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Show Troy Agnew will manage, the Okmulgee Ok-mulgee club of the reorganized Western West-ern association. Georges Carpentler, now thirty-three, thirty-three, years of age,. Is starting .his nineteenth year as a pugilist. A speed of 80 miles an hour has been attained on some of the long and straight toboggan runs in Canada. It is estimated that the average professional pro-fessional football club has to earn at least $8,000 a week to pay expenses. Seattle of the Pacific Coast league, has signed Charles Borreani, star catcher of the Oakland Winter league. - Frank Brower, outfielder for the San Francisco Pacific Coast League club, has been sold to Baltimore of the International league, College football schedules are now-arranged- four years In advance, which gives high school boys a chance to select, the right college. Some one suggests that the Pi Ince-too-Harvard rift might be mended if the New Jersey eleven agreed not to w'ear stickpins In their ties. Eight stakes will be run during the winter meet of the Miami Jockey club in Florida. More than 500 thoroughbreds thorough-breds are quartered at the track. Coached by Joe Wright, .famous oarsman' and crew coach, the Argonaut Argo-naut Rowing club of Toronto won six national championships in one year. Baseball fans of . Marshalltown. Iowa, helped to pledge $7,000 to Insure In-sure their city a berth In the Mississippi Missis-sippi Valley league again next season. Eighteen representative business firms have already joined the Commercial Com-mercial Golf league of Seattle and more are expected to apply for admission. admis-sion. John C. Ryan, president of the Peoria club of the Tliree-1 lengue, announces an-nounces that a working agreement has been effected with the Chicago Cubs. The value of the Grand Prix de Paris, the most Important racing event of the year in France, has been increased from 500,000 to 000,000 francs. Mike McNally, who will manage the Binghamton team of the New York-Pennsylvania York-Pennsylvania league this year, has signed Paul OJMalley, star semi-pro catcher." . Emil "Red" Barnes, captain an star halfback of Alabama's "Crimson Tide." has been signed to play with the Birmingham ball club of the Southern South-ern league. Charles H. Francos, for three years star second baseman of the New York university team, has signed for a spring tiyout with the Rochester club of the International league. Cecil Rhodes, nephew of the great Imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, and son of Colonel Rhodes, has not the empire making ambitions of his uncle. He has become a professional Jockey. Hnghey Duffy, who holds the highest high-est batting average ever amassed by a big leaguer, A'AS, made in 1SD4, Is still connected with baseball. He Is scouting for the Boston Red Sox. Chief Bender, the old-time Indian pitching ace, was an exceptionally fine golfer, and his card nt C5 for the 18-holo 18-holo course at Annapolis Naval academy acad-emy still stands asthe record there. If congress insists upon regulating baseball, who will do Ihe umpiring when the pennant winners in the Republican Re-publican and Democratic leagues mert to fight for the world championship? |