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Show Since 1839, the Grand National has ranked its the principal steeplechase that is run in England. John Kathan of Osage, Iowa, aged eighty-four, has been racing on harness tracks for sixty-four years. Clarence Griffith, a pitcher, has been ' obtained by Memphis from the New Haven Eastern league club. Pittsfield of the Eastern league, has traded Pitcher Spike Van Alstyne to Albany for Catcher Fred Hager. There are six player-managers in the major leagues Bancroft, Cobb, Collins, Col-lins, Harris, Sisler and Speaker. Edouard Mascart of Paris, European featherweight champion, has postponed his departure for the United States. The tragedy in Nurmi's visit to these shores is that he can't put his deeds and ability on phonograph rec-rds. rec-rds. William T. Tilden, the famous lawn tennis player, has for a mascot a four-leaf clover that once belonged to Abraham Lincoln. Bill Klepper, former president of the Portland Pacific Coast league club, is now in the home-building business in Pasadena, Cal. Indianapolis has signed Fred She-nanske, She-nanske, a right-hand pitcher from Detroit. De-troit. He was given a tryout by Washington Wash-ington two years. ago. The Harvard athletic committee ratified rat-ified an agreement with Yale and Princeton to limit the salary budget for varsity football coaches. ' Cadet J. S. Roosma '26 of Passaic, N. J., has been chosen captain of the United States Military academy bas: ket ball team for next season. Walter Kopf has accepted terms with Little Rock. He is a third baseman base-man and a brother of Larry Kopf. He has had brief terms with Reading and Oakland. Ura Beauchamp of Crawfordsville, Iowa, and Herbert Vandeinse of Chicago, Chi-cago, rookie pitchers, have been signed by Burlington of the Mississippi Valley Val-ley league. Ted Hank, third baseman, has been sold by Albany of the Eastern league to New Haven of the same loop. Prior to playing with Albany he was with' Hartford. Outfielder George Lebean has been traded by Peoria of tlie Three-1 league to Springfield of the Eastern league, for Outfielder Frances Duffy. It was an outright swap. I A Chicago coed thinks that Knute Rockne is a Norwegian jockey, showing that she must have been talking talk-ing at random with one of Chicago's football players. Memphis has turned over to Knox-ville Knox-ville of the Sally league, Clyde Young-blood Young-blood and Kenneth Jones, two young right-handed pitchers. Youngblood is an Indian, sent to tlie Chicks by Washington. Wash-ington. Dubuque of the Mississippi Valley league has signed three semipro players. play-ers. They are Wade Rambo of Decatur, De-catur, third baseman; Arthur Porter of Decatur, outfielder, and Frank Clifton Clif-ton of HI nington, 111., outfielder. Mrs. J. C. Dunn, owner of the Cleveland Cleve-land Indians, has denied a report that she plans to sell the club. The rumor was that Mrs. Dunn, widow of the late owner of tlie club, had desired to make her permanent home in California Cal-ifornia and forget about baseball. John W. Norton, former owner of ' the St. Paul club, has s(t to rest rumors that he and Mike Cantlllon, former Minneapolis owner, were dickering dick-ering for tlie Vernon Coast league team. "If I wanted a ball club, I would have kept the one I had In St. Paul,' said Nortoo, |