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Show 1 gPA!?T lTA01P UTTLE ITEMS UlXJSki 2Juuir OF INTEREST DENVER. Dec. 14 With the football stage cleared and headguards and cleated shoes and other paraphernalia of the gume parked in moth balls and laid away until next September, the final figures show the School of Mines topping the list. The Dynamiters won three games and lost none. Denver university, 1917 titleholder, is second, with three wins and two defeats. de-feats. Greeley is third, with two won and two lost. Colorado college and Aggies Ag-gies are fourth, with one victory and two defeats, while the University of Colorado Colo-rado is last, having won one and lost three. NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Although the Intercollegiate Basketball league will ar-ranee ar-ranee a schedule this year as usual, no championship title w-ill be awarded. Four teams have two legs each on the trophy, and if was decided that it would be unfair un-fair to give permanent possession this yea r. when some of them have lost so many players and may not be able to get together a representative five. Yale'. Columbia, Cornell and Pennsyl-vania Pennsyl-vania have two legs on the trophy, anl all but Cornell will have teams; and the Iihaca college may, although President Schurman's pronouncement against intercollegiate inter-collegiate at hie t ics may prevent. Dartmouth Dart-mouth may have a team, but faculty objection? ob-jection? against extended tripe may interfere. inter-fere. It is proposed for each team to play si games, the first on January; 11, and' the final conrest on March 15. BROOKLYN, N. Y.. De'. 14. Frank Gardner lias made the remarkable dis-I dis-I coven.- that Wil'ie Hoppe wins all his games at billiards hecause he carries I his own chalk. .According to the Crescent Cres-cent star, the chalk is especially prepared in the dark of the moon by a Voodoo doctor, and contains such peculiar properties prop-erties that it charms the ivories for Willie and makes them balk like a bunch of bucking bronchos when UEed by sorue-hodv sorue-hodv else. ; I Gerhard Steffens (Willie RIMitci, for- mc "vorld's lisrht whisht champion, hys been named assistant athletic director for the western department of the army. Ritchie's headquarters will be in San Francisco, and the telegram siated that Roy L. Haslet had " been named director and would arrive in San Francisco on December 2d. Ritchie has been boing instructor at. Camp Lewis, but announced his resignation several days ago. - i NEW YO'RK, Dec. 14. "Is Joe Steelier going to place his main dependence on j the headlock in future matches'.'" I This is the question that wrestling bugs have been putting to one another since i his grappling contest with Wladek Z'fyz-ko Z'fyz-ko at MadLson Square Garden in the in- . terest of the war fund. It was generally believed that Stecher I would follow his former tactics and try to beat the big Pole by the use of the scissors hold, for which he is famous. "Dope" was wrong and the farm boy tried the scissors only twice and generally gen-erally contented himself with acquiring effectiveness with the headlock. As a matter of fact, Steelier just about i lifted himself out of the category of one- j hold wrestlers. With a little more practice prac-tice he should become doubly dangerous ;ind greatly increase in value as a drawing draw-ing crd. The scissors and headlock would be a wonderful combination, according ac-cording to the boosters of the ancient game. Walter Johnson and Stanley Covelcskie were the tightest pitchers in the A mer-ican mer-ican league last season, according to the official pitching averages. These men were tho real loaders as far as a 1 lowing earned runs was concerned. Johnson, in vt.',". inn I ties pi tihed l lur y-six y-six full games allowed l."l! runs per game a total of forty -six runs. Covey, with the Cleveland club, pitched and allowed sixty-three runs, an aver-ago aver-ago of l.)s3 runs per game. Fiber of thf While Sox was the nominal nom-inal leader of the league, with a 1.-2 average, hut played in only eleven games. Johnson imiiic next. ( Mattcsnn of Washington and Shocker-of Shocker-of the Browne were between Walt and Covey, but each pitcher In only fourteen games. Wait alloiverl 241 hits to the 1149 men who faciei him. A total of seven t y-om earned and unearned, runs was 'nnlked up apainst him. Thin means that hip Tel-low Tel-low Senators let twonty-nve In for him. Watt walked seventy men anrl hree-zel 5?. Me hit eight and made eight ild heaven. Covey's record doesn't Mark up quite so well, but is Rood. The 1 4 J men who fuced him cot 2'U hits. ood (or a total -of m inety rmih. the Indians letting twentv-ifven twentv-ifven runs ooze hi. He passrd seventv- v nd fanned fi;ht y-s-v en. Jie nicked .our and h;avcd wild twice. |