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Show I SPORT f flTOP LlTrLE ITEMS OI iJiil- UUOtJM OF INTEREST In this merry season the big league secretaries "are making up their annual 1 pass lists. Many are the applications they receive, but few are those who are favored with :he mystic passport. There is a hue about a pass to a ball park that , few resist. The millionaire who could : buy out the grounds i3 never so happy as when he can flash something tnat cost him nothing and amble into the field clear of charge. Curious psychology! Back in the Bible times the Annie Oakley Oak-ley habit evidently was known, if we inav judge from the following Biblical citations taken lrom the New York Central Cen-tral Magazine, which may prove a solace to those who lail to receive their annual an-nual passes this season: Thou shalt not pass. Gen. 31, 52. Pass not thither. IX Kings 6, 9. He cannot pass. Job 14, 5. They may not pass. Psalm 104, 9. None shall, pass. lsa. 34, 10. . No ina u may pass. Ezek. 1.4, 15. The wicked shall no more pass. Nahum 1, 15. No oppressor shall pass. Zech. 9, 8. The uncle;. n Fhall not pass. lsa. 35, 8. There shall be no strangers pass. Joel 3, 17. This generation shall not pass. Matt. 24, 34. Thev who would pass cannot. Luke 16, 26. Thuugh they roar, yet can they not '"But the simple pass on and are punished. pun-ished. Prov. 22, 3. Suffer not a man to pass. Judges 3, 23 So he paid the fare and went. Jonah 1, 3. Go and do thou likewise. Luke 10, 37. Now that Grover Hartley " has been signed to pilot the Columbus club during dur-ing the coming season, the managerial roster of the Amerk-an association is complete for 19111. Four changes have been made over the roster of 1!U8. The new leaders to pilot clubs this season in the Double A are: Patsy Flaherty, Clareii'-e Rowland, Grover Hartley and Jack Hendricks. The latter took a fling I at major league managing last season, 'but returns to h's eld stand at Indianap-ot-s. succeeding Nap Lajoie. The roster follows: Louisville -Patsy Flaherty. Kansas City John Ganzel. M.iwaukee Clarence Rowland. . Columbus G rover Hartley. Minneapolis Joe Cant ikon. St. Paul Miko Kelley. Indiar.apol.s .Jack i lendrieks. Toledo Roger P.resnahan. Pete Herman, the bantam champion, has changed nr.v.gcrs so frequently that a list has been "mpi!ed, the total reach-! reach-! ir.g fifteen, as follows: 1, Red Walsh; 2. Pete Herman; 3, Remy Dorr; 4. Pete Herman; P. Tmrorich; b Pete Her- man; 7, Red Walsh: 8. Pete Herman; it, J.M'ome Gargaiio; 10. Pfte Herman; 11, Red Walsh; 12. Pete Herman; 13, Dc CuH'h; 14, MugiTsy Taylor; 15, Pete Herman. ! LOUISVILLE. March G. The Colonels j have obtained a new twirler. He is a big i iiu.-ky by the name, of Timothy Mc-r Mc-r Cabe. and he h.a ils from the St. Louis eiub oi" the American league. He pitched ! for Salt Laku in the Pae:;te Const league last S'-.'.s 'ii This n:ikes the third piayr 1 that the Colony's have obtained from the Browns Tim McCabe, Ray Friday and Tim Henurix. Prsni?i:!iT agitation in the major leagues for the rt peal of the present 140-gaiae 140-gaiae s'.'iu d'.i.e, lieydh'r sa.d yesterday that not r i wc-uid prevent the repeal of the 14" -rami. schedules if the club ownrrs wa i: . i-i iong'r ones. However, he said it would take a three-quarter v"te I? ch;i:;ge the s.'liedule in the National Na-tional r-agiK and he duubu-d ii that cm'il b'' procured, j "(.if I 'nurse, the fat th:i t we adopted, adopt-ed, oi:j schedule wouid not prevent US from drafting another if such action were deemed advisable by the majority of the major league clubs," said Heyd-ler. Heyd-ler. "I doubt if at this date enough clubs could be procured to change tne dates, inasmuch as most clubs have scheduled exaction games and maae tram.ng reservations res-ervations to conform with the 14o-gaine schedules adopted. And we couiu not increase our scnedule to lu4 games unless un-less tne American league agreed to do the same." New lork World. '( There is otie magnate in major league baseball who has no holdout problem for tiie simple reason that there never are any hoiduuts on his ball club. His name is Smuing Jim Dunn of the Cleveland Cleve-land Indians. "How do you eliminate the holdout problem from your ball eiub?" was asked of President Dunn. "That's easy," replied the Cleveland club owner. "I treat em right and they have no comeback. I beat em to it." George Stallings is well pleased by the acquisition of w alter Holke. He has a rainer versatile cnap m Blackburn, of whom he may bo able to make use in the infield until he can do better. Suhreiber, it jS said, can play in the outfield, and, on h.a record, "Hemic" is a good hitter. PALO ALTO, Cal., March G. A Stanford-California Rugby football match ! piayed there recently was attended by I about 50u spectators. A lew years ago, 'during the time the English game displaced dis-placed the American intercollegiate game ; in Calilornia, these same teams would i have attracted a crowd of approximately j 20.000 persons. Newspapers, instead of ' devoting columns of descriptive matter and pliot og rapine reproductions, . dis-i dis-i m.ssed it with a few paragraphs. As far as the playing ofthe teams was concerned, con-cerned, it 'was described as being almost up to the standard of former years, j j SAN FRANCISCO, March 6. With the acquisition of its country club annex at : Lakeside, bordering the Pacific ocean, j the Olympic club of tli.s city has con-: con-: slrueted what experts deem one of the I finest trapsluoting grounds in the country. coun-try. A number oi intormal shoots already al-ready have been held and some of the scores made -ndicate tiiat the club's shooters will be heard from in the future. As the club's officials are hearty advocates advo-cates of intei'sectioiial competition and always are willing lo send teams of various var-ious kinds to dm'ereiit sections of the country i or competition, providing they are capable of maintaining the prestige ! of the club, it may be expetedd that Olympic irapshooiL-i s before long will be j among those present in nutabio events uf ; the future. i i DENVER. March 6. Denver fight fol-j fol-j lowers, de:i ied the opportunity ot seeing la pre ft ssional boxing contest this -vin- ter because of the influenza epidemic. are awaiting eag-'rly the gong which w.ll send M.ke Gibbons, tin- St. Paul middle-; middle-; we.ght, and Leu Rowlands of Milwaukee Milwau-kee on their third ten -round bout here 1 the night of Marjh 12. The fight will ! be at tiie Stockyards stadium. I Neither man n..s . reared in a Denver I ring previously. Gibbous, near-champion of m.dri.ewcights, v. as one of the first 1 topnotchers to offer his services to Uncle ' Sam as a boxing instructor. He has been at Camp Dodge for more than a year, being discharged a few weeks ago. Soon lifter entering the government ser-I ser-I vice. Gibbons was made chief instructor j over ail army camps. Experts say he ( is one of the mojt clever boxers in the I business. Rowlands started his boxing career in R'l::. He has lought nearly all the good : midd'.oweiius since that time and says he has never been knocked off his feet (in a ring battle. Rowa'tids. too, pais been 'in the army in an eastern camp as an 1 instructor. |