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Show sport gossip mm SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8. Charley Pick has been sold outright to the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs for a consideration of $1500. Of this amount $500 was paid last fall, when Pick went to the Cubs to finish the season. The Cubs pronosed in a recent letter that the balatice'should be taken out in trade, the Seals to have the pick of excess ex-cess players on the Chicago squad next spring. But Doc Strub and Charley Graham decided to make the transaction strictly cash, and so the money has been paid. ,, , ' It Is understood between Seals and Cubs that the Seals Ret the first choice next spring of all Cub excess, and that the Cubs have the first choice on all Seal players next fall In return. CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 8. It will cost the Harvard Athletic association approximately approxi-mately $10,000 to put Soldiers' field in shape again for use as a football field and baseball diamond. The biggest Item will be the outlay for ground building in the stadium. The work of putting the football gridiron back to its 1916 hape will cost $5000. Not only has the entire field to be resodded. but the grade has also to be replenished and evened. The need- of an entirely new underground surface was made necessary nec-essary on account of the fact that last December this material was distributed so as to make the gridiron acceptable for the Boston Navy Yard-Newport Naval Reserve contest. The covering of the gridiron itself, down for quite a way, was well hardened by the frost. After the work of grading the grmind. the entire field must have a new covering cover-ing of sod. Football fields, unlike baseball base-ball diamonds, cannot ho put into shape by seeding. Stadium field has been in wretched condition all autumn, but. fortunately, no contests have had to be plaved In rainy weather. The varsity and freshman baseball fields must also he treated. The out-I out-I lav will be between $3000 and $4000. The constant use of these Krounits by the I nav:il radio and Harvard service unil.s for drilling purposes has cut up the infields in-fields and made the nut Melds ragged, and no place for an outfielder. . Con McVey. veteran riiiKstrr and trainer, who was in Jim Ourbett's corner cor-ner in all his famous battles, was an interested spectator at the ringside In j Phtlly the day of the Jack Deinpscy-Bllly Deinpscy-Bllly Mltke bout and saw Kearns' flRliter in action for the first time. "He Is the first heavyweight." paid McVev. "who looks like the old lunuh. I would call him a slightly smaller edt-I edt-I tion of Jim Jeffries. He is one of the best two-handed punchers I have ever seen. And another tiling in his favor is the fact that he is always on loo of his rival. He can whip Mlskp any time, and Miske knows it. Oempsov is still :i little clumsy on his fct. but he wiil g.-t over this. Jack hns the call on all the : heavyweights of today and I firmly ho- I lieve that he can stop Jess AVIllard in- Bide of twenty rounds." !' 1 MARYSVILLK. Oil.. J "'f . S-I'.iil: James of bnseha.II fame has roturned from the central officers' training ennip I at Camp I.ee. Virginia, whore he h;.s.. been training for the last few months. : He was a member of the Twpnty-iiinlli i I company of the Slx'leth battalion. IU' was discharged last Hunday. j It will probably b at h-ast a 0,0:1th before Benny Leonard and Ted Lewis are 1 able to box again. The lightweight champion cham-pion is laid up with a dislocated thumb, while the welterweight has yellow jaundice. jaun-dice. Billy Gibson declares that he has been forced to cancel half a dozen engagements en-gagements for Leonard, which coat the pair several thousand dollars. J Mike Gibbons has sent in h'.s resignation resigna-tion as chief boxing instructor at Camp Gordon, Georgia, according to word reaching here from St. Paul, his home. No action baa as vet been taken by Dr. J. E. Raycroft, athletic director, on the matter. CHICAGO. Dec. 8. Even the world war has failed to keep the. management of the Chicago Cubs from keeping a steady weather eye on world series clashes of the future, in which they .re now planning plan-ning to take part. The Cubs have gone the limit and have a regular reporting scout in Europe, according ac-cording to Manager Fred Mitchell. Here Is his happy view, threat and promise for the Cubs' future in baseball: ! "When we start the big leagues In April there will be some new end interesting inter-esting talent on every club the talent has been developed In the army. Hundreds Hun-dreds of high-class players have been discovered dis-covered in France and at the cantonments. canton-ments. Big leaguers over there declare that they have seen and played in France with ..or against better material than the minors provide. "Grovor Cleveland Alexander writes that he can name six pitchers, none of them having any special reputation before the war, but every one of them a whale, well worth having in any big league team. He also lias found some heavy batsmen and clever outfielders. "Alexander will look after our Interests Inter-ests among the soldiers. He will deliver some of the best army players to' the Chicago cluh, and the best the Chicago club has will not be too good for the youngsters who have fought like men and soon will come home to plcuse the fans." |