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Show MATCHES TRADED FOR CORD WOOD Heinie Manush in an Exchange Ex-change for Goose Goslin. It Is not yet apparent whether any of the big league moguls had any secrets se-crets concealed when they engaged In their recent free-for-all trade sessions. Suspicion naturally was aroused by the reckless fashion in which they Juggled talent from place to place. The magnates, as Is well known, have a habit of slipping broken matches to their associates in business In exchange ex-change for solid cord wood. This Isn't always the case, but it occurs frequently enough to warrant mention. Of the transfers made Just before the limit on trades was reached none had so one-sided an appearance as that which moved Heinle Manush and Alvin Crowder from St. Ixuis to Washing- ; ington in a swap for the services of Goose Goslin. Barring the possibility that the Browns might have passed on a couple of men not physically sound, It would seem as If Clark Griffith In this Instance justified the name of "Old Fox" by which he has been known for years. A new electrical watch which records re-cords one-hundredth of a second has been officially adopted by the International Interna-tional Amateur Athletic federation for the Olympic games, which will be held In Los Angeles in 1932. The new device de-vice is connected with the starting pistol, pis-tol, which puts it in operation. It records re-cords the times for Interval and full distances for eight runners, and the order In which the competitors finish can be Instantly rend from It. However, How-ever, for the present It will be used specially to time only the first man home. . Dale Gear, Western league president, announces attendance so far this season sea-son had doubled at Omaha and Des Moines, where night baseball is being played. He said the entire league had shown a substantial attendance Increase. "Chuck" Klein of the slugging but errant Phillies Is the first major league player to hang up 100 hits in the 1030 campaign. Klein got three hits for his 100 In a losing double-header with Pittsburgh, while Terry, of the Giants, fell short by one when he got only one blow In a wlnniug game against St. Louis. Hodapp of Cleveland has the most hits In the American league, yet neither neith-er he nor Klein lead their leagues in hitting. The Gouzaga high school of Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, has started construction of a stadium. In the Virginia state library at Richmond Rich-mond there is a notice of a horse race in Henrico county In October. 167S. There were five race courses aloug the James river two and a half centuries ago. A prediction that In the future basketball bas-ketball floors will be larger and that seven or nine men will be used on each side has been made by Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, director of athletics and basketball coach at the University of Kansas. The demand of spectators for more space and more competitors will force the enlargement of the present playing play-ing floor from 90 by f0 feet to 120 by SO feet, he believes. "The basket can be raised to 12 feet above the floor," Allen says, "thus solving the trouble caused by the hue and cry over tall centers. It Isn't the tall center but the tall man under the basket who makes one-sided contests." A |