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Show LITTLE PKKUP5 - OF 5P0RT Speaking of the Athletics, why should anyone? General Watts, 2:06,, has had seven new 2 :10 trotters this year. Joe Borrell and Jack Blackburn fought a sensational six-round draw at Philadelphia. Some umpires are now enjoying a period of peace and quiet, and some are married. Mixing politics and football is the latest, but why break up a nice, gentle game like football? Frank Chance made good in the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league the first year he took part in the race. A good deal of the baseball reform talk is like political and other reform talk: It stops at the talk stage. A popular English billiard competition competi-tion is the Crystalate cup series which attracted 4,582 contestants this year. . Havana bugs are looking forward to a highly exciting baseball season. Havana Ha-vana clubs don't have to go South to train. Owner Britton of the Cardinals has joined the ranks of the National leaguers who are opposed to the player play-er limit. Frank C. Bancroft, the business manager of the Cincinnati Reds, is the Grand Old Man of baseball at present. pres-ent. He is past seventy. The Auckland (New Zealand) Racing Rac-ing club's report for the year ending June 30 shows that stakes valued at $212,750 were distributed. They say golf isn't an old man's game, but ten Philadelphia sexagenarians sexagenar-ians have challenged any other ten sixty-year-olds to a match. The United States mint has broken a record by stamping 45,231,413 coins this year, of which number Freddie Welsh has collected quite a few. Ty Cobb, the superman, is looking forward to a highly successful season as a nimrod. It is said that he shoots game with bullets made of nuxated lead. Cleveland people get a lot of enjoyment enjoy-ment out of boasting about being the "Sixth city" in population, but the fans are not so jubilant about that rank in baseball. Rowing is one of the most popular sports at the United States Naval academy, two varsity, a freshman and five mixed class eights being among the candidates. Coach Bob Folwell of Pennsylvania is quoted as saying that Glen Wnrner, coach of University of Pittsburgh football squad, is the best football coach In America. For one who was all through and finished and out of the game forever and a dead duck last spring, Hal Chase occupied rather a prominent pln;e In the batting roll of tho Na-tlo Na-tlo ial league. |