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Show SPrtPT P ACQ! P LITTLE ITEMS I Ol 1 tjtJuuii OF INTEREST ... - ' PEACE. They bumped hi in on the elbow, They it. eked him on the shin. They jabbed his nose and crunched his toes And nicked him on the chin. They hooked him on the eyebrow, And broke a rib or two ; His vertebrae were knocked astray . By folks he never knew. He was a galiant soldier, A soldier of iho line; But man and maid were unafraid To crack him, in the spine. Ho stood within a street cur A nd painfully he swore: "I'd like to be across the sea Among the Huns once more." George H. Fhair. An American, Professor P. II. Carpenter, Carpen-ter, director of sports for the Foyers de Si.ldats, the American Y. M. C A. for French soldiers, has 1 ranslat ed the rules of baseball and all the ordinary terms employed in the American game, to simplify sim-plify the study of our nattuiial pastime by the sons of France. Following are some of tlie lOngl.sh terms and their equivalents in French : Day ball "On jc-u." Umpire "Iarbiter." Pitcher "he lancour." The rubber "Plaque do lancour." P:il! F.ulte.'' Patter "Lo batteur." I'latc "Pe plaque du but." tft r ke "L'ne i rappe." Fa r 'A'a'id.V Foul "Fa uk." Punt "Punt." P;i se runm-r "Oourour de bases." Vaoher "I .'aide do camp." i lutreld " Fxt r;i champs." Tw o-baggcr "I'n uoup a deux bases." Hume run "Point but.'' : Considerable interest is being displayed dis-played in (he loturn of A. K. ihicom-biM-s Star Hawk to tho races this year. This ti-year-old son of Suns tar Sweet Finch has boon tnterod in several of the big eastern handicaps, and if he will stand training may prove a formidable opponent for the best of thum. Star Hawk has not bon seen on the turf since his :i-year-oM season. That your lie ran 1 seeond to George Smith in. the Kentucky ' 1 'i.'i'liy, second to Chicle in the Brooklyn i ! orhy, seeond to Spur in the Tra vers, 1 and scored victor; os in the Lawrence Koalizat .on. PouisviHu Cup ami the Lo-! Lo-! oust YaHey Han heap, mak.ug his last start of tlie yea' in the Patonia cup, in wlhch ho was beaten by Pif. Jr. Al-, Al-, togoi her, St ur Hawk start oil in seven i raees that year without finishing uu-; uu-; placed, winning three and being second : tour times. He won SiUTO and was con-i con-i sidered a high-class racehorse. ! XFW YOKK, 'areh ft. The srct.iru-i srct.iru-i lar manner in whieh Charles Jewtra w won tlie eastern skating ehampionshtp at the halve Plaeid Skating association i meeting on W ishmgion s birthday is the I talk of the skating world. I ihs record at the mooting of first pl;i- 'in -vry he a; a: i in all of the five firsais piuvco him to be of real champ ioiishirj material. He now holds the champion-sh.p champion-sh.p for 220 yards, 410 yards, half mile, one mile .and three miles, all of which were won in two days from the fastest amateurs of the United States and Canada. Can-ada. Jewtraw is a natural skater and an exceptional one at that. Only IS years old, he has unlimited staying power and produces speed when a spurt is called for without any apparent additional effort. ef-fort. He takes his place today as the leading lead-ing outdoor skater of the country, and it is not saying too much to predict that if Bobby McPean were matched against him, Jewtraw would be the favorite. Baseball averages are never complete without the figures of Ernest J. hani-gan. hani-gan. who alone each year works out the statistics on the all-important point of tinifly hitting or driving in runs. These figures are not included in the official averages I repared by the statisticians statis-ticians of the National and American leagues. Gr-orge Burns of the Philadelphia Athletics Ath-letics and Hobby Veach of the Detroit Tigers were the American league leaders lead-ers last season. Those who showed the way in previous years follow: J H07 Tv Cobb Detroit 1908 Ty Cobb Detroit 1909 Ty Cobb Detroit 1910 Sum Crawford Detroit Hill Ty Cobb Detroit 1012 Frank ",akdp Philadelphia PUS Frank Uak-r Philadelphia 1!)M Sam Crawf i.-d Detroit 1915 Sam Crawford Detroit P.i 16 Walter Pipp New York 1917 Bobbv Veach Detroit PUS Bobby V?aeh Detroit IS 1 8 George Burns Philadelphia New York World. CLRVFiLAXD, March P. Matt llinkel today received word from Newark, X. J.. tlia t the New Jersey stat e boxing com-m'ssion com-m'ssion had pulled the unusual by appointing ap-pointing a man residing out of the state as a referee for the Jerst-y bouts, said man being M. J. Hinkel. lie is tlie first outsider thus appointed, sure enough recognition of his ability and integrity as the third man in the ring. New Jersey is the second state to thus pick out Hinkel. the New York boxing commission, prior to being log'slated out of office, having hcensed the Cloveland-er Cloveland-er to referee bouts in the Kmpire state. "Chase is one of the greatest hit-and-run men in the game.'" says Clarence Rowland. "He can hit back of a runner any Cine. That is where he will be invaluable in-valuable to Mo(h-aw. That is MoGraw's style of baseball, and Chase, because of his almost uncanny talent in whacking whack-ing the ball when a runner is going, will " make it possible for the Giants to score many runs. I have not had much of a cli a nee to study MeG raw's met hod of p'aying the game, but t have heard enouirh from other smart baseball men to know what he does and also got a prettv good idea of his ways in the 1917 world's series. I know what Chase ran do. Therefore 1 predict limy will httrh well, and the pilclvrs m the Na t ion a! leag'i-are leag'i-are go;rg to bp. k pi busy watching Hal Vth.cn runners are on the Laics.'' |