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Show Sport fjaiEg Atlanta is famed for golf, tennis, swimming not to mention baseball. Portland, Ore., boasts a recreation building with two billiard tables and twcnt;jight bowling alleys. Sale of Norman Plitt, Brooklyn pitcher, to the New York Giants over the waiver route, was announced. Then again, there are fights at which a ringside seat 205 rows from the ring really isn't far enough away. The Chicago Cubs have won 11 National Na-tional league pennants and two world championships. The youngest pitcher in the American Ameri-can league Is Daniel Mite Fayden, age twenty, of the Bed Sox. Tulsa won the Western league pennant pen-nant again this year for the third successive suc-cessive time. Fielding: (1) A famous British novelist. (2) A department of baseball: base-ball: Also, a pitcher's alibi. A movement Is gradually taking on momentum to have golf remain golf and to pick out some other name for w hatever it is Mr. Jones Is playing. An obscure town, we should say, Is one that doesn't claim to have "the best golf course In this part of the slate." Cowboys In Texas are reported to be going in for golf. Who knows, I hey may enrich even the vocabulary of golf, ii I ready rich. (II to SI rolinieier, former I'nlverslty of Chicago football star, will be line coach of the Indiana university team Ibis season. Eskimos have found rich Ivory mini's where walrus tusks have been buried for many years. In case any manager Is si ill In the market for n .:ii:0 bitter. We imagine an umpire keeps In pretty good trim In the off season by pulling a whlskbroom out occasionally occa-sionally at dinner and dusting tin-plate. tin-plate. The skin of a hippopotamus, says a sclenlilie wriler, Is two Inches I hick. Yet fate destined him to. loaf in livers Instead of umpiring In St. Louis. Among baseball's many unsung heroes were the brave umpires 2(1 years buck who hail to decide whether Johnson's fa:t one was a ball or n slrike. One of the pleasures of pugilism lies In the fact that nobody ever gels hurl sulllclenlly to prevent him from arriving on lime and In pretty good form lo collect his share of the gale money. Version 211: "Isn't your grammar Improving?" asked I be boss, by way of encouraging he olllco hoy. "No," replied Hie olllco hoy, who was also a baseball fanatic, "she died yesterday." yester-day." The Ited Sox management exercised exer-cised lis recall opllou on I'ilchcr Hulling Hull-ing of the Mission chili. I'aclllc Coast length1. The purchase1 of Out llchlers Talll and l.oepp, IVoin the .Nashville and Mi bile clubs, respeel I vely, also was announced Bill Lucas, Triple Cities pllclier. hurled a no hit, no run game. slmMIng out ShnnioUlii, I lo II, In n New York-I'elilis.vlviinbi York-I'elilis.vlviinbi league name. Lucas was sent lo Triple CHIcm on option nhoiil three liloiillm ago by Toronto club. |