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Show I SPORT GOSSP gSsI? Hod Efllar has come forth with a statement state-ment l hut h docan't are- one way or another what tho rule makers do in the matter of the ahlne ball. Mod admits that he haa ued a "shiner" for three years, hut htptl that his nMQOfm has been dug, not to ihla delivery, but to aorne-thlng aorne-thlng far morn subtle. He won't reveal tha secret Just yet. Ha aays go himself. "I have purjkOMly advertised my ehlner by contlnuull rubbing the ball on my troufceru In urder to cover up the beet part of my p't hlng program." Bays Eller. "Ely rubbing the ball vary time I got bold of it I made the batter look only for shiners. The real necret of what sucrenb 1 have attained has not been due 'o the ahlne ball, but to something which I Intend lo keep cret for the present. No. It's not due to the resin I carry In my hip pocket. That Is just to keep my ringois dry. 1 do not doubt in the least that I will have more success next year iJuiii 1 did tali your, even If all freak pitching la barred, because my skill In fooling batter dnea not depend on anything any-thing I or any of my teammates do to the tall." SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 1.6. First of the units of a concrete stadium which n HI rival any similar structure In the t'nlted i-' la ten. to coat ultimately between $3un.ooo and 1400. Ow and seat from 50,000 to 76.000 persons, will be under way on the University- of Washington campus before the beginning of the next athletic Heason. according to Darwin Melsnest, graduate manager of the associated student stu-dent body of the university. While plans are still in a tentative stage, Muniger Meisneat bald today, ft Is proponed that the first unit sat at leaat I0,uu pencjua. Profits of this year's football season. estimated at ll&ooo. added to other funds on hand, will make about 160,000 available for building the first unit, ha aald. "We propose to finance the project without any outside assistance," Paid Manager Meianest. "Anywhere from 10.000 to 20.C0O more persona would attend at-tend our Thanksgiving games If we had a stadium such aa we have planned, so It would no take long for a big bowl to pay for Itself." a Earle Neale. better known as Greasy Neale, la in again. The topnotch outfielder out-fielder of Moran's Redlegs set back his Alma Mater. West Virginia Wesleyan. on the gridlorn recently when Marietta, coached by the ex-collegian, won, 27-0. Neale Is also a writer for a southern sheet. In which he pens: "I have played with Ghee, tne great Dartmouth quarter, quar-ter, and Shorty Miller of Penn State. ,, Tou know they were All-American men; if they were All-American '(layers, thr-n Blh Snedegar of Wft Virginia Wee-leyan Wee-leyan Is of all-world material. I think he In tho beat quarterback that tur UvadL" BAN JO.SE, Nov. 23. Arrangemente to have the Han Francisco team of the Pacific Pa-cific Coast Baseball league train here next spring were virtually completed today to-day In a meeting between Dr. OharleH H. Htrub, preHldeut of tho club, and representative of the chamber of commerce. com-merce. t was announced that the proposition prop-osition would have to bo approved by the directors of the club. Dave Shean, who haa played ball here and there for a matter of twelve vears or to and who upon being released bv the Fled So last season announced his letirement, may re-enter the national pastime as manager of the Memphis club of the Souliiern association. Dave lia.4 nad some experience as a manager, as he Piloted the Providence club, then in the International league, In m& and Hit winning the pennant in 1916. Shean has served with the Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati clubs in the National league and with Boston In the American league. He wag a member of tho world's champion Red Sox in 1918. but last season a sore arm kept him on the bench and ultimately led to his release. a DETROIT, Mich.. Nov. 25. -Eddie Clcotte s hard luck didn't end with the world e series. The White Sox hurlcr saw bin garage at 126 Fern dale avenue blown to bits yesterday bv a nivsteriout explosion. Although the ions is" covered by Insurance, Eddie in convinced that a jinx is on his trail. SIOUX CITY, Iowa. Nov. 25-Pat Ragan. big league pitcher, last vear with the Giants, may become owner of 'he Omaha Western league club next vear Rumors are current to the effect that a stock company, with Ragan at its head will purchase the club from Owner "B;ll': Rourke. It is understood that Rourke has been anxious to sell fnp several years. Ragan Is now a free agent, having hav-ing been released by the Giants. NEW YORK. Nov. 25 George Gibson, former major league catcher and manager man-ager last season ef the Toronto Internationals, Interna-tionals, will be tendered a contract to manage the Pittsburg Pirates bv Owner Barney Dreyfus at the National league meeting here early in December, according accord-ing to reports. |