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Show Jporfinggquibs There Is probably still j0,000 worth of baseball In Ty, If not more. Australia has definitely-decided not to enter the Davis cup competition this year. Mr. Tunney is champion, all right, but nobody can say that he is extremely ex-tremely combative. A little oil used on a golf ball will keep the mud from sticking to It while playing over a muddy course. The English tour made by Australia's Aus-tralia's nil-star cricket team has netted net-ted a profit of about $100,000. Suzanne Lenglen, the tennis star, is now Princess Sparkling Waters. She wns adopted into the Pueblo tribe. Daniel E. Alper of Brookllne, Mass., has been elected captain of the Brown university freshman wrestling team. Ty Cobb will play for all he Is worth for the Athletics. There isn't any other oth-er system In the Connie Mack reg!ne. The WUIIamsport club of the New York-Pennsylvania league, has obtained ob-tained John Pasquella to play first base. Roy Leslie, first baseman for Hollywood Holly-wood for three seasons, has been sold to the San Antonio club of the Texas league. Station WMAQ, Chicago, will broadcast broad-cast all the home games of the White Sox and Cubs baseball teams the coming com-ing season. R. A. Seed, aged eighty-one, state treasurer of Oklahoma, plans to take tip golf at ninety, when he "begins to get old." Fifteen sports are engaged In at Harvard, 14 of these depending chiefly upon the gate receipts of one to support sup-port them. The Victoria cricket team In Australia Aus-tralia is the only team which has competition, com-petition, recently totaling 1,107 ngatnst New South Wales. Jack Blair, nineteen-year-old firs! baseman of West Palm Beach, Fla.. has been signed for a triul with the Washington club. The Denver club of the Western league has purchased Joe Murphy, catcher, from the Little Rock club of the Southern league. -Grant P. Ward, football scout for Ohio State university for u "decade, has turned from the strategy of the gridiron grid-iron to that of politics. Big game animals now on government govern-ment reservations under supervision of the United States Deportment of Agriculture now number about 1.530. Sylvester Johnson, pitcher for the Houston (Texas) league club, has been traded to Syracuse of the International Internation-al league for Pitcher Kenneth Penner. Gov. Frank C. Kmerson of Wyoming has signed the bill legalizing lft-round boxing In the state and providing for the appointment of s boxing commissioner. commis-sioner. Billy de Foe, veteran featherweight boxer, who has engaged In over ISO bouts duvUig his career of 13 years. Is still fighting regularly and a favorite with the fans. ' Whippet racing, recently Introduced in England, has met with great enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, Mnncliester being the first to erect a race track similar to those of the United States. The record for a lcng-dlstnnoe swim is held by Pedro C'andloll, the Argentine Argen-tine amateur, who swam from Rosarln to Santa Ke, Argentina, a distance of 73 miles, In 35 hours 1 minute. Despite the fact that golf experts rare her as one of the best female players In the game, Miss Lonlse Branch of Richmond, Va.. has never participated In any golf tournament. |