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Show Gene Tunney, retired 'heavyweight champion, held the title G77 days Steve O'Neill, former Toronto catch . er, will manage the Toronto Leafs in 1029. A squad of 40 candidates reported for polo practice at Princeton university uni-versity this season. Women jockeys are prohibited from competing on courses of the Society of Trotting Races in France. ' Leon Riley, heavy hitting outfielder of Pueblo, Western league, lias been sold to the Philadelphia Americans. Yellow baseballs, said to be the most visible of all colors, will be manufactured man-ufactured and put on the market next season. University of Miami at Coral Gables, Fla., Is 200 miles further south than any other college in the United States. The American league has now won 14 world series with the socailed "senior" National league, which has 10 to its credit. Outfielder Fred Leach has been traded to the New York Giants tor Outfielder Frank (Lefty) O'Doul and an amount of cash. Clarence Hetherly, Omaha third baseman and leading base stealer of the Western league, has been traded to the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast circuit West Point paraded in Boston recently, re-cently, when Army played Harvard, and it was the first time in 107 years that the, cadets as a group had been in Boston. Twelve minor league stars have been notified to repurt to the Florida training camp 'next spring, as a further fur-ther step In building up the St. Louis Browns. Gorham Leverett, right-hand pitcher pitch-er with Indianapolis, and Tony Kaufman, Kauf-man, outfielder, with Rochester, have been drafted from the little world series clubs. Frank Foley, giant guard of Ford-ham Ford-ham university's football team, can hold seven baseballs In one hand. He wears a size 13 shoe on one foot and a 14y2 on the other. Kid Rose, who fought In the featherweight feath-erweight ranks 20 years ago, never receiving more than SI 50 for a contest, con-test, Is now a millionaire real estate aud hotel owner in Kansas City. William G. Bramham is president of the Piedmont and South Atlantic leagues and was head of the Virginia before it quit. L. J. Wylie is president presi-dent of the Three-1 and the Cen tral leagues. Walter Johnson, manager of th? Washington baseball team, says regarding re-garding his team's 1020 spring training, train-ing, "They'll hustle In exhibitions just as they must in the championship season games, or they'll hear from me." Kurel Kozeluh, famous tennis pro fesslonal. Is a member of the lend ing sports family In Kurope. He has five brothers and one sister, all versed In the science of athletic competition, who tench various sports throughout Europe. |