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Show INTERESTING SPOI?T PARAGRAPHS Ex-wrestling champion Frank Gotch is a student of golf. Many a rookie pitcher tunes up his pitching wing with musical soup. -'. Dutch Leonard says he made Bill Carrigan. Dutch is a modest youth. Rube Marquard asserts the Giants will not win the pennant this season. "Huggins is hopeful," says a headline. head-line. Hugg thinks he can squeeze through. Connie Mack seems to have soured on the "raw, raw" boys. Most of 'em are too raw. - Military life is all right for the players as long as they eliminate the beans and hardtack. Charles W. Murphy has sued the Chicago Chi-cago National league club for the rest on the old West Side park. Chinese university baseball nine of Hawaii may not again visit this country coun-try until the spring of 1918. - A league to enforce peace might have trouble in securing umpires who would not cater to the home team. "Silence is golden," says the proverb, but you can never make ball players, boxers and other orators believe it. , George Davis, member of Fielder Jones' hitless wonders of 1906, is coach of the Amherst baseball team. A winter dopester has predicted Cincinnati Cin-cinnati will have a chance this year. Perhaps another chance for eighth place. Ernie Koob, southpaw hope of the St. Louis Browns, was the first player to report to Manager Jones for spring practice. One difference between American and German ball players is that the Teuton eats his cabbage and the American Ameri-can smokes it. Urban Shocker, who did such effective effec-tive work for the New York American league club last season, has broken the index finger of his right hand. Lee Fohl fondly cherishes the hope that he has found a budding phenom in Jesse Petty, the string-bean southpaw south-paw acquired from the San Antonio club. Those who think they know the inside in-side of thiqgs with the Boston Red Sox see the hand of Tris Speaker in the deal that makes Joe Wood a member mem-ber of the Cleveland Indians. Bill Killifer of the Phillies denied that he had any holdout agreement with Grover Alexander, but it is noted that he immediately signed up when Grover reached his agreement with the club. Jack Hendricks, the Hoosier pilot, says that golf is largely responsible for the decrease in attendance at baseball base-ball games. Tush ! Consumption ' of booze is falling off, and that can't bf charged to golf. |