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Show Y ! All in the Game: ONE OF THE TEAR'S trage-dle trage-dle for the Yankees la Eddie Lopat's lame ahoulder . . . Cricket was played In England aa early aa 1811, according to an old book . . . The present aport of dog racing greyhound chasing mechanical mechani-cal rabbit originated In the United Unit-ed States . , . Dominoes are ao 1 named becauae the men are black, 1 they are plaoed face down at the game's beginning, ao are masked and domino means "black mask" . . In the 1870'a, the national na-tional aporta Idols were riflemen, followed by the oarsmen , . . The original scoring rule In football atated that when a ball was carried ever the line (touchdown), It was to count aa only one point, whereas a ball kicked over the goal crosabar waa to count four points . The first professional football game waa played at Lat-robe, Lat-robe, Pa., between Latrobe and Jeanette, Pa. . Canada plays three different kinds of football aoccer (the original kicking game), rugby, and Canadian football. CONGRATULATION'S ... The grand old man of baseball, Connie Con-nie Mack, proudly puts his arms around pitcher Bobby Shantt of the Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe park, after the A'a defeated de-feated Boston to make Shanti the first pitcher to win 20 games this season. |