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Show Sports - -In a Nutshell Compiled from AP, VP and INS wlrt report! Brlghara City waa named Wed-i Wed-i nesdty aa the ill of the 1940 state semlpro bate ball tournament by the National Semlpro congress In New York. The playoff at Brig-tiara Brig-tiara will be for two weeks, July 4-18 . . . Transfer Trans-fer of the Detroit Lions professional profession-al football team to three sportsmen, sports-men, Fred L. Mandel Jr., Anthony An-thony L Owen and Charles Chaplin, by Owner Own-er Dick Richards Wednesday Chaalla awaited only the approval of the National Football league, which Is expected within a week. Richards, 50 and In 111 health, told the franchise, fran-chise, which cost him (15,000, for 200,000 . . . Nile Kinnlck of Iowa university, voted the outstanding ""football player of 1939rwat award- ' ed the Walter Camp Memorial trophy Tuesday at Washington's annual Touchdown club dinner. . Fishermen' Paradise: Fellow anglers' eyes popped wide as Al Perkins drew out two salmon on one line while fishing Tuesday at Qlympia, Wash. A 10-pound (lighter (light-er on his hook had entangled a 12-pounder In the line while trying to free Itself . . . Fred May, publisher pub-lisher of the Lebanon, M. Daily News, went fishing only once last year. He landed a 2-pounder and won several prizes for the largest crappie caught In Lake of the Ozarka in 1939 . . . The Boston Bruins held sole possession of the National league hockey lead Wednesday. Wed-nesday. They rapped Montreal's Canadiens, 6-1, Tuesday night to climb two points ahead of the Idle New York Rangers. Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, cham-pion, was to appear before the New York state athletic commission commis-sion Wednesday to agree formally to a match with South America's Arturo Godoy, February 9, In Madison Mad-ison Square Garden, and Henry Armstrong, welterweight titlehold-er, titlehold-er, was to sign for the defense of his title against Pedro Montanez In the Garden next Wednesday . . Otto Hackbarth, 54, of Cincinnati, was the new national P. G. A. aenlor champion Wednesday after defeating Jock Hutchinson of Chicago Chi-cago in a second playoff on the Sarasota, Fla., course . . . Gene Englund, center of ninth-ranking Wisconsin, is the individual scoring leader in the Big Ten basketball race, with 51 points, conference statistics revealed Wednesday. |