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Show INTERESTING SPORT NOTES Now comes t lie bask ot ball bup; to Join tho katydid in Us nightly calls. Of tlio ton rnnUIiitf tennis players in tli? I'nited Stall's, only two ure left-handed. left-handed. One bounty about n well-nmnngod prize fltfht is that It always has a definite defi-nite conclusion. Sir Thomas may win few boat races, but years aso he clinched the title for a sustained siuilo. Prize fights create more excitement in tills country than anything else except ex-cept presidential elections. Athletic clubs In Paris are urging that swimming authorities organize an annual competition for swimming the Knglish channel. P. T. Barnum Bald the public likes to be taken In and lived long before tight purses ran Into hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars, too. The Dempsey-Firpo heavyweight championship bout attracted a crowd which paid $1,0S2,593 lu net receipts to witness the title test. Many a man who walks miles to reach the eighteenth hole had a grandfather grand-father who covered the same distance going to a country church. The pennant winning Dubuque club of the Mississippi Valley announces the sale of Its shortstop, Fred Jackson, Jack-son, to the New Orleans club. Two more Southwestern league players have been sold to Milwaukee. One was Walker, the Salina pitcher, the other Meeks of Bartlesville. ' Harry Kelly, who did such good pitching for Spartanburg in the closing clos-ing month of the South Atlantic season, sea-son, is still the property of Memphis. From the space different pugs are getting these days, It Is appalling to think of the reams Wellington and Napoleon might have used up In predictions pre-dictions over their little scrap. Harold B. Lever of New York city ran the 100 meter Invitation race at the Canadian national athletic meet In 10.4 seconds, equaling the world's record rec-ord established by Charles Paddock. The Des Moines Western league club purchased Pitcher George Brown from the Waterloo club of the Mississippi Missis-sippi Valley league. Brown was the strike-out king of the M. V. circuit with 175 to his credit. The Boston Nationals closed options op-tions on three players of the Worcester Worces-ter Eastern league club, and they will go South with the Braves next spring. They are Sterling Stryker, pitcher; Wade Lefler, first basejnan and outfielder, and Bobby Emmerich, outfielder. |
