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Show In the Inst five years the Brooklyn baseball club has spend $400,000 for players. The football field at the University of Washington has been covered with sod for the first time. Fred Haney of the Los Angeles club led the first quarter of the Pacific Coast league season In base stealing with 22. The regular backfield men on the Penn State football squad are now holding down positions on the baseball base-ball team. Cliff Heatheote, Chicago Cub utility outfielder, began hitting better this year when he began standing closer to the plate. . . . In the past 30 years only one player of the Giants has won the National league batting championship Larry Doyle, who hit .320 in 1915. Eddie Sicking, inflelder of the Indianapolis In-dianapolis American association baseball base-ball team, was released to the Minneapolis Min-neapolis club under option. Earl Sande, famous Jockey, now thirty-two years old, began riding when he was ten and at the age of, fifteen was recognized as a first class horseman. Whaling, says an old man in New Bedford, Mass., was the greatest of all sports. One difficulty, at the start of the season, was finding a mayor to toss out the first whale. George Simpson, Ohio State university univer-sity century dash man, has been elected honorary captain of the 1930 track team. Simpson was given tha unanimous vote of the team. Arkansas, known as the "Razor-backs," "Razor-backs," annually awards a live razor-back razor-back hog to the student who has done the most for the school. Ward Schoon-over, Schoon-over, star athlete, won it last year. Virgil Grow, Virginia Military Institute's In-stitute's 157-pound football center, won the Porter cup awarded to the best all-round athlete at the institution. Grow also played basketball and baseball. base-ball. J. Edward Obey of Pittsburgh has been elected captain of Columbia university's uni-versity's 1931 baseball team. Obey has been a varsity player for two years and one of the heaviest hitters on the squad. |