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Show NOTES OF DIFFERENT SPORTS PICKED UP EVERYWHERE Some of the midget golf courses are so small they are less than eveu that. Babe Ruth thinks night baseball will take a half a dozen years from the career of the average ball player. Ebbets field, home of the Brooklyn Natlonnls, will be enlarged to seat 55,- 000 fans. The stands will be double-decked. double-decked. Clark Griffith has spent a quarter of a million dollars for prospective first basemen, but year after year Joe Judge has held the job. Only one of the fifty candidates who first reported this season for Boston university's football team lives outside out-side the radius of the city. A scheduled five-game series between be-tween the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Phillies ran to 72 Innings. There wore two tie games, 11 and 10 tunings. When Maxie ltosenbloom asked for permission to tight as n heavyweight the New York commission turned him down and told him to fight his contenders con-tenders again If he needed work. Frank Hogan, huge catcher of the Giants, is prouder of a clean steal he made in the last two years than of any achievement. Swinfleld and Black Diamond, a pair of handicap horses from the stables of Walter J. Salmon of New l'ork, have been sold to J. Howard. Glenna Collett, woman golf star, has her caddy carry a horseshoe around with her clubs whenever she engages in an important tournament. Tom O'liourke, famous boxing promoter pro-moter and manager, who is now7 in his seventy-fourth year, has been actively engaged in the ring game for 40 years. Only eight players have approached lifetime batting averages of .350 In the major leagues Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Rogers Ilornsby, Pete Brown- Ing, Dave Orr, Babe Ruth, Tip O'Neil and Dan Brouthers. Weekly terrapin races are held In Scurry county, Texas. A total of 240 first p! ices have been won by the harness racing horses of William B. Eckert of Reading, Pa., in the 31 years he has been active In the sport. In addition to British and American teams, the 19."2 Olympic games are expected to draw polo quartets from Argentina, Spain, Australia, France and South Africa. Jack Sharkey. Gene Tunney and Jack Pempsey are the only three heavyweight heavy-weight boxers in the history of th sport who have mude more than $1 -000,000 with their fists.-"' |