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Show IHOTES f ISPORTDOII Cincinnati had a baseball club ii 1SGS. i Chess player to play game blindfold fold. Well, what's the odds? Oliphant is to spend five years al West Point. This must be joyful news to the Navy. There's a guy in Minneapolis whe claims tjie light heavyweight wrestling championship. . Jacobs of Pittsburgh with a batting average of .075 is the Athletics of the National league. Harvard spends $153,000 a year for organized athletics, Yale $132,000 and Princeton $S3,000. Santa Claus is like a "gentleman pugilist" pu-gilist" one hears a lot about him, but nobody ever saw him. Tufts wants to play Pittsburgh. Funny how some of these fellows never nev-er know when to stop. . x Seven high schools in Greater New York are to have teams in the chess league among schoolboys. Mike Gibbons is getting into Benny Kauff's class. He admits he's the greatest fighter in the world. Georges Carpentier wants to fight Les Darcy after the war. Not at that age, Georges. It isn't done. The National Women's Life Saving le-Hgue of New York will stage indoor contests during the winter months. Somebody's always trying to give Tia Juana a black eye. They want Levinsky and Willard to fight there now. If there's got to be a railroad sLrike, let it come while some of these lightweight light-weight champions are preparing for a tour. Danny Shay, former big leaguer and manager of the Kansas City club, is to be the new pilot of the Milwaukee Brewers. To say that a ball player's head is solid ivory is gross flattery, considering consider-ing the high price at which ivory sells in the market. Ted Sullivan has been selected to go to South America to make arangements for the coming of the Now York Giants and Cubs in 1017. One hears a lot about the forward pass in football, but when a fellow tries to get a pass to a big game he Is likely to find it very timid and retiring. They have adopted a "no talking" rule in bowling. They have the same rule In golf, and when there isn't anything any-thing else to talk about they talk about the rule. If all the ball clubs that win pennants pen-nants In the winter ordered the raw material for the same, the bunting manufacturers would have to worli overtime. |