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Show TERSE PARAGRAPHS OF VARIOUS SPORTING EVENTS Ted Lyons will receive In 1031 the biggest salary ever paid a White Sox pitcher. Havana baseball funs are again clamoring for a berth in the Southeastern South-eastern league. Jirooklyn made a profit of $000,000 in lOoO, it Is reported, but will have lo spend some ot it iu increased salaries. sal-aries. It's got so a chap can play ball three years for Notre Dame and never have the slightest Idea whether lie is a good loser. Frank Crossettl, San Francisco in-Helder, in-Helder, is not to report to the Yankees until the spring of 1032. The Yanks paid $75,000 for him. "V Babe 1'helps, the Dodgers' young pitching sensation, signed for $2,500 last year, got a $1,000 bonus and will receive $8,000 iu 1931. Joe Humphries, Madison Square garden light announcer, Is now fifty-eight fifty-eight years old, with 40 years of announcing an-nouncing behind him. John "Monk" Campbell, Alabama's spinning quarterback. Is said by Dixie sports writers to be the lowest running run-ning back ever seen in the Southern conference. Campbell never straight- ens up when carrying the ball, not even when he lias broken into the open. Lefty O'Doul, slugging outfielder, will draw around $12,000 for his season's sea-son's work next year, with his uew club, the Brooklyn Dodgers. It's pretty rough on a man of John Quinn's years, having to go back to the minors and come up In a spring or two as a promising recruit, all over again.' Bradford Butler, Jr., a Yale junior, broke George Kojac's intercollegiate record for the 100-yard free-style swim in the Carnegie pool in New Haven, Conn. He covered the distance In 0:52 3-5, bettering the Kutger ace's time by a fifth of a second. Cy Perkins, recently released, was credited with having developed Ed Kommel Into a knuckle-ball pitcher for the A's. Dan Pinsky, who won the Intercollegiate Intercol-legiate lightweight boxing championship champion-ship for New York university, never lost a bout in college competition. |