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Show gport Hates The St. Louis Browns will increase the seating capacity of their park to 35.000. The world bicycle record for the mile Is 58 seconds, made by George Kramer. The Boston Braves have recalled Outfielder Frank Wilson, who has been with Worcester. Mile. Simone de la Chaume, woman golf champion of France, is only sixteen six-teen years of age. Composition balls are to replace . Ivory balls for amateur billiard com- J petition in England. I Clyde Barfoot has been purchased from the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league by the Detroit Tigers. Eddie Taylor, shortstop of the Albany Al-bany club in the Eastern league, has beeu sold to the Boston Nationals. A. Rankin Johnson, the former Red Sox pitcher, has signed a contract to lead Harrisburg again next season. Russell Pence, star right-hand pitciier of the Dallas Texas league club, was purchased by the Chicago Cubs. The Cincinnati Reds have signed Bill Brown, a twenty-two-year-old first baseman playing with the All-Chicagos. All-Chicagos. "If I ever hole out in one," confessed con-fessed the dub golfer in a moment of profound discouragement, "it will be at kelly pool." , Pitcher Ray (Red) Colbert, former LTniversity of Alabama athlete, could not quite stay the season out with Bloomington. He drew his release. Three years ago golf was almost exclusively a big cjfy luxury in Texas, while today almost every town in the w.s'.te boasts of its country club and golf team. Kansas City has purchased two pitchers. Don (Specs) Houck and Bill Hargrove, from the Springfield club of the Western association. Buth are right-handers. i I It pays to be the manager of a pennant pen-nant winning team. Stanley (Bucky) Harris, pilot of the cliainiiion Senators, Sena-tors, the records reveal, paid $2,778.57 federal tax on his 1924 income. Floyd Scott, hard-hitting outfielder of the Kansas City American association, associa-tion, who acquired a batting average oi' .341 for 97 games has been purchased by the Chicago Cubs. Terre Haute li;is obtained Outfielder Roy Burrus. who had a tine season with Dubuque of the Mississippi Valley Val-ley league, turning in a batting mark of .312. He is a former Indiana State I Normal athlete. J Tile Hagerstown club of the Blue Ridge league won the five-state pennant, pen-nant, given by Ban Johnson, hy defeating de-feating Cambridge of thn Eastern Shore league in the seventh and deciding de-ciding game of their series. Charley Schmidt, former major league ball player and now umpire In I lie Pacific Coast league, lias had the fingers on his right hand broken 30 times during his 24 years pyient behind be-hind the pint p. Mrs. W. O. Fras"r. formerly Aiexa Stirling, signalized her return to golf tournament play after an absence of two years by turning in the best gross score card in the qualifying round of the Canadian woman's championship. cham-pionship. She shot a 77. |