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Show Sport laies Woman's place is the British channel. chan-nel. e University of Chicago sells season tickets for six home football games for $14. , Bill Tilden blames his knee injury to a kick he received in a soccer game 12 years ago. e Calling it a "world series" must impress im-press the world as an example of typical American modesty. Captain Walter Marks of the University Uni-versity of Chicago gridmen has developed de-veloped exceptional skill as a forward passer. Claude Butlin of Mexico City has held the tennis championship of that town 2S times. Butlin is forty-nine years of age. Major Ostrauder, eighty-one-year-old Civil war veteran, recently won a three-cushion billiard tournament at Seattle, Wash, Outfielder Tucker of the New Orleans Or-leans Southern association club has been sold to the Washington American league baseball club. The English channel swimming season is over and the strip of water has now returned to its regular job of being a bit of geography. Fator brothers Mark, twenty; Elmer, El-mer, twenty-two, and Laverne, twenty-five each weighing 105 pounds, are aH jockeys with high standing. Purchase of G. P. Lyons, pitcher for the Columbus club of the American association, is announced by the Detroit De-troit American league baseball 'club. Construction of 7,000 additional seats in the Dallas park is under way and when completed will increase the seating capacity of the park to 20,000. Lee Tannehill, following a long and brilliant career on the bastball diamond, dia-mond, has dropped out of the game and has probably played his final contest. con-test. K Luther Roy, right-handed and leading lead-ing pitcher of the Southern league with ?A wins and 10 defeats, has been sold by New Orleans to the Chicago Cubs. Clarence Griffin, southpaw hurler on the Memphis team, chalked up his twentieth victory on the day it was announced that he had been sold to Brooklyn. George Sargent, who won the open western go'.f championship in 1000, and his son, Alfred, form one of the greatest father and son combinations in the country. Ernie Nevers, former Stanford back-fiold back-fiold star, played brilliantly in the opening football game at Duluth, the home team defeating the Kansas Cily Cowboys, 7 to 0. Many of Europe's best auto racing drivers will invade America's tracks next year in an effort to restore the prestige formerly held by auto manufacturers man-ufacturers of the Old world. "How to Look at a Golf Ball" is the title of a new book. The trouble is you have to look down on it and somehow the ball always seems lo resent the lofty altitude. Leroy MahalTey, Pit tsburgh's pitching pitch-ing recruit, is ft husky six-footer and fine batter. He once made four home runs in a game while playing for the Columbia club in the South Atlantic league. By winning the rowing championships champion-ships of Canada, the United States. England anil Australia in 1SSO, Ed Hanlon established himself as the lirst real champion of the world in any kind of sport. For the first time in 21 years a Stanford vs. California major athletic contest will be held in San Francisco when the third game of the basket ball series will be played In the Exposition auditorium March 5, 1027. |