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Show Handball is a game of Irish origin. James J. Jeffries, former heavyweight heavy-weight champion of the world, is fifty years old. Athletics Is now considered a major subject in virtually all universities in Germany. The New Orleans Young Men's Hebrew He-brew association may build a $75,000 gymnasium. You'll notice that nobody has ever yelled at Red Grange that he moves like an ice wagon. Georges Carpentier, the popular French boxer, is returning to the United Unit-ed States for a bout with Berlenbach. Husky football players at Harvard have a dinner diet of beef broth and graham crackers, with a half hour of rest. Hughie Jennings left his job as a miner to enter baseball. Hughie 'just possibly looks back on this as his first strike. Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills will be insured for $300,000 before their bout in Michigan City, Ind., next September. Sep-tember. Red Grange is like some executives : He doesn't get anywhere unless three or four unidentified helpers have prepared pre-pared the way. .The largest number of touchdowns scored during the last intercollegiate football season (16) was made by Bcnkert of Rutgers. Emerson Carey, Jr., of Hutchinson, Kan., right guard on the Cornell varsity var-sity football team, has been elected captain of the 3026 team. ' Whore is Red Grange's press agent that he hasn't presented a story about the Galloping Ghost having Jus legs Insured for a million dollars? Leonard Glasbrenner, outfielder of the Springfield Western association team, who was a holdout the past season, sea-son, has asked for reinstatement. No sooner is football out of the way at college than basket ball takes its place on the program, or winter practice prac-tice for baseball starts. A hard life. 'Los Angeles is said to be angling for Pitcher Frank Shellenbach from Sacramento. Shellenbach lives in Los Angeles and desires to play ball in his home town. "Stuffy" Mclnnls, veteran first baseman base-man of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is rated the best golf player in tjie majors. He always plays in the SO's and very often is below that figure. A college coach Is alarmed by the Idea that "Red" Grange's example may be followed by other college play ers. Which ones, may we ask, have had the same sort of offers? University of California finds its 72,00(1 howl seats insufficient for its annual game with Stanford nnd contemplates con-templates adding 8.0(H) to 10,000 seats along the east rim of the big stadium. Otto Borchert, owner of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee club, has announced that his Brewers will not return to Sanford, Fla., next spring for the conditioning period. Instead the American association associa-tion team will go to Hot Springs, Ark. New Orleans of the Southern league has signed Wilson E. Xeeley, a right-handed right-handed pitcher, who hails from the Mississippi Agriculturel college. He is nineteen years old and his home is in Anding. Miss. The Pelicans have also signed Lefty Nichols, a young Louisiana semi-pro hurler, for a trial. |