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Show UporiiiSoiiibs Pan Johnson receives ?-10,000 a year as president of the American league. A total of $5-1,200,000 was bet at the four big race tracks iu Maryland last year. Plans are under way in Tokyo for the organization of a Japanese National Na-tional Paseball league. The Baltimore club paid $5,000 for an option on Pitcher Fred Vincent of the Linghamton team of the New York Pennsylvania league. ' The football star gets some money and all the disillusionment, his exploiters ex-ploiters get more money, and well, they have no Illusions to lose. Matty Mathews, n husky young shortstop, formerly the property of the Cashing club of the Southwestern league, has been signed by the Chicago White Sox. He batted .i!20 last season. sea-son. In the deal by which Second Pase-man Pase-man Clyde I'.eek goes to the f;hicago Cubs. Los Angeles of the Coast league is to get Art Wel.s, oullielder, and Gale Stalcy, inlVlder, from the National league club. Wade Killefer. manager of the Seat-lie Seat-lie team, has aenounri''d that the only way lie will U-t Frank P.m.ii:. his slugging slug-ging ljiird layenan, go, is for a gcn-1 offer to come along from a lienor league club. o LVceuse he found It Incenvini-e' .hen boxing in vv York under t'i-rigid t'i-rigid name, John Leonard M'clion". ,i liirl'te'' known as "Sheik " has '; ceived po."missl"n to change his na . to John Leonard. |