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Show Sports in a Nutshell 1 (Compiled from AP, UP, INS wire and local sources) Declaring he would not start for spring training camp in Florida until he heard from Ed Barrow, president of the ., New York Yan- ';ks. kees bsseball i club, Joe Di Mag- I L Vi gio, belting Yan-1 ' V k e e outfielder, I s. 1 was still in San r - m Francisco Satur-A :'eVJ day . . . Joe had V j planned to leave s jsVj this week IirA "mKT''A Florida ... It I was believed he I was offered 930,- I 000 for the 1940 I season, an In- I crease of S2500 I over his 1939 sal- O'-but wants ftd B.u 135,000. Plenty of sophomore talent looms this year for the University 4 Idaho football squad coached by Ted Bank . . . Thirty-four freshman fresh-man squad members were pre-- pre-- sented numerals last fall, the list Including seven halfbacks A Pueblo Indian boxing squad from Santa Fe and Albuquerque schools defeated Chilocco Indian fighters of Oklahoma 5-3 Friday night. Five minutes after he was thrown against the ropes in a scuffle scuf-fle at the end of a wrestling match at Seattle, Referee Jack Stevens of Seattle died . . . The scuffle occurred when Stevens awarded a decision to John Katan of Montreal over Laverne Baxter of Monroe, Mich. |