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Show An increasing interest in golf is being be-ing displayed in Italy. Word has been received here that Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner, would again be seen on American tracks this winter. Upward of 480,000 caddies are employed em-ployed on golf links in the United States. Ed Griffin, a right-handed pitcher of the Memphis club of the Southern association, as-sociation, has been purchased by Brooklyn. Lieut. Richard Cutis won the Pacific coast division honors of the Marine corps rifle matches with 77G out of a possible SCO shots. Kiki Cuyler, star outfielder of the Pirates, now owns some Pittsburgh real estate and plans to make his home in the Smoky city. Turchase of Bill Cook and Fred Cook from the Saskatoon hockey club for $1.r.000 is announced by the Ottawa Hockey association. The mystery woma:i who failed to swim the channel remains a mystery, at any rate. Which also shows uuil-luminating uuil-luminating effect of failure. Orville Menard, twenty-four-year-old shortstop of the championship Bay City club, has been sokl to the Rochester Roches-ter club of the International league. Freddie Hoffman, first-string catcher, and Pewee Wanninger, regular shortstop, short-stop, have been sold by the St. Paul American association club to the Bos ton Americans. ( All baseball records were recently broken when Frank "Red" Partain of the Brownsville club in the Lower Rio Valley Baseball league of Testis, made five home runs in one game. Lee Fold is to be ousted as manager of the Boston Red Sox and "Lefiy" Liefield, coach, put in Fold's position, according to reports current in base-ba!l base-ba!l circles. While the Chinese have fallen he-fore he-fore the invasion of western sports and have taken fin husiastically .to baseball, tennis, soccer, running, cycling cy-cling and ha.- ket ball, the game of golf has no appeal to them. Fernamlina, Fla.. boasts the only natural ocean-front golf course In America, the beautiful sand dunes forming fairways, hunkers and traps, the greens and grass having hri-n planted on the government reservation reserva-tion immediately adj iceiit. The first organized baseball league was formed back in 1 ST 1 and was known as the I'rol'.-ssionai assei-ia-tien. inelcding loams of PI dadelpliia. Boston. Chicago. Cleveland, Rockford Troy. Fort Wayne. New York an, I Brooklyn, with the Athletics wlnniii'.' I the pennant. |