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Show Sport fjaig-s Cubs' park In Chicago will in the future be called Wrigley park. Baseball has made Judge Landis famous as the umpire who never sleeps. " The Nashville baseball field Is 20 feet under water, which would be a wonderful break for a spit-ball pitcher. -. John McGoran set a bowling record rec-ord by rolling 14 games with an average av-erage of 235 at Grand Itapids, Mich., on December 27, 1013. By virtue of the fact that McGill university of Canada has a royal charter, char-ter, its hockey team .sports a fancy coat of arms on its jerseys. Thirty-three members of the "goof" or reserve football squad at the University Uni-versity of California were awarded medals In recognition of their service during the last football season. Willie F. Iloppe, 18.2 balkline billiard bil-liard champion, Jis nearly forty years of age. He never has tasted tobacco tobac-co nor used hard liquor. IToppe has engaged in competitive play for 32 years. Soccer, which was first 0rgnnl7.ee! on a modern basis In 1SS3, draws huge attendances In England and Scotland, crowds at Wembly park, London, having numbered well over 100,000. , A trophy, similar to the Walker cup, played for by British and American amateurs, will be set up in an effort to bring about permanent international interna-tional team competition between professionals. pro-fessionals. Staging of the British open championship cham-pionship at St. Andrew's next summer sum-mer means that bo gate fee will be charged, for the course is a public one and under the control of the town council. The East no -longer has a oorner on championship golf tournaments. Next year Pittsburgh yets the open golf championship. .Minneapolis the ama teur tourney ntid Dallas the professional profes-sional title contest. Keggie McNamnra. recent winner of the six-day bike race In New York, will compete in European meets this winter. He has left for Germany and France Accompanied by Otto Petri, noted German rider. Providence of the Eastern league has purchased Pitcher Kenneth Jones from the Pitt'Held club of the same league. He Is the riplH-hander .who went from Georgetown university to the Detroit Tig"rs In UV4. Charles' Johns, pro golfer, had been playing the game for 25 years without with-out ever holing out In one. Thon just recently, within a period of six weeks, he made three aces on his home course, Purley Downs. There being no maid -teacher In the Hickman (Calif.) school. Ibis year. Rita Laird, twenty, ,r feet 2 and full of pep. couched (hp football team, which won the five straight games and scored 112 points to IS by their opponents. ' The unusual injury of a broken cheek bone almost prevented John P. Itoepke, Ponn State star halfback, from continuing his college career. Tie was laid up with the fracture nnl Infection but recovered and has Just been elected captain for 1027. The Cincinnati Reds have started helping (lieir American nssoeliiflrm holdings by sending Outfielder Hal Sullivan to the Columbus club. Sul-livnn. Sul-livnn. It. will be -recalled, broke his I leg fi year ago und the Pcds sent him I to Mucon of the South Atlantic league, I where he performed In stellar stylo lust season. |