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Show I GOSSIP T I I SPORTS Joe Wood got the smoke back In his arm sitting in New York fight clubs. . Our idea of nothing to worry about is which team will finish next to the Giants. Alexander, the Phillies' great pitcher, pitch-er, celebrated his thirtieth birthday a few days ago. Impossible things to do Get in front of Benny Kauff when the movie man shows up. Harry Niles, former Saint, who is on the reserve list of the Kansas City club, may retire from organized baseball. base-ball. Manager Connie Mack of the ex-champion ex-champion Athletics of the American league, says he is through selling ball players. A writer says the public soon tires of seeing baseball players on the stage. The public is certainly not to blame for that. According to President Dave Fultz's annual report the baseball players fraternity fra-ternity included 1.215 players in its membership. James Hagey, a recruit pitcher who was tried out by Cleveland last fall, has been sent to Sioux City of the Western league. From all accounts the Yankees have picked up a splendid catcher in Julian Olsen, who played semi-pro ball in Florida last year. The Eastern league announces that it has paid off the claims assessed against it when the Eastern Association Associa-tion was absorbed. In a six-day bicycle race the endurance endur-ance medal should go to the spectatoi who watches the riders the greatest number of hours. . When umpires, boxers and southpaw pitchers can get married, there is no excuse for any man remaining single except good judgment. With ball players taking military training, the life of the umpires is going to be filled to overflowing with joy and roses and torpedoes. . ' Fred Jacklitsch, the veteran catcher of the Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams, is an applicant for the position of coach with the Cincinnati Reds. If the Reds fail to make good this year, Christy Mathewson will have to give orders through a megaphone to be heard above the anvil chorus. Catcher Pius Sehwert, formerly a member of the Yankees and still held by the club, has sent word that he has retired permanently from baseball. base-ball. The ball player will have to pay advanced ad-vanced prices for his shoes and gloves this year. The increase on baseball shoes is about 20 per cent, while that of gloves is even higher. A baseball game between the Notre Dame university nine and the University Uni-versity of Michigan will be a feature of the diamond jubilee exercises of the Catholic institution June 3. j Fielder Jones was unable to get Fritz Maisel, of the Yanks, so Jimmy Austin, the monologist, will address himself to third base problems on the Browns' inner cordon for another season. |