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Show SPORT GOSSIP oif Walter Leverenz, Bee pitcher, and now a member of the 'Letter man hospital hospi-tal unit at San Francisco, and Jack Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals, also of the hospital corps, left yesterday for the Golden Gato. The two stopped over In Salt Lako a few hoiirs on thoir return, re-turn, after escorting the bodies of comrades com-rades east for burial. Leverenz took the body of Larry Chappell to Jeraeyvlllo, II!.,. where interment was made. Both report an enthusiastic feeling for a resumption re-sumption of baseball all over the country. coun-try. Leverenz says the people of the const are hungry for the game and predicts pre-dicts a grand revival. ' Well, now, Mr. Fan, we've got more sad news for you, announces the San Francisco Fran-cisco Bulletin. The Honorable Charles Adrian "Spider Honk us" Baum, manager of the San Francisco Union Iron works ball club, is going to retire. Yes, sir, Spider has decided to quit baseball and its people and repair to a nice little farm somewhere in northern California. Baum thinks he is getting too old to play ball any more and he isn't particularly particu-larly anxious to get back Into harness next spring, provided the Coast league begins activity then. However, yours truly is rather disposed to think that "llonkus" will be on the Job in spring for the Seals., SACRAMENTO, Nov. 2fi. The Wallta Tractor baseball club is the first team to sign up with Commander-in-Chief "I'anama'' Murphy in the Sacramento Winter Rookey league. The club will be captained on the playing field by "Raw Meat" Bill Rodgers. The club has many celebrities in its line-up. Charley Pick of the champion Chicago Cubs is going to plav third base for the team, while Rodgers will hold down second base. . Cliff Bar ringer is going to take care of the short patch. Cliff Ih an old Coast league favorite and Is planning on doing a come-back this winter. A strong battery has been assembled in "Smokey" Gibson, a pitcher on Spider Baum'.s San Fwincisco Union Iron works club, and "Kettle" Wirtz, who will do the receiving. "Demon" Charles Doyle is the onlv outfielder out-fielder signed up by Rodgers. Rodgers says if there Is sun aplenty this, winter that the Demon will show up a lot of the young semi-professionals in the winter league. Robert A. Hiller. president and manager man-ager of the Northwest Auto Racing asso- elation, is now arranging the auto racing circuit for next year, which will include events at Victoria and Vancouver. B. C, i Spokane, Walla Walla and Yakima, Wash., Portland and Salem, Ore., Boise, Idaho, Missoula, Anaconda and Helena. AT on I., and other probable points. The scheduled opening will occur on Mav 24. When the American boxers troop into London to compete In the great international interna-tional carnival for the king's trophy four American champions will be missing. Four, if you count Jess Willard Is one. Pete Herman,' still in the navy, will not go. Benny Leonard and-, Ted Lewis will hardly make the trip, and If America is to triumph it will be men like Joe Lynch, Angle Ratner and other lesser lights" who will have to uphold the honor of the United States. Regulations for the cross-Atlantic flight for a prize of $50,000 offered by the London Lon-don Daily Mail have been received by the Aero club of America from the Royal Aero club of Great Britain. The competition compe-tition is open to persons of any nation- ality holding an aviator's certificate issued is-sued under the rules of the International ; Aeronautic federation by the Aero club of t America here, and the Royal Aero club: of Great Britain on the other side. Only j one aircraft may be used for each attempt to fly across the Atlantic. It may be repaired en route, and will be so marked before starting that it can be identified upon reaching the other side. Intermediate Interme-diate stops may be made only upon the water. The start may be made from either land or water, but at the finish the competitor must cross the coast line in flight. "Willie St. Clair, colored boxer, well known In Salt Lake, is booked to meet Jimmy Marshall at Sacramento Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day. ' i V John MeGraw has made enough progress in his plans for next year lo announce that the Giants will depend on pitchers Toney, Per Hit, Barnes. Schupp and Sal-lee. Sal-lee. Schupp is lo give Ids pitching arm special treatment this winter. Alfred Dixon Flaw, attorney and former for-mer American intercollegiate champion in the hammer throw. Is dead at San Francisco Fran-cisco after an operation for appendicitis. He was graduated from the University of California in1902. Former gridiron stars from eastern universities uni-versities predominate In the make-up of the Camp Devens eleven. Included in the Devens line-up are three captains of infantry, four lieutenants, three sergeants and one private. The private is Jack Ryan, a coojc, who understands the gridiron grid-iron game a'6 well as he understands the culinary art. Ryan plays right tackle and his work has been one of the big features of Uie games played by the Devens team this season. The soldier team is led by Captain George Hoban. who played at Dartmouth and Lehigh several years ago. He plays fullback. The halfbacks are Lieutenant Jack Burke, an ex-Holy Cross player, and Captain Jack Maguire, unknown In college col-lege ranks but well known, by the players who have opposed Devens this season. At quarterback is Sergeant Jack Malone of Holvoke, Mass., and Syracuse university, another of the outstanding stars of the Massachusetts dnughbovs. . The Allied American. Football association associa-tion of Philadelphia, one of the prominent soccer football leagues of the Quaker City, has adopted a rule permitting the substitution of a player in all matches of the organization Jn the event that a player is Injured. The referee of the match is to be the sole judge of permit-tine permit-tine the substitute to be used. It was made In ordfr to assist in popularizing tiie game and because there is no rule in the laws of the game preventing the use of substitutes. i Because of the return of peace the. national na-tional baseball federation, which had volunteered vol-unteered to provide semi-pro baseball for the middle west next season, has abandoned aban-doned all such plans. Instead of organizing organ-izing a strong semi-pro league with players play-ers picked from munition plants, it will conduct its affairs practically as in the past. To that end, the board of directors will meet in Pittsburg December a to 4 to discuss plans for the 1919 season, amending the constitution to conform with new conditions. Henry Sparrow, secretary of the New York Americans, has just started to take stock of his ball plavers. Sparrow does not want to be caught unprepared when : the game is resumed. j |