJ 5 ft I i 1 J ' i Yc fa ' "V v.- v 5 LOG AMBERS . ' ;ree Donovan between :; u tn unpleasant feature, '; aough to warrant censure !" tommission. Their repar-ndcr repar-ndcr than it was brilliant, ?' its took the spotlight from 1 itself. : h l Revealed f trior to the fight were not n 1 charming. Mr. Mead, versational speed is at to his fighter's ring pace, a feat deal of time before i Hinting of a sinister plot J against his man. Mead sabrief 20,000 word state- Af !as warned before the tjj bis man would lose five J 2 fouls. He also stated J authority was one of the -ners' friends. "1 '"i partisans felt that Don- f J all too conscientious in i f -P ring infractions. In their isf le title should not have el ;fflds. J . in clarifying his stand, I ke knew "that some day J lose the lightweight ti- I l(Pt punching low." f ' 18 more than backed ' 'Brown, member of the State Athletic commis- I '"id: "Instead of penaliz- "H, I would have thrown il the ring." it . 4 ;l-oss "I tt'ho entered the ring i the lightweight and titles, may be shorn of , !fs. The Ambers bout ( " for only the lightweight if ;llP. with the pre-fight ti s providing that in the J "frs should win they would T , teturn match for Arm- 5 weight championship. I ;:' this agreement may be J the ash-heap. Execu-i Execu-i y Edward C. Foster of 1 Jl Boxing association stat- f would ask the N. B. A. 1 .entio,i in September to ap-f ap-f ;' as world lightweight " rweight champion. He , . Ambers - Armstrong signed before the New 7 commission, as "ri- 4 , kind o' a fight in which "'"ever will be settled ' !!flction of everyone. I , , frm a statistical L e can be quarrel W decision. The five w'ifi lost bv low blows leat 'o relieve him of at I c'wn. I iM? wel1 wilhin his t 7 Caed the shots as he if !nd not even the most m 'rog supporter could ex- 10 'gnore all the rule in- J '"urn bout settles the ar.gUmrit will continue. 5 faction can rejoice in rl championship. The I ' Patriots can claim a |