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Show Nick Allen, manager of the St. Paul American association ball club for the past two years, has been engaged to pilot the Saints next year. Stuart Holen, southpaw of the Tulsa Western league team, has been sold to the St. Louis Americans. Nebraska's football team evidently had heard of "Red" Grange and studied him. That perhaps is what comes of concentrated adulation. Football is for eleven men on a side. American colleges have contributed a good deal more than football to the advancement of the world, but it is the football hero who gets most of the public attention. Princeton has uncovered a punter capable of averaging close to 50 yards In Frank Lea '28. The Tigers, like Harvard, are having a scarcity of real punters. A converted lineman is the best the Crimson can produce. E. M. Norris, Columbia university sophomore, is looked - to be the successor suc-cessor to W. F. Koppisch, captain and star last year. Norris is having his first season with the varsity, but is a triple-threat in the backfield and a natural athlete. London has sold Third Baseman Walter Sandquist to the St. Louis National Na-tional league club. He has been doing fine work for the Tecumsehs. Georgia School of Technology has a substitute tackle who stands six feet eight inches in his stocking feet and weighs just 23S pounds. As a rule, such big players do not make good in football. C. O. Gill. Yale "89. captain and end of the varsity team that yenr, has a son on the Tale varsity squad, and one Phillips Audover academy squad this fall. Jack Dempsey has become an amusement promoter, nis next fight may not come under that head. Manager George S'sler denied a report re-port that lie had admitted his eyef were giving him trouble again. The highest run ever made in stright rail billiards was Ihe 3,001 made by Wallace Phares in 191.1. Chrysanthemum hair on the football player is at least rb'nsantcr to look at than the caullihiwer car on the practitioner of the so-called manly art. And one of the greatest traffic problems prob-lems is the stymie. There is a general ion gmwing ua in this country which regards any assertion as-sertion that Mr. Dempsey is a boxer aa hearsar. |